Human rights activist and Canada’s Miss World contestant, Anastasia Lin, has been refused permission to enter China to compete in the beauty pageant, apparently in retaliation for her comments on the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan accused China of acting like a bully after a beauty pageant contestant from the island was prevented from appearing at an event in Malaysia. Kao Man-jung, Taiwan’s Miss Asia ...

"I don't think this is an administrative issue. It is not. I think this is a matter of principle," said Lin, who also is a practitioner of Falun Gong, a spiritual group banned in mainland China.

(AP) — China will not send a delegate to the Worldwide Mr. Gay pageant next month, an organizer said Monday, after police blocked an event to choose a Chinese contestant. Police shut down the ...

(AP) — Police canceled what would have been China's first gay pageant just an hour before it was to start Friday, the event's organizer said. The Mr. Gay China pageant, featuring a fashion show and a ...

Police shut down what would have been China's first gay pageant on Friday, highlighting the enduring controversy surrounding homosexuality and the struggle by gays to find mainstream acceptance.

BEIJING -- The contestants were prepping backstage, and the judges were settling in, but the first Gay China pageant was not meant to be. An hour before the show was set to begin last night, eight ...

The winner of a recent blogger beauty pageant which wrapped up in Beijing earlier this month walked away with $10,000 in prizes and all the fans she could ever want. “[T]he girls were judged on number ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Canada's China-born Miss World contestant was stopped in Hong Kong on Thursday and denied permission to board a flight to the beauty pageant finals in China, a move she said was ...

Miss World Canada Anastasia Lin poses with her crown before an interview at her home in Toronto, Ontario November 10, 2015. (Reuters Photo) TORONTO: Canada's China-born Miss World contestant said on ...