U Htin Linn Aung (Burmese: ထင်လင်းအောင်; also spelt Htin Lin Aung) is a Burmese politician, social activist, former prisoner of conscience, and computer scientist who currently serves as the Union Minister of Communications, Information and Technology of the National Unity Government of Myanmar.[1]
Htin Linn Aung | |
|---|---|
| ထင်လင်းအောင် | |
| Union Minister of Communications, Information and Technology of the National Unity Government of Myanmar | |
| Assumed office 22 February 2021 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Nyaungdon, Ayeyarwady Region, Myanmar |
| Political party | National League for Democracy |
| Alma mater | University of Maryland |
| Occupation | Politician, social activist and computer scientist |
Early life and education
editHtin Linn Aung was born in Nyaungdon, Maubin District, Ayeyarwady Region and was an alumnus of Rangoon Institute of Technology.[2] He completed his bachelor's degree in Science in Computer Network and Security from the University of Maryland.[2]
Political career
editHe joined the student movements in 1996 and 1998 during his university years at the Rangoon Institute of Technology (RIT). In 2000, he was sentenced to prison for seven years for his involvement in the student movement at Pyay Technological University.
He moved to Maryland in 2008 after taking part in the Saffron Revolution.[3]
On 22 February 2021, when CRPH's international relations office was opened in Maryland,[4][5] Htin Linn Aung was appointed as its special representative.[6]
References
edit- ^ "CRPH နိုင်ငံတကာဆက်ဆံရေးရုံးဖွင့်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Archived from the original on April 20, 2021.
- ^ a b "CRPH ကုလ အထူးသံတမန်များအဖြစ် ဒေါက်တာဆာဆာနှင့် ဦးထင်လင်းအောင်ကို တာဝန်ပေး". ဧရာဝတီ. 23 February 2021. Archived from the original on December 8, 2023.
- ^ "Committee of Ousted Myanmar Lawmakers Appoints International Envoys". The Irrawaddy. 23 February 2021. Archived from the original on April 12, 2023.
- ^ "လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားပြုကော်မတီ ကုလသမဂ္ဂနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာဆက်ဆံရေး ကိုယ်စားလှယ်ခန့်အပ်". Radio Free Asia.
- ^ "ကုလသမဂ္ဂဆိုင်ရာအထူးသံတမန်နှင့် နိုင်ငံတကာဆက်ဆံရေးကိုယ်စားလှယ် CRPH ခန့်အပ်". DVB Burmese (in Burmese). 22 February 2021. Archived from the original on April 12, 2023.
- ^ "Appointment of Special Representative". Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. 2021-02-23. Archived from the original on April 6, 2021.
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