Mizzima News

New Delhi (Mizzima) - Veteran writer Maung Su Shin (alias) Myo Thant died on Tuesday afternoon in Rangoon after suffering from  pneumonia.

Maung Su Shin (77)  had been suffering from pneumonia and was hospitalised in the Shwegondine Special Clinic (SSC) for the past three days, friends and colleagues said.

“Saya U Myo Thant (Maung Su Shin) was a veteran writer and his death is a great loss for the Burmese literary circle,” Dr. Tin Tun, editor of the Thutahswaysone Magazine and a friend of Maung Su Shan said.