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top news photography Europe may host 1st WC Riichi. Maybe

AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands, January, 27th - There is a chance that a first world championship riichi mahjong will be held the years to come. And this might very well take place somewhere in Europe. This is stated in a report, written for the Dutch mahjong association. Picture: The Second European Mahjong Championship, Hanover, Germany, 2010. Read more…
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  • Subscription opened for ‘Paris 2010’

    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 ...
  • Mahjong Club purchases ‘World Mahjong Tour’ Facebook Game

    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...
  • Sleeping with the enemy

    CHANGSHA - A woman tried making love to a burglar, mistaking the intruder for her husband, in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, last Wednesday, the Xiaoxiang Morning Post reports....
  • World’s First ‘Washizu Tournament’ in the Dutch Polder

    ARNHEM - Mahjong News is organizing the first Washizu Riichi Mahjong Tournament in the world. In this tournament, mahjong sets with transparent and non-transparent tiles will be used. It is inspired by the Japanese manga ‘Akagi’. ...
  • Invitation for Bamboo 2010 of Graz

    GRAZ - Mah-Jongg Club 'Grüner Drache Steiermark' cordially invites you to the  4th Mah Jong Open Graz (Bamboo tournament), which will be held from 20 March to 21 March 2010. It is a MERS 1 tournament and we will play 6 rounds, 120 minutes each....
  • First World MORSE Ranking

    COPENHAGEN - The European Mahjong Association EMA has re-established the official ranking for online tournaments. This 'MORSE' (Mahjong Online Ranking System Europe) was discontinued last year, when EMA cancelled the cooperation with Mahjong Time, the o...
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OEMC Movies Online

On the occasion of the 100th MERS tournament, directors Bram van Erkel and Jelte Rep have granted permission to publish online the movies they made on the occasion of the first MERS tournament, the OEMC2005 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Mr. Van Erkel and Mr. Rep made a documentary about the competition, which now can be watched on YouTube.
Part 1
Part 2.
Finally, the comic feature 'Mahjong in Holland' can also be watched on YouTube. In this movie, 'proof' is produced that mahjong actually was invented in Holland.
Mahjong in Holland



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