{"id":12040,"date":"2026-03-17T01:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=12040"},"modified":"2026-03-17T01:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T01:56:08","slug":"u-khin-yi-elected-new-speaker-of-myanmars-lower-house-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=12040","title":{"rendered":"U Khin Yi elected new speaker of Myanmar\u2019s lower house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>16 March 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U Khin Yi, a member of parliament from the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), was elected as the new Speaker of Myanmar\u2019s Pyithu Hluttaw (Lower House) in a parliament session held in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday, according to state-owned Myanmar Radio and Television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U Khin Yi was elected during the first session of Myanmar\u2019s third Pyithu Hluttaw. U Khin Yi, chairman of the USDP, became a member of parliament after winning the general election for the Zeyathiri township constituency. #UKhinYi #Newspeaker #Myanmar\u2019s lower house #USDP #PyithuHluttaw #MT #mtnews<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 March 2026 U Khin Yi, a member of parliament from the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP),<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12042,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions\/12042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}