Bea Rose Santiago, a Filipina fashion model, was crowned the new Miss International 2013 in a beauty pageant ceremony held Tuesday in Tokyo. “I’m going to use the crown and my title to help the victims of super-typhoon Haiyan, which raked the Phillipines last month, leaving nearly 8,000 people dead or missing,” said the 23-year-old beauty queen.The beauty pageant, however, was marred by allegations made by the absent former title-holder Ikumi Yoshimatsu. She claimed the organizers have prevented

Park Hyun-seo received the grand prize at the 2013 AfreecaTV Broadcast Awards on Tuesday.The 26-year-old, a popular broadcasting jockey, has been running her own Internet show since 2011 on AfreecaTV, an online broadcast service in South Korea. Her show, titled “Park Hyun-seo Radio,” has attracted more than 220,000 viewers, according to AfreecaTV. (khnews@heraldcorp.com)