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Mai Phương Thúy
Born	(1988-08-06) August 6, 1988 (age 24) Hanoi, Vietnam
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Hair color	black
Eye color	brown
Measurements	86-65-95
Weight	60 kg

Mai Phương Thúy (August 6, 1988) was crowned the 10th Miss Vietnam^[1] at the Vinpearl Resort in Nha Trang, Vietnam on August 26, 2006. She represented Vietnam at the Miss World 2006 pageant in Warsaw, Poland on September 30, in the Asia-Pacific group. She made the first cut In Miss World 2006 by winning the viewers' votes around the world.

In 2006, she was voted by globalbeauties.com into the Top 50 of the annual Miss Grand Slam.

She had posed for photographs late in 2007 for the photographer Tran Huy Hoan; the set is described as "nude photos" - perhaps artistic but still risque for a "Miss Vietnam". Tran Huy Hoan has sold oil paintings of a nude lady which bears a likeness to Mai Phương Thúy. She supports numerous social causes, notably the Vietnamese traffic problem. She is the goodwill ambassador for the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation. She studied at Phan Dinh Phung high school and was accepted into the Foreign Trade University and RMIT International University, Vietnam. Mai Phuong Thuy is studying at RMIT Vietnam at the moment.

Thuy did and still does many charity works and she also participated in a movie called "Âm tính"(Negative).

Miss Viet Nam 2006 [edit]

The winner : Mai Phương Thuý (Hà Nội)

• 1st runner-up :Lưu Bảo Anh (Cần Thơ)
• 2nd runner-up : Lương Thị Ngọc Lan (Saigon)
• Finalists: Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Anh (Hải Phòng), Phạm Thuý Trang (Saigon)
• Semifinalists: Phạm Thị Thuỳ Dương (Hà Nội), Trần Thị Hương Giang (Hải Dương), Cao Thanh Hằng (Hà Nội), Trần Thanh Loan (Saigon), K' The (Lâm Đồng)

Miss World 2006 [edit]

Miss Vietnam 2006 Mai Phuong Thuy competed in Miss World 2006 pageant in Poland. Mai Phuong Thuy was the only East Asian contestant to join the top 17 in the final. She made the top 17 due to the highest online vote in her Asia-Pacific zone. Miss Czech Republic won the crown.

Movies [edit]

• Âm tính(2007)

Mai Phương Thúy was cast as the main character Lam Uyen Nhi in the movie "Negative" (2007). The movie was about the real life Lam Uyen Nhi HIV/AIDs victim who suffers a life of unhappiness and loneliness.

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