Miss Ireland Crowned Miss World in China SANYA, China - Nineteen-year-old Miss Ireland Rosanna Davison was crowned Miss World 2003 on Saturday in Communist China's first international beauty pageant, an event that would have once been branded a heretical display of western decadence. China Opens Doors for Miss World Pageant SANYA, China - It looms above the palm trees, gleaming like a tiara - the $12 million convention hall built for a Miss World pageant that this picturesque but poor Chinese city hopes will put it on the global tourism map. Maoism moves over for Miss World in China BEIJING - In China's Communist heyday, when Chairman Mao was at the helm, the only models anyone dared to celebrate were model factory workers and farmers.
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