Myanmar Military s New Education Minister Faced Finance Probes
Dr. Nyunt Pe, the new education minister in the military s State Administrative Council.
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By The Irrawaddy 18 February 2021
Myanmar’s military regime has appointed Dr. Nyunt Pe, a former rector who was accused of misuse of university funds three years ago, as education minister in its State Administrative Council (SAC).
He was also the director-general of the Department of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Ministry of Education in Naypyitaw under the ousted National League for Democracy (NLD) government. But the 60-year-old retired from the director-general position about three months ago.
Dr. Nyunt Pe, an ethnic Rakhine who has a PhD from a Japanese university, worked at Pathein University for more than a decade. He was accused of misusing funds in three consecutive fiscal years from 2015 to 2018 when he was the rector at Pathein University in Ayeyarwady Region. He was moved to the ministry’s monitoring d
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