Human rights activist and Canada’s Miss World contestant, Anastasia Lin, has been refused permission to enter China to compete in the beauty pageant, apparently in retaliation for her comments on the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan accused China of acting like a bully after a beauty pageant contestant from the island was prevented from appearing at an event in Malaysia. Kao Man-jung, Taiwan’s Miss Asia ...

China will take another step in its long march to commercialism this week when it hosts Miss World, with organisers hoping the event will be anything but revolutionary after last year's debacle in ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Canada's China-born Miss World contestant was stopped in Hong Kong on Thursday and denied permission to board a flight to the beauty pageant finals in China, a move she said was ...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's China-born Miss World contestant said on Tuesday her visa to travel to the beauty pageant at a Chinese resort has been delayed and her father has been harassed by Chinese ...

(AP) — China will not send a delegate to the Worldwide Mr. Gay pageant next month, an organizer said Monday, after police blocked an event to choose a Chinese contestant. Police shut down the ...

(AP) — Police canceled what would have been China's first gay pageant just an hour before it was to start Friday, the event's organizer said. The Mr. Gay China pageant, featuring a fashion show and a ...

BEIJING -- The contestants were prepping backstage, and the judges were settling in, but the first Gay China pageant was not meant to be. An hour before the show was set to begin last night, eight ...

The winner of a recent blogger beauty pageant which wrapped up in Beijing earlier this month walked away with $10,000 in prizes and all the fans she could ever want. “[T]he girls were judged on number ...

Police shut down what would have been China's first gay pageant on Friday, highlighting the enduring controversy surrounding homosexuality and the struggle by gays to find mainstream acceptance.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A contestant shown as representing “Taiwan-China” at Vietnam’s Miss Cosmo pageant prompted Taiwan to clarify that it did not send any official representatives. Miss Taiwan Huang ...