"Local military authorities have banned the production of teak logs in the Three Pagoda Pass logging zone and are cleaning up illegal logging business in the area, according to logging businessmen in the area. The military authorities has started banning the export of teak to Thailand since the end of October, and the No. 44 Brigade military operation has tried to clean out illegal logging in the Kyorn Chaung logging zone, northwest of Three Pagoda Pass, where teak was grown by a British colonel..."