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The Miss Hong Kong Pageant (), or Miss HK () for short, is an annual beauty pageant organised by local Hong Kong television station,
TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...
. The pageant was established in 1946, and acquired by TVB in 1973. The current Miss Hong Kong is Denice Lam (林鈺洧) who was crowned at the 50th Miss Hong Kong 2022 Pageant on 25 September 2022. This year 2022 marks the 50th edition of the Miss Hong Kong Pageant under its acquisition by
TVB Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong SAR. The Company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and ...
in 1973.


Recruitment

All participants have to have a Hong Kong ID or be born in Hong Kong (with a valid
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). The age requirement is 17–27 as of 2011, though the upper age was previously up to 25. While there has been other Miss Hong Kong pageants in prior years producing notable titleholders such as
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(1952), Virginia June Lee (1954), Michelle Mok (1958), Laura da Costa (1967), Mabel Hawkett (1970) and Shirley Yu (1974, contest organized by Miss Pearl of the Orient Company and overlapping with TVB's), the current annual TVB pageant began in 1973. Apart from the top prize winner, first runner-up and second runner-up prizes, the pageant also has other consolation prizes that vary slightly from year to year. Many Miss Hong Kong contestants have gone on to have movie careers as it is quite typical for the top contestants to garner television contracts from TVB. *Overseas Recruitment: Applications are available in New York City,
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, San Francisco, any TVB rental store in the US, Fairchild TV station, Ontario, Richmond, British Columbia, and any TVB rental store in Canada. Delegates have to send in their applications before the deadline. TVB, organisers of the pageant travel to cities in the US and Canada. They include: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, and Vancouver. TVB would choose a certain amount of delegates to interview and would call them to interview. Besides personal interviews, delegates have to wear swimsuits chosen by themselves and walk around in it. Delegates are chosen and return to Hong Kong in late May to compete. * Local Recruitment: Hong Kong. Applications are available in Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom, and Europe. Delegates have to send in their applications before the deadline. Weeks later, primary and secondary interviews are conducted. Top interviewed finalists are chosen and they record a reality TV show (like 2006) to choose the deserving semifinalists to compete. They joined the overseas delegates to form the top event finalists. The pageant is traditionally televised into two events, although this is not always necessarily the case in recent years. First, a preliminary event is held where 12 finalists are selected from a group of candidates, the number of which is usually around 20–25 (with 30 being the maximum). Then a final event is held, culminating in the announcement of the winner and the first and second runners-up from the 12 finalists. In some years, the field is narrowed down to a final 5, from which the runners-up and winner are chosen. Often several contestants dropped out of the pageant before the televised preliminary, thus there would be a candidate with #30 assigned to her, but only 25 or so contestants.


Summary of winners


Overseas contestant awards list

Starting from 1991, the Miss Hong Kong pageant greets delegates from overseas. They include
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, Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles,
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, and San Francisco. Local contestants coming from
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, Australia, New Zealand, London, and more enter at Hong Kong. The overseas delegates wait for the notification of their regional sponsors of TVB and if they are chosen, they fly to Hong Kong to compete. The following is a record of overseas delegates' performance at Miss Hong Kong. * 1991 – 7.
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郭藹明 (Los Angeles) **Winner **Miss International Goodwill **Miss Humorous Conversation * 1991 – 13. Maur Yeung 楊凱斯 (Los Angeles) ** Miss Congeniality * 1992 – 8. Patsy Lau 劉殷伶 (Los Angeles) **1st runner-up **Miss International Goodwill * 1992 – 14. Carol Lee 李秋林 (Los Angeles) **Miss Congeniality * 1993 – 20. Christina Lau 劉飛飛 (Los Angeles) **Miss International Goodwill * 1994 – 18. Dorothy Ng 吳素珊 (Los Angeles) **Miss International Goodwill * 1995 – 12. Winnie Young 楊婉儀 (San Francisco) **Winner **Most Standard Figure Award * 1997 – 2. Virginia Yung 翁嘉穗 (
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) **Winner **Miss Photogenic **Miss Oriental Charm **Miss Cosmopolitan * 1997 – 12. Vivian Lee 李明慧 (
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) **1st runner-up **Miss International Goodwill * 1998 – 20. Anne Heung 向海嵐 (
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) **Winner **Miss Photogenic **Global Beauty Award **Miss Hospitality * 1998 – 14. Josephine Yan 殷莉 (Los Angeles) **Miss International Goodwill * 1999 – 12.
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郭羨妮 (
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) **Winner **Miss Photogenic **Miss International Goodwill **Miss Millennium Wisdom * 1999 – 15. Cindy Wong 王倩 (Los Angeles) **Miss Beautiful Legs * 2000 – 11. Vivian Lau 劉慧蘊 (
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) **Winner **Miss Photogenic **Miss International Goodwill **Miss Millennium Charm * 2000 – 17. Margaret Kan 簡佩堅 (
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) **First runner-up * 2000 – 5. Maree Lau 劉嘉慧 (Sydney) **Second runner-up * 2002 – 11.
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林敏俐 (San Francisco) **Winner **Miss International Goodwill **Miss New Generational Beauty * 2002 – 20. Cerina Da Graca 嘉碧儀 (
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) **Miss Photogenic **Breakthrough Natural Skin Award **Slimming Beauty Award * 2003 – 2.
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曹敏莉 (San Francisco) **Winner **Miss International Goodwill **Miss Swimsuit Charm **Diamond Skin Award **Perfect Group * 2003 – 11. Rabee'a Yeung 楊洛婷 (
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) **1st runner-up **Tourism Ambassador Award * 2003 – 18.
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李詩韻 (
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) **Miss Photogenic **Miss Talent * 2004 – 1. Queenie Chu 朱慧敏 (
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) **1st runner-up **Tourism Ambassador Award *2006 – 13.
Aimee Chan Aimee Chan (born 1 April 1981) or Chan Yan-mei (Traditional Chinese: 陳茵媺) is a Canadian born actress based in Hong Kong. She was the winner of Miss Hong Kong 2006 and was offered a TVB contract shortly after. Biography Aimee was born in T ...
陳茵媺 (
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) **Winner **Miss International Goodwill **Audience Favourite * 2006 – 15.
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周家蔚(
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) **1st runner-up **Miss Photogenic *2007 – 3.
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) **Winner **Miss Vitality Ambassador *2007 – 9. Grace Wong 王君馨 (New York City) **1st runner-up **Miss Photogenic **Miss International Goodwill. *2007 – 7. Lorretta Chow 周美欣 (
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) **2nd runner-up **Most Attractive Legs Award *2008 – 7. Hilda Leung 梁雅琳 (
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) **Miss Trendy Vision *2009 – 10. Germaine Li 李姿敏 (New York City) **1st runner-up *2009 – 8. Mizuni Hung 熊穎詩 (
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) ** 2nd runner-up **Miss Trendy Vision *2010 – 9. Crystal Li 李雪瑩 (London) **Miss Photogenic *2011 – 14. Hymen Chu 朱希敏 (
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) **1st runner-up *2011 – 3. Whitney Hui 許亦妮 (London) ** 2nd runner-up **Miss Photogenic * 2012 – Carat Cheung 張名雅 (
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) **Winner **Aviation Ambassador **Miss International Goodwill * 2012 – Jacqueline Wong 黃心穎 (
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) **1st runner up * 2012 – Tracy Chu 朱千雪 (
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) **2nd runner up * 2013 – 17. Grace Chan 陳凱琳 (
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) **Winner **Miss Photogenic * 2014 – 15. Veronica Shiu 邵珮詩 (
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) **Winner **Miss Photogenic **Miss Friendship * 2016 – 2. Tiffany Lau 劉穎璇 (Los Angeles) **1st Runner up **Miss Photogenic *2016 – 7. Bonnie Chan 陳雅思 (
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) **2nd Runner up * 2017 – 5. Juliette Louie 雷莊𠒇 (
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) **Winner **Miss Photogenic * 2017 – 4. Emily Wong 黃瑋琦 (Miami) **2nd Runner up * 2018 – 7. Sara Ting 丁子田 (Chicago) **2nd Runner up * 2018 – 8. Claudia Chan 陳靜堯 (
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) **Miss Friendship * 2019 – 6. Blossom Chan 陳熙蕊 (
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) **Miss Friendship * 2020 – 8. Lisa Tse 謝嘉怡 (
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) **Winner **Miss Photogenic Notice that Vancouver has the most Miss Hong Kong winners from the overseas. They had a record of four consecutive winners from 1997 to 2000, and three consecutive winners from 2012 to 2014. In 2012, the top 3 delegates were all from Vancouver. Even though the 2007 pageant had the top 3 all from the US and Canada but Grace Wong and Lorretta Chow travelled to Hong Kong to compete in the pageant, so they are recognised by TVB to be local delegates not overseas delegates. They did however come from the overseas.


Miss World

In 1989, TVB lost the franchise for
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to ATV, and held it back from 1992 to 2015. ;Color key


Miss Universe

In 2001, TVB lost the franchise for
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. ;Color key


Miss International

In 2015, TVB lost the franchise for
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Miss Chinese International Pageant

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See also

*
Miss Asia Pageant ATV Miss Asia Pageant () is an annual Hong Kong-based beauty pageant organized and broadcast by Asia Television (ATV). Originating in 1985 as a local Hong Kong pageant, the contest went on hiatus from the 2000 through 2003, and was re-branded as an ...
*
Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant The Miss Chinese Toronto Pageant (多倫多華裔小姐競選), also known as MCTP, and formerly known as the Greater Toronto Chinese Pageant prior to 1999, is an annual beauty pageant organized by Fairchild TV that selects Toronto's representat ...
*
Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant Miss Chinese Vancouver Pageant (Chinese: 溫哥華華裔小姐競選), also known as MCV and formerly branded as Miss Chinese (Vancouver) Pageant, is an annual beauty pageant organized by Fairchild TV that selects Vancouver's representative for ...
* Mr. Hong Kong – The male pageant. *"
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" – The adapted theme song for the pageant.


Notes


References


External links


Official homepage


* ttp://www.waiyin.org/ Wai Yin Association {{Miss International countries and territories
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