Contestants broke with tradition and turned the Miss Peru pageant into a protest highlighting violence against women in one of South America's most dangerous countries for females. Violence against women became a front page issue in Peru after the rape of a volunteer for the national census program. Two television journalists then publicly declared they had been victims of violence by their partners, and there have been endless news stories about women being beaten or stabbed, and minors raped. Peru is ranked next to Bolivia as the country with the worst record of violence against women in South America, according to the Observatory of Citizen Security of the Organization of American States.
Filipino-Romanian Elizabeth Durado Clenci clinched the 2nd runner-up title at the Miss Grand International 2017 held in Phu Quoc Island in Vietnam on Wednesday evening.
A Myanmar beauty queen says she was stripped of her pageant title after posting a graphic video accusing Muslim Rohingya militants of driving communal violence in Rakhine state, a conflict fraught with controversy in the mainly Buddhist country.
LAS VEGAS — Five of the contestants vying for the Miss USA title have a message to immigrant girls and women watching the pageant this weekend: Set goals, work hard and don't stay in the shadows.
Miss Universe 2016 Iris Mittenaere left the Philippines on Thursday, heading for New York to officially start her reign. Mittenaere’s...
One lucky cab driver got a chance to give Miss Philippines Universe Maxine Medina a ride. Uber transport driver Jovel...
Ariadna Gutierrez, who was runner-up to Miss Universe 2016 Pia Wurtzbach, said she was proud of her successor Andrea Tovar, who finished...
Your heart is pounding. Your knees trembling. There’s a quiver in your voice, and it’s hard to look at anyone in the eyes.
If the sun doesn't shine in Cebu on Tuesday, the swimwear presentation for candidates of Miss Universe will have to be moved indoor. Arthur Lo, the corporate liaison officer of the Jpark Island Resort and Waterfront Cebu, said the original plan was to hold the show at the resort's Abalone Garden where two stages have been put up.
If there is something Miss Universe candidates love about Cebu, it is the mango. Five candidates expressed their love for Cebu mangoes during a news conference at the JPark Island Resort and Waterpark in Lapu-Lapu on Tuesday. Representatives from Indonesia, Malaysia, Korea, Japan and Myanmar said they enjoyed their lunch especially with Cebu's sweet mangoes.
