About Miss Taiwan

There is more than one reason to join a beauty pageant. Some beauty pageants--Miss America, for example--is a scholarship pageant that awards winners and runners up with educational scholarship to any institution of her choice. Aside from that, anyone can become a Miss Beauty Pageant. Surely Vanessa Williams had no idea she'd be the first African American to win Miss America.

Same goes for Miss Taiwan. Anyone can be Miss Taiwan. This is where the Miss Taiwan World Pageant comes in.

Miss Taiwan World Pageant is an annual beauty pageant in Taiwan. The pageant started in 2000 and is organized by the Miss Taiwan Foundation, which also involves itself in a lot of other similar events. As of writing, Miss Taiwan Foundation is accepting applicants for the 2009 Miss Taiwan World Pageant.

The general qualifications for the Miss Taiwan World Pageant include:
• Single female
• Age 17 to 30
• At least 12.5% Taiwanese ancestry
• No requirements on residency or birthplace

What's next for Miss Taiwan after winning the pageant? Thing is there is a lot in store for Miss Taiwan, because she'll be representing the country at the Miss Asia beauty pageant.

Miss Asia Pageant is an international beauty contest organized by the ATV—Asia Television Limited, a broadcasting company in Hong Kong. Since 2004, Miss Asia Pageant has been accepting contestants from other parts of Asia, and in 2005 other countries made an appearance: Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Lebanon, Singapore, India, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Thailand, Mainland China and Macau. Viewership got up to a good start as well since the hiatus in 2000.

One thing you'd notice about the Miss Hong Kong Pageant, a sub-category of Miss Asia Pageant, is its lack of age limit. This is a rare thing in all beauty pageants in general.

From Miss Taiwan to Miss Asia, that's really something else. Feel free to visit our website for more information on Miss Asia.

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