Steven Law also known as Htun Myint Naing and Lo Ping Zhong () is a Burmese businessman. He is best known for being the managing director of
Asia World
Asia World Group () is a Burmese conglomerate. It is Myanmar's largest and most diversified conglomerate, with interests in industrial development, construction, transportation, import-export, and a local supermarket chain. About half of Singap ...
, the country's largest conglomerate, and as son of
Lo Hsing Han
Lo Hsing Han or Law Sit Han (, ; ; 25 September 1935 – 6 July 2013) was a Burmese businessman and drug trafficker. He later became a major business tycoon across Burma, with financial ties to Singapore. He was an ethnic Kokang-Chinese. His sp ...
, one of the country's most notable drug traffickers.
Family
Law has six brothers: Lu Law, David Lo, Eric Ping Sin Lo, Henry Lo, Moses Ping Chao Lo, and Aung Kyaw Naing, and two sisters: Daisy Lo and Thida Han Ma. He wed a Singaporean national, Cecilia Ng (Ng Sor Hong), who has two children from a previous marriage, on 16 March 1996.
Business
Law is a prominent businessman well known for being at the helm of Myanmar's largest conglomerate company
Asia World
Asia World Group () is a Burmese conglomerate. It is Myanmar's largest and most diversified conglomerate, with interests in industrial development, construction, transportation, import-export, and a local supermarket chain. About half of Singap ...
, whose investments include a container shipping line, port buildings, and toll road authorities.
[ Law also owns of the Burmese football team ]Magway FC
Magwe Football Club () is a Myanmar Professional football club, based at Magwe, Myanmar. The club represents the Magway Region of Central Myanmar. At the founded time, the name of club is Magway Football Club. In 2012, the club was renamed the na ...
.
In 1996, he was denied a visa to the United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 ...
on suspicion of drug links. His father, Lo Hsing Han, stated that Law had no affiliation with Lo's past history in Kokang
Kokang (; ) is a region in Myanmar. It is located in the northern part of Shan State, with the Salween River to its west, and sharing a border with China's Yunnan Province to the east. Its total land area is around . The capital is Laukkai. K ...
's opium industry.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Law, Steven
Burmese businesspeople
Burmese people of Chinese descent
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)