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• Hsu denies playing mahjong during typhoon

  Created: Saturday, 29 August 2009 05:14 Author: Staff

  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...

• Cab driver convinces couple to rethink divorce

  Created: Tuesday, 25 August 2009 01:00 Author: Staff

  CHONGQINQ - A taxi driver in Chongqing municipality convinced a couple to give up the idea of divorce while he was driving them to the civil affairs bureau last Thursday.According to Zhang Xianguo, the taxi driver, he overheard the couple talking about a ...

• Valentine Tournament 2010

  Created: Sunday, 16 August 2009 21:18 Author: Staff

  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....

• Anger over student prank call to emergency hotline

  Created: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 06:16 Author: Flora Wang

  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...

• Dutch get most seats again in European Championship (Riichi, this time)

  Created: Wednesday, 05 August 2009 02:00 Author: Martin Rep

  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...