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Chit Thein Oo (1932-2010)
By workwellwith

— Chit Thein Oo (CTO) — 1932-2010
His self-study English books improved my English in my early twenties, not just as a Burmese reader to understand things like grammar and sentence constructions but as enable me to provide explanations to others who would like to study English sysmatically. Very comprehensive teaching and/or learning aid to young people today even.
He treated young people like his same level friends, who in turn gave a full respect to him.

In a man’s life, there are things he or she should/must perform in their thirties, forties and fifties, etc.

My concern is that it is good for a man to read a lot in his forties generally. “Absorbent power of his or her brain is very excellent at that period,” CTO said once to me. It is really true to me now.

His political view is much like a communist – the then influential ideology of his age. He did not believe in God as well as in life after death. I do not agree to it from a Buddhism perspective.
I am sure he had been a symbol in The Myanmar Times, like dedicating to literary and journalism works. He was second to another MT editor Tin Nwe Maung, the first to have gone at the MT, which set up a pen-like figure made of alabaster, marking his departure.
There would be another thing commemorating CTO, which might be more significant.
FEEL: Mourning over his decease, let’s say ‘many thanks to the MT as he was reserved a lodge in.’ It is also a dignified pattern with an internationally reputed news organization that allows such an old-aged media person keeping on working with his or her newsroom.