Vietnam Miss Universe Pageant 2008 is a golden opportunity to advertise Vietnam’s people and tourism to the world.

The final contest will take place at the Diamond Bay Resort, Khanh Hoa province, Nha Trang city, with a nine-minute clip about Vietnam that will be televised live and on NBC channel for 2 hours beginning at 9 AM on 14th July 2008.

It will be watched by over 13 million viewers in the United States and by more than 1 billion viewers over 170 countries and territories, including Vietnam with its population of over 80 millions people.

Throughout this event, Vietnam will definitely send messages and images of Vietnam and its people to the world.

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Ms Putri Raemawasti - Miss Universe Indonesia
AGE: 21 | HEIGHT: 5′7″ | HAIR COLOR: BROWN | EYE COLOR: BROWN | Size: 170cm

Biography
Career ambition: To be an entrepreneur, open a restaurant serving Indonesian traditional cuisines,open a dancing institute and fashion gallery for the Indonesian youth. In doing so, I could participate actively in the preservation and development of my national culture.But my special ambition is working for the poor, for the less fortunate and abandoned children.

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Surely many of you out there has heard about the girl fight between two beautiful Singaporean blogger, Dawn Yang and Xiaxue.It all started when the media starts to compare between those two, and one of them stood up saying that she is better than the other.

Then the fight between Dawn Yang and Xiaxue begins.

It was even brought to the point where Dawn Yang is thinking about making a lawsuit against Xiaxue, because of the defamation that Xiaxue caused.

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Singer MISIA, who celebrated the 10th anniversary of her debut in February, has announced that she will embark on her first concert tour throughout Asia.

The tour will start in Taipei on August 30 and end in Hong Kong in early October, stopping along the way in Singapore, Shanghai, and Seoul.

It is estimated that a total of 70,000 fans will attend the five shows.

MISIA performed for the first time overseas when she held a concert in Taipei last September.

She had become popular there due to the success of Fuji TV’s drama series “Yamato Nadeshiko,” which used her “Everything” as its theme song.

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ACTOR-SINGER Edison Chen might have re- turned to Hong Kong to apologise but the nuclear fallout continues.

Five more women are said to be involved in the sex scandal, after the police found more pictures in Chen’s possession, says SingTao Daily.

They add to a list of seven named so far, including artistes Gillian Chung and Cecilia Cheung.

Singaporean blogger Dawn Yang, 24, is glad that she is not one of them.

She revealed that she met the actor through friends while holidaying in Japan in 2004.

In her blog on Stomp, the Straits Times’ social networking and citizen media website, she said Chen made salacious propositions to her over Internet messaging.

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TV host Jaymee Ong stands out in a crowd of Muay Thai kick boxers, in more ways than one.

She may be the odd one out but Australian-born TV host Jaymee Ong can hold her own in a roomful of aspiring kick boxers.

Jaymee Ong is the co-host of the new reality TV series, The Contender Asia, the Asian version of the American reality boxing series, The Contender.

Jaymee Ong, along with host Stefan Fox – a former Muay Thai boxing champion – will be there every step of the way, introducing the 16 fighters and checking out the fights.

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FANS in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia were still reeling from how Singapore’s Hady Mirza had trumped their respective vocal Goliaths, namely Mike Mohede, Mau Marcelo and Jaclyn Victor.

The trio were the hot favourites for the Asian Idol title, with Hady, Vietnam’s Phuong Vy and India’s Abhijeet Sawant trailing behind.

Host country Indonesia’s entertainment reporters, for one thing, had tipped their countryman Mohede as the frontrunner.

One of them, Eny Kartikawati, wrote on the Detikhot news portal that Hady’s win disappointed three of the show’s six judges, namely Indonesia’s Indra Lesmana, Malaysia’s Paul Moss and Vietnam’s Siu Black. All had pronounced Mohede the far better performer during Sunday’s show.

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Singapore’s top comedian and MediaCorp award-winning artiste Gurmit Singh has bagged yet another highest honour.

In the recently released Golden Horse Awards nominations list – the most prestigious awards for Chinese films.

Gurmit, who is noted for his portrayal of contractor Phua Chu Kang, has been nominated in the best actor category for his role in Just Follow Law by director Jack Neo.

Gurmit is the first Singaporean actor to be nominated in this highly coveted category.

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Actress Priyanka Chopra, who was shooting for Goldie Behl’s “Drona” in Namibia, is now all set to take off to Singapore to attend a two-day Carnival starting Oct 20.

“It’s the Zee Carnival and I had no choice but to attend it because I love interacting with people who see my films,” Priyanka told IANS.

“Last year they held it in London and it was a big success.

It’s basically a chance for Indians to come together, put up stalls and have fun like they do at a mela.”

Back home the good news is that her father has been recovering fast.

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The general opinion among hip-hop aficionados of homegrown rap performed in the Malay language is that it mainly pales in comparison to the universally loved Western equivalent.

However, one musically adventurous local based group is trying to change popular perception of the scene by adopting an attention-grabbing new approach to presenting its brand of hip-hop (a mix of Malay pantun rhyming and modern beats). 

Coming out of Singapore but currently operating out of Kuala Lumpur, Ahli Fiqir – comprising members Fadali Mohd Darif (Daly aka Ahlifiqir), who has collaborated with Too Phat on Alhamdulillah, Samsolnahar Sibengat (Samsol the Tukangkata), vocalist Noor Hidayati Mohamed Yusop (Dayat aka Mawarberduri) and Ceza Mutyara (DJ Cza) – has emerged as the local hip hop scene’s first mainstream “thinking rapper” outfit. 

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Singaporean singer Taufik Batisah aims to chart a long-term pop career here with his debut Malay release.

Taufik Batisah, the Singapore Idol 2004, has been hard at work since winning the talent show three years ago.

Taufik’s debut album, Blessings, has gone double platinum in Singapore (with sales of more than 36,000).

Now he has put together an album’s worth of songs exclusively for the Malaysian market, entitled Teman Istimewa.

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