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Sai Leun made a few abortive attempts to develop traditional business interests in the city. He invested some $ US4 million in a sugar mill outside Mong La, only to find that no market existed for the sugar. A similar attempt to cultivate new varieties of rice also faltered when he failed to attract
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flew in to seal the pact with a shady handshake. Soon new refineries in his area went into operation. By the early-1990s Sai Leun headed one of the most powerful drug syndicates in northern Burma with an output of one to two thousand kilogrammes of pure heroin annually. For years he was high on the
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