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Miss China wins Miss World 2007
Miss China Zhang Zilin, 23, has been crowned Miss World 2007 in Sanya, China. Miss Angola came second and Miss Mexico third at the beauty pageant. Zhang was the pre-contest favourite for title. -AFP
We're just looking for love
Most of them are respected professionals with a good educational background. Most are pretty. But they have been hit by the marriage blues - remaining single longer than they have expected.
Calendar girls go FROM WILD TO MILD
Famous for its risque appeal in the past, the Jeffrey Chung Models' 2008 calendar is surprisingly demure.
Hubby already married
A local beauty contest is again mired in controversy - and it seems to be the same refrain: Why has a married woman been allowed to take part? -TNP
Will the real Miss India S'pore please stand up?
Ms Daisy Morgan (above) decided to organise Miss Singapore Indian Universal because of her 'frustration' with the beauty contest scene. Also new on the scene: Miss Indian International. So, who's the real McCoy? -TNP
China's itsy-bitsy beauty contest
Last Saturday, was Shanghai's turn to host the Miss Bikini International contest. This contest normally does not attract much attention in the world media but it certainly attracted many Chinese eyeballs at the Shanghai International Gymnastics Centre. -TNP
Are all beauty pageants equal?
The 'verdict' is in: Beauty pageants are not vacuous and shallow.
Meet Moscow's It Girls
In Moscow, where raw political power and big money hold sway, it is the children and grandchildren of politicians and oligarchs whose love lives, fashion tastes and socialising are widely chronicled and followed.
Miss France 2008 risks crown over compromising pictures
Head of Miss France committee demanded she give up her two-week-old crown after photos emerged of her posing Christ-like in a swimming pool and suggestively licking yoghurt out of a pot. -AFP
40 dazzling beauties
Shoppers in M'sia's new Aeon Bukit Tinggi complex got a preview of the upcoming Miss Tourism Met-ropolitan International 2007 pageant when 40 beauties from around the world appeared there yesterday. -NST
From YouTube to Hollywood
Singaporean actress catches the eye of Joy Luck Club auteur and Hollywood filmmaker.
 
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