Tin Tun Naing Explained

Tin Tun Naing
Native Name Lang:Burmese
Term Start:2 March 2021
President:Win Myint
Appointer:CRPH
Office1:Acting Union Minister of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations of Myanmar
Term Start1:2 March 2021
President1:Win Myint
Appointer1:CRPH
Office3:Member of the Pyithu Hluttaw
Constituency3:Seikkyi Kanaungto Township
Majority3:8,392[1]
Term Start3:1 February 2016
Term End3:1 February 2021
Birth Date:30 January 1971
Birth Place:Simeekhon, Myingyan District, Myanmar
Nationality:Burmese
Alma Mater:Mandalay Institute of Technology
Yangon Institute of Economics
Party:National League for Democracy
Occupation:Activist
Politician

Tin Tun Naing (Burmese: တင်ထွန်းနိုင်) is a Burmese activist and politician who currently serves as the acting union minister for the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry, Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations and Ministry of Commerce.[2] He is also a member of House of Representatives for Seikkyi Kanaungto Township[3] and of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.[4]

Early life and education

Tin Tun Naing was born on 30 January 1971[3] in, Myingyan District, Mandalay Region. He conferred his bachelor's degree in electronic engineering from Mandalay Institute of Technology (MIT) and completed Executive MBA program from Yangon Institute of Economics.

Political career

In the 2015 Myanmar general election, Tin Tun Naing contested in Seikkyi Kanaungto Township constituency for Pyithu Hluttaw, from National League for Democracy, and won a seat by 8,392 votes.[1]

In the 2020 Myanmar general election, he was re-elected as a MP for Seikkyi Kanaungto Township but was not allowed to assume his seat due to the military coup.[5] [6] [7]

On 5 February 2021, in the aftermath of 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, he became a member of the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw.[8] [9]

On 2 March 2021, he was appointed by CRPH as the acting union minister for the Ministry of Planning, Finance and Industry, the Ministry of Investment and Foreign Economic Relations and the Ministry of Commerce.[10] [11] [12] [13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: ၂၀၁၅ခုနှစ် အထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲ . Union Election Commission . en.
  2. News: အသစ်ခန့်လိုက်တဲ့ဝန်ကြီးတွေဟာ စစ်အာဏာရှင်စနစ် ကျဆုံးရေးအတွက်လို့ CRPH ပြော . BBC News မြန်မာ . 2 March 2021 . my.
  3. Web site: Myanmar Election 2020 . myanmarelection2020.com.
  4. News: ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီဝင်နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းချက် . burmese.voanews.com.
  5. News: ခေတ္တပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးများကို CRPH က ခန့်အပ် . 2 March 2021 . en.
  6. News: ရွေးကောက်ခံ NLD အမတ်တွေရှေ့ရေး တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းချက် . my.
  7. News: CRPH က ပထမဆုံးအစိုးရဖွဲ့ . BBC News မြန်မာ . 2 March 2021 . my.
  8. News: 5 February 2021. NLD အမတ် ၁၅ ဦးပါ ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီဖွဲ့စည်း. my. VOA.
  9. News: ပြည်ထောင်စုလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီက အစိုးရဖွဲ့ဖို့ပြင်. my. BBC News မြန်မာ. 9 February 2021.
  10. Web site: 2 March 2021. Appointment of Acting Union Ministers . Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. en.
  11. News: Defying Military Regime, Myanmar's CRPH Names Four Acting Ministers . The Irrawaddy . 2 March 2021.
  12. News: CRPH က ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးတွေ စတင်ခန့်အပ် . BBC News မြန်မာ . my-MM.
  13. News: ခေတ္တပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီး ၄ ဦး CRPH ခန့်အပ် . VOA . my.