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Friday, September 26, 2008

Cambodian PM renews beauty pageant ban

Posted on 10:02 PM by svdfbd
PHNOM PENH (AFP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Friday renewed his ban on beauty pageants in the Southeast Asian country, calling a previous beauty contest "bad luck."Hun Sen said the Miss Cambodia pageant in 1993 was "bad luck," pointing to the fact the capital's historic Tonle Bassac theatre burned down the year after it hosted the contest."Don't spend (money) on a Miss Beauty contest.
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