It was in a mah-jongg game with the president, Mr. Singson said, that he won the money to buy his yacht.

She wanders out to wash and to watch a mah-jongg game.

"No," Jake said, watching the thin Chinese stand there, observing the mah-jongg game.

Movement at the mah-jongg game was furious, as the last of the tiles were laid out.

At another mah-jongg game by the pool, where the most you can lose in a day is $10, a mother and daughter sit at the same table.

Shops in the outskirts were told to stop selling mah-jongg games, according to official newspaper reports.

Every now and then, she sits at a table to play a round of a mah-jongg game called the Great Wall.

Dozens of spirited mah-jongg games are going on all at once.

It seemed to be wearing a robe in subdued grays and browns, like Mother wore when she went to her mah-jongg games at night.

She remembers her mother's mah-jongg games with affection, and regrets having missed her father's funeral.