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  • Than Than Nu
    Native name
    သန်းသန်းနု
    Born (1947-10-03) 3 October 1947 (age 77)
    Occupationwritter
    NationalityBurmese
    EducationYangon University
    Period1947 - present
    SpouseAung Nyein
    Children
    • Shein Min
    • Aung Si

    Than Than Nu is a Burmese radio broadcaster and author. He is also the chairman of the Democratic Party (Myanmar).[1]

    Early Life

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    Born on October 3, 1947, in Yangon to U Nu and Daw Mya Yi. He studied at the Yangon University of Economics from 1964 to 1968. He went to India with Than Than Nu in April 1969, when his father fled due to political turmoil.

    From 1980 to 2003, he worked as a translator for All India Radio, the state-owned Indian broadcasting company.

    He returned to Myanmar in March 2003.

    Entering politics

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    Than Than Nu entered party politics in 2010 by joining the founding team of the Democratic Party (Myanmar), under the leadership of U Thu Wai.[2] She served as the party's Secretary-General.After the death of U Thu Wai on 18 May 2022,[3]she was elected as the Chairperson of the Democratic Party (Myanmar) by party members.[4][5]Than Than Nu contested the 2010 Myanmar general election as a candidate for the National Assembly from Mandalay Region Constituency No.2[6] and the 2015 Myanmar general election as a candidate for the Pyithu Hluttaw from Kyauktada Constituency[7][8] in Yangon Region but was unsuccessful.

    Family life

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    Than Than Nu has two sons, Shein Min and Aung Si. Shein Min lives in Los Angeles, United States, and Aung Si works as a researcher in Canberra, Australia.[9]

    References

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    1. ^ "ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဟောင်းဦးနု၏ သမီးဒေါ်သန်းသန်းနု ဒီမိုကရက်တစ်ပါတီ (မြန်မာ)၏ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌဖြစ်လာ". Yangon Time Media. 10 August 2022. Archived from the original on 10 August 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
    2. ^ "ဦးသုဝေရဲ့ ဒီမိုကရက်တစ် ပါတီသစ် ၂၀၁၀ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဝင်ဖို့ ပြင်ဆင်". VOA. 15 September 2009. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
    3. ^ "စစ်တပ်အာဏာသိမ်းမှု သုံးကြိမ် ကြုံခဲ့သူ သက်တော်ရှည် နိုင်ငံရေးသမား ပြည်ချစ် ဦးသုဝေ". BBC Burmese. 23 May 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
    4. ^ "ရွေးကောက်ပွဲပေါ် ဒေါ်သန်းသန်းနုအမြင်". VOA. 12 October 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
    5. ^ "ရွေးကောက်ပွဲပေါ် ဒေါ်သန်းသန်းနုအမြင်". BBC Burmese. 11 December 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2025.
    6. ^ "အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်တစ်ဦးချင်းစီ၏ဆန္ဒမဲရရှိမှုအခြေအနေ(၂၀၁၀ အထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲ)". UEC Myanmar. 7 November 2010. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
    7. ^ "ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်တစ်ဦးချင်းစီ၏ဆန္ဒမဲရရှိမှုအခြေအနေ(၂၀၁၅ အထွေထွေရွေးကောက်ပွဲ)". UEC Myanmar. 8 July 2022. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
    8. ^ "၂ဝ၁၅ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲဆိုင်ရာ အချက်အလက်များ". Myanmar Now. 4 November 2015. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
    9. ^ မြသန်းသန်းနု။ "ပညာ"။ Living Color စီးပွားရေးသတင်း မဂ္ဂဇင်း။ ၂၀၀၈၊ ဇူလိုင်။ စာ ၁၂၃။