VietNamNet Bridge – Last November, Vietnamese representative Pham Hong Thuy Van, 23, ranked fourth place at Miss International beauty contest in Japan. Van has just returned to Japan to join the top five contestants to perform activities organized by the pageant organizing board.

Van was the first runner-up of the National Miss Ao Dai (Traditional Dress) Contest in 2014 and appointed to represent Vietnam at the Tokyo contest.

She is an MC at the Finance Business News Corporation channel of the HCM City Television Station and the show Asia's Got Talent.

Van was named the latest among the contestants who entered the top 10 after three performances with national costume, swimsuit and evening gown.

Van's result is the best by Vietnam at this contest and also the three top world beauty contests of Miss Earth, Miss Universe and Miss World.

The Miss International beauty pageant is promoting "Love Peace and Excitement to the World" while contestants expected to serve as "Ambassadors of Peace and Beauty".

The top five contestants paid a visit to Kyushu Province, where they stopped at a famous rattan weaving enterprise and made a lantern. They also visited four popular hot mineral streams in Japan. The five beauties went to a crocodile farm and presented scholarships to students at NBU, a school which teaches cheerleading.     Thuy Van and Miss International 2015 Edymar Martinez (Venezuela).

Thanh Van