He also attended the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University near Washington, D.C., as a Fulbright Scholar from 1984 to 1985.

Thaung Tun joined ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1972 and served at headquarters and abroad and retired in 2010.

While he was serving as ambassador to Philippines, he said retained Aung San Suu Kyi "must not rock the boat" when commenting on the NLD boycott of the military junta's controversial constitution convention at a 2006 press conference in Manila.

The position was created as the government faces ongoing clashes with ethnic armed groups in the country's north and east while attacks by Muslim militants with international connections sparked a large security operation in western Rakhine State.

[3] On 4 March 2021, a member of State Administration Council Lieutenant General Moe Myint Tun became the new chairman for MIC.