Miss Thailand 2008 is a Communication Arts Student

Gawintra Pothijakra (in picture) just won the beauty pageant of Miss Thailand 2008 title and also had won the Miss Healthy and Slim by Sealect TUNA award last May 21, 2008. Gawintra is a 22 year old Communication arts student at the Bangkok University. She stands 1.76m tall and will travel and represent Thailand at the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant to be held in Vietnam later this year.

Standing at 1.71m tall, the 21 year old Piyaporn Deejing was declared as the 1st runner-up or Miss Thailand Earth 2008. She will be competing in the Philippines for the Miss Earth 2008 title.

Completing the 3 other runners-up were Chavallakorn Wattanavisitkul, Pirada Kajornmalee and Arnanya Chinsangchai, who also won as Miss Photogenic. They will represent Thailand at Miss Intercontinental, Miss Tourism Metropolitan and some other pageant to be defined.

The Miss Thailand Universe 2008 beauty pageant took place at the Pullman Bangkok King Power in Bangkok. The event, which lasted for about 2 hours, was telecast live to the whole country by BBTV Channel 7.