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Hla Thein Swe

Burmese military officer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ20676968 ↗
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Hla Thein Swe (Burmese: လှသိန်းဆွေ) is a Burmese military officer. He previously served as Deputy Minister of Finance and Revenue, beginning on 25 August 2003. He contested the 2012 Burmese by-elections, for a Pyithu Hluttaw seat representing Ottarathiri Township as a Union Solidarity and Development Party.

Hla Thein Swe was born on 8 March 1957. He is married to Thida Win.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hla Thein Swe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.