The contest’s online preliminary will start from May, while an in-personone in Hanoi and HCM City from August.
The semifinal is scheduled for November and the finale a month later.
The Vietnamese version will have four winners at the same time,including Miss Earth, Miss Earth Air, Miss Earth Water and Miss Earth Fire, whowill walk home with a prize worth 5.6 billion VND (245,000 USD) in total.
Miss Earth will represent Vietnam at the annual internationalenvironmental-themed beauty competition and receive additional 1 billion VND from alocal business.
Su Thanh Hoai, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Lac Duong district,the host of the upcoming pageant, said if COVID-19 remains complicatedat year’s end, the organising board will roll out preventive measures onkeeping with the Ministry of Health’s recommendations.
Miss Earth is one of the Big Four international beauty pageants — themost coveted beauty titles among all the international pageants.
Nguyen Phuong Khanh was crowned Miss Earth in 2018, Vietnam’s best everperformance at such a major world contest./.
