These projects included repairing bridges, schools, providing clean water, digging wells, building playgrounds for children, or awarding scholarships to students in difficult circumstances.
The Northern preliminary night was held on July 17 at the Water Music Stage, Tuần Châu, Hạ Long, Quảng Ninh, and was broadcast live on VTV9.
[6] Subsequently, the Ministry of Public Security launched an investigation and found that Nguyễn Thị Thành had fabricated the story to defame and discredit the Miss Vietnam pageant.
She was accused of secretly competing and winning the title of runner-up at the Kim Mộc Hỏa Thổ (Miss Vietnam World 2014) pageant in Japan.
Ngọc Trân admitted to participating in the Kim Mộc Hỏa Thổ competition without obtaining permission from the relevant authorities but denied forging signatures.
[7] Contestant Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Vân from Hải Phòng was disqualified for not meeting the "natural beauty" requirement and being unable to restore her original appearance.
On July 11, 2016, just before the preliminary round for the Northern region took place, a video recorded in a café unexpectedly became the center of attention and spread rapidly across social media.
Instead, the head of the organizing committee, Tiền Phong’s editor-in-chief Lê Xuân Sơn, and Master’s degree holder Phạm Thị Kim Dung, the CEO of Sen Vàng (a co-organizer of the pageant), carried out the crowning.