Sao Edward Yang Kyein Tsai
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Template:Burmese name Template:Infobox Officeholder Sao Edward Yang Kyein Sai Template:Postnominals (Template:Zh, Template:Langx, 1918–1971) was the last traditional ruler (saopha) of the Chiefdom of Kokang from 1949, at the death of his father, saopha Sao Yang Wen Pin, until he abdicated in 1959.
Yang's sister, Olive Yang, was a prominent opium warlord, recruited by Khin Nyunt in the late 1980s to help broker ceasefires in Burma with ethnic rebel groups.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>