VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 90 contestants at Miss Earth 2010 pageant participated in a charity auction in HCM City on November 11 that raised $3.7 million for flood victims in central Vietnam.

Donors and hundreds of businesses bought objects worth nearly VND74 billion ($3.7 million) to the auction.

The set of the four sacred creatures ‘Dragon-Unicorn-Tortoise-Phoenix’ was sold for VND47.9 billion. Its starting price was VND40 billion. The millennial Thang Long-Hanoi kettledrum fetched VND12 billion for charity. A stone picture with signatures of all 90 Miss Earth candidates was sold at VND3 billion.

All proceeds will be transferred directly to the Ho Chi Minh Red Cross to help flood victims stabilize their lives.

The auction in photos:

A 10kg rubby block auctioned at the gala


Miss Earth contestant at the event.



Miss Earth 2009


The business man who paid nearly 48 billion dong for the  
four sacred creatures ‘Dragon-Unicorn-Tortoise-Phoenix’  



A gemstone painting auctioned at the gala


Miss Vietnam World 2010 Diem Huong