Tokyo, Japan – Stephen Diaz is a Filipino man with Japanese citizenship has been promoted to the head director of the International Cultural Association (ICA), the nongovernment organization that mounts the annual Miss International beauty pageant, one of the most prestigious competitions in the world. “With this position, I am accepting the challenge of making Miss International the most exciting annual pageant of all,” the Tokyo-based Filipino said on his Twitter account on April 5. He has been functioning as the association’s marketing manager and was promoted to his new post on April 3 as the first Filipino to assume it.“With this position, I am accepting the challenge of making Miss International the most exciting annual pageant of all,” the Tokyo-based Filipino said on his Twitter account on April 5. He has been functioning as the association’s marketing manager and was promoted to his new post on April 3 as the first Filipino to assume it. Last Monday I got promoted to the new head director of the International Cultural Association, the NGO that organizes the Miss International Beauty Pageant. With this new position, I am accepting the challenge of making Miss International the most exciting annual pageant of all!
“It means I’m taking charge of what’s going to happen at Miss International before, during, and after the pageant. I approve who will be our license holders,” he shared, while also clarifying that his promotion still does not make him that all-powerful “in the whole Miss Paris Group as a conglomerate.” Diaz has been covering the Miss International pageant in Japan for more than a decade before he officially joined ICA, and has witnessed how Precious Lara Quigaman broke a quarter-of-a-century title drought for the Philippines when she captured the crown in 2005, 26 years since Melanie Marquez captured the title in 1979.
Miss International 2013 Bea Rose Santiago with Stephen Diaz
The Philippines has won seven Miss International crowns including Melanie Marquez (1979), Gemma Cruz (1964), Aurora Pijuan (1970), Precious Lara Quigaman (2005), Bea Rose Santiago (2013), and Kylie Verzosa (2016). What does this mean to the International Beauty Pageant? Are we expecting new exciting things ahead? What do you think? Comment below
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