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Than Than Aye, rare photograph

Minnie Pu: Miss Burma International 1961

Ma Sen Aye

Myint Myint May at the Miss Universe contest in May 1960

[edit] Sources

Minnie Pu: Miss Burma International 1961

Moe Set Wine, winner of the Miss Universe Myanmar 2013 competition, being carried on an open palanquin like a queen at Rangoon’s National Theater. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy)

Miss Universe Myanmar 2014 Sharr Htut Eaindra, seated, being crowned by Miss Universe Myanmar 2013 Moe Set Wine, standing. Photo: AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe

Moe Set Wine

Sharr Htut Eaindra

Burma Crowns First Miss Universe Candidate in Half Century

By SAN YAMIN AUNG / THE IRRAWADDY| Friday, October 4, 2013 |

[edit] History

The Miss Universe beauty contest began in 1952--internationally.

[edit] 1959

The first representative of Burma in the Miss Universe beauty pageant was Than Than Aye in 1959

[edit] 1960

Myint Myint May represented Burma in the Miss Universe beauty pageantin 1960.

She was voted Miss Congeniality (it was a tie with Miss Louisiana)

1960 Miss World: Burma was represented by Ma Sen Aye

[edit] 1961

Myint Myint Khin was Burma’s representative in 1961 in the Miss Universe beauty pageant.

1961 Miss International: Burma was represented by Minnie Pu

See Miss Burma: 1961 for photographs

[edit] 1962 to 2011

Less than a year later, in 1962 a coup by Gen Ne Win would plunge Burma into a half century of military rule in which the country became increasingly isolated from the international community. It stopped participating in the Miss Universe and other international beauty contests.

Myanmar resumed participation in the Miss International beauty pageant in 2012 and Miss Universe in 2013.

[edit] See also

Miss Burma: 1961

Miss Myanmar 2012

Miss Myanmar International 2013

Miss Universe Myanmar 2013

Miss Myanmar 2014

Miss Myanmar/ Burma, history

Moe Set Wine