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Jan 31 Miss Dragon prepares with the election of international Chinese Miss with Hong Kong
(Tahitipresse) - Elodie Chung, the beauty queen of the Chinese community in Polynesia, is currently in Hong Kong to take part in the election of Miss Chinese International, which takes place on January 29th. Between her rehersals & press conferences, the young woman found time to speak to us about her adventure. Elodie Chung left for HK in early Jan. & had some difficulties with breathing upon arrival on the Asian continent; although she is feeling better now. So far, she has participated in various demonstrations such as handing-over of price(?), steps interdependent and visits of famous sites. But for most part, Miss Dragon prepares, with the 22 candidates in string, choreographies for the great evening. "We rehearse at the studios of tvb (the organizing chain of the event). We were divided into four groups representing the four great Chinese dynasties: Tang, Ming, Qing and Dunhuang" Elodie says. If this one decided to take part in this adventure, it was before very benefitting from the experiment, which does not seem to be the case of a number of competitors who aim for the crown. "candidates from the cities of New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver or Hong Kong wish the title, that is seen and they do not hide it (Wow that’s a bit straight forward). They sure know what they are worth and are very professional. Some have been around in the pageant world for at least 6 years, competing at various contests", explained Elodie. Miss Chinese International, gathers candidates from various Chinese communities throughout the world. The event gathers each year 200

Jan 29 Miss Chinese South Africa 2005 Results *courtesy of Simon & Selina, translated from Taiwan Yahoo news
Organized by the Chinese community from China, Hong Kong, & Taiwan, contestants from the provinces/coast came together to participate in the Miss Chinese South Africa pageant on January 29th after a 10 year absense. Winner was taiwanese born Lui Yee-Wai. The rest of the court includes Lui Yee-Wan, & Lin Lee-Ting.

Group picture

Miss LA Chinatown 2005 Results *courtesy of Simon
Jessica Feng Qian, wins Miss LA Chinatown 2005. She comes from beijing being currently pursues her master degree in states. She won a couple of scholarship programmes in US. Her ambition is to be a university professor.1st Ru was Annie Tang, who placed as 3rd RU at the 2004 Miss USA Chinatown competition (Annie Chang, a recent MCI 05 finalist was 2nd RU!) For full results, please visit Pan's Pageant Page
Jessica Feng Qian in swimsuit
Crowning

Jan 21 Miss Universe Canada 2005 Results *courtesy of Jimmy Steele
The heavy favourite of MUC 2004 & 2005 wins the crown!

WINNER Natalie Glebova (Toronto, ON)
1ST ru Gretal Montgomery (Windsor, ON)
2ND ru Dalia Rene (North York, ON)
3RD ru Erika DeVries (Niagara Falls, ON)
4TH ru Alyson Lozoff (Montréal, QC)
Top 10 (no particular order)
Stacey McKinney (Whitby, ON)
Stéphanie Longpre (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC)
Tiffany Hynes (Niagara Falls, ON)
Melissa May (Toronto, ON)
Sangeet Dhaliwal (Toronto, ON)
Top 15 (no particular order)
Julia Elridge (Barrie, ON)
Melissa Jurgutis (Toronto, ON)
Ramona Amiri (West Vancouver, BC)
Erika Walter (DeWinton, AB)
Suzanne Davison (Barrie, ON)

Best Hair: Katherine Da Silva (Toronto, ON)
Miss Photogenic: Natalie Glebova (Toronto, ON)
People's Choice: Albina Hussein (North York, ON)

*Special note to Jimmy & Rafa, it was a pleasure chatting with you while anticipating the much awaited results!

Jan 21 Miss Universe Canada 2005
It's back! The contestant profiles are finally out & the contestants look amazing! Photographs were taken by Fadil Berisha, who also takes the official headshots for the MUO Org. Familiar face among Chinese pageant fans is Anky Kan, who was contestant #3 & Miss Popularity at Miss Chinese Vancouver 2001. She was also the 1st ru at Miss Vancouver Int' 2003.

Finals will be held in Montreal, Canada on Jan 25th! Preliminaries will be held tonight. Good luck to all the contestants!

My favs...Alyson, Brooke, Carla, Catherine, Dahlia, Erika D, Erika W, Julia E, Gretal, Melissa M, Natalie, Sangeet, Sarah, Sherilyn, Tiffany

Jan 20
Reported by EM, Natalie Ng (MHK 98 2nd RU) is engaged to be married.

Jan 15: It's a special day for MCT 2003 Sarina Lee, as it is her 21 bday. Happy Birthday Sarina! :)

• Miss of Misses: Website World of Miss is having a 'Miss of Misses' of the year awards. Check it out here . The 16 finalists have been chosen & the judges will have to narrow it down to 8, plus a winner for both "Best in gown" & "Best in swimsuit".
• Jan 13 MHKB pages: I have taken out other sections (MHK, past MCI, MCT, MCV) of my site in preparation for the MCI 05 coverage. Bandwidth this month: 14033.40 Meg/30000 Meg. OUCH. On anotherhand, thank you for visiting :)
• Jan12 GB's Cover Girl 2004: MU 2004 Jennifer Hawkins won the title over 11 other finalists chosen by GB. 2nd ranked was the current Miss World Maria Julia Mantilla of Peru, while 4th ranked was Carlene Agruilar of Philippines (MCI04 2nd RU). 50% came from polls, as the rest from photographer Bruno Ferrente. Hong Kong's Fu Sze Sze finished 11th overall. See the rest of the results here
• Jan 6 Baby Jasmine's 1st B-day: Jasmine Yen, daughter of actor Donnie Yen & MCT 2000 Cissy Wang recently celebrated her first birthday! Proud parents threw a big 1st bday bash with party hats, loot bags, balloons, clowns, cakes for the tot. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! :) To see pics of the attractive little family, click here.