Word: jongg
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...some, Wong and her colleagues have been doing it since they were kids. They feel more comfortable singing about some topics, like love, than talking about them. In fact, Wong's only beef with K Lunch is that she can't sing every song. "It's like playing mah-jongg [a popular Asian game played with tiles]," she says. "You can't win all the time. Sometimes, you have to pass the mike to someone else...
...turned my attention to the entertainment options: 29 video-on-demand movies (there will be 60 by the end of March), 77 TV shows, 102 CDs, 12 music channels and even Nintendo games and mah-jongg. As a big Denzel Washington fan, I chose his latest movie, Out of Time. He looked great on the relatively large, 9-in. video screen. After a couple of hours with Denzel, I got in some serious bar time--Singapore Airlines has done what no other airline has done for years, which is to devote a large expanse of space in the coach section...
...says Peter Ong, chairman of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, which oversees Hong Kong's Even Centre gambling-addiction program. The American Psychiatric Association classifies pathological gambling as an "impulse control disorder," along with kleptomania and pyromania. But throughout Asia, it's considered harmless entertainment. Low-stakes mah-jongg tournaments are a fixture of practically every Chinese family gathering - even at funerals. "In Western culture, people go fishing and have other hobbies," says Elda Chan, a certified gambling counselor and supervisor of the Even Centre. "In Chinese culture, people go gambling...
...faith. A lifelong Communist Party member who still dresses in a baggy Mao suit and cap, he passionately denies his son is guilty. On the night of the murder, his son was "sitting right there," Yang says, pointing to a window in the family home. "We played mah-jongg from seven o'clock until two in the morning." He pauses for a moment, overcome by emotion, then continues. "Every time I visit him in the jail he asks me the same thing," Yang says, without looking up. "'When can I come home, father? When can I come home...
Chen Jing was one of the lucky ones. The 56-year-old retiree, who lives in Shanghai, dabbles a bit in local stocks, exchanging investment tips with what she calls her "mah-jongg friends," a group that gets together each week to play and chat. Just before the Chinese New Year holiday last month, one of her friends spoke ominously of rumors that China's government was planning a crackdown on stock speculation, including a possible tax on capital gains. Over the past 18 months, Chen's small portfolio had almost doubled in value as the Shanghai market shot straight...