Phạm Thị Mai Phương (born 1985) was crowned the eighth Miss Vietnam in 2002. She was the first Miss Vietnam to enter the

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competition in 2002, where she placed in the top 20. In 2003, she was accepted into the

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where she studied business.Miss Vietnam Chooses Luton
University of Luton, 2005. Retrieved December 2013. She was married in Vietnam in 2007.

Miss Vietnam 2002

The winner: Phạm Thị Mai Phương (

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) *1st runner-up : Bùi Thị Hoàng Oanh (

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) *2nd runner-up : Nguyễn Thị Mai Hương (

Hải Dương Hải Dương () is a city in Vietnam. It is the capital of Hải Dương, an industrialized province in the Hanoi Capital Region and the Red River Delta in Northern Vietnam. The city is at the midpoint between the capital Hanoi and major port H ...

) *Finalists: Lê Thị Thanh Mai (

), Nguyễn Thanh Xuân ( Hà Nội) *Semifinalists: Bùi Thị Hương Giang ( Cần Thơ), Đinh Hồng Hạnh ( Hà Nội), Trần Ngọc Thuý Hà (

Tiền Giang The term ''tiền'' ( Hán tự: 錢) is used to refer to various currency-related concepts used in Vietnamese history. The name is a cognate with the Chinese ''qián'' (錢), a unit of weight called " mace" in English. It can refer to a unit o ...

), Đặng Thị Hồng Thiết ( Thái Nguyên), Nguyễn Hồng Hạnh (

)

Miss World 2002

Pham Thi Mai Phuong completed Miss World 2002 in Alexandra Palace, London, UK. She entered the top 20 semi-finalist. Miss Turkey-Azra Akın won the crown.

References

External links

Miss Vietnam official website

Phạm Thị Mai Phương
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