Thailand: Chin Haw man smoking a pipe at Doi Mae Salong, Chiang Rai Province. The rugged, indomitable Chinese muleteers known to the Burmese as Panthay, and to the Thai and Lao as Haw or Chin Haw, were - and to some extent still are - the masters of the Golden Triangle. Certainly they were traders par excellence, penetrating into the remotest reaches of forbidden territory such as the Wa States, whilst at the same time their mule caravans, laden with everything from precious stones and jade to opium and copper pans, traded as far as Luang Prabang in Laos, Moulmein in Burma, Dali and Kunming.

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