Á hậu 1 : Phan Hoàng Minh Thư, SN 1986, Trà Vinh - Photo -  Xem ảnh chụp
Á hậu 2 : Nguyễn Thụy Vân - Xem ảnh

Các giải phụ:

Hoa hậu ảnh: Thạch Thị Hồng Nhung (SBD 510)

Hoa hậu biển: Lâm Thu Hằng (SBD 018)

Hoa hậu thân thiện: Đậu Thị Hồng PHúc (SBD 302)

Người mặc áo dài đẹp nhất: Lê Thị Mây (SBD 158)

Người đẹp được bình chọn nhiều nhất: Vũ Thị Hoàng Điệp (SBD 737)

Người đẹp ứng xử hay nhất: Nguyễn Thụy Vân  (SBD 789)

Top 10 thí sinh đẹp nhất: Phan Thị Diễm Châu (SBD 051), Phan Hoàng Minh Thư (SBD 964), Trịnh Thị Minh Huệ (SBD 089), Nguyễn Linh Chi (SBD 437), Đậu Thị Hồng Phúc (SBD 302), Nguyễn Thụy Vân (SBD 789), Võ Thị Lệ Thu (SBD 632), Nguyễn Hồng Nhung (SBD 063), Lâm Thu Hằng (SBD 018), Trần Thị Thùy Dung (SBD 087).

Top 5 người đẹp lọt vào Vòng thi Ứng xử: Phan Hoàng Minh Thư (SBD 964), Đậu Thị Hồng Phúc (SBD 302), Nguyễn Thụy Vân (SBD 789), Lâm Thu Hằng (SBD 018), Trần Thị Thùy Dung (SBD 087).

(Vietnamnet) - several hours after Tran Thi Thuy Dung was crowned Miss Vietnam 2008, members of online forums gossiped that Thuy Dung was expelled from school and didn’t graduate high school.

Miss Vietnam 2008, her father (top) and the chief organizer of the Miss Vietnam 2008 pageant Duong Xuan Nam. (Vietnamnet)

Surprisingly, in an interview with VTC, a news website, Pham Si Liem, Headmaster of the Quang Trung private high school in the central city of Da Nang, where Thuy Dung studied, said Miss Vietnam 2008 didn’t graduate high school.

“When Thuy Dung entered our school, her learning capacity was just normal. But as a private school, we didn’t request high learning capacity like public schools or schools for gifted students. While studying here, there was no problem associated with her,” the headmaster said.

He also said that as Thuy Dung wished to become a model, she gave up studying starting from the beginning of the second term of the 12^th grade.

“We are a private school so Thuy Dung can stop studying. Her absence from school was voluntary. She didn’t commit any mistake to be expelled from school,” Liem added.

VietNamNet tried to reach Thuy Dung’s father to ask about the case and he said Thuy Dung graduated high school and she has necessary documents for going to the US for study.

“Thuy Dung graduated high school but she didn’t take the university entrance exams. Please contact Tien Phong Newspaper (the organiser of Miss Vietnam pageant) for further information,” said the father.

VietNamNet immediately called Duong Xuan Nam, chief organiser and chief jury of the Miss Vietnam 2008 pageant, who was very surprised about the news disclosed by headmaster Pham Si Liem that Thuy Dung didn’t graduate high school. “Really? I don’t know this information,” Nam said.

“You told correspondents several times that the organisers always look into the histories of the five top contestants of the Miss Vietnam pageant. Did you do this job this year?”

“We only looked into the cases of problematic contestants. The case of Thuy Dung was checked by Da Nang,” Nam said.

“If headmaster Pham Si Liem’s information is correct, how will the organising board deal with this case?”

“Let me check with the representative board of the Miss Vietnam 2008 pageant in the central region!” Nam said.

Graduating or not graduating is not important for a contestant but it is serious if a contestant tricks others. The headmaster of the high school where Thuy Dung studied affirmed she gave up school and didn’t graduate, yet Thuy Dung’s father said she already has documents for overseas study, which must include a high-school diploma.

So where did Thuy Dung get the diploma?

The organisers can’t thoroughly check the information of all contestants but those who enter the final round must be checked. This case must be investigated and made public and if Miss Vietnam 2008 has been dishonest, of course she can’t keep the crown.

Chief organiser Duong Xuan Nam and Head of the Government Office’s Cultural and Social Department Chu Tien Duc chaired the brief conference to explain the case of Miss Vietnam 2008 Thuy Dung, about whom it was said she had not graduated high school yet, while the regulations of Miss Vietnam pageant set by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism clearly stipulate that contestants must have at least a high-school diploma.

Nam said Thuy Dung didn’t violate the contest’s rules because the organisers only insisted contestants be studying at high school, not that they had to have graduated from high school.

He added that in her documents submitted for the Miss Vietnam 2008 pageant, Thuy Dung noted that her learning was at the high school level, not high school graduation, so she didn’t cheat the organisers.

The organising board admitted it violated the Ministry of Information, Sports and Tourism’s regulations. Nam called this mistake a “walk move”, implemented in advance of the Ministry’s draft amended regulations on beauty contests, which will be issued soon.

“The draft regulations were compiled in April. We guessed that they would be issued in June so we bravely applied them. The contest rules were widely published on the media and we didn’t receive any word from competent agencies so we thought perhaps the new regulations had been issued or our regulations were reasonable,” Nam explained further.

In a press conference held before the Miss Vietnam 2008 pageant, the organisers announced many new features of the contest, without mentioning the above new point.

How will be the organising board’s violation be handled? The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Chu Tien Duc said the organisers must seriously learn from their mistake.

Though the chief organiser said Thuy Dung didn’t cheat the organising board, she perhaps used a false school report to apply for an overseas course. Nam said the organisers didn’t know about it and competent agencies will check. This job will take several months.

So the question now is, as Miss World 2008 will come in the next 2 months, will Thuy Dung represent Vietnam at this international pageant?

“We will meet to discuss this issue later,” Nam said.

Thuy Dung didn’t attend the press conference because she was attending the rehearsal for a special gala tonight in Hanoi, which will gather all Misses Vietnam over the past 20 years.

(Source: VNE)