Thant Wai Kyaw

Thant Wai Kyaw
Member of the Sagaing Region Hluttaw
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 February 2016
ConstituencyKale Township № 1[1]
Majority62,459 votes [2]
Personal details
Born (1986-04-25) 25 April 1986 (age 38)
Kalay, Myanmar
Political partyNational League for Democracy
SpouseSoe Thu Nyunt (husband)
ChildrenThwin Htoo Eain (son)
ParentThan (father)
Alma materB.Sc (Phys)
Occupation
  • Politician
  • newscaster

Thant Wai Kyaw (Burmese: သန့်ဝေကျော်) is a Burmese newscaster and politician, who currently serves as a member of parliament in the Sagaing Region Hluttaw for Kale Township No. 1 Constituency.[3] She is a member of the National League for Democracy.[4]

Early life and education

Thant Wai Kyaw was born on 25 April 1986 in Kalay, Sagaing Region, Myanmar. She graduated with B.Sc (Phys).

Political career

From 2012 till 2014, she was selected as one of the youth leaders of NYC in Sagaing Region for the National Youth Congress and as an executive Committee member at the ward and village tract level for the 2013 NLD nationwide conference.

In the 2015 Myanmar general election, she contested the Sagaing Region Hluttaw from Kale Township No. 1 parliamentary constituency, winning a majority of 62,459 votes. She is currently serves as member in Budget, Regional Planning and France Committee and Ethnic Affairs Committee.[5][6] She also serves as a member of Sagaing Region Youth Affairs Committee.

In the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, she joined the National Unity Government’s news agency, delivering a popular weekly news segment for People's Voice Television (PVTV) called Phyitgyaung Konsin Anyar Takhwin (ဖြစ်ကြောင်းကုန်စင် အညာတစ်ခွင်), which recounts events and ongoing conflicts in the Bamar heartland.[7][8] In January 2022, her home in Kalay was chained up by military troops after she was charged under section 505 of the Myanmar Penal Code.[9]

References

  1. ^ "ကလေးမြို့နယ် အတွင်းရှိ အခြေခံလူတန်းစား အိမ်ထောင်စုပေါင်း ၃၀၀၀၀ ကျော်ကို စားနပ်ရိက္ခာ ထောက်ပံ့မှု စတင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese).
  2. ^ Elections Result-Global New Light Of Myanmar
  3. ^ "Thant Wai Kyaw". 7 Daily News.
  4. ^ "Kalaymyo NLD youth leader concerned with voting lists".
  5. ^ "စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီးလွှတ်တော်တွင် ကော်မတီသုံးခုဖွဲ့". 7Day News (in Burmese). 15 June 2016.
  6. ^ "2015 General Election of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Victorious Region/State Hluttaw candidates and results". globalnewlightofmyanmar. Archived from the original on July 7, 2017.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ^ "Resistance smolders as Sagaing burns". www.rfa.org. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  8. ^ "ချိပ်ပိတ်ခံထားရသည့် ကလေးမြို့က လွှတ်တော်အမတ်နေအိမ်ရှိ ပစ္စည်းများအား စစ်ကောင်စီ တပ်သားနှင့် ရဲများခိုးယူ". Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  9. ^ "ကလေးမြို့က NLD အမတ်အိမ်တွေ ချိတ်ပိတ်ခံရ". RFA (in Burmese). Retrieved 2023-03-16.