Wednesday, 16 March 2016

Who is Htin Kyaw, Myanmar’s Presumptive President? (Joshua Kurlantzick, CFR)

Htin Kyaw, who is almost surely going to be the new president of Myanmar, was so unknown to the international media that when he was nominated last week for president by the National League for Democracy (NLD), stories about him were riddled with mistakes. Some news reports suggested that he had attended Oxford University (his father actually attended Oxford, while Htin Kyaw studied at the defunct University of London Institute of Computer Science), while other reports suggested he had been Suu Kyi’s chauffeur, a rumor strenuously denied by NLD spokespeople.

http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2016/03/15/who-is-htin-kyaw-myanmars-presumptive-president/

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