During this time, he joined the British Army Auxiliary Corps and attended the fourth intake of Officer Training School (OTS).
While in London, he also enrolled in legal studies at the Lincoln's Inn, which led to him being called to the British bar and pursued a six-month training programme in journalism and broadcasting at the BBC.
This earned him recognition abroad and Maung was invited to attend and contribute to international seminars and conferences in Australia, Cambodia, Malaya, Pakistan, Singapore, South Vietnam and West Germany.
In 1960, Maung and his family temporarily relocated to the United States, where he was a Visiting Lecturer in Political Science and Southeast Asian Studies at Yale University.
[2] Despite offers of employment from his American friends and UN Secretary-General U Thant, he decided to return to Burma with his family in July 1962, shortly after Ne Win's military coup in March.
[3][4] Anti-government demonstrations continued and widespread disruptions resulted in another military coup led by General Saw Maung on 18 September 1988.
[10] She previously served as the deputy director-general of the International Organisations and Economic Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under President Thein Sein's administration from 2011 to 2016.
[11][12] She accepted on behalf of her father Maung as one of many recipients of posthumous titles awarded by Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing in 2023.