Paing Brothers

ICS U Paing and Daw Oo Yin (daughter of Sir Po Tha & Lady Tha) have four sons.

Dr. Myo Paing (SPHS54)

• He is a medical doctor and researcher (at BMRI).
• His early assignment was Malaria Campaign.
• He is a Champion golfer.

U Soe Paing (SPHS56)

• In the Matriculation exam of 1956, he stood 13th in Burma and won a Collegiate Scholarship.
• In 1958, he received two Gold medals : one for the Highest Total Marks for I.Sc (Combined) & another for Joint Highest Marks in Maths for I.Sc (Combined).
• While attending Engineering classes at RU, he received State Scholarship to study Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in the USA.
• He received BS and MS in EE (Electrical Engineering) from Stanford University.
• Upon his return, he joined the EE Department at RIT as Assistant Lecturer. He helped Sayagyi Dr. Chit Swe with the UCC project.
• He transferred to UCC as Manager of Systems Division.
• After reorganization, he also managed the Operations Division.
• He received an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Southampton in the UK.
• He taught CS courses at UCC. He co-authored Progrsmming Texts, Lecture Guides and Manuals with U Aung Zaw (GBNF) and me.
• He worked for UN projects in several countries.
• He wrote “Computer Ah Sa UCC Ga” and his experiences as a States Scholar and UN Advisor.
• After retirement, Saya spent time playing golf & practicing vipassana meditation.
• During his UCC days, he served as a Golf Correspondent. I helped him type about the competition at RGC (Rangoon Golf Club) and BGC (Burma Golf Club) and submit to the English newspapers.

U Win Paing (SPHS64)

• He won several Golf Championships with his younger brother U Kyaw Paing.
• After finishing the finals for ChE (Chemical Engineering) examination in 1970, he entered monkhood with his friend U Aung Min.
• He served as Taik Oke for about four decades before becoming the Chief Resident Monk of Kaba Aye Sunlun Gu Kyaung Sayadaw.
• He is known as Sayadaw U Wara.
• He is now GBNF.

U Kyaw Paing (SPHS67)

• He represented Burma in the Putra Cup.
• He is a lawyer and an entrepreneur.

U Khin Maung Zaw (EC76) wrote :

For number of years, I was the carrier-cum-postman to bring Saya U Soe Paing’s typed golf news to the WPD, Working Peoples’ Daily at Theingbyu Street! Just one of the chores I had in those days.

I remember jokingly asked Sayadaw U Wara how he felt seeing the (18th??) hole over the fence from the Sunlun Kyaung’s “Thein”. The new golf course was built for VIPs inside Kabaaye, and that particular hole was seen from the “Thein” less than 40-50 yards, of course over the fence.