Mai Phuong Thuy

Mai Phương Thúy (August 6, 1988) was crowned the 10th Miss Vietnam at the Vinpearl Resort in Nha Trang, Vietnam on August 26, 2006. She competed for Vietnam at the Miss World 2006 pageant in Warsaw, Poland on September 30th, in the Asia-Pacific group. She made the top 17 by winning the viewer's votes around the world.

Jennifer Pham

Jennifer Pham is a Vietnamese American beauty queen.
She was crowned Miss Asia USA 2006 Pham, runner-up at Miss Vietnam USA 2005 pageant, Miss Vietnamese American Top Model 2005 and Miss Vietnamese in Southern California 2006.

Miss Asia in America Jennifer Pham has returned to Vietnam to star in the movie titled “Leaves of time”.

The movie, directed by Le Cung Bac, opens in Vietnam, and casts the well-known duo of Jennifer Pham and Quang Dung as main characters.

Jennifer Pham is Angela, a young Vietnamese American girl who falls in love with a Vietnamese man named Nguyen (Quang Dung). The film touches upon the true love of Angela for Nguyen, but unluckily she can not open the man’s heart as he has a fiancé in Vietnam.

The movie also reflects the hard life of Vietnamese people living overseas when they have to struggle for each penny to survive. Yet, their family members and cousins in the home country maintain the belief that it always a paradise to live abroad.

This is Jennifer Pham's first movie. She has long had a passion to challenge herself in this art, and said that she was very happy to be invited to act in “Leaves of time” and would try her best for its popularity.

The movie is scheduled to be released in mid 2007.

Miss Viet Nam 2006 and Pop Star to Become Ambassadors for AIPF

Miss Viet Nam 2006 Mai Phuong Thuy and Pop star Dam Vinh Hung have been chosen as ambassadors for a movement aiming to promote the use of helmets in order to reduce the number of casualties resulting from a lack of their use. The movement is co-organized by the Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIPF) and the OCEAN Communications Company.

The program will kick off next month when Ms. Thuy and Mr. Hung will make public appearances to call upon people to wear helmets.

The Asia Injury Prevention Foundation (AIPF) is a non-profit organization. Its goals is to stop the escalating number of people from dying or being injured in road accidents by providing access to high quality affordable motorbike helmets, creating public awareness and education programs and providing advocacy and information to governments considering changes to existing helmet and road safety laws.

The Foundation operates throughout South-East Asia and has donated helmets to children in Viet Nam, Lao, Thailand and Cambodia

Another program, Helmets for Kids, which so far has provided 150,000 helmets to children in Viet Nam, was launched in 2000 by the AIPF, the Ministry of Training and Education, and the National Traffic Safety Committee and other sponsors.