Miss Vietnam

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Miss Vietnam (Vietnamese: Hoa hậu Việt Nam) is Vietnam's largest beauty pageant. It was inaugurated in 1988 by the newspaper Tiền Phong (Vanguard) and is held biennially, occurring in every even-numbered year. Originally, it was called the National Miss Tien Phong Newspaper (Hoa hậu Toàn quốc báo Tiền Phong). Beginning in 2002, it was officially named "Miss Vietnam" and the winners would represent Vietnam in Miss World.

In 2007, Tiền Phong created the Miss World Vietnamese beauty contest for Vietnamese women worldwide.

[edit] Winners

[edit] International honor

In 2002, Vietnam sent the first delegate to the Miss World 2002 pageant (held in Nigeria and London, UK), Pham Thi Mai Phuong - Miss Vietnam 2002. She did very well during this event, also made a cut to top 20 semifinalist and finished at 15th place.
Miss Vietnam 2004 Nguyen Thi Huyen, also made top ten in Miss World 2004 though she came 2 weeks late.
Miss Vietnam 2006 Mai Phuong Thuy competed to Miss World 2006 in Poland as Miss Vietnam. She beat lots of delegates from others Asian countries to made the top 17 due to the highest online vote in her Asia-Pacific zone.