Miss Canada Shows More Than Beauty

The 48th Miss International Pageant will take place next weekend in Macau and as part of the promotional build-up ahead of the final, contestants numbers 1 to 32 were invited to tour Hong Kong on an open-top bus on Friday. The journey began from the home of the production hosts at TVB City, visited many of the sights including Golden Bauhinia Square and Victoria Harbour before ending at the Peak for the beauties to enjoy the night views of Hong Kong.

The parade attracted the attentions of the press, the public and many tourists en route, but Number 9 Miss Canada Elena Semikina attracted more attention than the others by perching precariously at the front of the bus and exposed her knickers to the onlookers as she eagerly struck her poses for the cameras and waved to the audience.

When she found out about this, Miss Canada seemed quite shocked and thanked Miss Hong Kong Sire Ma (馬賽) for pointing this out to her. Asked if she was doing this for attention, Elena explained that she would never do this intentionally because she is not a very competitive person and is entering the contest to learn more about other cultures and gain life experiences.

Sire was dressed quite conservatively for the parade in a polo neck top and jeans. Asked about the incident with Miss Canada and if she felt she was losing out on attention, she smiled graciously that as she was playing the host, then she did not mind at all. She then made a slip by saying that everyone has different moral standards, but quickly rectified it by saying that she meant everyone does things in different ways and women from overseas tend to be more outgoing.