In this Burmese name, Sai is an honorific.

Sai Naw Kham (Burmese: နော်ခမ်း, Shan: ၼေႃႇၶမ်း, Chinese: 糯康; pinyin: Nuò Kāng; also spelt Nor Kham), born 8 November 1969 in Lashio, Burma) was the leader of a major drug trafficking gang in theGolden Triangle, a major drugs-smuggling area where the borders of Burma, Laos and Thailandconverge.^[1] He was formerly a subordinate associate of Khun Sa, a major Burmese drug lord who surrendered to the Burmese government in 1996 in exchange for amnesty.^[1] Naw's gang numbered in the hundreds and included members of Khun Sa's former paramilitary forces, along with ethnic rebels.^[1] On 21 September 2012, Naw Kham pled guilty at the Intermediate People's Court in Kunming, Yunnan^[2] to the murders of thirteen Chinese sailors killed during the Mekong River massacre. He and three of his subordinates were sentenced to death. On 26 Dec. 2012, the Yunnan Higher Court rejected Naw Kham's appeals, upholding the death penalties.^[3]

At its height, Naw Kham's militia, the Hawngleuk Militia (a Burmese people's militia force) had 100 members and was based out of Tachileik, near the Thai-Burmese border.^[4] The militia was involved in trafficking of methamphetamine and heroin, kidnapping, murder, racketeering and banditry in the Mekong River area.^[4] Over the years, Naw Kham generated an estimated $63 million USD in income through his crimes.^[4] After the Mekong River massacre in October 2011 and subsequent backlash from the Chinese, Laotian officials arrested Naw Kham and extradited him to China on 10 May 2012.^[5] the In July 2012 raids of Naw Kham's militia bases, Burmese authorities seized over 600,000 methamphetamine pills and 120 bars of heroin.^[5] Hunting for Naw Kham, the Chinese "special task group" has used new technologies such as the Beidou System according to the Ministry of Public Security of China. Because of the gang's remote hiding area is difficult to reach, even a UAV "execution operation" was once proposed.^[6]