Min Thein Zan (Burmese: မင်းသိန်းဇံ) is the current Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs of Myanmar. He retired with the rank of Brigadier General from the Tatmadaw and was also appointed as the Myanmar Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives.[3][4]
Min Thein Zan | |
|---|---|
| မင်းသိန်းဇံ | |
| Union Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs | |
| Assumed office 1 August 2021 | |
| Deputy |
|
| Prime Minister | Min Aung Hlaing |
| Preceded by | Dr Thet Khaing Win (as MOHS) |
| Chairman of Myanmar Olympic Committee | |
| Assumed office 1 August 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Dr Thet Khaing Win |
| Myanmar Ambassador to Sri Lanka | |
| In office October 2013 – 2018 | |
| President | |
| Preceded by | Myo Lwin[1] |
| Succeeded by | Han Thu[2] |
| Myanmar Ambassador to Maldives | |
| Personal details | |
| Alma mater | Defence Services Academy |
| Awards | Thiri Pyanchi |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  MYA |
| Branch/service |  Myanmar Army |
| Rank |  Brigadier General |
Career
editMin Thein Zan graduated from the 23rd intake of the Defence Services Academy. After serving in the Tatmadaw for about 35 years, he was transferred from the Ministry of Defense to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on May 14, 2013. Then he became Myanmar's ambassador to Sri Lanka. On August 5, 2014, he was appointed as the joint ambassador to Maldives.[5][4]
Union Minister
editOn 1 August 2021, the management committee of SAC was organized as caretaker government and they reconstituted the Ministry of Health and Sports as the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs. Min Thein Zan was appointed as the Union Minister.[6][7]
Personal life
editMin Thein Zan's wife, Daw May Than Kyaing, is a retired professor from Yangon University. They were childhood friends and were married in the 1980s. They have three sons.[3]
References
edit- ^ "U Min Thein Zan - Myanmar's New Ambassador to Sri Lanka".
- ^ "APPOINTMENT OF AMBASSADOR OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR TO SRI LANKA".
- ^ a b "Aced art".
- ^ a b "New Burmese Ambassador presents credentials to the President".
- ^ ""An Attempt to Lead Myanmar Back to the Future? Data on the State Administration Council Regime's Union Ministers"".
- ^ "စစ်ကိုင်း၊ တနင်္သာရီနှင့် ဧရာဝတီ တိုင်းဒေသကြီး စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌများအား တာဝန်မှ အနားယူခွင့်ပြုခဲ့ပြီး ပြည်ထောင်စု ဝန်ကြီးဌာနအချို့ကို ပြင်ဆင်ဖွဲ့စည်း".
- ^ "မြန်မာ့အားကစားသမိုင်းနှင့် ဝန်ကြီးဌာန သမိုင်းအကျဉ်း".