The 20 th beauty contest, launched by the Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper, aims to attract Vietnamese girls aged between 18-27. The contestants must be over 1.60m tall and neither married nor have children. The regulations also stipulate they must not have undergone cosmetic or sex change surgery.

Participants who pass the first qualifying round will travel to the next round of competition in Hanoi and HCM City , before the finalists compete for the Miss Vietnam Beauty title in Hoi An on August 31.

The winner will be awarded the prize of 150 million VND and one trip abroad and her runners-up will get 80 million VND and 60 million VND, respectively.