Miss Singapore and Miss Myanmar highlighted important social issues during the national costume segment of the 69th Miss Universe competition. Racial hate: Miss Singapore candidate Bernadette Belle ...

Ma Thuzar Wint Lwin, Miss Universe Myanmar, holds the "Pray for Myanmar" sign during Miss Universe pageant's national costume show, in Hollywood (Reuters) - Myanmar's Miss Universe contestant, Thuzar ...

Miss Myanmar used Sunday night's Miss Universe pageant to deliver a powerful message against the military junta, which has killed hundreds of demonstrators in the country since it seized power during ...

Miss Universe's first openly gay contestant strutted down the runway on Sunday night despite coming from a country where homosexuality is criminalized. Miss Myanmar representative Swe Zin Htet may not ...

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Myanmar’s contestant in the 2021 Miss Universe pageant spoke out against the military junta in her country on Sunday. “Our people are dying and being shot by the military every day,” Thuzar Wint Lwin, ...

Twenty-year-old model Theint Zar Chi came out as the winner of Miss Myanmar Mandalay Region 2018, outdoing seventeen other contestants in the prestigious annual beauty pageant that vets the best ...

The recent Miss Universe pageant made news for a number of reasons. One of the biggest was the fact that Swe Zin Htet, Miss Myanmar, came out as a lesbian in November before the annual pageant took ...

For the entire 15 years that Charmaine Craig was writing “Miss Burma,” tensions seethed between the Burmese majority and the ethnic minorities that make up Myanmar. It is a dark coincidence that as ...

Miss Myanmar used Sunday night's Miss Universe pageant to deliver a powerful message against the military junta, which has killed hundreds of demonstrators in the country since it seized power during ...

Myanmar’s Miss Universe contestant, Thuzar Wint Lwin, used the pageant on Sunday to urge the world to speak out against the military junta, whose security forces have killed hundreds of opponents ...