Vum Ko Hau

Background

Hau, Vum Ko was born on March 17, 1917 in Thuklai, Burma. Son of Revd Yah Khup Thuklai.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy cum laude, Charles U., Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1974.

Career

Staff major, Siyin Chin, 1943-1944; deputy foreign secretary, Burma, 1948; in charge, United Nations Political and Protocol division, 1948-1955; secretary foreign affairs subcabinet committee, Government of Burma, 1948-1955; Electrical engineer & Minister Plenipotentiary to France, Netherlands, Government of Burma, Paris, 1955-1959; ambassador to Indonesia, Government of Burma, Jakarta, 1959-1965; ambassador to Cambodia and Laos, Government of Burma, 1965-1971; diplomat, Government of Burma, Czechoslovakia, Austria and Hungary., 1971-1975; foreign minister, Government of Burma, 1988; evangelist, vice-president and patron, Burma Baptist Convention, Rangoon, 1977. Panel chairman Burma Constituent Assembly, Rangoon, 1947-1948. Minister delegate talks Anglo-Burmese Indiana Treaty, 1947.

Chief delegate Burma to International Atomic Energy Conference, Vienna, 1957, 71. Consultant Reader's Digest for Unionof Burma. Chief delegate of Burma to 10th anniversary of Bandaung Conference, Jakarta, 1965, to ECAFE, Jogjakarta, 1959.

Chief delegate 10th anniversary of World Health Organization, Geneva, 1958. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Vum Ko Hau has been listed as a noteworthy ambassador by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Profile of a Burma Frontier Man: An Autobiographical Memoirs sic Including Resistance Movements, Formation of the Union and the Independence of Burma Together with Some Chapters on Oriental Books...

    (Profile of A Burma Frontier Man)

  • Profile of A Burma Frontier Man

Membership

Moderator Immanuel Baptist Church, Rangoon. Life trustee Siyin Baptist Church, Rangoon, member Executive Committee. Treasurer Zo Chin Baptist Association, Falam, 1942-1943,elder, Scots Kirk, Paris, 1955-1959.

Co-founder democratic movements, 1988. Political detainee house arrests, 1989-1990. Staff major Chin Force, Burma,1943-1944.

Member Gideons International (executive member, past president), Burma Research Society (life), World Veterans Association (Executive Committee 1953), Royal Geography Society (life fellow), Royal Anthropol. Institute London (life fellow), Royal Numismatic Society London (fellow), Oriental Ceramic Society London.

Connections

Married Tina Mang Ko Tiin.

Father:

Revd Yah Khup Thuklai Hau

Spouse:

Tina Mang Ko Tiin.