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As Second Life moves in on Chinese Second Life-clone HiPiHi's territory, and floats the possibility of a Chinese version of Second Life, the virtual world world is heating up in Beijing...but will Chinese care?

Turns out that life ain't all peaches and cream for five Uyghurs sent to Albania last year after being released from Guantanamo Bay. Turns out that life in Albania looks a lot like life in detention.

After seeing Carl Pei’s article over at To Be Rich Is To Be Glorious, I had to follow-up with my own list with some taken from his as well.

Zhang Shuqing, a centenarian in Pixian, Sichuan, has his own secret for long life - smoking every day and drinking liquor after every meal.

A Heilongjiang man has received life imprisonment for defrauding the State lottery of 28 million RMB ($3.76 million USD). Apparently Zhao Liqun, an operator of three lotto stands, discovered a flaw in the Welfare Lottery "3D" system and exploited it by having friends buy tickets for him.

"I want to live a normal life." Chinese fugitive Gao Shan pleads upon his release from detention, hoping the public could respect his privacy. China's Ministry of Public Security has asked Canada to extradite Gao for allegedly embezzling US$128 million from customers' accounts to Canada.

"It's graduation time, and more than four million college students are about to embark on a new phase of life. Some will find jobs, though there are 22% fewer vacant positions compared to last year. Others will go on to grad-school, postponing the job search a few more years.

Living in China brings with it a number of occasions where most can do nothing but scratch their heads and say “WTF?” However, largely by the help of the English-language China blogsphere, we’ve started to create a dictionary that can assist in putting words to the weird, definitions to the disarray and captions to the confusing.

The LICtionary, or Life In China Dictionary, contains terms us expats have created to put form to the fiction that is life in China.

Buy a bride to keep the Little Emperor happy in the after-life