1988
Porntip Nakhirunkanok
THAILAND
Taipei, Taiwan (Republic of China)
1st runner-up     Chang Yoon Jung   KOREA
2nd runner-up     Amanda Beatriz Olivares
MEXICO
3rd runner-up     Mizuho Sakaguchi   JAPAN
4th runner-up     Pauline Yeung   HONG KONG
SEMI-FINALISTS
Diana Patricia Arevalo Guerra   COLOMBIA
Patricia Jimenez   DOMINICAN REPUBIC
Bente Charlotte  Brunland   NORWAY
Courtney Gibbs   USA
Yajaira Cristina Vera Roldán   VENEZUELA
The pageant presentation was one of the most spectacular to date as the stage for pageant night was transformed to a menagerie of moving figures and colorful sceneries complete with flowers, dragons, and butterflies. Media coverage though was less than spectacular. Yet, there were early favorites in the persons of Misses Venezuela, Mexico, and England. , Asians ruled on pageant night as 4 Asian delegates zoomed into the top 5 leaving preliminary toppers USA and Dominican Republic behind. Only Mexico was able to fight through this Asian wall. Thailand's Porntip Nakhirunkanok ran away with the title but not without stiff competition from Korea's Chang Yoon Jung.
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