Chin Haw

The Chin Haw or Chin Ho (Chinese: 秦霍; pinyin: Qín huò; Thai: จีนฮ่อ, RTGS: Chin Ho), also known locally as Yunnanese (Chinese: 雲南人, Thai: คนยูนนาน), are Chinese people who migrated to Thailand via Myanmar or Laos.

Generally, the Chin Haw can be divided into three groups, according to the time of their migration.

The Chin Haw have traditionally been itinerant in their lifestyle, conducting long-distance caravan trade throughout the Thai-Burma-Laos frontier, southeast China, and northern Vietnam.

Ma Hseuh-fu, from Yunnan province, was one of the most prominent Chin Haw heroin drug lords.

[5] The Muslim Chin Haw are the same ethnic group as the Panthay in Burma, who are also descendants of Hui Muslims from Yunnan province, China.

A Chin Haw mosque at Doi Mae Salong, Chiang Rai