Miss Asia Pacific 2005
Encyclopedia
Miss Asia Pacific International 2005, the 36th Miss Asia Pacific International
was held on the city of Guangzhou
, China
with the participation of 53 countries from all over the world.
was escorted off the stage at the MAPI pageant rehearsal after protesting irregularities. Apparently, the delegates had been told that the rehearsal would just be a "run through" and so many of them declined to wear makeup. However, when they hit the stage, they realized that the rehearsal was being taped for television, and judges were present at the rehearsal. Many of the delegates felt uncomfortable about the situation because they were not at their best, but instead of protesting they complained backstage. However, Miss Jamaica decided to take matters into her own hands and she interrupted the taping by walking across the stage to the microphone and loudly protesting. She was immediately escorted off stage. The judges were eventually removed from the rehearsal.
There were several developments at MAPI that left the delegates unhappy. The decision to cut from 52 to 5 finalists did not go down well. Many of the delegates wept when they heard the news. There was also confusion over whether evening gown or costume would be judged toward the final score. The Chinese were saying costume would be judged but the Filipinos were saying evening gown would be judged. The delegates never went on stage individually in their evening gowns but only in groups of eight and then it was announced who won the award. MAPI had agreed to pay the airline costs and accommodations for the delegates but MAPI failed to purchase tickets for certain delegates due to MAPI not properly informing its national directors of a visa deadline.
Miss Asia Pacific International
The Miss Asia Pacific International is the first and oldest beauty pageant in Asia. It began as a regional pageant in 1968, known as the Miss Asia Quest...
was held on the city of Guangzhou
Guangzhou
Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...
, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
with the participation of 53 countries from all over the world.
Placements
| Final Results | Contestant |
|---|---|
| Miss Asia Pacific 2005 |
|
| 1st Runner-up |
 Russia - Yevgeniya Lapova (successor) |
| 2nd Runner-up |
 Mainland China - Zhang Li-Yu |
| 3rd Runner-up |
 Peru - Claudia Ortiz de Zevallos Cano |
| 4th Runner-up |
 Philippines - Jedah HernandezJedah Hernandez Jedah Casabuela Hernandez . She is famous for being the 2004 Mutya ng Pilipinas titleholder.Standing at 5'9", Jedah also won the 4th Runner-up, Miss Asia Pacific International and the Special Award for Best in Evening Gown, when she represented the Philippines in Guangzhou, China on April 9,... |
Special Awards
| Awards | Contestant |
|---|---|
| Miss Friendship |
|
| Miss Photogenic |
Mainland China - Zhang Li-Yu |
| Best National Costume |
 Costa Rica - Leonora Jiménez Monge |
| Best in Swimsuit |
Costa Rica - Leonora Jiménez Monge |
| Best Evening Gown |
Philippines - Jedah Hernandez Jedah Hernandez Jedah Casabuela Hernandez . She is famous for being the 2004 Mutya ng Pilipinas titleholder.Standing at 5'9", Jedah also won the 4th Runner-up, Miss Asia Pacific International and the Special Award for Best in Evening Gown, when she represented the Philippines in Guangzhou, China on April 9,... |
Contestants
- 53 contestants participated in this pageant.
Country Contestant Age Height Hometown 
Afghanistan Vida Samadzai Vida SamadzaiVida Samadzai is Miss Afghanistan 2003. Although, the Republic of Afghanistan never recognized Samadzai as Miss Afghanistan...
25 Kabul 
Albania Vilma Masha 21 Tirana TiranaTirana is the capital and the largest city of Albania. Modern Tirana was founded as an Ottoman town in 1614 by Sulejman Bargjini, a local ruler from Mullet, although the area has been continuously inhabited since antiquity. Tirana became Albania's capital city in 1920 and has a population of over...
Argentina Laura Romero 23 Buenos Aires Buenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
Australia Laura Francis Weston 22 Sydney SydneySydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
The Bahamas Leslia Miller 26 Nassau Nassau, BahamasNassau is the capital, largest city, and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The city has a population of 248,948 , 70 percent of the entire population of The Bahamas...
Bolivia Gloria Mariana Limpias 18 Sucre 
Brazil Natalia Souza Araujo 20 Sao Paulo São PauloSão Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
Kingdom of Bulgaria Katya Petrova 20 Sofia SofiaSofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
Canada April Angeline Simone Mullings 24 Toronto TorontoToronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
Chile Adriana Margot Barrientos Castro 24 Santiago Santiago, ChileSantiago , also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of above mean sea level... Mainland China Zhang Li-Yu 25 Guangzhou GuangzhouGuangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...
Chinese Taipei Weng Hui Chun 26 Taipei TaipeiTaipei City is the capital of the Republic of China and the central city of the largest metropolitan area of Taiwan. Situated at the northern tip of the island, Taipei is located on the Tamsui River, and is about 25 km southwest of Keelung, its port on the Pacific Ocean...
Colombia Vivian Venessa Gomez 22 Bogotá Costa Rica Leonora Jimenez Monge 22 San José San José, Costa RicaSan José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San...
Denmark Masja Juel 25 Copenhagen CopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
El Salvador Nessie Anaya 19 San Salvador San SalvadorThe city of San Salvador the capital and largest city of El Salvador, which has been designated a Gamma World City. Its complete name is La Ciudad de Gran San Salvador...
Kingdom of England Nessie Desiree Anaya Portal 20 London LondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Ethiopia Amleset Muchie 20 Addis Ababa Addis AbabaAddis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia...
Greece Anna Dantsenko 26 Athens AthensAthens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
Haiti Channa Cius 19 Port-au-Prince Port-au-PrincePort-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....
Honduras Lesly Gabriela Molina Kristoffp 17 Tegucigalpa TegucigalpaTegucigalpa , and commonly referred as Tegus , is the capital of Honduras and seat of government of the Republic, along with its twin sister Comayagüela. Founded on September 29, 1578 by the Spanish, it became the country's capital on October 30, 1880 under President Marco Aurelio Soto...
Hungary Diana Maloveczky 20 Budapest BudapestBudapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
India Simran Chandhok 18 Mumbai MumbaiMumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
Iran Jaleh Benshian 26 Tehran TehranTehran , sometimes spelled Teheran, is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province. With an estimated population of 8,429,807; it is also Iran's largest urban area and city, one of the largest cities in Western Asia, and is the world's 19th largest city.In the 20th century, Tehran was subject to...
Jamaica Daisi Pollard Daisi PollardDaisi Pollard became a popular person of interest in 2005 when she was crowned Miss Jamaica International. Daisi Pollard was the first Jamaican candidate in history to compete in the Miss Earth 2005, Miss Asia Pacific 2005 and Miss Beauty Queen World and the only known candidate to represent three...
24 Kingston Kingston, JamaicaKingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long sand spit which connects the town of Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island...' Choi Younga 22 Seoul SeoulSeoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
Lebanon Rita Lahoud 22 Beirut BeirutBeirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon, with a population ranging from 1 million to more than 2 million . Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coastline, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport, and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan...
Malaysia Wong Hui Yin 21 Kuala Lumpur Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...Sarah Gurung 21 Kathmandu ' Aurore Tissot 22 Nouméa NouméaNouméa is the capital city of the French territory of New Caledonia. It is situated on a peninsula in the south of New Caledonia's main island, Grande Terre, and is home to the majority of the island's European, Polynesian , Indonesian, and Vietnamese populations, as well as many Melanesians,...
New Zealand Kylie Anderson 19 Auckland AucklandThe Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
Nigeria Awa Dicko 23 Abuja AbujaAbuja is the capital city of Nigeria. It is located in the centre of Nigeria, within the Federal Capital Territory . Abuja is a planned city, and was built mainly in the 1980s. It officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991, replacing Lagos...
Panama Giselle Bissot 21 Panama City Panama CityPanama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...
Paraguay Paloma Maria Navarro Weyer 19 Asunción AsunciónAsunción is the capital and largest city of Paraguay.The "Ciudad de Asunción" is an autonomous capital district not part of any department. The metropolitan area, called Gran Asunción, includes the cities of San Lorenzo, Fernando de la Mora, Lambaré, Luque, Mariano Roque Alonso, Ñemby, San... Peru Claudia Oriz de Zevallos 23 Lima LimaLima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima... Philippines Jedah Hernandez Jedah HernandezJedah Casabuela Hernandez . She is famous for being the 2004 Mutya ng Pilipinas titleholder.Standing at 5'9", Jedah also won the 4th Runner-up, Miss Asia Pacific International and the Special Award for Best in Evening Gown, when she represented the Philippines in Guangzhou, China on April 9,...
21 Manila ManilaManila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...
Poland Urszula Rozniecka 24 Warsaw WarsawWarsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most... Russia Eugeniya Lapoua 22 Moscow MoscowMoscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
Kingdom of Scotland Megan Elizabeth Johnson 19 Edinburgh EdinburghEdinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
Singapore Colleen Francisca Pereira 22 Singapore SingaporeSingapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...' Olivia Laniova 20 Bratislava BratislavaBratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...
South Africa Jenilee Peters 19 Cape Town Cape TownCape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...
Sri Lanka Kapuruge Tehani Renata Perera 21 Colombo ColomboColombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka. It is located on the west coast of the island and adjacent to Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte, the capital of Sri Lanka. Colombo is often referred to as the capital of the country, since Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte is a satellite city of Colombo...
Sweden Florina Weisz 19 Stockholm StockholmStockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...' Anne Maite Morou 21 Papeete Papeete-Sights:* Interactive Google map of Papeete, to discover the 30 major tourist attractions in Papeete downtown.*The waterfront esplanade*Bougainville Park -Sights:* Interactive Google map of Papeete, to discover the 30 major tourist attractions in Papeete downtown.*The waterfront...
Thailand Suthida Deesri 18 Bangkok BangkokBangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
Turkey Buket Koroglu 23 Ankara AnkaraAnkara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....
United States Raquel Beezley 18 New York New YorkNew York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
Uruguay Jimena Rivas Fernandez 18 Montevideo MontevideoMontevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...
Venezuela Marilyn Ferreira 18 Caracas CaracasCaracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
Vietnam Ngô Mai Trang 20 Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh CityHo Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
Wales Laura Livesey 23 Swansea SwanseaSwansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
Controversy
During the Miss Asia Pacific 2005 pageants final dress rehearsal, Miss Jamaica, Daisi PollardDaisi Pollard
Daisi Pollard became a popular person of interest in 2005 when she was crowned Miss Jamaica International. Daisi Pollard was the first Jamaican candidate in history to compete in the Miss Earth 2005, Miss Asia Pacific 2005 and Miss Beauty Queen World and the only known candidate to represent three...
was escorted off the stage at the MAPI pageant rehearsal after protesting irregularities. Apparently, the delegates had been told that the rehearsal would just be a "run through" and so many of them declined to wear makeup. However, when they hit the stage, they realized that the rehearsal was being taped for television, and judges were present at the rehearsal. Many of the delegates felt uncomfortable about the situation because they were not at their best, but instead of protesting they complained backstage. However, Miss Jamaica decided to take matters into her own hands and she interrupted the taping by walking across the stage to the microphone and loudly protesting. She was immediately escorted off stage. The judges were eventually removed from the rehearsal.
There were several developments at MAPI that left the delegates unhappy. The decision to cut from 52 to 5 finalists did not go down well. Many of the delegates wept when they heard the news. There was also confusion over whether evening gown or costume would be judged toward the final score. The Chinese were saying costume would be judged but the Filipinos were saying evening gown would be judged. The delegates never went on stage individually in their evening gowns but only in groups of eight and then it was announced who won the award. MAPI had agreed to pay the airline costs and accommodations for the delegates but MAPI failed to purchase tickets for certain delegates due to MAPI not properly informing its national directors of a visa deadline.