Miss Chinese International Pageant 2008 was held on January 26, 2008 in Foshan, China, for the second consecutive year. The pageant was organized and broadcast by

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. Miss Chinese International 2007

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of Sydney, Australia crowned

Océane Zhu Océane Zhu Xuan (born on April 4, 1987) is a Chinese model, former beauty queen, and actress based in Hong Kong. She joined TVB in 2009 and left in 2015 to explore a career in China. Life and career Early life Océane was born and raised in Be ...

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as the 20th Miss Chinese International. Zhu is the first ever winner from Europe.

Pageant information

The slogan to this year's pageant was "Expanding the View of the World: Beauty Comes from the Chinese " 「放眼世界美麗來自中華」. The Masters of Ceremonies include

Eric Tsang Eric Tsang Chi-wai (; born 14 April 1953) is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer, and television host, best known for hosting the variety show '' Super Trio series'' on the Hong Kong television network TVB over 18 years. He currently hol ...

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and

Myolie Wu Myolie Wu Hang-yee (born 6 November 1979) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is previously managed by Hong Kong TVB television station and Neway Star. In 2011, she won Best Actress for her role in '' Curse of the Royal Harem'', Most Favou ...

. Special performing guest was

cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...

singer Kenny Chung. Contestant #23 TingJia Rosalinda Lorigiano of Montreal was the youngest of all competitors in the history of the pageant, at 17 years old. Her younger sister, Lucia Lorigiano 黄婷麗, later competed and won the title of

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and competed in

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and won 2nd Runner-Up.

Top 10 mishap

While the MCs were announcing the top 10 semi-finalists, there was a notable pause and indistinct discussion among them after the third delegate was called out.

then said an error was made in announcing one of the semi-finalists, but did not state whom. After the initial 10 delegates were revealed,

announced that (20) Ivy Han was among the semi-finalist list as well, causing the list to grow to eleven semi-finalists. Immediately afterwards, the reasoning for this was backtracked and the MCs stated that the extra semi-finalist was due to scoring issues and a tie for 10th place. After the pageant, it was revealed that the mix-up occurred because the scoring tie was not communicated to the MCs, hence they were hesitant to announce all eleven semi-finalists.Ming Pao article dated January 27, 2008.
Retrieved January 21, 2009 ( In Chinese )

Results

Special awards

*Miss Friendship: Delaine Lee 李德玲 (Calgary) *Miss Courageous: Lisa Li 李莎 (Auckland) *Miss Young: Océane Zhu 朱璇 (Paris)

Contestant list

Crossovers

Contestants who previously competed or will be competing at other international beauty pageants: ; Miss World * 2007: : Kayi Cheung (Top 16)

References

External links

Miss Chinese International Pageant 2008 Official Site
{{Miss Chinese International Pageant TVB 2008 beauty pageants 2008 in China Beauty pageants in China Miss Chinese International Pageants