IN MEMORIAM
2004
Nay Win Maung
Nay Win Maung was a leading critic of the government in Myanmar through his magazine, Living Color. Working as a publisher in a country where government policies toward the media are restrictive, Nay Win was widely read in Myanmar and the influence of Living Color magazine grew significantly under his leadership.
Nay Win also co-founded two newspapers, The Voice Weekly and Foreign Affairs Weekly. As the only media advocating national reconciliation and offering constructive criticism of government policies, Nay Win's publications remain under strict scrutiny.
Nay Win tragically passed away from a heart attack in January 2012.
The 2004 World Fellows
The 2004 Yale World Fellows include the executive director of India’s second largest bank; the former Interim Mayor of La Paz, Bolivia; the principal advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo; the founder of Morocco’s first independent business newspaper; the director of the Israel’s first legal advocacy group dedicated to Arab minority rights; a Russian corporate governance reformer; Northern Ireland’s top government official in youth development; one of China’s most influential investigative journalists; and the Filipino Congressman who spearheaded passage of that nation’s Clean Air and Clean Water acts. “In just three years, the Yale World Fellows Program has assembled a diverse network of leaders spanning more than 40 countries...Read More
MORE ABOUT NAY WIN
Dr Nay Win Maung: Activist who attempted to accelerate the pace of reform in Burma
The Independent - 01/03/2012The death from a heart attack of Dr Nay Win Maung has robbed Burma of an intellectual and public policy analyst of great integrity.
Activist Worked With Military Regime
The Wall Street Journal - 01/06/2012To his detractors, civil-society organizer Nay Win Maung was a man not to be trusted, with deep and suspicious ties to the country's harsh military regime. But a spate of reforms in Myanmar over the past year may have vindicated the scholar, who died Jan. 1. The cause was a heart attack and he was believed to have been 49 or 50 years old, according to friends and exile media reports. For years, Mr. Nay Win Maung argued the best way forward in Myanmar, also known as Burma, was to cooperate with the country's military junta, slowly prodding it toward change while accepting some of its flaws.