Myanmar tycoon’s riches grow amid sanctions

Tay Za is known as Myanmar’s richest businessman, although he says he is not.

An entrepreneur whose companies employ more than 60,000 people in the South-east Asian nation, Tay Za has continued to make money despite sanctions that prevent him from doing business with the European Union.

With leading dissident Aung San Suu Kyi saying the sanctions should remain until democratic values take hold in Myanmar, many are wondering they they have hurt people like Tay Za at all.