Kyaw Myo Min

Kyaw Myo Min was born on 24 October 1985 in Yekyi Township, Ayeyarwady Region,Myanmar (Burma).{{Cite news |date=3 March 2022 |title="သမိုင်းမှာ စစ်တပ်က အာဏာသိမ်းတာ တစ်ခါပဲရှိတယ်။ အခုက အနေအစားမတတ်တဲ့အတွက် ဘယ်ကောင် ဗိုလ်လဲဆိုတာ ထွက်ရပ်ပြလိုက်တာ" (အင်တာဗျူး) |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/6222cb159d9f12435b22b0e3 |work=NP News}}{{Cite news |date=5 June 2024 |title=နှုတ်ထွက်စကားမှသည် EV ပေါ်လစီ - ကော်မတီနှင့်မကြားဝံ့သာသော မြေပြင်ပကတိ အရှိတရားများ |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/666029a9fae23f7e47447ed8 |work=NP News}} He completed his primary and secondary education in his hometown before attending the Yangon University of Economics, where he earned a degree in economics. His background in economics later complemented his work in the media industry, where he shifted his focus to journalism.{{Cite news |date=26 June 2023 |title=မူးယစ်ဆေးဝါးသည် ငွေကြေးခဝါချမှု၊ လက်နက်မှောင်ခိုမှုများကို ဖန်တီးပေးနေသည့်အတွက် နိုင်ငံနှင့် နိုင်ငံသားတို့၏ လုံခြုံရေးကို ခြိမ်းခြောက်နေဟု ရဲမှူးချုပ်ဆို |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/649948c52f3bde0cc4484df4 |work=NP News}}{{Cite news |date=5 October 2023 |title='NUG, PDF Are Slaughtering the People': Pro-Myanmar Junta Politicians, Journalist |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/politics/nug-pdf-are-slaughtering-the-people-pro-myanmar-junta-politicians-journalist.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite news |date=6 June 2022 |title=ကျပ်(၂၃)ဘီလျံနဲ့ ဒေါ်လာ(၄)သန်းနီးပါးသုံးခဲ့တဲ့ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်တို့ရဲ့ ရဟတ်ယာဉ်အမှု၊ ကရင်ဒေသ တိုက်ပွဲတွေရဲ့နောက်ကွယ်မှာ နိုင်ငံခြားငွေစီးဆင်းမှုရှိတယ်လို DKBA ခေါင်းဆောင်ပြော (၆၊၆၊၂ဝ၂၂) |url=https://npnewsmm.com/videos/629e17a0ccee822c9c160a54 |work=NP News}}

Kyaw Myo Min began his journalism career in 2010 at Shwe Myanmar News Journal in Yangon, shortly after completing his studies in Yekyi Township.{{Cite news |date=27 October 2024 |title=NLD ပါတီ ကို မှတ်ပုံတင်ရန်အတွက် နစက က တိုးတိုးတိတ်တိတ်ပြောကြားလာခြင်းမျိုးမရှိဟု ဒေါ်စန္ဒာမင်း တုံ့ပြန် |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/671cb78cbfe2a16ef9620913 |work=NP News}} Later that year, he joined Pyi Myanmar News Journal, where he worked for more than five years, gradually advancing from reporter to senior reporter.{{Cite news |date=4 August 2022 |title="ဘုန်းကြီးအပါး (၅ဝ) ကျော်ထိ အသတ်ခံရတာကို တစ်တိုင်းပြည်လုံးရှိ ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာအဖွဲ့အစည်းတွေက သတင်းစကားလေးတောင် မပြောရဲဘဲနဲ့ ငြိမ်ခံနေရတဲ့အဆင့်" (အင်တာဗျူး) |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/62eb662d9a10ff1c4e5b98a3 |work=NP News}} In 2016, he founded Akon Thi Media, where he served as both editor-in-chief and administrative officer, playing a key role in shaping its editorial direction.{{Cite news |date=17 August 2023 |title=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 |url=https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/u-maung-weik-bribed-a-patek-philippe-watch-to-former-yangon-chief-minister-u-phyo-min-thein |work=Eleven Media Group}}{{Cite news |date=18 December 2023 |title=ကျော်မျိုးမင်းက မင်းအောင်လှိုင်ကို စကားလုံးကြမ်းကြမ်းတွေနဲ့ဝေဖန်သယောင်ဖြန့်ဝေတဲ့ အကြောင်းအရာ |url=https://www.boommyanmar.com/fake-news/misinformation-that-supporter-criticized-the-military-leader-23855 |work=BOOM Myanmar}}

While working at Akon Thi, Kyaw Myo Min gained attention for his outspoken views. In April 2020, he drew criticism for a Facebook post referencing Aung San Suu Kyi, in which he expressed frustration toward those who labeled him a traitor, controversially stating they should be “swept away with the coronavirus.” The post was met with public backlash and internal pressure from publishers.{{Cite news |date=1 October 2024 |title=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." |url=https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-census-is-a-blunt-counterinsurgency-tool/ |work=Frontier Myanmar}}{{Cite news |date=14 March 2023 |title=ယနေ့ ‌မတ်လ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့အတွင်းဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရေးသတင်းများနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာမှ သတင်းထူးများ |url=https://npnewsmm.com/videos/641074e36257726a581fc863 |work=NP News}}

On 26 January 2021, during a press conference held by the Tatmadaw True News Information Team at the Military History Museum in Nay Pyi Taw, Kyaw Myo Min openly questioned military officials about public dissatisfaction with the 2020 general election. His exchange with Major General Zaw Min Tun led to a heated discussion. Shortly thereafter, he resigned from the press team.{{Cite news |last=Nay Thit |date=16 January 2024 |title='လက်နက်ချသည်' ဆိုသည့် စကားကို သုံးရသောကြောင့် ရှက်ကြောင်း၊ စစ်သား ၂,၀၀၀ ကျော်နှင့် မိသားစုဝင် ၁,၀၀၀ ကျော် လက်နက်ချသောကြောင့် မကျေနပ်ကြောင်း စစ်ကောင်စီ ထောက်ခံသူ ကျော်မျိုးမင်းက သူ၏ NP News တယ်လီဂရမ်တွင် ပြောသည်။ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2024/01/16/378505.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}{{Cite news |date=1 October 2024 |title=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." |url=https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-census-is-a-blunt-counterinsurgency-tool/ |work=Frontier Myanmar}}{{Cite news |date=14 March 2023 |title=ယနေ့ ‌မတ်လ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့အတွင်းဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရေးသတင်းများနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာမှ သတင်းထူးများ |url=https://npnewsmm.com/videos/641074e36257726a581fc863 |work=NP News}}

Following the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Kyaw Myo Min launched NP News, a news outlet that quickly became known for its pro-military stance. Unlike many media organizations that supported the National Unity Government (NUG) or anti-coup movements, NP News presented reporting aligned with the military’s views, frequently referring to the NUG and People’s Defense Forces (PDF) as “terrorists.” Under his leadership, the platform gained recognition among pro-military audiences and maintained regular solo broadcasts covering political and national developments.{{Cite news |date=1 October 2024 |title=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." |url=https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-census-is-a-blunt-counterinsurgency-tool/ |work=Frontier Myanmar}}{{Cite news |date=14 March 2023 |title=ယနေ့ ‌မတ်လ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့အတွင်းဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရေးသတင်းများနဲ့ နိုင်ငံတကာမှ သတင်းထူးများ |url=https://npnewsmm.com/videos/641074e36257726a581fc863 |work=NP News}}{{Cite news |last=Nay Thit |date=16 January 2024 |title='လက်နက်ချသည်' ဆိုသည့် စကားကို သုံးရသောကြောင့် ရှက်ကြောင်း၊ စစ်သား ၂,၀၀၀ ကျော်နှင့် မိသားစုဝင် ၁,၀၀၀ ကျော် လက်နက်ချသောကြောင့် မကျေနပ်ကြောင်း စစ်ကောင်စီ ထောက်ခံသူ ကျော်မျိုးမင်းက သူ၏ NP News တယ်လီဂရမ်တွင် ပြောသည်။ |url=https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2024/01/16/378505.html |work=The Irrawaddy}}

On 19 September 2023, Kyaw Myo Min participated in a meeting in Tokyo, Japan, alongside two Japanese opposition lawmakers, Dr. Aye Maung, and Daw Sandar Min. The gathering, which focused on support for a military-led election, drew attention from opposition figures. The following month, on 13 October 2023, he was presented with the Media Professional Excellence Award by Nepal-based Season Media, in recognition of his role in journalism.{{Cite web |title=NP News’ CE receives Media Professional Excellence Award by Nepal |url=https://npnewsmm.com/news/6530ee964a99dc239b6f287a |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=npnewsmm.com}}

Kyaw Myo Min's leadership of NP News has attracted significant scrutiny within Myanmar's media landscape. The outlet's editorial direction, particularly its coverage of opposition groups such as the National Unity Government (NUG) and the People’s Defense Forces (PDF), has drawn criticism from pro-democracy activists, independent journalists, and international observers. Many have accused NP News of providing a platform that favors the military regime's perspective, particularly in its portrayal of anti-coup movements.{{cite news |title=Critics Question NP News Coverage |url=https://example.com/criticism |date= }}{{cite news |title=NP News Provides a Counterpoint in Myanmar Media |url=https://example.com/alternative-view |date= }}

Critics argue that NP News presents an imbalanced view of the ongoing conflict in Myanmar, often labeling opposition groups as “terrorists” while failing to adequately cover human rights abuses and the military's actions. Some observers contend that its editorial stance undermines the efforts of the NUG and other resistance groups, which are fighting against the military's control.{{cite news |title=Analysis of NP News in Myanmar's Media Landscape |url=https://example.com/international-analysis |date= }}

Despite the backlash, NP News continues to operate within Myanmar, unlike many other independent outlets that have been forced into exile or shut down due to the junta's suppression of media freedom. The outlet’s continued presence highlights the complex and polarized nature of Myanmar's media environment, where competing narratives of the country’s political crisis persist.

In addition, NP News has been the subject of personal attacks from foreign-based media outlets, including Khit Thit Media, which has published content targeting Kyaw Myo Min specifically. These external criticisms reflect the broader international debate over media freedom and the role of journalism in Myanmar's ongoing crisis.{{Cite web |last=Agency |first=Yangon Khit Thit News |date=2022-12-07 |title=စစ်တပ်အလိုကျ လူထုကို လိမ်လည်ရန် ကြိုးစား နေသည့် မီဒီယာ အမည် ခံများ၊ အစွန်းရောက် မဘသ နှင့်အမျိုးသား ရေး လော်ဘီများ၊ စစ်အုပ်စု၏ နောက်မြီးဆွဲများကို ဖော်ထုတ်ခြင်း |url=https://yktnews.com/2022/12/71332/ |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=Khit Thit Media |language=en-US}}

Kyaw Myo Min is married and has two children. Given the politically sensitive environment in Myanmar, individuals in the media and political fields, like Kyaw Myo Min, often choose to keep details of their personal lives private for security reasons. As a result, his public persona is largely defined by his work in journalism, particularly his leadership of NP News.{{Cite news |date=7 July 2022 |title=တရားမဝင်အစိုးရလို့ သုံးနှုန်းခဲ့တဲ့ ပြင်သစ်နဲ့အနောက်အုပ်စုကို အပြင်းအထန်ကန့်ကွက်တဲ့ နစက၊ ကျောင်းပညာရေးကို ခြိမ်းခြောက်ခဲ့သူတို့ရဲ့ မနှစ်ကစကားနဲ့ ယနေ့ဖြစ်စဉ် (၇၊၆၊၂ဝ၂၂) |url=https://npnewsmm.com/videos/629f6256155a9866a8391245 |work=NP News}}{{Cite news |date=6 July 2022 |title=ပတ်စပို့ကိစ္စအတွက် ဘယ်သူအစိုးရလဲဆိုတာ တစ်ကွက်ပြလိုက်တဲ့ နစက၊ ခြံအမှတ်(၅၄)ကို ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ပစ္စည်းတွေ ပြန်ပို့ခြင်းနဲ့ နောက်ဆက်တွဲ (၆၊၇၊၂ဝ၂၂) |url=https://npnewsmm.com/videos/62c5a677c2e8553280284eb4 |work=NP News}}

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