Ep. 292 | Olive Yang
The China History Podcast
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The Story of Olive Yong in Ko Kong
During the 19 forties and fifties, olive yong served as a a kind of a local benefactor up in ko kong. She funded free education to students, as well as k m t run military schools. Future drug lord losing han was a student at one of these k m t military schools. After ne win had seized power and began to take control of as much of burma as possible, he had olive and losing han, thrown in the slammer ow lifted five years in a mandelay prison on charges of aiding chinese soldiers. Olive was released from prison in 19 68, and here is where there are varying accounts of what became of her during
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