Minnie
Han cries out with delight
after being crowned Miss International Queen 2010.
Vimolrat Singnikorn
South Korean designer Minnie Han took top honors at this
year’s Miss International Queen transvestite beauty pageant held Nov. 19 at
Tiffany’s Theatre.
Contestants from Japan and the U.S.A. earned runner-up
spots.
Han bested 23 contestants at the pageant to win $10,000,
a year of free accommodations at the Woodlands Hotel & Resort, and other
prizes. Han was also named winner of the Best National Dress award.
Ami Takeuchi of Japan was named first runner-up and took
home $2,000 and prizes from Pratunam Poly Clinic, GNET and Asok Skin
Hospital. Third place went to American Stasha Sanchez, who took home $1,500
and prizes.
Thailand’s own Nalada Thamthanakorn, the current Miss
Tiffany Universe, finished in the top 10 and won the Best Evening Dress
award.
South
Korean Minnie Han parades around the stage after winning the Miss
International Queen 2010 title.
Last
year’s winner Haruna Ai from Japan says goodbye and thanks Thailand before
turning over the crown.
South
Korean Minnie Han was also
named winner of the Best National Dress award.
(L to R)
2nd runner up Stasha Sanchez from USA; winner Minnie Han; and 1st runner up
Ami Takeuchi from Japan ecstatically show off their newly won trophies.
South
Korean Minnie Han receives the Miss International Queen 2010 trophy from
Sutham Phanthusak, managing director of the Tiffany Show Company Pattaya.
Ami
Takeuchi from Japan receives the 1st runner up trophy from Pageant Chairman
Dr. Seree Wongmontha.
Thailand’s “Nong Mic”, Miss Tiffany’s Universe 2010,
is made up before the contest.
The
pageantry is a big draw during the Miss International Queen pageant.
Contestants show off their fabulous national dresses.
Miss
International Queen 2010 contestants pose for photos at Ripley’s Believe It
or Not!, Pattaya.
Haruna
Ai, Miss International Queen 2009 poses with seven of the 23 Miss
International Queen 2010 contestants from 15 countries during Loy Krathong.
Miss
International Queen 2009 Haruna Ai performs during the evening.
