Mong La Township ( shn, ၸႄႈဝဵင်းမိူင်းလႃး, my, မိုင်းလားမြို့နယ်) is a subdivision of

Kengtung District Kengtung District ( my, ကျိုင်းတုံခရိုင်; also spelled Kengtong) is a district of the Shan State in Myanmar. It consists of three towns and 1449 villages. Townships The district contains the following townships: * ...

Shan State Shan State ( my, ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်, ; shn, မိူင်းတႆး, italics=no) also known by the endonyms Shanland, Muang Tai, and Tailong, is a state of Myanmar. Shan State borders China (Yunnan) to the north, Laos ( ...

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. The area borders China and Laos. The principal town is

Mong La Mong La or Mongla ( my, မိုင်းလား ; zh, c=勐拉, p=Měnglā), also known as Little Mong La ( zh, c=小勐拉, p=Xiǎo Měnglā, links=no) to distinguish it from neighbouring Mengla County in China, is the administrative seat of ...

. Sharing a border with China, the Mong La area is a center for the production and traffic of narcotics and illegal

wildlife trade Wildlife trade refers to the of products that are derived from non-domesticated animals or plants usually extracted from their natural environment or raised under controlled conditions. It can involve the trade of living or dead individuals, ti ...

. It offers gambling and prostitution to Chinese tourists in an unregulated environment outside Myanmar government control.

History

The Mong La region was Special Region Number 4 of Shan before the new constitution (2008). It hosts the

National Democratic Alliance Army The National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) is an insurgent group in eastern Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). It is the armed wing of the Peace and Solidarity Committee (PSC). History The Mong La area had been under the control of several war ...

(NDAA) and its leader Lin Mingxian aka Sai Leun. Michael Black and Roland Fields. "Virtual gambling in Myanmar's drug country
''Asia Times''
26 August 26, 2006 It was the #815 War Zone of the former

Communist Party of Burma The Communist Party of Burma (CPB), also known as the Burma Communist Party (BCP), is a clandestine communist party in Myanmar (Burma). It is the oldest existing political party in the country. Founded in 1939, the CPB initially fought ag ...

(CPB). In 2008 the

United Wa State Army The United Wa State Army (; my, ဝပြည် သွေးစည်းညီညွတ်ရေး တပ်မတော်, ), abbreviated as the UWSA or the UWS Army, is the military wing of the United Wa State Party (UWSP), the ''de facto' ...

(UWSA) strongly opposed the move to give away the adjacent area of Mong Pawk from its control because it serves as a link with its ally, the

NDAA NDAA may refer to: *National Defense Authorization Act The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is the name for each of a series of United States federal laws specifying the annual budget and expenditures of the U.S. Department of Defense ...

in Mong La.

References

External links

Mong La’s Moveable Feast of Endangered BeastsMong La - Vice City
Populated places in Shan State Townships of Myanmar {{ShanState-geo-stub