May Zune Win
May Zune Win | |
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မေဇွန်ဝင်း | |
 May Zune Win in 2018 | |
| Born | May Zune Win 21 June 1983 Pyinmana, Burma |
| Nationality | Burmese |
| Other names | Ma May Zun (မမေဇွန်) |
| Alma mater | Dagon University |
| Occupation | Travel blogger |
| Years active | 2015–present |
| Website | I Love Travelling |
May Zune Win (Burmese: မေဇွန်ဝင်း; born 21 June 1983), is a Burmese travel blogger operating in Myanmar.[1] She won the 2017 "Myanmar Influencer Award" for travel,[2] and featured on The Myanmar Times "Top 10 Travel Bloggers" list in 2018,[3] and the overall "Top 10 Bloggers" list in 2019.[4]
Early life and education
[edit]May Zune Win was born on 21 June 1983 in Pyinmana, Myanmar. She is the youngest child among four siblings, having an older sister and two older brothers. She graduated high school from Basic Education High School No. 2 Tamwe. She enrolled at the Dagon University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 2016.[5]
Career
[edit]Starting in 2015, Zune Win was one of Myanmar's first travel bloggers,[6] and has promoted Myanmar internationally as a destination, even during the military rule.[7] She travelled around the globe and has shared her experiences on her Facebook blog I Love Travelling.[4] She has travelled to 50 countries and wrote extensively about her experience as a tourist in each of them.[4][1]
In 2017, she won the "Myanmar Travel Influencer Award",[2] and was listed in the country's "Top 10 Bloggers" list of 2019 by The Myanmar Times.[4]
In February 2018, she organised Myanmar's first "ASEAN Travel Media & Bloggers Trip" (FAM), a weeklong tour of Myanmar for travel journalists and bloggers based in the region, as part of efforts to repair the country's tarnished image abroad.[8][2] She participated in the B2B literary talk made a discussion titled 'How do we try to be powerful and influential?' on 23 June 2019.[5]
Zune Win is the managing director and owner of Eastward Travel Tours (or ET Tours).[4][1][9]
Political activities
[edit]Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, May Zune Win was active in the anti-coup movement both in person at rallies and through social media. Denouncing the military coup, she has taken part in protests since February. She joined the "We Want Justice" three-finger salute movement. The movement was launched on social media, and many celebrities have joined the movement. On 2 April 2021, warrants for her arrest were issued under section 505 (a) of the Myanmar Penal Code by the State Administration Council for speaking out against the military coup. Along with several other celebrities, she was charged with calling for participation in the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) and damaging the state's ability to govern, with supporting the Committee Representing Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, and with generally inciting the people to disturb the peace and stability of the nation.[10][11][12][13]
She eventually fled to the United States as a political refugee. On 17 February 2022, her homes and business property were confiscated by the military council.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Nyo Me (15 March 2018). "Blogging back the tourists". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ a b c Htun, Lwin Mar (2 February 2018). "Myanmar to Host First Tour for ASEAN Travel Bloggers, Writers". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
[..] said Ma May Zune Win, who won Myanmar Influencer of the Year 2017 in the travel category and runs the blog I Love Travelling.
- ^ Nyein Ei Ei Htwe (30 November 2018). "Top 10 travel bloggers". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
1. I Love Travelling (Ma Zon)
- ^ a b c d e "Top 10 : Bloggers". The Myanmar Times. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
1. May Zune Win (I Love Travelling)
- ^ a b Aung Tun Oo (25 June 2019). "ဩဇာရှိပြီး လွှမ်းမိုးနိုင်တဲ့သူတွေဖြစ်ဖို့ ဘယ်လိုကြိုးစားကြမလဲ [TRANSLATED] How do we try to be powerful and influential?". The Kumudra Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ Toe, Thiha (9 September 2017). ""ခရီးသွားခြင်းကရတဲ့ အကျိုးကျေးဇူးတွေကို လူကြီး၊ လူငယ်တွေ အကုန်သိစေချင်တယ်"". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
[TRANSLATED] Interview with May Zune Win of I Love Travelling
- ^ Toe, Thihi (2 February 2018). "အာဆီယံမှ မီဒီယာ၊ Travel Blogger များကို မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ အလည်လာရန် ဖိတ်ခေါ်". The Irrawaddy.
- ^ "Week-long ASEAN media trip targets Myanmar's attractions". The Myanmar Times. 6 February 2018.
- ^ Nyunt, Aung Kyaw (24 November 2017). "ဝန်ဆောင်မှုကောင်းကောင်းကို ရွေးချယ်မယ်ဆိုရင်". The Myanmar Times.
- ^ "Warrants issued for artists, entertainers that called for CDM participation". Eleven. 3 April 2021.
- ^ "စစ်ကောင်စီကိုဆန့်ကျင်တဲ့ အနုပညာရှင်တွေကို ဆက်တိုက်အမှုဖွင့်နေ". Radio Free Asia (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
- ^ "CDM လႈပ္ရွားသူ အႏုပညာရွင္ေတြကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြ အေရးယူဖုိ႔ေၾကညာ". VOA (in Burmese). 4 August 2021.
- ^ "မင်းမော်ကွန်း၊ အိန္ဒြာကျော်ဇင်၊ Rဇာနည်နှင့် ပိုင်ဖြိုးသု အပါအဝင် အယောက် ၂၀ ကို အမှုဖွင့်". DVB (in Burmese). 3 April 2021.
- ^ Irrawaddy, The (2022-02-18). "လင်းလင်း၊ ချစ်သုဝေ အပါအဝင် လူသိများသူအချို့ နေအိမ်များ ချိပ်ပိတ်ခံရ". The Irrawaddy. Retrieved 2022-12-30.