Thailand: The imam of the Doi Mae Salong mosque, Chiang Rai Province, northern Thailand, c. 1995. The rugged, indomitable Chinese muleteers known to the Burmese as Panthay, and to the Thai and Lao as Haw or Chin Haw, were - and generally 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 and Moulmein in Burma.

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