Hanoi (VNA) - The
2021 Grand Ho Tram Chess Tournament is set to take place from March
10-17 at The Grand Ho Tram complex in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.
It is the first
competition for international Grandmasters hosted by Vietnam, organised by the
Vietnam Sports Administration under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism
and The Grand Ho Tram.
The event is expected
to draw 22
Vietnamese Grandmasters, eight of them female, who have an Elo
rating of between 2200 and 2400 awarded by the international chess governing body FIDE.
Each male contestant
will play seven matches while their female counterparts will compete in a round
A Neighborhood In Transition: Sacramento’s Little Saigon Grapples With Culture And The American Dream Listen Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin.
Linda Lui is President of the Indochina Friendship Association Buddhist Temple where she helps distribute masks and food regularly.
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On a recent Friday afternoon, Linda Lui hands out steamed rice and mung beans to people in a long line of cars outside the IndoChina Friendship Association Buddist Temple on Stockton Boulevard.
Lui grew up in Sacramento’s Vietnamese American neighborhood known as Little Saigon, and has been involved with this Buddhist Temple since she was a young child. Now, she’s the president, and has been working to give out free food and face masks to community members since the start of the pandemic. But many of the volunteers and those involved in the Temple’s efforts are aging or elderl
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