{"id":48913,"date":"2022-09-29T01:50:31","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/28\/myanmar-model-thaw-nandar-aung-han-lay-canada-asylum"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:50:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T16:50:31","slug":"myanmar-model-who-criticised-junta-says-canada-has-granted-her-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48913","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar model who criticised junta says Canada has granted her asylum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thaw Nandar Aung, AKA Han Lay, feared being sent home after she was stopped at Thai border last week<\/p>\n<p>A Myanmar fashion model who was denied entry to Thailand and feared arrest by the military government in Yangon if she was forced back home from exile has flown to Canada, which she says has granted her asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Thaw Nandar Aung, also known as Han Lay, left on a flight from Bangkok\u2019s Suvarnabhumi airport early on Wednesday, according to Archayon Kraithong, a deputy commissioner of Thailand\u2019s Immigration Bureau. He said he was not authorised to reveal her destination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/28\/myanmar-model-thaw-nandar-aung-han-lay-canada-asylum\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thaw Nandar Aung, AKA Han Lay, feared being sent home after she was stopped at Thai border last weekA Myanmar fashion model who was denied entry to Thailand and feared arrest by the military government in Yangon if she was forced back home from exile h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,244,576,833,82,61,93,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-canada","category-fashion","category-fashion-industry","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48914,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48913\/revisions\/48914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}