People in HCM City are invited to join the Samsung Electronics Corporation's Samsung Hope Relay – One Step, One Future programme at Crescent Plaza on Sunday.

Participants will have the chance to run alongside the chess grandmaster Le Quang Liem, actress/singer Ngo Thanh Van, singer Ha Anh Tuan and composer/singer Thanh Bui.

With each kilometre, the participants will contribute VND50,000 (US$2.4) to the Smart Library programme which provides books for poor children.

Samsung has also invited Liem and Miss World Vietnamese 2007, Ngo Phuong Lan to attend the Olympic torch procession in Manchester, England on June 21-25. — VNS