October News


MISC. News

  • Diana Wu (MCT 02) & Sarina Lee (MCT03) pictured with Alex Fong on Sept. 18th 2004 at Canada's Wonderland. Tickets were 50% off!!! (approx $26 CDN) courtesy of Jean & Toronto's Fairchild Radio
  • Lisa Huang (#16 MCI 2002) won the Miss Singapore World competition. Aside from the title she also won Miss Photogenic, Most Beautiful Eyes, & Body Beautiful awards. I personally find it a little questionable...did she truly deserve all those awards? Lisa will be competiing at Miss World 2004 in Sanya, China. courtesy of Carmen
  • Reality Romance from Us Weekly 10/11/04- Amazing Race runner-up Colin Guinn popped the question (and a 2-carat Harry Winston sapphire ring) to Christie Woods (Miss Teen USA 1996) on CBS's The Early Show on September 22.
  • Us Weekly 10/11/04 - Miss USA 1996 from Ali Landry told Us Weekly, after splitting from Mario Lopez, she lost so much weight & just couldn't eat.
  • Former Miss HK winners 94 Halina Tam, 98 Anne Heung & 01 Shirley Yeung, & the current Miss HK, Kate Tsui hosrted a mid-autumn festival show where they each dressed in a gorgeous qi pao. It's hard to believe that its been 10 yrs since Halina Tam's reign, yet she still looks youthful as ever. courtesy of Ennis
  • Just me ranting: A pic I took appeared in the Nunavut paper! Check out this pic of Miss Nunavut, Ashley Dean.
  • Miss Chinese Melbourne pageant will be held on November 21st at Carlton Hotel. Ticket prices are somewhat reasonable. Profiles to come on the weekend on Angela's website.

Miss Chinese CosmoPageant
The contestants for the 2004 Chinese Cosmo Pageant is up.There are a lot of gorgeous contestants.A familiar face includes #23 Jessi Cheng, who was the recipient of the Miss Friendship award at Miss Chinese International 2000 (HK's Sonija Kwok won that year). Jessi was also Miss Chinese Melbourne in 1999. *NOTE I'm not sure whether its Jessi or not. But it sure looks like her..I wish I could read Chinese!

Speaking of Melbourne, the profiles for 2004 will be out shortly, most likely Saturday. Angela, a former Miss Chinese Melbourne contestant & Miss Friendship winner will be covering a bit of the pageant. It's rumoured there's a contestant that resembles one of the former winners. Who is it? You will find out soon!

http://eladies.sina.com.cn/pc/2004-09-30/28/1044.html link courtesy of 'Girl'

Miss Asia New Zealand & Miss Chinese New Zealand *courtesy of Miss Asia New Zealand & Miss Chinese New Zealand Org.
News from Sept were incomplete, here are the official & complete Results. Winner of the Miss Asia New Zealand title went to #6 Jessica Foon. Still a young high school wonder at 17 years of age, & measures at 168cm in height. Miss Chinese New Zealand was #14 Jeanette Ma, a University Student, whilst the rest of the court are Doris Jun Pan & Sharon Wu. MHKB pick for this pageant was #5 Doris.

Miss Asia New Zealand: #6 Jessica Foon
Miss Chinese New Zealand: # 14 Jeanette Ma
Miss Asia New Zealand 1st RU: #5 Doris Jun Pan
Miss Asia New Zealand 2nd RU: #10 Sharon Wu

Special Awards:
Miss Internet: #13 Crystal Huang
Miss Congeniality: #8 Sara Sun
Miss Hair Award: #17 Lee Chee Young
Miss International Goodwill: #15 Saengtip Kirk
Miss Sensational: #6 Jessica Foon
Best Potential Model Award: #6 Jessica Foon

Picture link: http://www.168.co.nz/business168/2004missasia/sub_index.asp

October 5th 2004 - Another wedding *translated by Em of TVBSpace News
Having once taken part in TVB's "A Kindred Spirit" and contestant #7 in 1998's Miss Hong Kong Pageant, Fiona Leung Pui Ying held her wedding banquet on Sunday evening to celebrate her marriage to Wan Kwong Fai. The event was very warming and the bride was so touched that her eyes welled with tears. Although Pui Ying's former co-stars Nancy Sit and Johnny Tang, who 'watched her grow up' were unable to attend, but they sent her a short clip to express their best wishes to the couple.
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Some might remember Fiona from Miss HK 98 #7 as she was one of Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau's favourite contestants. Lucky for her, he was also one of the judges that year. Unfortunately, Fiona didn't perform her best at the finals & had one of the worst interviews of the top 12.

After Miss HK, She appeared in the series "A Kindred Spirit" where she portrayed the character 'Jun Jun' (little sister of Melissa Ng & Michael Tse), who was involved in a love triange & was the 'love interest' of Hawick Lau until he ended up slapping her at the altar!

http://orientaldaily.com.hk/ent/ent_a21cnt.html


Miss Chinese Toronto-Media Conference
This year’s Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant media conference will be held soon. The ten contenders will make their public debut and the organizers will announce the details of the pageant. This year’s slogan is ‘Life’s Most Beautiful Music’, and will also be the 10th anniversary since the first Miss Chinese Toronto pageant (1995). Is the title of the theme hinting the possibility of a talent award this year? Only time will tell.

Click here to relive last year’s first media conference for MCT 2003.

Miss Peru Chinese *courtesy of Raphael & Jimmy Steele.
Economics student Alicia Augusto Wong was elected "Miss Peru Chinese" (Lima), on Sat. Oct. 2 2004. She also won the Best Legs award. She is 23 years old, and says that she plans on using her title to work hard with various charitable organizations. The show was aired on the "America" TV network in Peru, and was hosted by Patty Wong (MCI 03 contestant). Wong leaves the first week of January to compete in MCI 05 in Sydney, Australia.

MCI hasn't been held overseas since MCI 2000, where it was held in Las Vegas when Sonija Kwok won. It would be interesting to see if MCI will be held in Sydney considering the production at Miss HK was a little disappointing this year. Perhaps they saved money to make MCI an even bigger show.

This year there were two contests, Miss Peru Tusan and Miss Peru Chinese. In the last years the winners of Miss Peru Tusan will go to MCI, but it was stated that the people who organized Miss Tusan in the last years have changed the name and now they organized Miss Peru Chinese.

This year Miss Peru Tusan is a 'new' contest organized by other individuals. The winner of this new contest was Cinthia Tong.

Picture Links *courtesy of Raphael
Alicia during one of the segments
Victory Walk
Victory Wave

Miss Oriental Pearl 2004 Results *courtesy of Thai Miss
WINNER: #28 Ren Wei Heng (Shanghai)
1st RU: #20 Zoe Tan Eng Li (Kuala Lumpur)
2nd RU: #7 Zhang Yu Ting (Chengdu)

Special Awards
Miss Gold Hill Personality: #7 Zhang Yu Ting (Chengdu)
Miss Media Cliq Popularity: #26 Angela Gan Hui Boon (Sabah)
Miss Merry Asia Photogenic: #3 Li Xiao Chen (Beijing)
Miss Elegant 2004: #7 Zhang Yu Ting (Chengdu)
Miss Bio-Essence Beautiful Skin: #3 Li Xiao Chen (Beijing)
Miss KWF Tea Body Beautiful: #26 Angela Gan Hui Boon (Sabah)
Miss TeLux Cover Girl: #33Nie Xiao Xue (Zhengzhou)
Miss NanYang Siang Pau: #28 Ren Wei Heng (Shanghai)
Miss MouTai Fresh Look of the Year: #20 Zoe Tan Eng Li (Kuala Lumpur)
Miss Congeniality: # 20 Zoe Tan Eng Li (Kuala Lumpur)

Finalists (no particular order)
Amsterdam (Michelle Yeung, 1st RU Miss Chinese Benelux 2003)
Beijing
Bangkok
Dalian
Guangzhou
Hanoi
Miss Phuket
Sabah
Zhengzhou