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(Update: Désirée Heemskerk reacts)
PARIS - Désirée Heemskerk from the Netherlands is the new leader in the EMA Riichi Ranking. The previous number 1, Kim Iversen from Denmark, did not do quite well in the Danish Riichi Open last weekend (he got the '...
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ISLE OF MAN - Today, the second preliminary Mahjong Logic tournament for one place in the World Mahjong Championship today was played. 68 players had subscribed, but only 2o players participated.
The tournament consisted of three rounds, each 40 minutes....
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HANOVER - The list of players for the European Riichi Mahjong Championship 2010 is complete. Today, in the Hanover restaurant 'Gaststätte Kaiser', the lottery for the last seats was held.
The lucky winners are:
Wolfgang Franke (Germany)
Gerda van O...
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ISLE OF MAN - The first preliminary Mahjong Logic tournament for one place in the World Mahjong Championship today was played. 28 players participated. The tournament consisted of three rounds, each 40 minutes.
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GUILDFORD, Surrey, England - This month will be mahjong month for the United Kingdom. Not only the first official mahjong competition - the UK Riichi Open - in cooperation with the European Mahjong Association (EMA) will take place, but England will also ...
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HANNOVER - The organisers of the European Riichi Mahjong Championship 2010 will raffle off the four remaining seats in the tournament. Attempts to reach the quota by approaching national mahjong organisations have been to no avail.
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UTRECHT - Mahjong Logic, major sponsor of the World Mahjong Championship 2010, is organizing on line tournaments where a seat can be won in this competition, which will take place coming August in the Netherlands. The decisive tournament in this series is...
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HANOVER - Thomas Kragh, the current European Riichi Mahjong Champion, will defend his titel after all. The German Mahjong League (DMJL) could grant him a seat, since the Italians and the Japanese did not fulfil their quotas. Originally, Kragh could not pl...
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(Update: correction about deadline subscription)
HANOVER - 75 players have subscribed to the European Championship Riichi Mahjong. The deadline for non EMA players to subscribe to the tournament was closed on May, 15th.
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ISLE OF MAN - Mahjong Club, which is part of the Mahjong Logic Network, has teamed up with one of the most important actors on the mahjong scene, Reachmahjong.com, experts in the Riichi version of mahjong, to bring new challenges and entertainment to the ...
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NIJMEGEN, The Netherlands - The better part of the visitors of this website does not have many problems with playing mahjong on line for money.The most recent poll of Mahjong News was launched on the occasion of the mahjong server eMahjong (Mahjong Logic)...
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LAHNSTEIN - Gemany has concluded its qualifying tournaments for the European Riichi Mahjong Championship 2010. At Lahnstein, near Koblenz upon the river Rhine, today twenty players struggled for their nominations. After the tournament, twelve got their ti...
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GUILDFORD, Surrey, England - Great Britain has not joined the European Mahjong Association yet, but still the first official MERS tournament will take place there soon. On June 26th, at Guildford, the county town of Surrey, the UK Riichi Open will take pl...
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JOHOR MARU, Malay - Police have arrested three men in connection with the murder of a 73-year-old woman in Mersing. Johor CID chief Senior Asst Comm Datuk Amer Awal said the suspects broke into the shophouse Wong Gan Song lived in between midnight and 1....
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PARIS - Within two months, the Fifth International Paris Mahjong Tournament will take place. (Subscription is alredy closed; there are 108 participants.) On the occasion of this event, the Paris club Magic Mahjong Social Pung has released an almost profes...
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HANOVER - European riichi mahjong champion, Thomas Kragh from Denmark, will not defend his title. Thomas could not qualify for the EC 2010, which takes place coming Summer in Hanover, Germany.Thomas mails to MahjongNews from his new home in Norway: "I w...
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HANOVER - On Sunday, July 11th, 2010, six o'clock in the afternoon, the name of the successor of European riichi mahjong champion Thomas Kragh will be formally announced. This will be the end of two - no doubt, thrilling - days of riichi mahjong in the Ja...
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CEBU, Philippines - A 38-year-old man was wounded after he was stabbed allegedly by his two friends in barangay Suba, Cebu City on Saturday night.Elvis Las Piñas suffered stab wounds in the head, shoulder and arms. His attackers remain at large. Police i...
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PARIS - Subscription has opened for the French championship, the ‘Fifth International Paris Tournament’. The event will take place on April 23rd~24th. The fee is 40 euros, two lunches included.A maximum of one hundred players can compete. More info ...
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NIJMEGEN - Mahjong Club announced today that it had purchased the popular Facebook game “World Mahjong Tour”. Played by thousands of players every day, the application provides a multiplayer mahjong game embedded within social networks including Fa...
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