The 10-day Tropical Orienteering Week ended last Sunday with a 6 km orienteering race on the beaches near Tanjung Lumpur, Kuantan, Malaysia. 8 races in 10 days is quite a challenge for many orienteers, but it comes with a reward—the six venues used for the O-Week (including the Polytechnic used for the World and National […]
Hong Kong is probably the earliest place in Asia to have orienteering as a sport. Being one of the last remaining British colonies in the 20th century, the British Armed Forces brought the sport from Europe to Hong Kong in the 1950s/1960s, then taught the police and the scouts how to play it, then taught […]
We have now loaded 32 Taiwan events (plus one overseas training camp in Japan by Moxina Orienteering) on our Asian events calendar. However, the sources (CTOA and Moxina) are almost exclusively in Chinese which means that most events are in Chinese and it will take some time to translate them. Anyway, enjoy! Most cities in […]
