Colonel Kyaw Zaya (Burmese: ကျော်ဇေယျ; also spelt Kyaw Zay Ya) is a Burmese military officer currently serving as Minister of Security and Border Affairs for Tanintharyi Region since 20 February 2017.[4][5] He previously served as Acting Chief Minister of Tanintharyi Region after the arrested Chief Minister Lei Lei Maw with corruption case on 10 March 2019.[6] He became a member of Tanintharyi Administration Council formed after 2021 coup and resumed military services on 1 August 2021.[7]

Colonel
Kyaw Zaya
ကျော်ဇေယျ
Minister of Security and Border Affairs and Council Member for Tanintharyi Region
In office
20 February 2017 – 1 February 2021 ; 1 August 2021
PresidentHtin Kyaw
Myint Swe (acting)
Win Myint
Preceded byZaw Lwin
Chief Minister of Tanintharyi Region[1]
Acting
In office
10 March 2019 – 11 March 2019[2][3]
Preceded byLei Lei Maw
Succeeded byMyint Maung (Acting)
Personal details
BornDawei, Burma
NationalityBurmese
OccupationMilitary officer, Minister
CabinetTanintharyi Region Government
Military service
AllegianceMyanmar
Branch/serviceMyanmar Army
Rank Colonel

Military and governmental career

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Kyaw Zaya served as the tactical officer at Khamaukgyi Subtownship-based Operations (20) Administration Department after the appointed him as vice principal and the chief coach at the No. (12) military training school. Later, he was appointed as Minister of Security and Border Affairs for Tanintharyi Region which is member of Tanintharyi Region Government on 20 February 2017.[5][8]

Acting Chief Minister

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On 10 March 2019, following the arrested Chief Minister Lei Lei Maw with corruption case, Kyaw Zaya was appointed as acting Chief Minister of Tanintharyi Region, according to constitution laws.

On 11 March 2019, he succeed his position to Myint Maung, a Regional Minister of Natural Resources and Environment, as acting Chief Minister.

References

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  1. ^ Oo, Zaw Moe (13 March 2019). "Govt. appoints regional minister Myint Maung as acting Taninthayi chief". Eleven Media Group.
  2. ^ "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း ခေတ္တဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အဖြစ် ဦးမြင့်မောင်အား တာဝန်ပေး" (in Burmese). 7Day News. 12 March 2019.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်အဖြစ် ခေတ္တဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ဦးမြင့်မောင် အား နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ အဆိုပြု" (in Burmese). eleven media group. 18 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Members of Region and State Government Cabinet". Ministry of Information.
  5. ^ a b Lwin, Aung Thit (21 February 2017). "တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီးနယ်လုံဝန်ကြီးအသစ် ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး ကျော်ဇေယျ ကျမ်းသစ္စာကျိန်ဆို". 7Day News.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ "တိုင်းဒေသကြီး/ပြည်နယ် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့များ အမည်စာရင်း". Ministry of Information.
  7. ^ "ပြည်ထောင်စုသမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် နိုင်ငံတော်စီမံအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးကောင်စီ အမိန့်အမှတ် ၁၅၉ / ၂၀၂၁ ၁၃၈၃ ခုနှစ်၊ ဝါဆိုလပြည့်ကျော် ၉ ရက် (၂၀၂၁ ခုနှစ်၊ ဩဂုတ်လ ၁ ရက်) စစ်ဘက်မူလတာဝန်ပြန်လည်ထမ်းဆောင်စေခြင်း".
  8. ^ Mese, Akira (17 November 2018). "Held the opening ceremony of invitation for bid for the businesses of development border area which will be performed by funds of Tanintharyi Region Government Association for 2018–2019 finance year". Tanintharyi Region Government.