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Philippines' Kylie Verzosa is Miss International 2016 The Philippines' Kylie Verzosa won the 56th Miss International crown at the Tokyo Dome City Hall in Tokyo, Japan.  Miss International 2015 Edymar Martínez from Venezuela crowned her successor Kylie Verzosa from the Philippines at the end of the event. Kylie Verzosa became the sixth Filipina to win the coveted crown after Gemma Cruz-Araneta , Aurora Pijuan , Melanie Marquez , Precious Lara Quigaman and Bea Rose Santiago . Here's the list of winners: Miss International 2016 – Philippines 1st runner-up – Australia  2nd runner-up – Indonesia  3rd runner-up – Nicaragua  4th runner-up – USA The Binibining Pilipinas organization congratulated its winning contestant online: Thank you @kylieverzosa for bringing joy and pride to the Philippines 🇵🇭 Your hardwork, kind-heart and beauty shines! You are world class, you are Miss International 2016. We are so proud of you! Shine Pinay! #ForThePhilippines...

Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach wins Miss Universe Miss Universe 2015 , the 64th Miss Universe pageant, was held on 20 December 2015 at the The AXIS in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Paulina Vega of Colombia crowned her successor Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines at the end of the event. 80 contestants competed for the 2015 title. This was the first edition of the Miss Universe pageant to be held under the ownership of WME/IMG, which purchased the Miss Universe Organization from Donald Trump on September 14, 2015, three days after NBCUniversal sold him its 50% interest in the organization in exchange for Trump's dropping a breach of contract lawsuit he filed against the media company in August for terminating NBC's contract to televise the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants. Consequently, it is also the first Miss Universe event to be aired by Fox and Azteca, which replaced NBC and UniMás (the respective parents of both networks, NBCUniversal and Univision Communications, te...