 Ba Htay, representing the Union of Burma Boy Scouts was elected one of the very earliest chairmen of the five-man "Far East Scout Advisory Committee" (FESAC), which would later become the Asia-Pacific Region, and served from 1958 to 1960.Ba Htay started his career as a tutor at Rangoon University, for a brief period.He later became Indian Civil Service (ICS), and was referred to as "ICS U Ba Htay", one of very few elite administrators in the government.