Win Min Than (Burmese: ဝင်းမင်းသန်း; born 1983), also known as Ah Win (Burmese: အဝင်း) or Glow Nation, is a Burmese beauty blogger.[1][2] She runs the beauty blog and Facebook page Yangon In My Heart.[3]
Win Min Than | |
|---|---|
ဝင်းမင်းသန်း | |
| Born | Win Min Than 1983 (age 40–41) |
| Nationality | Myanmar |
| Other names | Ah Win, Glow Nation |
| Occupation | Blogger |
| Years active | 2013–present |
| Awards | Myanmar's Pride Award for Best in Trend (2019) |
Ah Win contributes to several beauty programs on local TV.[4] She is featured in The Myanmar Times's "Top 10 Bloggers" list in 2019.[5] She won the Myanmar's Pride Awards 2019 in the category of Best in Trend.[6][7]
Career
editShe learned the fashion while working as a manager at Aldo Group in Toronto, Canada. She created her page in 2013 to share her makeup dos and don'ts. In 2015, she returned to Myanmar with plans to start a beauty blog. As a blogger, she shares information about wearing makeup through Facebook Live.[1][6][8] End of the year, she became one of the most popular beauty bloggers in Myanmar.[9]
As an advocate
editShe is a prominent advocate for LGBT rights and women's issues, fearlessly expressing her beliefs. She garners respect not only from women but also from the LGBTQ+ community. She consistently speaks out about LGBT rights in Myanmar.[10]
In addition, she openly discusses her personal encounters with cyberbullying and offers insights on how to respond effectively to cyberbullying. Win Min Than emphasizes that women should bravely speak up if they experience sexual assault. She advocates against blaming the victim and strongly condemns the perpetrators of such assaults.[10]
Political activities
editFollowing the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, she participated in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, she took part in protests, starting in February.[11] She joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.[12][13]
On 6 April 2021, warrants for her arrest were issued under Section 505 (a) of the penal code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, she was charged with calling for participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.[14][15][16][17] She was arrested at the BH Hotel in Taunggyi hours after the military council announced that she had been charged.[18][19] On 7 April 2021, she has been tried in Taunggyi Court.[20] While she appeared in court, he held up the three-finger salute at the exit of the court.[10]
The military council charged her with Article 505(a) and Section 17(1), sentencing her to 3 years in prison with hard labour. On March 2, 2022, the sentence under Section 505(a) was commuted, but she remained detained for the rest of that section. She was also fine Ks.10000 for Section 17 (a).[21] She was released on 28 October 2022.[22]
References
edit- ^ a b "Only as pretty as you feel: A Win". The Myanmar Times. 2019-03-20.
- ^ ""မြန်မာပြည်မှာ အသက်ကြီးတာကို ရယ်စရာ ထင်ကြတယ်"လို့ ဝင်းမင်းသန်း ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 2020-10-08.
- ^ "အသက်အရွယ်အလိုက် အသားအရေ ထိန်းသိမ်းဖို့လိုအပ်တယ် - ဝင်းမင်းသန်း (Beauty & Lifestyle Blogger)". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 14 January 2020.
- ^ "အမျိုးသမီးတွေကို စော်ကားလာရင် အရင့်သီးဆုံး တုံ့ပြန်တယ်လို့ ဝင်းမင်းသန်း ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 2020-10-02.
- ^ "Top 10 : Bloggers". The Myanmar Times. 2019-09-06.
- ^ a b "အသားအရေ လှအောင် ဆုတောင်းပေးတာကို ဝေဖန်ခံနေရတဲ့ ဝင်းမင်းသန်း". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 2020-03-10.
- ^ "2019 Winners". Myanmar's Pride Awards.
- ^ Fame, Asian (2018-02-05). "မော်ဒယ်လ်တို့ မင်းသမီးတို့ အလုပ်တွေလုပ်ဖို့ မရှိပါဘူးဆိုတဲ့ Beauty Blogger ဝင်းမင်းသန်း". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ ""အချစ်အပေါ် ခံယူချက်က အသက်တွေ၊ အချိန်တွေနဲ့ မဆိုင်ဘူး"လို့ ဝင်းမင်းသန်း ပြော". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 2020-02-17.
- ^ a b c "အကျဉ်းကျခံနေဆဲ အမျိုးသမီးထုရဲ့ "Glow Nation" ဘလော့ဂါ ဝင်းမင်းသန်း". The Irrawaddy. 8 March 2022.
- ^ "ဝင်းမင်းသန်း၊ ဟန်လေး နှင့် LGBTQ အဖွဲ့များ ဆန္ဒထုတ်ဖော်". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 19 February 2021.
- ^ "တရားမျှတမှု We Want Justice ကန်ပိန်းတွင် အနုပညာရှင်များပါဝင် ဆန္ဒထုတ်ဖော် (ဓာတ်ပုံ)". DVB (in Burmese). 4 February 2021.
- ^ "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
- ^ "Warrants issued for artists, entertainers that called for CDM participation". Eleven. 3 April 2021.
- ^ "စစ်ကောင်စီကိုဆန့်ကျင်တဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို ဆက်တိုက်အမှုဖွင့်နေ". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
- ^ "CDM လှုပ်ရှားသူ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို အာဏာပိုင်တွေ အရေးယူဖို့ကြေညာ". VOA (in Burmese). 4 August 2021.
- ^ "မင်းမော်ကွန်း၊ အိန္ဒြာကျော်ဇင်၊ Rဇာနည်နှင့် ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု အပါအဝင် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
- ^ "Beauty Blogger ဝင်းမင်းသန်းကို ဖမ်းဆီးရမိခဲ့တဲ့ BH ဟိုတယ်ရဲ့ ထုတ်ပြန်ချက်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 2021-04-07.
- ^ "Myanmar celebrity model arrested as military targets public figures". The Guardian. 2021-04-08.
- ^ "Beauty Blogger ဝင်းမင်းသန်းအား တောင်ကြီးမြို့မှာ ရုံးထုတ်ခဲ့". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 2021-04-07.
- ^ "Actor Pyi Ti Oo and wife Eaindra Kyaw Zin, singers Saw Po Khwa, Po Po and beauty blogger Win Min Than sentenced to 3 years with hard labour". Eleven Media Group. 31 December 2021.
- ^ "အဆိုတော် ပိုပိုနှင့် ဘလော့ဂါ ဝင်းမင်းသန်းတို့ အင်းစိန်ထောင်မှ ပြန်လည်လွတ်မြောက်လာ". Mizzima.