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      <title>Dutch riichi player Frans Roquas dead</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.mahjongnews.com/images/fransr.jpg" alt="Frans Roquas" height="130" width="100" align="left" />Amersfoort, the Netherlands, April 30th - Dutch mahjong player Frans Roquas, 51, has suddenly died. Frans was a great promotor of the Japanese (riichi) mahjong game. In June, he would play in the first European Riichi Mahjong Championship in Hanover. (Dutch text)]]></description>
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      <title>French Open for Ms. Croeze again</title>
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      <title>Anders Labich Danish champion</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[COPENHAGEN, April 12th, 2008 - Anders Labich is the new mahjong champion of Denmark. Today in Frederiksbergen (Copenhagen), he dethroned the 2007 champion, Henrik Leth.]]></description>
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      <title>Golden Dragon Jubilee Tournament will be goodbye</title>
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      <title>&apos;Fleurtje&apos; leads European MORSE ranking</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dutch player Gerda van Oorschot ('Fleurtje') is the number 1 on the European Online Mahjong Ranking System (MORSE).]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO, March 5th - The current world champion in mahjong is called Li Li - so it would not be a great change for everyone if the next would be called JulJul. A girl from the East Coast in the USA. She is now the absolute number 1 player in online tournaments, since she won the Open European Online Tournament last September, and also the next official online tournament, the Open Hungarian, last weekend.]]></description>
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      <title>Second On Line Title for Juliani Leo</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[American mahjong player Juliani Leo ('JulJul') won her second on line championship on the Hungarian Open.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Just like last year, a World Series of Mahjong will be held in Macau, China. And just like last year, one million US dollars are to be won in the event, where the World Series rules will be applied (formarly: Zung Jung rules).]]></description>
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      <title>Gertjan Davies Cherry Blossom Riichi Tournament</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Gertjan Davies is the winner of the yearly Dutch Cherry Blossom riichi mahjong tournament. (Dutch text)]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Thomas Kragh is the winner of the Third Århus Open Championship, held today in Århus, Denmark. Although he did not have a 100 percent score, he beat the runner up of the tournament, Henrik Leth, with no less than 6 points. Sixteen players competed in the tournament, amongst whom two Finnish players and one player from the Netherlands.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The organizing committee of the Open European Mahjong Championship (OEMC) 2009 has published its second newsletter. It contains details about the quotas for the participating countries.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[On the International Mahjong Calendar, Mahjong News presents all mahjong tournaments in Europe with an international character. Now with a new and improved design.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Mahjong Association (EMA), the international mahjong organization with the most member-countries in the whole world, has welcomed four new members. Applications for membership have been received from Finland, Russia, Slovakia and Spain. Some weeks ago, Finland and Slovakia already applied for the membership.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[More good news for riichi mahjong players. Not only will there be a European Riichi Championship this year, they now also get their own official ranking.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[HANOVER, January 10th - For the first time, there is an official international ruleset for riichi mahjong. Mahjong Holland, a group of enthusiastic mahjong players within the Dutch Mahjong league, has designed these rules in cooperation with Mahjong Denmark. The standard rules are important since later this year, the first European riichi mahjong championship will be held.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[For the first time in history, a formal Russian mahjong tournament has been held. Vladimir Stepanov won the Moscow Open Championship.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[NIJMEGEN, November, 10th - Ms. Bo Lang from Switzerland has won her second large tournament within three months. Last Summer, she won the Second Open Austrian Championship. In Nijmegen, today, Bo was the best of 108 players in the Third Dutch Open (Golden Dragon Tournament).]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Chinese player Li Li from Tsinghua University is the new world champion mahjong. Runner-up on the World Championship in Chengdu was (Chinese) Zhang Zhangfei, and number three Minori Imaeda from Japan. Best non-Asian player was Ms. Désirée Heemskerk from the Netherlands, who classified on 10th position. (later more)]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Austrian mahjong player Martin Scheichenbauer has won the Second Open Italian Mahjong Championship.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[For the second time, Mr. Sjef Strik has won the Dutch 'Kinryu Majan Taikai' (riichi mahjong). (Dutch text)]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[TAIPEI, September 21, 2007 - A popular Taiwanese variety show host was acquitted of cheating in mahjong games with the help of hidden cameras, the Taiwan High Court has announced.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[After the tournament, MahjongTime discovered that there had been a change in the IP-number of the winner's computer.  That was the reason why additional investigations took place to confirm what happened.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[(China Daily) A court in Jiangning District of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, has backed appeals for compensation of 400 yuan each from friends, by the family of a man who became paralyzed after a sudden collapse during a mahjong game.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dutch player Anton Kösters was laureated after the Austrian Open championship for being the first player to have participated in more than twenty official international tournaments.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[HONG KONG, August 4 - A study by doctors in Hong Kong has concluded that epilepsy can be induced by mahjong. The findings, published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal, were based on 23 cases of people who had suffered mahjong-induced seizures.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Mahjong News Forum about the Mahjong Competition Rules is opened again. Mahjong players who have questions about the 'new mahjong' (a.k.a. Chinese Official), can ask questions here.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA["Nobody will play with us at our home anymore." That was one complaint popular singer Yu Tien made when he learned his daughter Hsiao-ping was the second runner-up in the first World Series of Mahjong competition in Macau.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mahjong player Tom Sloper, in his weekly column, tells how, during the Open European Championship, he played against the Japanese player who eventually got thrown out of the championship.]]></description>
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      <title>Facts about the disqualification</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[During the OEMC 2007, a player was disqualified because of cheating. Read how this decision was taken.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Martin Wedel Jacobson from Denmark is the new European mahjong champion. He was a very strong revelation during the Second Open European Mahjong Championship, which was held in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. The rather shy, calculating but also quite lucky player was honored for his outstanding score of 27 points, in eight rounds.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Magdolna B. Nagy is the winner of the Hungarian Green Dragon Tournament. She scored 15 table points out of a maximum of 20.]]></description>
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