Trieu
Thi
Ha,
who
was
crowned
Miss
Ethnic
Vietnam
in
2011
but
wanted
to
give
up
the
title
last
year,
claiming
the
organizers
gave
her
too
much
work
an
In
her
increasingly
public
dispute
with
contest
organizers
an
ethnic
minority
woman
in
northern
Vietnam
described
her
life
as
a
beauty
queen
as
"miserable."
In
interviews
with
this
paper
and
others,
Trieu
Thi
Ha
(Miss
Ethnic
Vietnam
2011)
claimed
that
contest
organizers
held
her
under
a
rigid
contract
that
required
her
to
be
available
to
promote
their
event
at
all
hours
of
the
day.
She
asked
to
give
up
her
title
in
a
letter
last
year
due
to
“health
reasons.”
Since
then,
the
matter
has
spilled
into
the
media
and
the
organizers
have
accused
her
of
libel.
“I
just
want
the
public
to
understand
that
I
did
that
under
pressure
from
the
organizers,”
she
said.
The
22-year-old
member
of
the
Nung
ethnic
group
told Thanh
Nien via
telephone
that
she
worked
hard
for
her
title
and
never
wanted
to
give
it
up,
but
“the
organizers
pushed
me
into
a
corner.”
In
a
separate
interview
with Tuoi
Tre she
said
her
calendar
grew
packed
as
she
prepared
for
last
year's
contest,
as
the
incumbent.
When
she asked
for
several
days
off
from
promoting
the
event,
she
says
the
organizers
told
her
to
follow
through
or
step
down.
Ha
claims
she
never
revealed
her
difficulties
because
she
was
told
not
to
by
Doan
Thi
Kim
Hong,
the
chief
contest
organizer
and
winner
of
a
beauty
contest
for
married
women.
She
says
she
had
to
work
from
dawn
to
late
at
night
to
campaign
for
2013
contestants
and
attract
sponsorship.
She
had
to
be
available
at
all
hours
of
the
day
and
was
sometimes
called,
at
midnight,
to
greet
potential
sponsors.
Hong
claims
Ha
is
lying
and
has
accused
her
of
libel.
“If
she
cannot
[provide
evidence],
she'll
have
to
be
held
responsible
under
the
law
for
what
she's
said,”
Hong
said.
Ha
told Thanh
Nien she's
telling
all
the
truth.
“I’m
not
making
up
anything
to
defame
anyone.”
Hong
says
Ha's
decision
to
drop
out
of
Thai
Nguyen
University
in
the
namesake
northern
province
had
nothing
to
do
with
the
contest;
Ha
said
her
responsibilities
as
beauty
queen
forced
her
to
ask
the
school
for
a
leave
of
absence.
Officials
from
the
Performing
Arts
Department
at
the
Ministry
of
Culture
met
with
Ha
Thursday
to
find
out
who
took
the
matter
to
the
media.
The
department
head,
Nguyen
Dang
Chuong,
didn't
respond
to
questions
sent
byThanh
Nien after
the
meeting,
saying
he
needed
to
report
to
the
ministry
first.
Tuoi
Tre reported
that
Ha’s
contract
with
the
organizing
company
CIAT
Advertising
and
Trade
Fair
JSC
prohibited
her
from
participating
in
romantic
relationships,
media
interviews,
fashion
shows
or
advertisements
for
two
years
after
her
victory.
She
was
awarded
VND100
million--ten
percent
of
which
went
to
tax.
Prior
to
her
victory,
she
had
stipulated
that
she
would
give
30
percent
to
charity.
She
also
recieved
VND54
million
to
cover
the
cost
of
clothing
worn
during
the
contest.
The
contract
stipulated
that
any
breach
on
her
part
would
require
her
to
pay
VND2
billion
in
compensation
and
relinquish
her
title
in
addition
to
other
punishments.
Ha
said
she
was
not
allowed
to
participate
in
any
advertisements
during
her
two
year
title
and
was
scolded
by
Hong
after
taking
a
few
photos
of
herself
and
sending
them
to
newspapers.
During
the
ban
on
activities,
Ha
says
the
organizers
failed
to
introduce
her
to
any
programs
or
promote
her.
Instead,
they
forced
her
to
work
to
promote
the
contest.
“There
were
two
times
Hong
asked
me
to
participate
in
a
program
but
the
calls
came
on
such
short
notice
I
couldn't
make
it,
so
she
complained
that
I
was
not
fulfilling
a
beauty
queen's
responsibilities.
“Under
the
contract,
I
was
totally
passive.
Everything
I
did
had
to
come
from
the
organizers.
“I
had
no
idea
being
a
beauty
queen
was
that
miserable,”
Ha
told Tuoi
Tre.
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Nien
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