Career
She received an education at Lashio"s Guardian Angel"s Convent School. At the age of 19, she organized ethnic Kokang forces, nicknamed the Olive"s Boys, an army of over a thousand soldiers and consolidated control of opium trade routes from the highlands to lowlands. She dominated Kokang"s opium trade from the end of World World War II to the early 1960s.
From the 1950s to the mid-1960s, she was the commander of the Kokang Kakweye (People"s Defense Forces).
She was a prominent figure in opium trafficking and gold trading. She was imprisoned at Insein Prison and released in 1968.
Yang was known to be a bisexual who carried on affairs with film actresses and singers, including Wah Wah Win Shwe (ဝါဝါဝင်းရွှေ). In the late 1980s, she was recruited by Khin Nyunt to help broker ceasefires in Burma with ethnic rebel groups.
After her release, she reportedly spends her final years as a nun.
