(FILES) This file handout photo taken on March 24, 2021 and released by the Miss Grand International beauty pageant on March 25, 2021 shows Miss Grand International contestant Han Lay taking part in the national costume part of the contest in Bangkok.

Myanmar’s former beauty queen and an anti-junta activist, Thaw Nandar Aung, aka “Han Lay”, who has been stranded in Thailand due to immigration difficulties, has finally been granted asylum in Canada.

 

Local and international media outlets, such as the BBC, cited sources saying  that she will be leaving Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi on September 27th, heading to Incheon first and then on to Toronto, Canada.

 

The 23-year-old has been stranded since September 21st, and attempts were reportedly made by Myanmar authorities to have her repatriated, but she was not forcibly sent back.

 

While no confirmation has been provided by the military administration in Myanmar as to whether her passport has been revoked, spokesperson General Zaw Min Tun had said that cooperation of neighbouring countries and Interpol has been requested by arresting “fugitives” with warrants issued for them.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/myanmar-beauty-queen-granted-asylum-in-canada/

 

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Excellent news

Way to go Canada!

Hats off to a great country with decent leadership, proud to be Canadian. ???? 

Brilliant, two fingers to the Tatmadaw!

49 minutes ago, marcusb said:

Hats off to a great country with decent leadership, proud to be Canadian. ???? 

Agree with you partly. Hat's off to a great country, which currently is being controlled by pathetic leadership. At least they did something commendable.

Good to see Canada do this, BUT it might have meant more if one of the ASEAN nations had done this first!

The collective ASEAN countries talk so much about how great they can be together (and in theory they can be), but with the various junta gov's in ASEAN they get little done.

Great news. I will greet her in person if possible and welcome her to Canada. Our prime minister is busy singing Queen covers.

Nice people nice country just a bit cold for me, but well done.

Well don Canada this young lady is very smart I would think everybody in Miramar would love the opportunity to go to Canada and this young lady is now going to be able to go to Canada the government subsidize everything for her so she’ll have a great life these other Asian countries that should’ve and could’ve offered her asylum I Think Just pathetic TIT

Congratulations Dalring. 

Moral of the story

 

Say/do something controversial, get your country to hate you, seek asylum in a better country, instant visa

12 minutes ago, hellohello123 said:

Moral of the story

 

Say/do something controversial, get your country to hate you, seek asylum in a better country, instant visa

you forgot one vital component, be at least vaguely famous, or prison awaits....

3 hours ago, marcusb said:

Hats off to a great country with decent leadership, proud to be Canadian. ???? 

The average good looks of Canadians will have been given a nudge upwards ! I guess my offer came second… ???? 

Amazing, proof yet again that beautiful people get treated better than fugly people. Would she have readily got asylum if she had a head like Chad Morgan?

38 minutes ago, hellohello123 said:

Moral of the story

 

Say/do something controversial, get your country to hate you, seek asylum in a better country, instant visa

If that's what you believe the moral of the story is I can't help thinking you haven't got the foggiest about what morality means.

Always wonderful to see a nation stand up to oppression, savagery, or totalitarianism. In other words Burma, Russia or China. Very heroic of the Canadians to do so. One cannot but notice that no offers were forthcoming from any member of ASEAN. Scared of Burma and China are we?

 

 

She should buy some wooly underware....unless she plans on staying on the west coast, which is significantly warmer than the rest of the great white north... 

Thailand here had a given chance to make a stand, and-one more time- made the wrong one.....

Shame on you, thailand..

 

I wish her well.  Canada is usually helpful in these matters 

Another episode of disgraceful behavior from an inept Government.

 

Canada will give her more freedom BUT Trudeau has proven to be no Angel!

thank you thank you  canada  ... way to go 

 

to heck with mmar ...

A decent nation caring for others. Not a perfect nation by any means but a nation that reaches for and strives to be better every day. Well done my Commonwealth brothers and sisters and shame on LOS for nabbing this woman up and detaining her.

4 hours ago, marcusb said:

Hats off to a great country with decent leadership, proud to be Canadian. ???? 

Decent leadership? That's the first time I've ever heard anyone accuse Justin "Castro Blackface" of being decent. He's a protégé of Klaus Schwab and is spear heading the shift into tyranny in the western world. He froze bank accounts of protesters and even those supporting the protesters! The man (?) is pure evil. 

Well done Canada!

 

But I wonder if she had been a 50 year bloke with nothing much to recommend him, would they have scooped him out of the airport or told him to wait in the queue which is several years long?

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44 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Always wonderful to see a nation stand up to oppression, savagery, or totalitarianism.

Canada under Trudeau is totalitarian. He stopped people from free travel and called them Nazis. He froze their bank accounts for simply protesting. That would not happen in a free, democratic society. 

1 hour ago, Aussieroaming said:

Amazing, proof yet again that beautiful people get treated better than fugly people. Would she have readily got asylum if she had a head like Chad Morgan?

 

2 minutes ago, edogthong said:

Decent leadership? That's the first time I've ever heard anyone accuse Justin "Castro Blackface" of being decent. He's a protégé of Klaus Schwab and is spear heading the shift into tyranny in the western world. He froze bank accounts of protesters and even those supporting the protesters! The man (?) is pure evil. 

Or Anutin ! ..lol... why did Thailand not offer her asylum .... no need to answer I suppose ... but it's something to do with friends that have rows of medals on yer chest Sir !

33 minutes ago, Olav Seglem said:

Thailand here had a given chance to make a stand, and-one more time- made the wrong one.....

Shame on you, thailand..

 

This administration has rarely ever been on the right side of history. And it is likely history will not be kind to them. 

1 hour ago, Phoenix Rising said:

If that's what you believe the moral of the story is I can't help thinking you haven't got the foggiest about what morality means.

To be fair, a "moral of a story" and "morality" are two different concepts.

2 hours ago, hellohello123 said:

Moral of the story

 

Say/do something controversial, get your country to hate you, seek asylum in a better country, instant visa

It's not her country who hat her. Only same idiots who have the control of her country.