Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo : Ask Biography

Personal data

Date of birth

29 May 1950(age 66)

Place of birth

Burma (now Myanmar)

Political party

USDP

Spouse

Khin Saw Hnin

Children

Naing Linn Oo

Residence

Naypyidaw

Alma mater

Defence Services Academy

Occupation

Army Officer

Religion

Theravada Buddhism

Military service

Service/branch

Army

Rank

General

First Vice President of Myanmar

Assumed office

30 March 2011

Serving with Sai Mauk Kham

President

Thein Sein

Preceded by

Maung Aye (Vice Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council)

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General Thihathura Tin Aung Myint Oo ( , -mytɪ̀ɴ àuɴ mjɪ̰ɴ ʔúpron; born 29 May 1950) is one of the Vice Presidents of Myanmar. He is also chairman of Burmese Trade Council, having been appointed in November 2007 by Than Shwe, in response to Saffron Revolution demonstrations in October of that year, and Minister of Military Affairs.

He graduated from the 12th intake of the Defence Services Academy and subsequently earned the title "Thihathura" in 1980 for fighting the Communist Party of Burma. He was nominated into the State Peace and Development Council in 2007 as Secretary (1) and was promoted to general in March 2009. He contested the Burmese general election, 2010 as a parliamentary candidate for the Union Solidarity and Development Party, to represent the constituents of Naypyidaw's Pobba Thiri Township.

Tin Aung Myint Oo became a Vice-President on 4 February 2011, prior to this he was the First Secretary of the State Peace and Development Council, the military regime which seized power in 1988. He is one of the wealthiest members in the former SPDC, and is well known for close ties with Zaw Zaw, a Burmese tycoon.