--- description: Alex Aung Khant is a youth activist from Myanmar, a member of the National League for Democracy, and the grand-nephew of Aung San Suu Kyi. In 2019, at age 25, he became the youngest candidate in local elections in Yangon and the first to publicly release his campaign expenditures online. title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Alex Aung Khant ## Alex Aung Khant Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Alex Aung Khant is a youth activist from Myanmar, a member of the National League for Democracy, and the grand-nephew of Aung San Suu Kyi. In 2019, at age 25, he became the youngest candidate in local elections in Yangon and the first to publicly release his campaign expenditures online. ## Alex Aung Khant Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Apr 23, 2021 ### [ASEAN and the World Must Reject Myanmar's Generals](https://time.com/5957787/myanmar-asean-summit/) Myanmar's junta chief, Min Aung Hlaing, is due to attend an ASEAN summit on Apr. 24 but he must not ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-aung-khant/","name":"Alex Aung Khant"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-aung-khant/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-aung-khant/"},"name":"Alex Aung Khant","jobTitle":null,"description":"Alex Aung Khant is a youth activist from Myanmar, a member of the National League for Democracy, and the grand-nephew of Aung San Suu Kyi. In 2019, at age 25, he became the youngest candidate in local elections in Yangon and the first to publicly release his campaign expenditures online.","url":"https://time.com/author/alex-aung-khant/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```