Miss Vietnam Global Pageant 2010

The government has permitted the central province of Khanh Hoa to host the second Miss Vietnam Global pageant 2010, said Khanh Hoa’s Vice Chair Le Xuan Than.

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Contestants of Miss Universe 2008 planted trees in Vinpearl Land, Nha Trang City.

Prime Minister assigned Khanh Hoa authorities to combine with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, National Committee for Overseas Vietnamese and Vinpearland Land Tourism JS Company to organize this event.

An official from the Vincom Group, the owner of Vinpearl Land, said that the pageant will be jointly held by Vinpearl Land and Vietnam Television (VTV). The final round will take place at Vinpearl Land tourist site from August 10-28.

The Vincom group, Khanh Hoa government and Youth Media Group have also asked the government’s permission for hosting the Miss Earth pageant in Vinpearl Land this November.

Miss Vietnam Global is a pageant for Vietnamese girls at home and abroad. Ngo Phuong Lan was crowned as the first Miss Vietnam Global in 2007.

The winner of Miss Vietnam Global 2010 will receive gifts worth 500 million dong (US$26,500), the highest among beauty contests in Vietnam so far.

Vietnam's Miss Universe 2009 Vo Hoang Yen

VietNamNet Bridge – With gentle make-up, long hair down and bright smile, Vietnam’s Miss Universe 2009 entrant Vo Hoang Yen hides the cold face of a supermodel to become a young girl brimming with vitality in a new photo series.

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Ngoc Diem and Hoang Yen nominated for Miss Universe

Vo Hoang Yen and Phan Thi Ngoc Diem.
Vietnam’s representative at Miss Universe 2009 pageant will be one of two nominees: The first runner-up of Miss Universe Vietnam 2008 Vo Hoang Yen or Miss Tourism 2008 Phan Thi Ngoc Diem.

After Elite Vietnam announced it would not renew the right to choose the Vietnamese candidate for this pageant, the Vietnam Universe Company assumed the right. The firm asked the PL Modeling Company to introduce some nominees for the pageant.
The Director of PL Modeling, Tran Thanh Long, said: “We recommended Vo Hoang Yen and Phan Thi Ngoc Diem. Hoang Yen has the nice body of a model. She was also the first runner-up of the Miss Universe Vietnam 2008. Ngoc Diem is Miss Tourism 2008, a university student with good knowledge.”

The Vice Director in charge of marketing of the Vietnam Universe Company, Le Diem Ly, said that firm will choose one candidate for the Performance Art Agency to consider and approve. It will send the file of this contestant to the organising board of Miss Universe 2009 in May.
Ly said the Miss Universe organising board requires that contestants be in the top three of national beauty contests. Vietnam has to select a beauty queen of last year because this year Vietnam will not organise any beauty contest for young girls.

Hoang Yen and Ngoc Diem were surprised by the selection.

“I’m very happy and proud to be trusted. With my experience at the Miss Tourism International 2008, if I’m chosen, I’ll try my best,” Ngoc Diem said.

“I’m really surprised and very happy. Of course, I will be ready for the contest,” said Hoang Yen.

Ngoc Diem, a last-year student at the HCM City Foreign Trade University, was crowned Miss Vietnam Tourism last August. She represented Vietnam at the Miss Tourism International 2008 in Malaysia in December 2008.

Hoang Yen was the first runner-up of the Miss Universe Vietnam and a supermodel.

Miss Universe 2009 will take place in the Bahamas this August.

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Miss Venezuela Miss Universe 2008

The coastal city of Nha Trang has welcomed many beauties but this is the first time it has hosted so many beauty queens from all over the world.

Miss Venezuela, a promising candidate for Miss Universe 2008 crown.

Local people are eager, excited and using every opportunity to approach Miss Universe contestants, especially the ones who directly serve the beauties.

With five years of experience at Vinpearland, Vo Quang Hien, Assistant Director of Rossy Restaurant at Diamond Bay Resort, has worked many beauty contests, for example Miss Vietnam, Miss Vietnam Global, Miss Earth, etc. but he has been dazzled by Miss Universe contestants.

“All of us, from the director to staff were very busy on the day the 80 beauty queens arrived at our resort. We were informed that contestants would arrive at 3pm so at 1pm, we finished preparations. We stood at the door to wait for the beauties. Whenever we saw a girl, our hearts pounded strongly because we thought they were Miss Universe contestants. After a few times like that, the real ‘misses’ came. All of us looked at the beauties astonished. We only woke up when our boss called upon us to work,” Hien said.

Though they share the road with Miss Universe contestants, drivers have few chances to “enjoy” their beauty because they have to turn their backs on the ‘misses’. Asked how he feels about having an opportunity to work for beauty queens, Driver Nguyen Xuan Thanh said: “Frankly, I can’t admire them because I have to focus on the road.”

Tran Trung Thu, Thanh’s colleague, roguishly said: “Oh God, why are you so silly. I still steal a glance at them through mirrors. They are so beautiful. How can we be so serious! They are really beautiful. Each girl has her own beauty!”

Kitchen staffs are luckier. Chef Nguyen Ngoc Thanh at Diamond Bay Resort said: “Sometimes several girls stand in the corridor to listen to music or answer phone calls. Seeing us, they blow us kisses, which delights us. Some staff have been criticised because they were absorbed in taking photos with beauties. Sometimes we watch them do aerobics.”

Taking photos with beauties is the wish of many people. Many volunteers have been rebuked during outdoor activities because they forgot their work to take photos with Miss Universe contestants. In the afternoon on July 3, when contestants paid a visit to the Nha Trang SOS village, the village’s logistics staffs devoted themselves to admiring and taking photos with contestants so guests, the Miss Universe organising board, had to seek umbrellas to shield contestants.

Having worked for beauties for many days, driver Tran Trung Thu commented: “They (contestants) are very friendly to each other. They always say ‘hi’ and ‘goodnight’ to each other and talk on the bus. Our contestant (Miss Universe Vietnam) joined in a group of four. I don’t understand what they said but they seemed to be very pleased. Whenever they leave my bus at night, they often say, ‘thank you’ or ‘goodnight’ to me.”

Waiters say contestants are not very picky about food and they love Vietnamese fruits. “We prepared abundant menus and change cuisines very often with German, Italian, Russian food but they eat little. They favour vegetables, fruits or salad,” said chef Nguyen Ngoc Thanh.

Quang Hien said: “One time I saw Miss USA walk back and forth at the fruit table. I approached her and offered help. It turned out that she was looking for a pomelo but she couldn’t find one. I told a staff to get a pomelo for her. She was very happy and thanked us. It is a small thing but I’m very happy.”

Besides Miss USA Crystle Stewart, Miss Antigua & Barbuda Athena James also loves pomelo. She said, “I tasted that fruit in Hanoi. Vietnamese fruits are wonderful!”

Miss Universe contestants are eager to learn Vietnamese and they aren’t afraid to practice it. Tram, a student at the Nha Trang Cultural, Arts and Tourism College, a volunteer, said: “A contestant asked me to teach her Vietnamese. I taught her a sentence “Em dep tuyet voi” (You are so beautiful) and explained the meaning to her. She liked it very much. The next day I saw her again, she immediately practiced, “Xin chao, em dep… tuut vooi”.

In a forest of beauties, every person has her/his own favourite beauty queen. Driver Tran Trung Thu said: “All of them are beautiful but frankly Thuy Lam (Miss Vietnam) is closer to me. I also like Miss Thailand and Miss Singapore. Perhaps I prefer them because they are Asian girls.”

Chef Nguyen Ngoc Thanh clearly distinguishes between impressive girls and the girls he likes. “I’m impressed by African girls because they often wear very nice and unique jewelry but I like Miss Singapore. I also support Thuy Lam (Miss Vietnam) though I haven’t had an opportunity to talk to her. Anyway, Miss Vietnam can walk abreast of international beauty queens.”

Vo Quang Hien affirmed: “I guess that Miss Venezuela will be crowned. She is tall, beautiful and very friendly. She is also very polite. She doesn’t want to bother others and treats attendants very politely. I guess she would be a wonderful friend in normal life.”

(Source: VNE)

Miss Venezuela wins Miss Universe pageant in Vietnam

Miss Venezuela, 22-year-old Dayana Mendoza, won the Miss Universe pageant held in Vietnam on Monday, beating runners-up from three other Latin American countries and Russia.
Mendoza, who had been the favourite of many pageant watchers and online bookmakers, clinched the diamond-studded gold crown after answering a question on the difference between men and women.
"Men think that the fastest way to go to a point is to go straight," explained the trilingual beauty from Amazonas state. "Women know that the faster way to go to a point is to go to the curves."
Wearing a yellow evening gown, she burst into tears of joy when the presenter, US talkshow host Jerry Springer, announced she had won, beating runners-up up from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Russia and Mexico.
Her prize package includes cash, a year-long contract promoting Miss Universe, world travel, a rent-free New York City luxury apartment and a giftbag stuffed with free designer shoes, dresses and beauty products.
In the world of beauty contests, Venezuela -- where beauty contests are held in schools, villages and even prisons -- is considered a "pageant superpower" with four previous Miss Universe and five Miss World winners.

Beauty contest BEST Traditional Costume

The beauty contest officially began on June 22 with the traditional costume competition. The eighty-one competitors drew the eyes of the audience with their beauty and their unique costumes.

The top ten best traditional costumes:

Miss Albania: Matilda Mecini
Miss Colombia: Taliana Vargas
Miss Dominican Republic: Marianne Cruz
Miss India: Simran Kaur
Miss Kosovo: Zana Krasniqi
Miss Mexico: Elisa Najera
Miss Peru: Karol Castillo
Miss South Africa: Tansey Coetzee
Miss Venezuela: Dayana Mendoza
Miss Vietnam: Nguyen Thuy Lam

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Miss Universe: Photo competition

Miss Photo is a sub-competition of Miss Universe 2008. Organisers asked competitors to take photos with popular fruits and flowers in Vietnam such as lotus flower, coconut, mango or typical objects of Vietnam such as bamboo frame, bamboo mat, rattan basket, etc.

Miss Universe: Photo competition (Part 1)

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Miss Mexico wins “Best in Swimwear” Trophy

The “Best in Swimwear” trophy was presented to Miss Mexico, Elisa Najera, at last night’s Bikini Show, a mini-competition of the Miss Universe 2008 pageant held at Vinpearland tourist site in Nha Trang, Vietnam.

The contestants from the US, Spain, India, Colombia and Mexico were the five finalists. The winner received $2,000.

Now, contestants will begin entering the major competitions


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Miss Universe competitors in HCM City

By June 17 afternoon, over 20 candidates of Miss Universe 2008 pageant arrived in HCM City.

Each one hour, a group of cars escorted competitors from the Tan Son Nhat International Airport to the New World Hotel.

At the hotel, competitors took photo and were measures for record and fulfilled registrations. Miss Vietnam Universe Thuy Lam checked in the hotel as well.

Some photos of competitors at Tan Son Nhat Airport and New World Hotel:


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