Archive for February, 2011

Chevy Beh represent HK National Team to play in the 1st Asia Snow Polo held in Tianjin, China featured on Chicago Tribune

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

TIANJIN, China (Reuters Life!) – Asia’s first ever snow polo tournament went into its second day on Wednesday at China’s newest and largest polo club, with six top global teams promoting the luxury sport to the nation’s new and growing ranks of wealthy.

Though an early form of polo was once popular with China’s upper classes during the Tang dynasty more than a thousand years ago, the sport of kings died out almost entirely until a recent surge of interest in foreign sports seen as being high class.

The first generations of new wealthy spawned by China’s economic reforms are likely to view golf, red wine and Ferrari as symbols of prestige, but many of the newer generation are looking for something more.

“We have so many international players from all over the world coming together in this area,” Chevy Beh, a 23-year-old player on the Hong Kong team, told Reuters Television.

“I think that is a good way to promote polo in China.” The “Snow Polo Challenge,” which kicked off on Tuesday, is being held on a pitch covered with artificial snow in the Goldin Metropolitan Polo Club in Tianjin, an industrial port city 90 minutes drive from Beijing.
(more…)

Chevy Beh represent HK National Team to play in the 1st Asia Snow Polo held in Tianjin, China featured on BruneiTimes

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

TIANJIN

Thursday, February 17, 2011

ASIA’S first snow polo tournament went into its second day yesterday at China’s newest and largest polo club, with six top global teams promoting the luxury sport to the nation’s new and growing ranks of wealthy.

Though an early form of polo was once popular with China’s upper classes during the Tang dynasty more than a thousand years ago, the sport of kings died out almost entirely until a recent surge of interest in foreign sports seen as being high class.

The first generations of new wealthy spawned by China’s economic reforms are likely to view golf and Ferrari as symbols of prestige, but many of the newer generation are looking for something more.

“We have so many international players from all over the world coming together in this area,” Chevy Beh, a 23-year-old player on the Hong Kong team, told Reuters Television.
(more…)

Chevy Beh represent HK National Team to play in the 1st Asia Snow Polo held in Tianjin, China featured on Philippine Times

Saturday, February 19th, 2011

TIANJIN // Asia’s first ever snow polo tournament, at China’s newest and largest polo club, with six top global teams, is promoting the luxury sport to the nation’s new and growing ranks of wealthy.

Though an early form of polo was once popular with China’s upper classes during the Tang dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, the sport of kings died out almost entirely until a recent surge of interest in foreign sports seen as being high class.

The first generations of new wealthy spawned by China’s economic reforms are likely to view golf, red wine and Ferrari as symbols of prestige, but many of the newer generation are looking for something more.

Chevy Beh, 23, a player on the Hong Kong team, said: “We have so many international players from all over the world coming together in this area. I think that is a good way to promote polo in China.”

The “Snow Polo Challenge”, which kicked off on Tuesday, is being held on a pitch covered with artificial snow in the Goldin Metropolitan Polo Club in Tianjin, an industrial port city 90 minutes’ drive from Beijing. (more…)