Sao Kya Hseng

Sao Kya Seng စဝ်ကြာဆိုင်
Sao Kya Seng and his family
Born	1924 (1924) Hsipaw, Federated Shan States, British Burma
Disappeared	March 1962 (aged 37–38) Shan State, Burma (Myanmar)
Spouse(s)	Inge Eberhard
Children	2
Saopha of Hsipaw State
In office 1947–1959
Prime Minister	U Nu Ba Swe Ne Win
Preceded by	Sao Ohn Kya
Succeeded by	position abolished
Member of Chamber of Nationalities
In office 1954–1962
Prime Minister	U Nu Ba Swe Ne Win
Preceded by	position established
Succeeded by	position abolished
Constituency	Hsipaw
Personal details
Political party	AFPFL
Alma mater	Colorado School of Mines
Profession	mining engineer agriculturalist politician

Sao Kya Seng or Sao Kya Hseng (Burmese: စဝ်ကြာဆိုင်; 1924 – disappeared in 1962) was a politician, a mining engineer, an agriculturalist and the last saopha of Hsipaw State, Myanmar from 1947 to 1959. He studied mining engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado, United States, from 1949 to 1953. He was graduated with a BSc degree in 1953 and then married. His bride, Sao Nang Thu Sandi or Inge Eberhard, a German-speaking Austrian student who had received a Fulbright Scholarship in 1951, was studying at Colorado Women's College, a constituent college of Denver University. In 1954, he returned to Burma with her and they had two daughters, Mayari and Kennari.

After arrival, they were crowned as saopha and mahadevi although Sao Kya Seng had received this title since 1947. He abdicated in 1959. He served as a member of the Chamber of Nationalities from 1954 to 1962 which was upper house of Burma from 1948 to 1962, member for Shan State Council and secretary for the Association of Shan Princes from 1954 to 1962, representing Hsipaw constituency, Shan State. He was arrested in 1962 after General Ne Win's 1962 Burmese coup d'état. Sao Kya Seng was last seen being taken into custody at an army checkpoint near Taunggyi.