Word: vong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Asian food stores and convenience storesthat have sprung up in recent years are attemptingto co-exist with the adult clubs. Shops like thePho-Hien-Vong, a Vietnamese grocery store, aretypical of the places that are changing the CombatZone's character. Now, a Store 24, servingSuper-Chugs and Ben and Jerry's ice cream, liesacross the street from the Naked I strip club.Above the Store 24, the China Trade Center is partof an attempt by the Asian community to reclaimthe Zone, observers...
...children of emigres, the emphasis is on education. "When they have good knowledge, they make good money," explains Vong Ly, a Hmong tribesman from Laos who now lives in Banning, Calif., with seven of his nine children, ages eight to 17. Medicine, law, engineering, business and computer science are the favored fields. Le Trinh, a Vietnamese-born Chinese who arrived in Houston five years ago, will enter Texas A&M in the fall to study engineering. "It's not my favorite subject," she admits. "I love teaching, but that pays...
...less food. The silver bowls have been replaced by plastic ones, bought on the black market. Yet the ritual is more important than ever. "People have asked to revive this dawn rite so they can share the little they have in order to make merit," explains Tep Vong, the senior Buddhist monk in Kampuchea. "We are rebuilding the entire structure of our social and religious life...