The Philippines will be hosting the Miss Universe beauty pageant on Jan. 30, 2017, the Department of Tourism (DOT) announced yesterday. “I would like to inform everybody that the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant will be on Jan. 30, 2017, here in the Philippines,” Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo announced during a press briefing. Teo said the DOT is looking at Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Boracay, Cebu, Palawan, Vigan and Mall of Asia in Pasay City as possible venues for the pageant. It will be the third time the Philippines would be hosting the event. The Philippines hosted Miss Universe pageants in 1974, held at the Folk Arts Theater, and in 1994 at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City. The Philippines has three Miss Universe titleholders to date: Gloria Diaz (1969), Margie Moran (1973) and current title holder Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach. Teo, for her part, decided to announce the country’s hosting of the pageant even after reports came out yesterday saying President Duter...
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