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UTRECHT - A new series of special Dutch mahjong stamps has been published by the Dutch mahjong club Red Dragon of Twenthe. A set of 10 stamps cost €6,50, of which amount €2,25 will be donated to the Dutch Mahjong Association, to help financing the Wor...
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NIJMEGEN - The yearly Cherry Blossom Tournament of Nijmegen, the Netherlands (riichi mahjong) will take place next year on February, 27th. Today, a newsletter about the tournament was published. Those interested can download it by clicking on the image....
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(Updated after the qualification tournament in Mestre, January 17) MESTRE - The new ranking of the Italian qualification competition for the World Championship 2010 in Holland, after the Fourth Qualification Tournament in Mestre (January 17th). Italy...
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BEIJING - A chief prosecutor surnamed Fang from Jiangxi province, in Beijing for training, was conned out of 1,000 yuan (146 USD, 98 euros) by three men while playing mahjong in April. The three men were charged with fraud at Shijingshan district court, t...
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NANJING - A woman in Nanjing, Jiangsu province was mistaken for a thief after she made off with an electric-powered bike that looked the same as her husband's....
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ROTTERDAM - Because it took so long for the ranking to become public, I decided to calculate the results myself. Doing that I discovered some ‘errors’. The most important one was that disqualified players (not turning up) were removed from the results...
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HONG KONG - Hong Kong singer-actor Ekin Cheng's recent return to the music industry after years of semi-retirement took many by surprise. But what is even more shocking, is the reason behind his comeback - he is going broke. According to a Hong Kong magaz...
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The video is the result of what happens when a father gets music-editing sofware for Christmas and decides to film his wife and friends playing mahjong in the family living room. It looks like he filmed the vid with the rap song in mind as he circled arou...
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HELSINKI - Finland, one of the new members of the European Mahjong Association (EMA), is organizing its first mahjong tournament. This event will take place on November 28~29th in Helsinki. The tournament is not MERS-qualified; this means that the results...
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WARSAW - Details about the first open Polish Riichi Mahjong Tournament, the Warsaw Open Riichi Taikai 2009. ...
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WARSAW - On November 21st, the first open international Polish mahjong tournament will take place. Two students Japanese Culture at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw have taken this initiative. ...
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PARIS - For the second time, in France a mahjong marathon will take place. For 24 long hours, mahjong players will have to compete against each other. Last year, the event was won by Nathalie Mahé and Lionel Legaye. But winning the tournament is not the ...
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AMSTERDAM - Today, a new MahjongNews poll is launched: are there too many international mahjong championships?...
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NANTOU (Taiwan) - A township chief in Nantou County defended herself against accusations of dereliction of duty. Hsu Hsiang-ling, chief of Shueili Township, was accused of playing mahjong on August 8, when typhoon Morakot dumped heavy rains throughout Tai...
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HEEMSTEDE, the Netherlands - The second edition of the Bamboo Eight Tournament, a.k.a. the Valentine Tournament, will take place on February 13th, 2010. A MERS certification has been asked for....
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TAIPEI - A college student sparked anger yesterday when he posted a video clip of a prank call he placed to a TV station’s emergency hotline on YouTube.The video showed the student, Hsieh Shao-hsiang (謝少祥), and his friends calling TVBS’ emergenc...
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HANOVER - Most seats during next year's European Riichi Mahjong Championship will be for the Netherlands. The board of the European Mahjong Association has agreed with a proposition of the German mahjong league (DMJL) about the quota per country for the c...
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AARHUS/ALMERE - Subscription is opened for two international riichi mahjong tournaments. Both events are certificied for the Riichi Ranking List of the European Mahjong Association....
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BEIJING - The country's top police officer is calling for a crackdown on mafia and organized crime ahead of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Meng Jianzhu, state councilor and public security minister, is urging poli...
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AMSTERDAM - Most visitors of the website MahjongNews.Com think the reward for self-draw in Mahjong Competition rules is too high. On the other hand, there were less voters than during the previous poll, so the figures are hardly representative....
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