Career

He serves as a member for the National League for Democracy"s (NLD) Central Executive Committee. In the Burmese general election, 1990, he was elected as an Pyithu Hluttaw Member of Parliament, winning a majority of 32,718 (76% of the votes), but was never allowed to assume his seat. Ohn Kyaing graduated with a Bachelor degree in 1967.

He earned a journalism diploma in 1972 and received a scholarship to study in the United States in 1979.

Throughout his journalism career, he served as an editor of Kyemon, Hanthawaddy, The Guardian, and Botataung newspapers. he retired from his position at The Guardian newspaper following the 8888 Uprising. On 7 September 1990, he was sentenced to prison for violating the 1950 Emergency Provisions Acting, a sentence that was extended by 10 years.

In his last stint in prison, he served a sentence at Bago prison from 1 October to 11 December 2008.