Myanmar drops hosting Miss Grand International 2024 finals

MANILA, Philippines — The Bangkok-based Miss Grand International pageant system will be searching for another venue for its 2024 competition as Myanmar, which was announced as this year's host at the crowning ceremony last year, will no longer be hosting it due to the current political situation in the country.

The replacement venue will be announced soon, according to an official statement issued by the MGI Organization on social media. In 2020, Myanmar's delegate, Thaw Nandar Aung, publicly criticized the junta and its bloody crackdowns on protests against its coup. The former Psychology student, also known as Han Lay, was refused permission to enter Thailand and spent days stranded at an airport in Bangkok.She was able to compete in the Miss Grand International 2020 pageant and landed in the Top 20 with the Philippines' Samantha Bernardo, who eventually went on to win as 1st runner-up.

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