[1] He specializes in the preservation and archival of traditional documents, including palm leaf manuscripts.
[2] In 1947, Thaw Kaung followed his father to England to oversee the Burmese scholars studying there.
1 Dagon) from 1952 to 1954, passing the Matriculation examinations in the First Division with distinctions in English and Geography.
[3][4] He won the U Po Hnit Gold Medal, which was awarded by Rangoon University to the highest-standing student in the B.A.
[1] Between 1971 and 1976, he served as Secretary of the Myanmar Language Commission and the first chairman of the committee which compiled the Burmese-English Dictionary.
[2] Thaw Kaung was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Library Association UK in 1984, becoming the first Southeast Asian librarian to the awarded this prestigious honour.
[6] Thaw Kaung was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Western Sydney in 1999.