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Kyaw Myo Min
ကျော်မျိုးမင်း
Born
Myanmar (Burma)
CitizenshipMyanmar
Occupation(s)Journalist, Reporter
OrganizationNP News
Known forFounder and editor-in-chief of Akon Thi Media and the current NP News
Notable workFounder and editor-in-chief of Akon Thi Media and NP News
Websitehttps://npnewsmm.com/

Kyaw Myo Min (Burmese: ကျော်မျိုးမင်း; pronounced [kjo̰ mjo̰ mɪ́ɴ]; born in Myanmar) is a Burmese journalist and the founder and editor-in-chief of NP News, a media organization that has gained prominence in Myanmar, particularly after the 2021 military coup.[1] Known for his media work, Kyaw Myo Min has been a significant figure in Myanmar's polarized media environment, where outlets often align with either the military regime or the anti-coup resistance.[2][3]

Early life and education

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Kyaw Myo Min was born in Myanmar.[4] However, details about his early life, including his birthdate and family background, are limited and not widely available in public records.[5] Given the nature of the political environment in Myanmar, it is common for public figures, especially those in journalism, to maintain a level of privacy surrounding their personal histories.[6] Information regarding his formal education is also scarce, although it is assumed that he received training in journalism or a related field, which provided the foundation for his career in media.[7]

Career

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Kyaw Myo Min began his career as a journalist at Pyi Myanmar Journal, where he gained early experience reporting on local and national events.[8] His rise in the media industry saw him founding Akon Thi Media, where he worked as editor-in-chief.[9] Under his leadership, Akon Thi became known for covering issues relevant to Myanmar’s changing political landscape, but it was NP News, founded after the military coup in 2021, that would bring him into the spotlight.[10][11]

NP News

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Kyaw Myo Min established NP News in the wake of the February 2021 coup that ousted Myanmar's elected government. In a highly polarized media landscape, NP News quickly emerged as one of the most prominent outlets supporting the junta’s actions. Kyaw Myo Min and his team have positioned NP News as a platform sympathetic to the military regime’s narrative. The outlet frequently portrays the National Unity Government (NUG) and the People's Defense Forces (PDF) as “terrorists” and aims to counter the anti-junta sentiment shared by other outlets.[12][13]

Under Kyaw Myo Min’s leadership, NP News has faced significant criticism, especially from pro-democracy groups and independent journalists, who accuse the outlet of spreading propaganda for the military government. Critics have argued that the media is part of a broader strategy to discredit the resistance and suppress any form of opposition. Despite this, NP News has remained operational in Myanmar, where most independent outlets have either been shut down or forced to operate in exile.[14]

Controversies

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Kyaw Myo Min’s association with a pro-military outlet has made him a controversial figure in Myanmar’s media landscape. Since the coup, he has defended the editorial direction of NP News, even as critics accuse him of serving as a mouthpiece for the junta. His portrayal of the military’s opponents, including resistance groups like the NUG and PDF, as violent insurgents has fueled outrage from anti-coup factions both inside Myanmar and abroad.[15]

Internationally, his work has been scrutinized for its alignment with a government accused of human rights abuses. The international community has raised concerns over press freedom in Myanmar, with many journalists imprisoned or forced into hiding. In contrast, Kyaw Myo Min has continued to operate openly, with his platform presenting a starkly different narrative compared to the banned and exiled outlets critical of the junta.[16]

Online presence

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In addition to his presence on X (formerly Twitter), under the handle @ayerep108, Kyaw Myo Min maintains an active online presence through NP News's official website and Telegram channel. The NP News website serves as a primary platform for his media outlet, where updates on current events, especially regarding Myanmar's political situation, are regularly posted. The Telegram channel serves as another important communication tool, where Kyaw Myo Min shares news, updates, and reports that align with the military regime's narrative.[17]

His activities on these platforms allow him to reach a wide audience both inside Myanmar and internationally, despite the country’s increasingly restricted media environment. While he faces significant opposition from those who view his work as an endorsement of the junta, his online channels remain crucial in disseminating information that supports the military’s perspective.[18]

Legacy

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The legacy of Kyaw Myo Min will likely be defined by his position within Myanmar's media during a period of profound political crisis. While some view him as a staunch supporter of the military regime, others will see him as a divisive figure, emblematic of the complexities facing the media in authoritarian contexts. As Myanmar’s political crisis continues to unfold, Kyaw Myo Min’s media outlet and its coverage will remain a focal point in the broader conversation about press freedom, democracy, and media ethics in the country.[19]

Personal life

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Kyaw Myo Min has largely kept his personal life private. In a time of intense political conflict, many individuals, particularly in the media and political sectors, avoid disclosing personal details for security reasons. His public persona is primarily defined by his work with NP News and his role in Myanmar’s current media landscape.[20]

References

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  1. ^ Nayt Thit (13 January 2024). ""We are ashamed we have to use the word 'surrender.' We are inconsolable by the surrender of more than 2,000 troops and over 1,000 of their family members" regime booster Kyaw Myo Min announced on his Telegram channel NP News Talk Show". The Irrawaddy.
  2. ^ "People Media and NP News are known for their racial incitement between ethnic minorities and Buddhist Bamar people, publishing false reports about PDFs killing Buddhist monks, and claiming that EAOs that arm PDFs are not Buddhist. Nearly one hour after the press conference, General Sumlut Gun Maw, vice chair of the KIA's political wing, the Kachin Independence Organization, posted on his Facebook page pictures of Kyaw Soe Oo from People Media and Kyaw Myo Min from NP News asking questions at the press conference, with the caption "Noted."". The Irrawaddy. 24 August 2023.
  3. ^ "NP News သတင်းဌာနကို ကြည့်ရှုအားပေးကြပါ သော ညီအစ်ကို မောင်နှမ မိတ်ဆွေများ အားလုံးမင်္ဂလာပါ..." NP News. 11 April 2024.
  4. ^ ""သမိုင်းမှာ စစ်တပ်က အာဏာသိမ်းတာ တစ်ခါပဲရှိတယ်။ အခုက အနေအစားမတတ်တဲ့အတွက် ဘယ်ကောင် ဗိုလ်လဲဆိုတာ ထွက်ရပ်ပြလိုက်တာ" (အင်တာဗျူး)". NP News. 3 March 2022.
  5. ^ "နှုတ်ထွက်စကားမှသည် EV ပေါ်လစီ - ကော်မတီနှင့်မကြားဝံ့သာသော မြေပြင်ပကတိ အရှိတရားများ". NP News. 5 June 2024.
  6. ^ "မူးယစ်ဆေးဝါးသည် ငွေကြေးခဝါချမှု၊ လက်နက်မှောင်ခိုမှုများကို ဖန်တီးပေးနေသည့်အတွက် နိုင်ငံနှင့် နိုင်ငံသားတို့၏ လုံခြုံရေးကို ခြိမ်းခြောက်နေဟု ရဲမှူးချုပ်ဆို". NP News. 26 June 2023.
  7. ^ "'NUG, PDF Are Slaughtering the People': Pro-Myanmar Junta Politicians, Journalist". The Irrawaddy. 5 October 2023.
  8. ^ "NLD ပါတီ ကို မှတ်ပုံတင်ရန်အတွက် နစက က တိုးတိုးတိတ်တိတ်ပြောကြားလာခြင်းမျိုးမရှိဟု ဒေါ်စန္ဒာမင်း တုံ့ပြန်". NP News. 27 October 2024.
  9. ^ ""ဘုန်းကြီးအပါး (၅ဝ) ကျော်ထိ အသတ်ခံရတာကို တစ်တိုင်းပြည်လုံးရှိ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာအဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေက သတင်းစကားလေးတောင် မပြောရဲဘဲနဲ့ ငြိမ်ခံနေရတဲ့အဆင့်" (အင်တာဗျူး)". NP News. 4 August 2022.
  10. ^ "U Maung Weik bribed a Patek Philippe watch to former Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein; situation considered as injustice to Eleven Media Group: NP News Chief Editor". Eleven Media Group. 17 August 2023.
  11. ^ "ကျော်မျိုးမင်းက မင်းအောင်လှိုင်ကို စကားလုံးကြမ်းကြမ်းတွေနဲ့ဝေဖန်သယောင်ဖြန့်ဝေတဲ့ အကြောင်းအရာ". BOOM Myanmar. 18 December 2023.
  12. ^ "On the other side, there are calls for retaliatory violence. On September 26, prominent pro-junta news outlet NP News broadcast on Telegram a rant by its founder U Kyaw Myo Min. He called on military supporters to counter groups like the Chinland Defence Force-Hakha, which pledged to fire on civil servants involved in the census. "Don't hesitate. Just shoot them down," Kyaw Myo Min said. "Or you will die… Make apologies later… Say sorry later if you were wrong."". Frontier Myanmar. 1 October 2024.
  13. ^ "ယနေ့ ‌မတ်လ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့အတွင်းဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရေးသတင်းများနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာမှ သတင်းထူးများ". NP News. 14 March 2023.
  14. ^ Nay Thit (16 January 2024). "'လက်နက်ချသည်' ဆိုသည့် စကားကို သုံးရသောကြောင့် ရှက်ကြောင်း၊ စစ်သား ၂,၀၀၀ ကျော်နှင့် မိသားစုဝင် ၁,၀၀၀ ကျော် လက်နက်ချသောကြောင့် မကျေနပ်ကြောင်း စစ်ကောင်စီ ထောက်ခံသူ ကျော်မျိုးမင်းက သူ၏ NP News တယ်လီဂရမ်တွင် ပြောသည်။". The Irrawaddy.
  15. ^ "ရှမ်းပြည်မြောက်ပိုင်းမှ တိုက်ပွဲများတွင် တရုတ် ပါဝင်ပတ်သက်နေပါက မြန်မာတွင် မွေးဖွားသည့် တရုတ်နိုင်ငံသားများ မည်သို့လုပ်မည်လဲဟု မေးခွန်းထုတ်လိုက်ကြောင်း၊ ယခုစစ်ပွဲသည် လက်ဝေခံစစ်ပွဲဖြစ်ပါက မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသားများသည် သွယ်ဝိုက် ကျူးကျော်မှုကို ခံရမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ထိုကိစ္စကို မြန်မာပြည်သူများ သိစေလိုကြောင်း NP News မှ ကျော်မျိုးမင်းက ကန့်ကွက်ပွဲများ မစတင်မီ တရက်က ထုတ်လွှင့်သည့် ဗီဒီယိုတခုတွင် ပြောသည်။". The Irrawaddy. 13 August 2024.
  16. ^ "အဆိုပါ ခရီးစဉ်တွင် ဒေါ်စန္ဒာမင်း၊ ဒေါက်တာ အေးမောင်တို့နှင့်အတူ Neo Politics News (NP News) တည်ထောင် သူ ကိုကျော်မျိုးမင်း လည်း ပါဝင်ပြီး စက်တင်ဘာ ၁၉ ရက်က ဂျပန်- မြန်မာလွှတ်တော်အမတ်များ သမဂ္ဂ ဥက္ကဋ္ဌနှင့် အတွင်းရေးမှူး အပါအဝင် မြန်မာ့အရေး ဆောင်ရွက်နေသည့် ဂျပန် လွှတ်တော်အမတ်တချို့နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခဲ့ခြင်းဖြစ် ကြောင်း သိရသည်။". The Irrawaddy. 2 October 2023.
  17. ^ "ပတ်စပို့ကိစ္စအတွက် ဘယ်သူအစိုးရလဲဆိုတာ တစ်ကွက်ပြလိုက်တဲ့ နစက၊ ခြံအမှတ်(၅၄)ကို ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ပစ္စည်းတွေ ပြန်ပို့ခြင်းနဲ့ နောက်ဆက်တွဲ (၆၊၇၊၂ဝ၂၂)". NP News. 6 July 2022.
  18. ^ "ကျပ်(၂၃)ဘီလျံနဲ့ ဒေါ်လာ(၄)သန်းနီးပါးသုံးခဲ့တဲ့ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်တို့ရဲ့ ရဟတ်ယာဉ်အမှု၊ ကရင်ဒေသ တိုက်ပွဲတွေရဲ့နောက်ကွယ်မှာ နိုင်ငံခြားငွေစီးဆင်းမှုရှိတယ်လို DKBA ခေါင်းဆောင်ပြော (၆၊၆၊၂ဝ၂၂)". NP News. 6 July 2022.
  19. ^ "ကိုဇော်ဌေးအား နှုတ်ဆက်ခြင်း - ကျော်မျိုးမင်း". NP News. 23 May 2022.
  20. ^ "တရားမဝင်အစိုးရလို့ သုံးနှုန်းခဲ့တဲ့ ပြင်သစ်နဲ့အနောက်အုပ်စုကို အပြင်းအထန်ကန့်ကွက်တဲ့ နစက၊ ကျောင်းပညာရေးကို ခြိမ်းခြောက်ခဲ့သူတို့ရဲ့ မနှစ်ကစကားနဲ့ ယနေ့ဖြစ်စဉ် (၇၊၆၊၂ဝ၂၂)". NP News. 7 July 2022.
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