Miss Ireland Crowned Miss World in China
SANYA, China - Nineteen-year-old Miss Ireland Rosanna Davison was crowned Miss World 2003 on Saturday in Communist China's first international beauty pageant, an event that would have once been branded a heretical display of western decadence.
Nations:China People:Rosanna Davison Guan Qi Ling Zhuo Activities:2003 Miss World Final
2003-12-06
China Opens Doors for Miss World Pageant
SANYA, China - It looms above the palm trees, gleaming like a tiara - the $12 million convention hall built for a Miss World pageant that this picturesque but poor Chinese city hopes will put it on the global tourism map.
Nations:China Activities:2003 Miss World Final
2003-12-04
Maoism moves over for Miss World in China
BEIJING - In China's Communist heyday, when Chairman Mao was at the helm, the only models anyone dared to celebrate were model factory workers and farmers.
Activities:2003 Miss World Final
2003-11-18
US diplomats hold fifth meeting with spy plane crew
HAIKOU, China - US diplomats held a fifth meeting Tuesday with the crew of a US spy plane detained on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, US officials said.
Nations:China Activities:2001 China U.S. Plane Collision China-U.S.
2001-04-11
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