Career
He is currently serving as Leader of the Opposition in Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. A senior official of the Myanmar military government and a Major General, he is a former Director of Public Relations and Psychological Warfare in the Myanmar Ministry of Defense and was assigned as Minister of Culture after Kyi Aung in 2006. During the 2007 Burmese protests he travelled to Shan State in the north of the country to lobby support for the continuity of the government regime.
In a March 2012 interview with The Irrawaddy, he called corruption the biggest issue facing the country.
