Hnin Thway Yu Aung
Hnin Thway Yu Aung | |
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နှင်းသွေးယုအောင် | |
| Born | Hnin Thway Yu Aung 1996 (age 24–25) |
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Title | |
| Hair color | Dark Brown |
| Eye color | Black |
| Major competition(s) | (Winner) Miss Universe 2018 (Unplaced) |
Hnin Thway Yu Aung (Burmese: နှင်းသွေးယုအောင်; born 1996) is a Burmese model and beauty queen, who won the 5th edition of Miss Universe Myanmar in 2018. She represented her country Myanmar in the Miss Universe 2018.
Early life[]
Hnin Thway Yu Aung, an ethnic Shan, was born and raised at Tachileik, Shan State, Myanmar as where her parents met and established an optic shop in the downtown area of Tachileik. She received her high school Diploma from Basic Education High School (1) - Tachileik, now she is in third year of taking bachelor's degree of Nursing Science at Kyaing Tung University. She can speak Burmese, English and Thai.
Pageantry[]
Miss Universe Myanmar[]
On October 1, 2017, Hnin Thway Yu Aung was crowned as Miss Universe Myanmar 2017 by previous titleholder Zun Than Sin. She will be Myanmar's next representative to Miss Universe.[1][2]
Miss Universe 2018[]
She represented her country in the Miss Universe 2018 where Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters of South Africa crowned her successor Catriona Gray of the Philippines at the end of the event.
Political activities[]
Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Hnin Thway Yu Aung was active in the anti-coup movement through social media. She has been in Thailand since December for the filming of From Chaophraya to Ayeyarwaddy. She spoke to Thai media about the current situation in Myanmar.[3] She joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement.[4][5] She sold her crown for 45 lakh Burmese Kyats to donate to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Representative Committee (CRPH) fund.[6][7]
On 3 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.[8][9][10][11]
References[]
- ^ "Hnin Thway Yu Aung Crowned as Miss Universe Myanmar 2018".
- ^ "Hnin Thway Yu Aung - Miss Universe Myanmar 2018". Indian and World Pageants.
- ^ "ထိုင်းမီဒီယာတခုကို လက်ရှိ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအကြောင်း ပြောပြခဲ့တဲ့ နှင်းသွေးယုအောင်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 26 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.
- ^ "သရဖူ ရောင်းစရာ မလိုဘဲ CRPH ကို တန်းလှူခွင့်ရလိုက်တဲ့ နှင်းသွေးယုအောင်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 30 March 2021.
- ^ "CRPH ရန်ပုံငွေအတွက် မယ်စကြဝဠာအလှမယ် နှင်းသွေးယုအောင်က သရဖူကို ကျပ် ၄၅ သိန်းဖြင့် ရောင်းချ". DVB (in Burmese). 31 March 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 လႈပ္ရွားသူ အႏုပညာရွင္ေတြကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြ အေရးယူဖုိ႔ေၾကညာ". VOA (in Burmese). 4 August 2021.
- ^ "မင်းမော်ကွန်း၊ အိန္ဒြာကျော်ဇင်၊ Rဇာနည်နှင့် ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု အပါအဝင် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
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