Miss Southeast Asian 2016 Candidates

A new Miss Southeast Asian will be crowned on May 28, 2016 in Bagansiapiapi City, Indonesia. It will be the first time that Indonesia is hosting Miss Southeast Asian.

The Miss Southeast Asian pageant is a beauty pageant created in 2013 by Miss Southeast Asian secretariat as an event to promote goodwill among Southeast Asian communities. The first edition saw 12 contestants from 6 countries participating. Starting 2014, only 1 contestant from each of the following countries or territories may be represented: Borneo, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste and Vietnam.

The current Miss Southeast Asian is Thu Vu of Vietnam who was crowned on December 13, 2014 in Yasothon, Thailand.