Mong Ko
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Mong Ko (Mān Kang) Monekoe |
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| Coordinates: 24°6′1″N 98°18′50″E / 24.10028°N 98.31389°E | |
| Country |
 Burma
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| State | Shan State |
| District | Mu Se District |
| Township | Mu Se Township |
| Elevation | 1,480 ft (450 m) |
| Population (2014) | |
| • Town | 24,565 |
| • Urban | 8,847 |
| • Rural | 15,718 |
| Time zone | MMT (UTC+6:30) |
Mong Ko, Möng Ko, Monekoe, Mān Kang or Man Kan, also known as Man Guo and as Panglong is a town in Mu Se Township, Mu Se District, northern Shan State.
Like many places in that hapless region, Mong Ko has been a drug-producing and trading point where 'walking down the main road one can smell the chemicals wafting from the houses'.
Monekoe lies by the border with China, 25 km east of Pang Hseng (Kyu Koke). There is a border checkpoint in the town.
The Communist Party of Burma (CPB) entered Shan State on New Year Day 1968, captured Mong Ko, and established the first war zone ‘303’ of the CPB North-East Command (NEC). This was quickly followed by ‘404’ in Kokang substate winning over the local warlord Pheung Kya-shin. For 20 years Pheung controlled Kokang as a member of the Communist Party of Burma. In 1989, however, the CPB split up and Pheung established his own army, the National Democratic Alliance Army, with which he mutinied and captured Mong Ko town. After this he signed a cease-fire with the military junta, which allowed the Kokang army to retain their weapons, and established an autonomous Kokang region as the "First Special Region" of Myanmar.
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