Kyaw San or Kyaw Hsan (Burmese: ကျော်ဆန်း) is a Burmese politician and the current Mayor of Mandalay, the second largest city in Myanmar. He became mayor after Ye Lwin. He is also the minister for Ministry of Municipal of Mandalay Region Government under Maung Ko. He previously served under Ye Myint as the Regional Minister of Road Transport from 2011 to 2016.[1][2][3][4]

Kyaw San
Kyaw San in February 2024
Mayor of Mandalay
Assumed office
7 February 2021
Preceded byYe Lwin
Chairman of Mandalay City Development Committee
Assumed office
7 February 2021
Preceded byYe Lwin
Municipal Minister for Mandalay Region
Assumed office
1 August 2021
Chief MinisterMaung Ko
Preceded byYe Lwin
Road and Transport Minister for Mandalay Region
In office
2011–2016
Chief MinisterYe Myint
Preceded byposition established
Personal details
Born Myanmar

Mayoral career edit

Following the coup d'état on February 1, 2021, State Administration Council appointed Kyaw San as mayor. After the formation of the caretaker government on August 1, 2021, the mayors of Yangon and Mandalay were appointed as municipal ministers in the reformation of state and region governments.[5]

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  1. ^ "မန္တလေးမြို့တော်ဝန်အဖြစ် တာဝန်ပေးခံရသူ ဦးကျော်ဆန်း စတင် တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်". Archived from the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  2. ^ "New Mandalay Mayor Assumes Duties".
  3. ^ "A series of bomb blasts occur in Mandalay, mayor's home hit".
  4. ^ "Appointment and Duty Assignment of Mayor".
  5. ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၅၃ / ၂၀၂၁ ၁၃၈၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဝါဆိုလပြည့်ကျော် ၉ ရက် (၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဩဂုတ်လ ၁ ရက်) တိုင်းဒေသကြီး သို့မဟုတ် ပြည်နယ် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့များ ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခြင်း".