She attended the prestigious Methodist English High School of Yangon (Rangoon).

[4] Thanegi attended Methodist English High School, the Rangoon State School of Fine Arts, the Rangoon Institute of Economics, and Institute of Foreign Languages, where she studied German and French.

[5] Thanegi served as Aung San Suu Kyi's personal assistant before her arrest in 1989, following the 8888 Uprising.

[6] She served a prison term at Insein Jail until her release in 1992.

[6] She fell out of favor among the Burmese pro-democracy movement for her challenge to the National League for Democracy's doctrine that economic sanctions and tourism boycotts were harming the country's poor majority.