Niawali Anastasia Twain

Busy year for Miss PNG

Twain was crowned PNG’s reigning queen on November 11, 2017. With it came the title as the cultural ambassador.

This year, PNG is hosting the 2018 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).

Twain says this means a busy year, also for the Miss Pacific Islands Pageant (MPIP) PNG.

And she adds that this event will also bring more young women together.

She says contestants in the last year, as well as young women who have been sponsored by the pageant, have raised their hands to support the pageant’s programs in the year.

Miss PNG performs self-written dramatic monologue

Last night the Pageant with the theme 'Climate Change Action to Sustain Our Islands', highlighting the COP23 outcomes, showcased talents from around the region featuring nine contestants from nine countries.

23-year-old Niawali Anastasia Twain performed a dramatic monologue, an original piece written by Miss Twain herself.

The four-minute performance was inspired by the plight of the Carteret Islanders, the world's first climate change and environmental refugees who are being relocated from their sinking atolls to Tinputz on the main island of Bougainville.