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The Death of Lo Hsing Han: Burma’s Heroin Godfather

July 30, 2013
Asia
Asia World
Burma
China white
Drug trade
godfather
Heroin
Lo Hsing Han
military junta
Myanmar
obituary
opium trade
Southeast Asia
Steven Law
United States
Vietnam War

Prior to his death, Lo Hsing Han was one of Myanmar’s premier business personalities, with wealth so vast that it is difficult to estimate its true extent. Lo Hsing Han’s Asia World conglomerate’s business transactions often surpassed those of the actual economy of Myanmar itself. The problem with Lo Hsing Han’s wealth, and his rise […]

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Yi Seok: Heir of Korea’s Jeonju Yi Dynasty

May 12, 2012
Asia
Confucianism
dictator
East Asia
General Chung Doo-hwan
History
Japanese Colonialism
Japanese Empire
Jeonju
Jeonju Yi Dynasty
Joseon Dynasty
Korea
Korean Empire
Korean history
Park Chung-hee
South Korea
The King: Two Hearts
Vietnam War
Vietnam War veteran
Yi Dynasty
Yi Seok

After the Japanese transformed Korea into a colony, the Joseon Dynasty’s Jeonju Yi clan were maintained as puppet rulers of the formerly independent Korean Empire. Yi Seok, grandson of Gojong and the Yi household’s successor, would be King of Korea today if not for the colonial period and ensuing years of war and division of […]