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'''Sao Edward Yang Kyein Sai''' ({{zh|c=杨振材|p=Yáng Zhèncái}}), ''[[Saopha]]'' of [[Kokang]] (1918–1971, at [[Lashio]]) was the traditional ruler (''[[saopha]]'') of the [[Myanmar|Burmese]] state of Kokang from 1949, at the death of his father, saopha Sao [[Yang Wen Pin]], until he [[abdicate]]d 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>{{cite book|last=Thant Myint-U|title=Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia|publisher=Macmillan|date=13 September 2011|isbn=9781466801271}}</ref>

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