Miss Tibet History 2006

Miss Tibet 2006

12 November
Miss Tibet goes global!
An eyewitness account by Phil Void (Dharma Bums)
12 November
Miss Tibet participates in Miss Earth
Miss Tibet Tsering Chungtak has landed in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, to participate in the Miss Earth pageant.
13-15 October – Miss Tibet Pageant

Day Three - The Grand Finale and Crowning of Miss Tibet
15 October: Tsering Chungtak crowned Miss Tibet 2006
Day Two - The Presentation and Talent Round
Day One - The Swimwear Round
13 October: Miss Tibet pageant kicks off with the swimwear round

6 October
Press Statement: Six beautiful, elegant, brave, and modern Tibetan girls in Miss Tibet Pageant 2006
1 September
Pageant Announcement

China 'forced Miss Tibet to quit' | BBC
5 December 2006 — Malaysia: The Tibetan entrant in an international beauty pageant in Malaysia has blamed China for her expulsion from the event. Tsering Chungtak said that China pressured the competition organisers to replace her "Miss Tibet" sash with one reading "Miss Tibet-China". ...
Miss Tibet slams China over expulsion from pageant | AFP
5 December 2006 — NEW DELHI, India: A Tibetan contestant barred from participating in a Malaysian beauty pageant blamed China on Wednesday for her exclusion from the international event. Tsering Chungtak, who flew back to the Indian capital on Tuesday from the pageant venue in Kuala Lampur, said organisers ordered her to wear a sash marked "Miss Tibet-China" or withdraw from the contest. ...
Hope hard to sustain in Tibet's "freedom struggle" | Reuters
05 November 2006 — DHARAMSHALA, India: The chatter gave way to rowdy male laughter when Tseten Yangsom began her brief talk on "How Tibetan women play a role in Tibet's freedom struggle." Yangsom, 21, battled on bravely, but I was surely not the only audience member who felt like curling up in embarrassment. This was Miss Tibet 2006, billed as a "beauty pageant with a difference", a celebration of Tibetan girls, somehow – and surely incongruously – doubling as a promotion of the region's struggle against Chinese rule. ...
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