Projects
The Mu Aye Pu development chapter
Written from the documents. Not advocacy for any participant.
What the 2017 placement said
Karen Enterprises would incorporate Mu Aye Pu Development Corporation in Singapore, raise USD 350,000 for survey and masterplan, and take a 99-year lease over about 5,000 hectares beside the Moei. Implementation team printed: Nerdah Mya, Tay Kheng Soon, Nigel Grier, Kurt Hanson.2
What the land paper then said
November 2017 community pack: about 2,000 m².215 December 2018 letter to Nerdah Mya: about 12 acres, THB 2 million to KNU, unsigned by him in the copy held.1
Relationships break
18 December 2018: Grier writes Hanson withdrawing a settlement offer.1August 2017 mail shows an ICO-marketing conversation with a visitor in Mae Sot — contemporaneous with later press headlines about an ICO, not proof that one launched.14
Cessation, press, later statement
Grier, 9 April 2020: masterplan delivered; a key consortia member left; funds spent on the plan; further work depends on governance and viability.36
SMH / Karen News, April–May 2020: reported investor complaints, a quoted Nerdah, a KNDO warning, a Singapore default judgment without findings on the merits, and a dispute about later bear-care.45
A 7 August 2026 first-person record on nigelgrier.com states that Stage 1 was limited to professional services as disclosed in the 2017 and 2018 placements; that the project went on hiatus on 9 April 2020; and that the Karen Enterprises default judgment was set aside in 2020 and the action discontinued. The court file itself has not been read here.3
Live muayepu.com, captured the same month this archive began, still presented a free-city pitch. This site replaces that.
Contradictions and sources are listed in the Archive.