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Tun has worked in Burma's
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Tun was a familiar sight on television screens long before he became
Myanmar's favorite and most followed weatherman. His nightly appearances as a weather forecasting official from the government's Meteorology and Hydrology Department usually right before the evening movie was due to start—used to
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Many of his presentations were at talks and seminars relating to climate change frequently both locally and internationally, in cities and villages in rural areas. Since his resignation from the DMH in 2009, Tun Lwin has served as a technical adviser to the
Regional Integrated Multi-hazard Early
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He was a well-known, active "netizen" in
Myanmar who operated a free, non-profit service as Myanmar Climate Change Watch (MCCW). In addition to giving talks and appearing on various media such as newspapers, journals, magazines, television and radio channels to educate the public on weather and
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He has written numerous successful books on weather in
Myanmar, worked with local radio stations on weather-related segments and regularly wrote articles on various topics not limited to just weather updates in Burmese magazines and newspaper journals. His book,
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in 2017 to deliver a strong statement, insisting, "I cannot accept any dam project on the
Irrawaddy River". In 2017, he received the 7Day Heroes award for his non-profit work for the country in his field of meteorology, weather and climate.
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