Model Fearing Burma’s Military Heads to Asylum in Canada

Thaw Nandar Aung, a model from Burma, speaks to a reporter in Bangkok, Thailand, on March 31, 2021. Napaxalun Sattayatam/AP Photo

BANGKOK—A fashion model from Burma (also known as Myanmar) who feared being arrested by the country’s military regime if she was forced back home from exile has arrived in Canada, which she says has granted her asylum.

Thaw Nandar Aung, also known as Han Lay, left on a flight from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport early Wednesday morning, according to Archayon Kraithong, a deputy commissioner of Thailand’s Immigration Bureau.