  the miss nepal contest is the national beauty pageant of nepal, which was started in 1994 in kathmandu. winners of the miss nepal beauty pageant are then sent as delegates to similar international contests such as miss world, miss earth, miss international.www.missnepal.com.np nepal also sends representatives in other minor global pageants such as miss grand international, miss tourism queen international, miss globe international, miss heritage and miss asia pacific world. the 20th edition of the hidden treasure miss nepal 2014 was held on 2 may 2014. the selected 19 finalists competed for the three main titles of miss nepal world, miss nepal earth, and miss nepal international. the current hidden treasure miss nepal titleholders are: subin limbu as miss nepal world 2014, prinsha shrestha as miss nepal earth 2014, and sonie rajbhandari as miss nepal international 2014. ==history== ever since the pageant started from 1994, historically the winner of the miss nepal pageant represented the nepal in the miss asia pacific. after 1997, the hidden treasures collaborated with kathmandu jaycees and formed two pageants of kathmandu jacyees miss nepal and hidden treasures miss world nepal. from 1998 on wards, the winner of miss nepal has been sent to miss world contest and the 1st runner up to miss asia pacific. no contest was held in 2001 because of the nepalese royal massacre. from 2004, the 2nd runner up has been granted to represent nepal in the pageant miss earth but it changed a year later, to 1st runner up as it had been stopped sending to miss asia pacific. in 2010, the 2nd runner up has started to send to miss international. since 2011 onwards; the names of the 3rd runner up and 4th runner up were revealed while announcing the names of the winners on the coronation night. ===competition=== since 1994, every year women from age range of 19â25 years old compete on the national pageant of miss nepal. in which, 16 contestants are wisely chosen from across the country and they begin on 1 month training & grooming course before the final event in which they participate in lectures, social work, photoshoots, interviews and etiquette lessons. as on the coronation night which lasts up to 3 hours long, all the candidates engage on opening sequence, introduction speech after which the top 10 semi-finalists are
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