Thant Sin Maung

Thant Sin Maung
His Excellency; Thant Sin Maung
	သန့်စင်မောင်
Minister for Transport and Communications
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; 30 March 2016
President	Htin Kyaw; Myint Swe (acting); Win Myint
Preceded by	Nyan Tun Aung (Transport); Zayar Aung (Communication)
Pyithu Hluttaw MP
	In office; 1 February 2016 – 30 March 2016
Succeeded by	Nyunt Aung
Constituency	Monywa Township
Personal details
Born	November 15, 1953; Monywa Township, Sagaing Division, Burma (Myanmar)
Nationality	Burmese
Political party	National League for Democracy
Spouse(s)	Khin Than Aye
Children	3
Residence	Hlaing Township, Yangon
Alma mater	Yangon University
Occupation	Academic, Government Servant, Politician

Thant Sin Maung (Burmese: သန့်စင်မောင် [θa̰ɴ sɪ̀ɴ màʊɴ]; born 15 November 1953) is a Burmese politician and incumbent Minister for Transport and Communications of Myanmar (Burma). On 22 March 2016, he was nominated to be Minister for Transport and Communications in President Htin Kyaw's Cabinet. On 24 March, the Assembly of the Union confirmed his nomination.

He previously served as Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Monywa Township.[1][2][3][4]

Early life and education

Thant Sin Maung was born on 15 November 1953 in Monyway village, Monywa Township, Sagaing Division, Burma (now Myanmar) to Lu Lay and Ohn Kyi.[5] He graduated from Rangoon Arts and Science University with M.Sc. in Mathematics.[4]

Governmental career

Thant Zin Maung started working as a tutor in Pathein College and Rangoon Arts and Science University. He then moved to Myanmar Railways as an assistant manager, and worked in various positions until his retirement as a general manager.[4]

Political career

In 2015 Myanmar general election, he was elected as a Pyithu Hluttaw MP for Monywa Township.[4]

Personal life

He married to Khin Than Aye, a medical doctor, and has three children, Arkar Thant Sin, Phu Thant Sin, and Htoo Thant Sin.[5][4]

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References

The Myanmar Times. "Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to join government as NLD reveals cabinet".
Ei Ei Toe Lwin. "With all eyes on Daw Suu, NLD set to reveal cabinet".
"ဦးသန့်စင်မောင် အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်ပါတီ". mVoter2015. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
"ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးသစ်များ၏ ကိုယ်ရေးအကျဉ်းများ". 7Day News (in Burmese). 22 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
"ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးများ၏ကိုယ်ရေးအကျဉ်းမျာ". 7Day News Journal (in Burmese). Retrieved 2020-04-25.

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[themyanmartimes-1] The Myanmar Times. "Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to join government as NLD reveals cabinet".

[2] Ei Ei Toe Lwin. "With all eyes on Daw Suu, NLD set to reveal cabinet".

[WMA-3] "ဦးသန့်စင်မောင် အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်ပါတီ". mVoter2015. Retrieved 26 March 2016.

[7Day-4] "ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးသစ်များ၏ ကိုယ်ရေးအကျဉ်းများ". 7Day News (in Burmese). 22 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2016.

[:0-5] "ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးများ၏ကိုယ်ရေးအကျဉ်းမျာ". 7Day News Journal (in Burmese). Retrieved 2020-04-25.