Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.)

Tha Tun Mya, 73, one of the 23 MPs of defunct Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD), the second largest winning party in 1990 elections, passed away yesterday at Nakornping Hospital of  Northern Thailand’s Chiangmai province, with  kidney failure.

His memorial service is held at Wat Papao temple in Chiangmai. He will be cremated on 8 June at 13:00 at Santitham cemetery, said a close relative.

Tha Tun Mya, a native of Mongyai, Shan State North, was born on 30 September 1938. In 1990 elections, he contested in Laikha township of Shan State South and won 8,615 out of 12, 480 eligible votes. Before he joined at the SNLD, he was chairman of Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) of Monghsu, Shan State South from 1966 to 1981. His profile is as follows:

Tha Tun Mya- a profile

Name:                    Tha Tun Mya
Date of Birth:          30 September 1938
Place of Birth:         Mong Yai, Shan State North
Race:                      Shan
Marital Status:         Married to a  Laikha native Nang Thein May
Children:                 Four (All male)
1966-1981             Chairman of BSPP in Monghsu, Secretary of BSPP Mongkeung, Laikha
1981                       School teacher at B.E.H.S. No.1 of Taunggyi
1986                       Retired
1988-1990              SNLD party member
1990                       Open herbal pharmacy shop in Laikha
2008                        Moved to Thailand