Miss Chinese International Pageant 2016 To Be Held On January 23
Hosted by TVB, the Miss Chinese International Pageant 2016 will be held on the evening of Saturday, January 23, 2016. Fourteen contestants from around the world will be competing for the crown, including other major recognitions such as the first runner-up, and second runner-up.
On Friday morning, the fourteen final participants did a swimsuit dress rehearsal and submitted their choice winner for Miss Friendship. In the end, #6 Alice Wong (黃嘉欣) from Los Angeles won the honor.
The Miss Chinese International Pageant will be hosted by Carol Cheng (鄭裕玲), Lawrence Cheng (鄭丹瑞), and Luisa Maria Leitão (黎芷珊). The winner, runner-up, and second runner-up will be selected by two panels of celebrity judges; the “diamond” panel includes Alex Fong Lik-sun (方力申), Pakho Chau (周柏豪), Ruco Chan (陳展鵬), Lai Lok-yi (黎諾懿), Sammy Sum (沈震軒) and Alfred Hui (許廷鏗). The “glamour” panel includes former pageant winners and contenders Oceane Zhu (朱璇), Christine Kuo (苟芸慧), Gloria Tang (鄧佩儀), Grace Chan (陳凱琳), Kayi Cheung (張嘉兒), Veronica Shiu (邵珮詩), Carat Cheung (張名雅), Janet Chow (周家蔚), Jacqueline Wong (黃心穎), Sisley Choi (蔡思貝), Erin Wong (王卓淇), Lisa Ch’ng (莊思明), Whitney Hui (許亦妮), Tracy Chu (朱千雪), Katherine Ho (何艷娟), Samantha Ko (高海寧), Phoebe Pang (彭慧中), Mayanne Mak (麥美恩), Jennifer Shum (岑杏賢), and Roxanne Tong (湯洛雯).
The pageant will be showing live in Hong Kong through TVB Jade and HD Jade on Saturday. It will also reach countries such as Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, and New Zealand via satellite.
#1 Maggie Zhang (張可懿) from Auckland, New Zealand — 21 years old
#2 Mint Kongraphan (陳思敏) from Bangkok, Thailand — 20 years old
#3 Louisa Mak (麥明詩) from Hong Kong — 24 years old
#4 Sophia Wu (巫雪菲) from Nanjing, China — 20 years old
#5 Janice Choong (鍾素敏) from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — 24 years old
#6 Alice Wong (黃嘉欣) from Los Angeles, USA — 23 years old
#7 Helen Tran (陳海倫) from Melbourne, Australia — 22 years old
#8 Karinne Legare (謝紫薇) from Montreal, Canada — 21 years old
#9 Mary Chen (陳舒菲) from New York, USA — 18 years old
#10 Vanessa Tay (鄭雅文) from Singapore — 18 years old
#11 Sherry Wang (王嘉燁) from Johannesburg, South Africa — 21 years old
#12 Tiana Luan (欒添) from Sydney, Australia — 23 years old
#13 Sissi Ke (柯思懿) from Toronto, Canada — 23 years old
#14 Jennifer Coosemans (朱亞琳) from Vancouver, Canada — 21 years old
Source: TVB.com
This article is written by Addy for JayneStars.com.
#2 is really cute. I feel that unless you can speak some Cantonese, you have zero chances of winning the title.
Although I’m from Vancouver, Vancouver winning again? Rigged? Lol
@anon Well Jennifer from Vancouver won and she can hardly speak any Cantonese, so maybe the language barrier didn’t matter
@mindee Some is still better than none. #2 couldn’t speak any. Correct me if I am wrong.
@anon All #14 can say was “I’m very happy!” and her interviews were mostly in English though
@mindee
Good to know. For some reason, I don’t find her attractive. To each their own. 🙂
Everyone thinks #2 is cute. To me she looks so fake and clueless lol. She’s like “I’m so cute hehehe I don’t know what I’m doing here just vote for me I’m super cute…wink wink”
I think #14 has her own unique look. She’s very pretty actually. Me personally I don’t think she won because she’s from Vancouver but because there wasn’t really any competition for her. She beats everyone else look wise. I don’t know about intelligence or whatnot because the question didn’t seem to be very challenging to them this year maybe? They didn’t even do the 30 second selling themselves. We didn’t get to hear them talk that much so can’t really judge on their Cantonese or intelligence. I just feel like TVB starts to not giving a sh*t about this anymore they are just doing it for the sake of it. The atmosphere seems really weird. Like, whatever let’s get this over with. It’s about to go away, watch.
@kaykay408 yep #14 is very pretty. As for #2 I think she scored very highly at first because of her cuteness, but I think she lost because of her singing performance she was off key
@mindee glad #2 are not in top 3 though. She’s like any typical teenager girls you see on the street nowadays. Acting all cute, giggling and all. She gives an impression of a “beauty with no brain” kinda girl. Don’t see any depth in her.
If you watch the 1999 miss Chinese international, you see a tremendous difference between girls back in the days and girls like #2 nowadays.
@kaykay408 I didn’t watch the show, so I am purely basing this on her pics.
@anon oh ok. Yeah 14 looks prettier on stage.
I find the host, Lawrence Cheng, to be really irritating and rude. Some of his comments make me pretty annoyed.
Also not completely relevant, but they did a mini interview with Christine Kuo, and my goodness – her Cantonese has improved so much!!
And to be more relevant to this, I think Louisa lost her chance at top 3 because she didn’t really stand out this time around, and she didn’t have the continuous “straight A” slogan hanging around like it did for Miss HK. Miss Vancouver really stood out in terms of looks and definitely body, so I’m not surprised she won. Just the language barrier didn’t show off their intelligence as much as it could have.
@ayyh0 I agree about Miss Vancouver 🙂 I thought the language barrier might have lessened her chances of winning but it didn’t matter in the end
@ayyh0 Christine Kuo’s Cantonese has improved a lot, although she still speaks with an accent
Miss Jennifer Coosemans from Vancover is pretty 🙂 This pageant is definitely more about looks and I feel the right winner is chosen 🙂 It is a beauty pageant after all not like Miss Hong Kong
@mindee it was an easy pick for the winner. She stood out from the beginning. The 1st and 2nd runner ups are not even close to her level. Mary Chen in top 3 was a surprise. I thought #4 was better than Mary. That performance of hers, my 9 year old nephew does that everyday, no kidding. Kids in the US plays with those cups everyday in school. And she’s not pretty nor cute.
I am so glad Louisa didn’t win this.. otherwise these pageants will turn into another selecting valedictorian type of competition.
@linahsuan I am too! When she competed at the Miss HK pageant everyone was so impressed by her just because she was a straight A student and studied at Cambridge, big deal. She isn’t that pretty
@mindee on point!
@mindee
Another thing is when you actually hear her talk, shes gotten so full of herself from her win in Miss HK, I grown tired of her arrogance.
Well, very satisfied with the winner was #14 Jennifer C. from Vancouver. ..she is a real beauty with good body. Omg…what happened to #3 Louisa fr Hk she can’t even give a proper answer during Q&A session at the same time she lost 3 times to #2 Mint from Thailand so disappointed with her while her traditional costume design was terrible too.
@lucida the panel of judges sure got good taste and an eye for beauty.
@lucida #2 was pretty popular but I didn’t like her singing performance she was off key, I think she lost points there
@mindee You right..#2 Mint..her singing was terrible…All the way off key maybe that prevent her from entering into top 3..
Jennifer is the prettiest of all!!! Of course she deserved to win!!!
Did not watch but by looking at the pictures, #2 and $14 looks pretty to me.
Ok this may be a jerk thing to say but IMO, Jennifer looks like a tranvestite. ***RUNS AWAY*** I admit this is only from what I could tell from the photos. Maybe her onscreen is much prettier, like Karena Ng.
I can see some resemblance to Michelle Reis but they do not look like clones of each other. Michelle is def prettier & more feminine. Jennifer is actually built! Her body type doesn’t screen womanly to me. And I don’t even consider Michelle pretty in any case so I may be biased. I think Michelle is very classically good looking…handsome, but beautiful not really.