As the drugs flowed from his fiefdom on the Thai-Burma border during the 1980s, he would play host to journalists and Western tourists, treating them to Taiwanese pop music and boasting of being a ...

In the 1400s, when Mrauk-U was invaded by forces of the Burman kingdom at Ava, King Narmeikhla sought help from Bengal and expelled the invaders with the help of a Muslim army.