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Olive Yang is a Burmese-born British author, poet, and translator. She was born in northern Shan States, British Burma, on 24 June 1927. She is best known for her translations of Burmese literature into English, including the works of Burmese Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Yang is a graduate of the University of Rangoon and the University of London. She has written several books, including The Burmese Harp, a collection of Burmese folk tales, and The Burmese Way to Health, a guide to traditional Burmese medicine.
Yang is also a poet and has published several collections of her work, including The Burmese Garden and The Burmese Banyan Tree. She has also translated works by Burmese authors such as U Thant and U Nu into English.
At the age of 90, Olive Yang has an estimated net worth of $1 million. She has earned her wealth through her writing and translation work. She is also a philanthropist and has donated to various charities and organizations.
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Warlord |
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90 years old |
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Cancer |
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24 June 1927 |
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24 June |
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northern Shan States, British Burma |
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(2017-07-13) Muse Township, Shan State, Myanmar |
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Muse Township, Shan State, Myanmar |
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Olive Yang Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Olive Yang's Husband?
Her husband is Twan Sao Wen (1948-1950)
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Twan Sao Wen (1948-1950) |
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Duan Jipu (段吉卜) |
Olive Yang Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Olive Yang worth at the age of 90 years old? Olive Yang’s income source is mostly from being a successful . She is from . We have estimated
Olive Yang's net worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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In the late 1980s, she was recruited by Khin Nyunt to help broker ceasefires in Burma with ethnic rebel groups. After her release, she reportedly spent her final years as a nun. In 2003, after a period of chronic illness, she returned to Kokang, where she lived until her death at the age of 90. She died after a short coma in Muse just outside Kokang, unable to return to Kokang in 2017.
At the age of 19, she organized ethnic Kokang forces, nicknamed the Olive's Boys, an army of over a thousand soldiers and consolidated control of opium trade routes from the highlands to lowlands. She dominated Kokang's opium trade from the end of World War II to the early 1960s. In the 1950s, after the Nationalist defeat and their subsequent expulsion from mainland China, she partnered with the Kuomintang to establish opium trade routes along the Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia).
From the 1950s to the mid-1960s, she was the commander of the Kokang Kakweye (People's Defense Forces). She was a prominent figure in opium trafficking and gold trading. Her influence increased throughout the decade with the backing of the Kuomintang and Yang became the de facto ruler of the region. She was arrested in 1962, along with her brother Jimmy, a member of parliament in Yangon, by Burmese authorities, to remove them from power and place Kokang territory under Burmese administration. She was imprisoned at Insein Prison and released in 1968.
Olive Yang (Chinese: 楊金秀; pinyin: Yáng Jīnxiù; also known as Yang Kyin Hsiu, nicknamed Miss Hairy Legs) was a prominent opium warlord and the sister of Sao Edward Yang Kyein Tsai, the saopha (chief) of Kokang, a state in post-independent Burma from 1949 to 1959.
Her parents arranged a marriage to Twan Sao Wen, the son of Tamaing's chieftain. Her parents had died before her marriage in 1948. From 1948 to 1950, she stayed with Twan and had a son, Duan Jipu (段吉卜), in 1950, as she was expected to produce an heir. Her son is a teacher in Chiang Mai, Thailand. According to her sister, Judy Yang, Twan was afraid of Olive. Olive had allegedly thrown a urine pot when he attempted to consummate the marriage.
Olive Yang was born on 24 June 1927 in northern Shan States in British Burma. She received an education at Lashio's Guardian Angel's Convent School. According to her relatives, she defied gender norms at a young age, resisting foot-binding and, in one incident, bringing a gun to her school.
