[1] She is the daughter of journalist U Sein Win, who worked for the Associated Press (AP) for 20 years, advocated for press freedom in Burma, and was sentenced to three terms in prison.
In 1983, she took her father's phone calls while he was breaking the story of the assassination attempt on South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan.
[3] Win joined the Associated Press in 1989 and was the only female foreign correspondent in Burma then.
She was chief of the bureau in Myanmar for AP, and during her tenure, endured official warnings, surveillance,[4] and threats.
[6] In 2008, Win also received the Courage in Journalism Award from the International Women's Media Foundation, which described her as the "axe-handle of the foreign press.