Career
At the time of the contest she was a second year student at the Foreign Trade University in Ho Chi Minh City. In that year she was the special contestant for choosing a delegate representative for Vietnam in the "Mission Friendship of the World 1999" competition. After graduating from the Foreign Trade University in 2000, Nguyễn Thiên Nga decided to study economics in the United States of America.
1st runner-up: Vũ Minh Thuý (Hải Phòng)
2nd runner-up: Đỗ Vân Anh (Hà Nội).
