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The Burmese model and beauty queen who spoke out against the military junta in Myanmar while on an international stage in Thailand last year is living in Charlottetown and sharing her story to raise awareness about what's going on in her home country.Thaw Nandar Aung, 23, who also goes by the name Han Lay, has been in Prince Edward Island since September.

Myanmar's military junta said Thursday it was releasing and expelling four foreign prisoners as part of a broad amnesty that also includes dozens of political prisoners.The four are Victoria Bowman, a former British ambassador to Myanmar; Sean Turnell, an Australian academic; Toru Kubota, a Japanese documentary filmmaker; and U Kyaw Htay Oo, a Burmese with United States citizenship who had been working as a gardener at the home of the country's imprisoned civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

The political party of Myanmar's imprisoned opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has been officially dissolved, in yet another blow to the Southeast Asian nation's democracy, two years after the military staged a coup.The party, the National League for Democracy, was disbanded by Myanmar's military-appointed election commission, state media said late Tuesday night.

Vicky  Bowman, former British ambassador to Myanmar, is among the nearly 6000 people who will be released from prison by the military junta, it was announced.Australian academic Sean Turnell and Japanese filmmaker Toru Kubota too shall be released after months in a Myanmar prison.On Thursday, when the country celebrated its National Day, the local state-run television MRTV announced that the junta had finalised a list of some 6000 prisoners  5,774 men and 676 women  who will be granted amnesty on humanitarian grounds.

U2 have always dealt in grand gestures.No other rock artists from the world of post-punk chased megastardom with the same missionary zeal: they seldom made any bones about wanting to be the biggest band in the world, something they duly achieved in grandstanding style.Their tours have involved everything from stage sets so big they required aircraft warning lights to prank calling the White House to the highest-resolution video screen ever seen at a gig: the most recent one grossed $390m.