LOS ANGELES (August 27, 2010) – The Los Angeles Dodgers will honor photographer Jon SooHoo, who is celebrating his 25th anniversary with the team, on Friday as he throws out the ceremonial first pitch at the evening’s game against the San Francisco Giants. The evening’s festivities will include an in-game video tribute to SooHoo’s 25 years with the team, the longest-tenured photographer in Dodger franchise history. He will receive gifts from the Dodgers and the city of Los Angeles as a token of their appreciation for his hard work and dedication.

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There are many champion table tennis players in the Twin Cities, and many of them are Chinese nationals working in the area. They gather once a year for an official tournament. The 12th Minnesota Hai Hwa Table Tennis Tournament will be held Sunday Sept. 12, 2010, starting 1:00 p.m. at the Capitol City Adventist Christian School, 1220 McKnight Road South, Maplewood, Minnesota 55119.

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There are many champion table tennis players in the Twin Cities, and many of them are Chinese nationals working in the area. They gather once a year for an official tournament. The 12th Minnesota Hai Hwa Table Tennis Tournament will be held Sunday Sept. 12, 2010, starting 1:00 p.m. at the Capitol City Adventist Christian School, 1220 McKnight Road South, Maplewood, Minnesota 55119.

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Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda poses with the 2010 Nisei Week Court during pre-game ceremonies celebrating Japanese American Community Night. (Photo by Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers)

The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated Japanese-American Community Night this week by honoring several members of the Japanese-American community of the area. A ceremony was held on the Dodger Stadium field during pregame events, honoring several individuals including Consul General of Japan Junichi Ihara.

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The 7th annual All Asian Open Soccer Tournament will be held Saturday, July 17, from 8:00 a.m. until concluded in late afternoon or early evening – at the Gene C Kelly Playfields, 185 E. 102nd Street, Bloomington, MN.

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AMSCHENECTADY, NY (June 7, 2010) – Julie Chu, a 2007 graduate of Harvard and a member of the Team USA hockey team, has been an named assistant coach of the Union College women’s ice hockey team, head coach Claudia Asano announced on June 7.

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TAIPEI (June 15, 2010) – As the quadrennial FIFA World Cup tournament kicked off in South Africa on June 11, nine of the competing teams are donning uniforms made of recycled materials 100-percent made in Taiwan at the premier soccer event

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In Columbia Pictures’ The Karate Kid, 12-year-old Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother’s (Taraji P. Henson) career takes them both to China. Dre has a hard time making friends at first but he does make a connection with his classmate Mei Ying – and the feeling is mutual – until cultural differences make such a friendship impossible. Even worse, Dre makes an enemy of the class bully, Cheng.

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Front left, Rob Brace, M.A., Dean of Faculty, Minnesota School of Business, and Srilal Liyanapathiranage, a leader in the Minnesota Sri Lanka community. Rear-left, Nevanka Liyanapathiranage, Globe University Librarian; and Globe University students in the Global Citizenships Class in Service Learning, Fran Churchill, Sylvia Isaacson, and Angela Lawson.

By TOM LAVENTURE

AAP staff writer

WOODBURY, Minn. (May 28, 2010) – The Minnesota – Sri Lanka Friendship Foundation has done much to support the native land – to rebuild in the aftermath of the tsunami, and now with the end of its decades long civil war. But its baseball that has now captured the imagination of the sports loving nation – and an local effort has begun to help equip youth that are quickly rising to the par of their international peers.

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The 2010 The International Federation of Association Football World Cup is set to kick off in colorful, energetic and distinctly African musical fashion with a dynamic Opening Ceremony which will be watched live by hundreds of millions of viewers in 215 countries. The 30-minute ceremony, with its cast of 1 581 world-class artists, dancers, musicians and performers, will start at Johannesburg’s iconic Soccer City stadium on June 11, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. (7:00 a.m. Twin Cities time), just ahead of the opening match between hosts South Africa and Mexico.

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