55th &#39;Miss World&#39; Contest in China next Year
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SANYA (China): The Miss World contest will be held on the tropical Chinese island of Hainan for a third consecutive year in 2005, organisers announced Friday.
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Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, was crowned Miss World 2004 at a glittering event held in China. Miss Dominican Republic Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodriguez was the first runner-up, and Miss USA Nancy Randall was third.
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Peru&#39;s 20-year-old Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia began her reign as Miss World 2004 on Sunday after beating 106 other women to the title in China&#39;s second staging of the international beauty pageant.
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The 2004 Miss World is about to be chosen - and for the first time TV audiences will be taking part. They can vote for their favourite beauties by phone, SMS text messaging, TV remote control and online.
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By ELAINE KURTENBACH    SHANGHAI, China  -- Chinese astronauts are in the final stages of preparing for a manned space mission that will orbit the globe 14 times before returning to Earth, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday.    The launch, expected sometime this month, will initially send a manned craft, the Shenzhou 5, into an oval orbit that at its closest will be 125 miles from Earth, the Liberation Daily reported, citing "relevant channels."    After circling the earth several times, the ship will enter an orbit at about 220 miles from earth, the report said...
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Twenty-year-old Miss Peru has been crowned Miss World in a southern Chinese resort town, as China looks to become the regular host of an event that would have once been deemed heretical by its Communist leaders.
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CHANGSHA, China  &#151; The beautician from Chairman Mao's hometown looks at herself in the mirror and bursts into tears of joy. Forty pounds lighter, jaw slimmer, eyes and nose refined, breasts lifted, 30-year-old Chen Jing has just been through an extreme makeover for a Chinese reality show called "Lovely Cinderella."
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ATHENS: China, the dominant force in world diving for the best part of 20 years, won six out of eight Olympic titles in Athens and prompted speculation about a clean sweep when they stage the Games in Beijing in 2008.
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AUSTRALIAN Sarah Davies has missed out on being crowned Miss World 2004 at the finals of the beauty pageant in China.
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Lifestyle: 10 November 2004, Wednesday. One of Bulgaria's leading model agencies has already selected 30 finalists for its annual Visages Models beauty contests.
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China is set to complete the transition from aid recipient to international donor in the next year, the head of the world&#39;s biggest humanitarian agency said yesterday as he announced plans to phase out food support for Beijing and introduce a new period
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AUSTRALIAN Sarah Davies has missed out on being crowned Miss World 2004 at the finals of the beauty pageant in China. Twenty-year-old Miss Peru was crowned today in the southern Chinese resort town of Sanya
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STUTTGART, Germany -- China powered their way to another men's gymnastics world championship Thursday, and now the questions are: Can anyone catch them in time for the Olympics in Beijing, and if so, how?
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[World News]: Sanya, Dec 4 : Miss Peru Maria Julia Mantilla-Garcia was Saturday crowned Miss World 2004 in this scenic Chinese beach city.
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Warsaw, not always a top tourist destination, is determined to show off its charms to a huge television audience when it hosts the Miss World beauty contest on Saturday.
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BERLIN, Feb 8 (IPS) - With 21 feature films entered for the top Golden  Bear award, critics predict competition will again be fierce at  the 55th International Berlin Film Festival Feb. 10 to Feb. 20.
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China chose its first Miss Artificial  Beauty on Saturday, giving the crown to a 22-year-old from the  northeastern city of Jilin who couldn't have done it without  the help of her plastic surgeon.