Anna Sui Hluan
Anna Sui Hluan | |
|---|---|
| အန်နာရွှေလွှမ်း | |
| Second Lady of Myanmar | |
| Assumed office 30 March 2016 | |
| Vice President | Henry Van Thio |
| Preceded by | Khin Aye Myint |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Chin State, Burma |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Spouse | Henry Van Thio |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent | Ral Buai (father) |
| Alma mater | University of Otago |
Anna Sui Hluan (Burmese: အန်နာရွှေလွှမ်း) is a Burmese linguist, researcher, Christian preacher, and social activist. She is the current Second Lady of Myanmar and wife of Henry Van Thio, the incumbent Vice President of Myanmar.[1][2][3]
Early life and education[edit]
Anna Sui Hluan was born in Chin State, Burma, into a family of Christian pastors, and grew up in Yangon. Her father, Rev. Ral Buai, was a preacher who founded the Apostolic Christian Bible College (ACBC).[4] In 1988, many schools were closed due to nationwide protests, so she enrolled in a nearby Bible college instead. She is married to Henry Van Thio and has three children. When she gained a scholarship to study theology at the University of Otago, the family moved to New Zealand to live in the Dunedin suburb of North East Valley in 2011.[5]
Career[edit]
In her years of research, social activism, and women leadership, Anna Sui Hluan has developed a vision for a progressive and prosperous Myanmar.[6][7] She is a lecturer at the Myanmar Evangelical Graduate School of Theology. She worked as an assistant pastor and women's commission member of the Myanmar Evangelical Christian Fellowship for twelve years before becoming its president. She is the patron of the Dingdi Dream Organization that dedicated to assisting individuals and communities in Chin State.[8]
On 30 March 2016 She became Second Lady of the country when her husband Henry Van Thio was sworn in as Second Vice President of Myanmar under the Constitution of Myanmar. She led the first Myanmar Women Leaders Program, which was held in Europe in 2019.[9] She was named one of the most influential and talented Burmese women of the year 2019.[10] She published the "Silence" in Translation in 2022.[11]
Works[edit]
- "Silence" in Translation (2022)
References[edit]
- ^ "ဒုတိယသမ္မတ ဦးဟင်နရီဗန်ထီးယူနှင့်ဇနီး ဒေါက်တာရွှေလွှမ်း နိုင်ငံတကာသံတမန်အဖွဲ့များနှင့်အတူ မန္တလေးသင်္ကြန်ပွဲတော် (အကြတ်နေ့)တွင် ပါဝင်ဆင်နွှဲ". Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese). Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ "An intimate chat with Dr Anna Sui Hluan". Myanmore Magazine. 2019-07-29. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ Thiha, Nay (2019-09-06). "အောင်မြင်ကျော်ကြားအမျိုးသမီးများ ဂုဏ်ပြုညစာစားပွဲကျင်းပ". MYANMORE+ (in Burmese). Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ "ဒုတိယသမ္မတ (ဟောင်း) ဦးဟင်နရီ ဗန်ထီးယူ၏ ယောက္ခမ ကွယ်လွန်". Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ Sanders, Tom (2019-07-31). "Dr. Anna Sui Hluan: a sit-down with Myanmar's second lady". Myanmore Magazine. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ "ဘေးဒဏ်ကြံ့ကြံ့ခံနိုင်စွမ်း မြင့်မားရေးတွင် အမျိုးသမီးခေါင်းဆောင်များ၏ အခန်းကဏ္ဍဆွေးနွေးပွဲ ဒုတိယသမ္မတ ဦးဟင်နရီဗန်ထီးယူ၏ဇနီး တက်ရောက်အမှာစကားပြောကြား". Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese). Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ "ထန်းတက်သမားတွေဘဝ မြှင့်တင်ပေးဖို့ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် ကြိုးစား". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ "ဖလမ်းမြို့၌ အိမ်တွင်းအကြမ်းဖက်မှုကာကွယ်တားဆီးရေးအသိပညာပေးဟောပြောပွဲနှင့် Wheel Chair ပေးအပ်လှူဒါန်းပွဲကျင်းပ". MDN - Myanmar DigitalNews (in Burmese). Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ MYANMORE (2019-06-14). "First Myanmar Women Leaders Program visit Europe". Myanmore Magazine. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ Duwun (17 December 2019). "၂၀၁၉ ခုနှစ်အတွင်း Social Media မှာ လွှမ်းမိုးနိုင်ခဲ့သော ထူးချွန်ထက်မြက်သူအမျိုးသမီးများ". Duwun. Retrieved 2023-02-14.
- ^ Hluan, Anna Sui (2022). "Silence" in translation : 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 in Myanmar and the development of critical contextual hermeneutic. Carlisle. ISBN 978-1-83973-216-4. OCLC 1355082402.
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