The World Mahjong Tour has announced the start of thier Celebrity Invitational that started on Hune 9th and will play through June 13th in Hong Kong. The match will be available for full tv distribution and will be broadcasted throughout Asia and the rest of the world.

Celebrities and professional Mahjong players will be traveling to Hong Kong to compete in the inaugural Celebrity Invitational. The event was organized to help raise over $230,000 HKD in donations to the Red Cross that will benefit those suffering in the Sichuan earthquake disaster.

"We are very excited about our first Mahjong television event which has many known celebrities from Asia participating," said Pierre Wuu and David Wang, World Mahjong Tour Founders. "We feel bringing the sport of Mahjong to television will allow us to create the phenomenal effect of what TV did for the sport of Poker worldwide and WMT is in the best position to capitalize on this."

The 16 people that are going to participate in the event are; William Hung, Nadia Chan, Wong Mei-Wa and Lau Sek Ming, all of which are Hong Kong celebrities. Celebrites from China attending the event are; Edell, Luo Zhong Xu, Gao Hu and Yip Sai Wing.

Also attending are celebrites from Taiwan; Xu Nai Lin, Ada Pan, Jessie Cheung and Joyce Chui. Mahjong professional players include; Maria Ho, Dragon Chang, Rickael Cheung and Song Ping.






- 2008-06-11