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By JACK BOLAND, TORONTO SUN

Sept 13

MISS INTERNATIONAL 2005 NEWS
20-year-old Miss China, Yang Li, is selected Miss Photogenic during a press preview for an upcoming Miss International beauty pageant in Tokyo September 12, 2005. Delegates from 54 countries and regions will compete in the beauty contest in Tokyo on September 26. REUTERS/Issei Kato

Pictures of Hong Kong's Rep. Queenie Chu
National Costume - Miss Hong Kong Queenie Chu models her national costume as she smiles for photographers during the press preview
Swimsuit - Miss Hong Kong Queenie Chu wearing a swimsuit reacts to photographers during the press preview

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Miss Universe Natalie Glebova arrives on the red carpet for the TIFF gala screening of the film 'Trust the Man' on September 12, 2005 in Toronto, Canada.

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MISS GLAMOUR CANADA 2005 RESULTS
2005 Top Model: Kelly Smith
Tiny Miss (Age 2-5): Lilla Maria Herlinger
Little Miss (Age 6-9): Renee Mitchel
Pre-Teen (Age 10-12): Ashley Papadamou
Teen (Age 13-16): Vilma Ivone Simoes
Miss (Age 17 & up): Celia Wilson
Miss Glamour Canada Overall winner: Tygora Eugenie Gallier

L-R Lilla Maria, Renee, Vilma, Tygora, Ashley, Celia, Kelly

Glamour Canada is a non-profit organization founded in February of 1999 by Yasmin Ali (Miss World Canada 2005 Semi-Finalist/Miss North York) & Pearl Ali, designed to provide an opportunity to youth of all ages and backgrounds. Its aim is to give participants the opportunity to showcase their talent, teaching poise, good sportsmanship while building self-esteem and confidence. In addition to providing exposure to talent agents in a safe and positive manner. Successful participants in each age and gender category will advance to nationals, which will be held in New York City.

Special thanks to Yasmin Ali

Official Website: http://www.glamourcanada.com/
Photos: http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2120773756&mode=guest

Sept 10

Miss Astro Chinese Internernational Pageant 2005 Semi-Finals Results *Information courtesy of Noel & cjnyc
1 Annabelle Kong Pooi-Yee
2 Vivian Hew Sheng-Fei
5 Alicia Ling Hsiao-Ying
6 Lim Yen Keun
7 Yvonne Lee Chye-Har
8 Alexis Tea Su-Yee
10 Coco Lin Sou-Leng
12 Tiffanie Hong Mun-Guan
13 Cheryl Chung Yin-Peng
15 Emily Lim Pey-Chi
18 Charmaine Tay Bee-Lian
19 Faye Ng Shiow-Shuang

http://www.astro.com.my/oap/05/miss_astro/semi_finalist.asp
Miss Asia SAR (Hong Kong) 2005 Results *Information & image courtesy of Ryan
Winner: #3 Amanda Yuen
1st RU: #11 Winnie Cheong
2nd RU: #1 Cynthia Wang
Finalists:
#2 Ice Ng
#7 Subi Lin

Miss Chinese Cosmo: #8 Imellda Ho

6th place: #4 Maggie Liu
7th place: # 9 Veronica Tan
8th place: # 5 Shirley Huang
9th place: # 8 Imellda Ho
10th place: # 6 Doris Tam
11th place: # 10 Janet Lam
12th place: # 12 Cherrie Shek

For complete coverage, visit Ryan's Hong Kong Beauties website.

Sept 9

Miss Asia SAR (Hong Kong) 2005 *Image courtesy of Ryan
Finals for the SAR division will be held on Sep 10th, where 5 finalists will chosen to compete for the Miss Asia finals on October 4th. The 12 SAR (HK) contestants strutted in their swimwear for the media during rehersals.
Favourites: #3 Amanda Yuen, #4 Maggie Liu, #7 Subi Lin, #11 Winnie Cheong
Miss Chinese Toronto 2000 Cissy Wang & husband actor Donnie Yen
From left, starring in the film 'Seven Swords' mainland Chinese actress Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actor Sun Honglei, actress Kim So Yeun from South Korea, actress Charlie Yeung from Hong Kong, Hong Kong director Tsui Hark waving with his wife Nansun, Hong Kong martial arts actor Donnie Yen and wife Cissy Wang, pose for photographers at the 62nd Venice Film Festival to present their out of competion film opening the festival in Venice, northern Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. The festival runs through Sept. 10, 2005. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Miss Venezuela 2005
Finals are on September 15th. My Favourites so far: Apure, Canaima, Carabobo, Merida, Nueva Esparta, Peninsula Goajira.
http://www.missvenezuela.com/
Miss Universe 2005 Natalie Glebova
Miss Universe Natalie Glebova arrives to the Launch of Samsonite Black Label Premium Line (Nicole Richie) at The New Space on September 7, 2005 in New York City.
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Miss Universe 1988 Porntip with her son Robert Simon
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Tracy Promotes Facial Slimming *Translated by Em, TVB Space News
This year's Miss Hong Kong winner Tracy Ip has been surrounded by a lot of press coverage, but she has been selected to become the face of a beauty salon, landing a six-figure fee for an 18-month contract as well as receiving $100,000 of treatments for free, making her very happy indeed.

Filming for the salon's latest set of ads, Tracy was wearing a little top and some shorts to show off her healthy sexiness. She reveals that she has been suffering from water retention, causing swelling in her cheeks, but after undergoing some treatment at the salon, she has slimmed her face and this probably led to the rumours about cosmetic surgery. However,Tracy's mood was not affected and she adds: "I'll just treat it as publicity if they write about me. I do want to make it clear though that I was just having massage to reduce my water retention and I don't want this to affect the salon's business negatively. I don't mind what people say as long as I and my family are clear about me."

Salon boss Ms Chow is very caring over Tracy and not only helped her with make-up during filming, but also showed her how to pose for the cameras. Speaking of Tracy, she says: "She is very pretty and sweet and she has a very mouldable look, so I had her do some modelling for me even before she won. Now she is Miss Hong Kong, then I am really happy for her and I will celebrate with her later." Tracy says she will not disappoint anyone and will be launching into a showbiz career full swing, filming series and movies, all to be arranged by TVB.

Tracy also appeared at an official crowning ceremony to receive her Miss Hong Kong crown, worth $1.6 million with 38.2 carats of diamonds on it. The presentation was made by her predecessor, former Miss Hong Kong winner Pauline Yeung. She said afterwards that she has never worn anything so valuable before so she feels a bit nervous and has asked her mother to open a safety deposit box for her to keep it in.

http://the-sun.orisun.com/channels/ent/20050902/20050902000712_0003.html

Sept 6

Miss HK 2004 1st RU Queenie Chu will be representing Hong Kong at Miss International 2005.
She has replaced this year's MHK 2005 2nd RU Carrie Lam & TVB has no regrets. Quennie will be departing for Japan on Sept 9th. The finals of MI will be held on Sept 26th.
A press conference was held today, where Quennie modeled in her national costume & evening gown. Quennie isn't nervous about competing at MI, as she'd previously gained international experience at Miss World 2004 & would love to promote tourism in HK.

Evening gown: What a change from previous years. No fur, plastic, flowers...this may work wonders for Quennie.

Snubbing Carrie: The poor girl will be too old to compete next year. It's unfortunate TVB will be sending this year's 1st RU Sharon to MW instead of Carrie. Though the two would never make the top 20, at least Carrie would not be lost within the pack of approx. 106 contestants.

http://the-sun.orisun.com/channels/ent/20050906/20050905234225_0003.html

Evening Gown
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National Costume *Courtesy of Ennis
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MCI 2005 2nd RU Jess Young News *Courtesy of Angela
This past weekend, Jess competed in the The Chinese New Talent Singing Competition- Melbourne & finished in 2nd. When she was called as a finalist there was a huge reaction from the crowd. Unfortunately, only the winner of the competition will be competing in HK. It would've been interesting to see Jess compete in HK again. She's done very well in competitions in Melbourne, whether its singing, modeling or pageants.

2004 - Shanghai Fashion Week Oriental Model 2nd
2004 - Miss Chinese Melbourne 1st
2005 - Miss Chinese International 3rd
2005 - New Talent Singing Competition 2nd

Miss Chinese Melbourne 2005
Date: Tuesday 29th November 2005
Venue: Melbourne Town Hall
Time: 7pm

Sept 3

Miss Chinatown USA 2005, Carol Chen Clip *Courtesy of Simon
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Miss Astro Chinese Malaysia Int Pageant 2005
Semifinal will be broadcast live on September 10, 2005 over Astro Channel 30 at 8:30pm. Check out the contestants here
MCI 01 Bernice Liu, MHK 98 Anne Heung, along with Joey Leung Wing-Chung & Michael Tong Man-Luong will be making appearances in Toronto & Vancouver this month.
Sun, Sept. 18 - 2 pm
Toronto: Paramount Canada's Wonderland

Sat, Sept. 17 - Noon
Toronto: Market Village

Mon, Sept 19th - 4 pm

Tue, Sept. 20 - 8pm
Center in Vancouver for the Performing Arts

Website: http://www.fairchildtv.com/entertainment/special/tvb/news.html
http://www.plem.com/
New Straits Times Online: Philip Chan Yan-Kin's eye for talent. Written by Ricky Yap

Sept 1

TVB Weekly Issue #427 Scans
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Miss HK News *Translated from Oriental Daily
Newly crowned Miss HK Tracy Ip & her court (1st RU Sharon Luk, 2nd RU Carrie Lam), along with Miss Photogenic - Shermon Tang & Miss International Goodwill- Natalie Hui all received expensive watches from the sponsors. Tracy's exquisite platinum gold timepiece is valued at approx. $248 880 HKD.
Tracy says it�s the most valuable watch she�s owned. Not one to splurge on materialistic items, the most expensive watch she's purchased for herself was approx. $800 HKD (about $100 USD).

The press also pestered her with questions such as receiving gifts from rich guys to whether she's currently in a relationship? Tracy laughed & replied she will not accept anything pricy from anyone in order to avoid any misunderstandings & motives & that she doesn't have a boyfriend yet.

http://orientaldaily.orisun.com/ent/ent_a05cnt.html
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