Hnin Thway Yu Aung

In this Burmese name, the given name is Hnin Thway Yu Aung. There is no family name.

Hnin Thway Yu Aung
နှင်းသွေးယုအောင်
Born	Hnin Thway Yu Aung (1996-08-24) 24 August 1996 (age 28) Tachileik, Shan State, Myanmar
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Beauty pageant titleholder
Title	Miss Universe Myanmar 2018
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Dark Brown
Major competition(s)	Miss Universe Myanmar 2018 (Winner) Miss Universe 2018 (Unplaced)

Hnin Thway Yu Aung (Burmese: နှင်းသွေးယုအောင်; born 24 August 1996) is a Burmese model and beauty pageant titleholder 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, was born on 24 August 1996 in Meiktila, Mandalay, 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, she graduated from Kyaing Tung University with a bachelor's degree in English. She can speak Burmese, English, Thai and Shan.

Pageantry

Miss Universe Myanmar

On October 1, 2017, Hnin Thway Yu Aung was crowned as Miss Universe Myanmar 2018 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.

Filmography

Hhnin Thway Yu Aung played the role of Zin Zin / Consort Mala, Consort of King Bodawpaya in From Chao Phraya to Irrawaddy (ကျောက်ဖရားမှဧရာဝတီသို့) (2022) which increased attention and popularity with this role.

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 Chao Phraya to Irrawaddy. 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

1. "Hnin Thway Yu Aung Crowned as Miss Universe Myanmar 2018".
2. "Hnin Thway Yu Aung - Miss Universe Myanmar 2018". Indian and World Pageants.
3. "ထိုင်းမီဒီယာတခုကို လက်ရှိ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအကြောင်း ပြောပြခဲ့တဲ့ နှင်းသွေးယုအောင်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 26 February 2021.
4. "တရားမျှတမှု We Want Justice ကန်ပိန်းတွင် အနုပညာရှင်များပါဝင် ဆန္ဒထုတ်ဖော် (ဓာတ်ပုံ)". DVB (in Burmese). 4 February 2021.
5. "ရုပ်ရှင်၊ ဂီတ၊ စာပေ၊ သဘင်အနုပညာရှင်များက We Want Justice လက်သုံးချောင်းထောင်ပြီး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွင်ပါဝင်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 6 February 2021.
6. "သရဖူ ရောင်းစရာ မလိုဘဲ CRPH ကို တန်းလှူခွင့်ရလိုက်တဲ့ နှင်းသွေးယုအောင်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 30 March 2021.
7. "CRPH ရန်ပုံငွေအတွက် မယ်စကြဝဠာအလှမယ် နှင်းသွေးယုအောင်က သရဖူကို ကျပ် ၄၅ သိန်းဖြင့် ရောင်းချ". DVB (in Burmese). 31 March 2021.
8. "Warrants issued for artists, entertainers that called for CDM participation". Eleven. 3 April 2021.
9. "စစ်ကောင်စီကိုဆန့်ကျင်တဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို ဆက်တိုက်အမှုဖွင့်နေ". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
10. "CDM လႈပ္ရွားသူ အႏုပညာရွင္ေတြကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြ အေရးယူဖုိ႔ေၾကညာ". VOA (in Burmese). 4 August 2021.
11. "မင်းမော်ကွန်း၊ အိန္ဒြာကျော်ဇင်၊ Rဇာနည်နှင့် ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု အပါအဝင် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.

External links

• Miss Universe Myanmar

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Zun Than Sin	Miss Universe Myanmar 2018	Succeeded by Swe Zin Htet