[1] Sein Win was born in the Irrawaddy Delta town of Kyaunggon, British Burma (now Myanmar) on 12 February 1922, as the son of a minor civil servant.
Sein Win began his journalism career at the outset of the 1942 Japanese conquest of Burma.
[5] In 1962, Ne Win led a coup d'état and drove forward the Burmese Way to Socialism.
In 1964, The Guardian, along with The Mirror and The Botataung, two other leading private newspapers, were nationalized and placed under the control of the Ministry of Information.
[1] Throughout his career, Sein Win served three stints in prison for his journalistic work, in 1958, and again in 1988 following the 8888 Uprising.