Topic: China
Armenia's top chess players, lauded as heroes after winning the 2011 World Team Chess Championship this week, vowed on Friday to boost the small chess-mad country's status in the game even further.The team's head coach said that future successes will be secured ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese mobile social gaming firm DeNA will seek to expand by buying more game developers, its new chief executive, Isao Moriyasu, said in an interview on Monday.In a bid to take its highly profitable business model global, the company ...
Jia Han was a web junkie who used to while away entire days in Internet cafes, but the 21-year-old university student says he has now found a healthier and more social pastime -- board games."You get excited when you first play online ...
Splitting off one-time items, the House of Mouse posted better-than-expected fiscal fourth-quarter results for 2010, at 43 cents a share. Powershares US Dollar Index Bullish . Following an inconclusive G-20 meeting and worries about Irish debt, the greenback dropped a bit as ...
go, (Japanese), also called i-go, Chinese (Pinyin) weiqi, (Wade-Giles) wei-ch'i , Korean baduk or pa-tok, board game for two players. Of East Asian origin, it is popular in China, Korea, and especially Japan, the country with which it is most closely identified. ...
The hutongs are small alleyways crisscrossing east west acoss the city of Beijing. It is a great opportunity to see some culture of Beijing and how people lived in the past. Beware it is a bit rough around the edges and quite ...
Not as well known outside of Asia, is a mythical creature called a weretiger, also more recently known as a werecat. There are a few ways in which a person might turn into a weretiger, depending on what part of Asia the ...
However, in the ancient China, playing board games means much more than fun. So, you can see playing board games means much more than fun in ancient China. As the main purpose of playing board game in ancient China is to have ...
The Chinese are well-known for their traditions. As a traditional people, they used numerous games to pass on their traditions to their children. Though many of the games had counterparts in other countries, no games were taken as seriously as in China. ...
Looking at the aged traditions that were intact countless years ago in Asia, many changes have been undertaken and modern Asia is somewhat different in various aspects. A number of traditions passed on have been altered to fit in more easily with ...