The AA’s alleged freezing of $6 million in Kyauk Taung’s assets in Taungup may have to do with his reported ties to the military’s proxy party and, some say, the junta.

A year later, on 7 February 1925, he published his description of what he argued was a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus, in the journal Nature.It was nicknamed the Taung Child, a ...