Ko Ko Hlaing ( my, ကိုကိုလှိုင်, born 24 October 1956 in

Myinmu Myinmu ( my, မြင်းမူ) is a river town in the south-east of the Sagaing Division in Burma. The town has a rich history linked to World War II during the Burma Campaign against the Japanese, in 1944. It was also under the control of ...

) is a Burmese military researcher and writer, served under Thein Sein as the chief political advisor to the President's Office of Myanmar, after being appointed on 19 April 2011. In 1976, he graduated from the

Defence Services Academy The Defence Services Academy ( my, စစ်‌တက္ကသိုလ်, ) located in Pyin Oo Lwin, is the premier military service academy of Myanmar, training future officers for all three branches of Myanmar military. The Ministry of Defence ...

. The following year, he joined the Myanmar Army, as a gazetted officer. From 1991 to 2004, he served as the

War Office The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the new Ministry of Defence (MoD). This article contains text from ...

's First Class Chief Researcher. In 2004, he was promoted to the rank of Advisor of the Ministry of Information's

Press Scrutiny and Registration Division The Press Scrutiny and Registration Division ( my, စာပေစိစစ်နှင့်မှတ်ပုံတင်ဌာန, formerly the Press Scrutiny Board or PSB) is a division under the Ministry of Information, responsible for censo ...

, the country's chief censorship agency.

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