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By EDWARD WONG
Courtesy of The New York Times

A 25-year-old Muslim man from China was the third runner-up in the Worldwide Mr. Gay pageant, which ended Sunday in Oslo. The man, who is known publicly by his nickname, Xiao Dai, entered the contest despite the fact that Chinese authorities last month canceled Mr. Gay China, a smaller pageant in Beijing that would have been the first of its kind. After the cancellation, contestants and organizers quietly selected Xiao Dai to represent China in Oslo.

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BEIJING — A Chinese contestant at an international gay pageant at the weekend said Wednesday he was scared of returning to his hometown, after police shut down a similar event in China.

Xiao Dai, 25, who runs an AIDS prevention organisation in Urumqi, the capital of China’s restive Xinjiang region, returned from Norway — where the global contest took place — on Tuesday after coming fourth out of 24.

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OSLO — A South African man has won the 2010 Mr Gay World pageant, beating rivals from Australia, Hong Kong, China and Spain, the organisers said on Sunday.

Charl Van den Berg, 28, who runs a restaurant in Cape Town, won after four days of competition finished with a walk down a fashion runaway in an Oslo nightclub dressed in skimpy swimwear and various costumes.