Kyaw Zaya
Colonel Kyaw Zaya (Burmese: ကျော်ဇေယျ; also spelt Kyaw Zay Ya) is a Burmese military officer who currently serving as Minister of Security and Border Affairs for Tanintharyi Region since 20 February 2017.[4][5] He previously served as Acting Chief Minister of Tanintharyi Region after the arrested Chief Minister Lei Lei Maw with corruption case on 10 March 2019.[6]
His Excellency Colonel Kyaw Zaya | |
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ကျော်ဇေယျ | |
Minister of Security and Border Affairs for Tanintharyi Region | |
Assumed office 20 February 2017 | |
President | Htin Kyaw Myint Swe (acting) Win Myint |
Preceded by | Zaw Lwin |
Chief Minister of Tanintharyi Region[1] Acting | |
In office 10 March 2019 – 11 March 2019[2][3] | |
Preceded by | Lei Lei Maw |
Succeeded by | Myint Maung (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Dawei, Burma |
Nationality | Burmese |
Occupation | Military officer, Minister |
Cabinet | Tanintharyi Region Government |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Myanmar |
Branch/service | Myanmar Army |
Rank |
Military and governmental career
Kyaw Zaya served as the tactical officer at Khamaukgyi Subtownship-based Operations (20) Administration Department after the appointed him as vice principal and the chief coach at the No. (12) military training school. Later, he was appointed as Minister of Security and Border Affairs for Tanintharyi Region which is member of Tanintharyi Region Government on 20 February 2017.[5][7]
Acting Chief Minister
On 10 March 2019, following the arrested Chief Minister Lei Lei Maw with corruption case, Kyaw Zaya was appointed as acting Chief Minister of Tanintharyi Region, according to constitution laws.
On 11 March 2019, he succeed his position to Myint Maung, a Regional Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, as acting Chief Minister.
References
- Oo, Zaw Moe (13 March 2019). "Govt. appoints regional minister Myint Maung as acting Taninthayi chief". Eleven Media Group.
- "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း ခေတ္တဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အဖြစ် ဦးမြင့်မောင်အား တာဝန်ပေး" (in Burmese). 7Day News. 12 March 2019.
- "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အဖြစ် ခေတ္တဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ဦးမြင့်မောင် အား နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ အဆိုပြု" (in Burmese). eleven media group. 18 March 2019.
- "Members of Region and State Government Cabinet". Ministry of Information.
- Lwin, Aung Thit (21 February 2017). "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီးနယ်လုံဝန်ကြီးအသစ် ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး ကျော်ဇေယျ ကျမ်းသစ္စာကျိန်ဆို". 7Day News.
- "တိုင်းဒေသကြီး/ပြည်နယ် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့များ အမည်စာရင်း". Ministry of Information.
- Mese, Akira (17 November 2018). "Held the opening ceremony of invitation for bid for the businesses of development border area which will be performed by funds of Tanintharyi Region Government Association for 2018–2019 finance year". Tanintharyi Region Government.