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KangTuo
26-11-2010, 02:47 PM
KT: hnay kg co ban di uong bia voi a, gio a di ve nha
VB: a k tag e j ca
KT: a lam xong, a wa joo chiat an com. Chua co thoi gian di mua wa tang e.
VB: hu hu a k tag e puj wa ak

IMHO,
ho = hon
ruj = roi
ak = ha/ah
puj = buon

puj don't seems to means buon.... :confused:

last night this vb sms me... "e pun a vi a nc con gai"
pun = buon

lovesprout
26-11-2010, 02:53 PM
IMHO, av means và. She may type wrongly.

But I have to accept and slowly get used to environment

My friend say go must invest many, must buy things and must prepare many

You are a very smart detective! How come I never thought about this possibility? :rolleyes:

Since you are very smart, let me test you where is this "kaky" in the following sms. I know the answer already.

VB: co 1 khu bar danh cho khach nguoi nuoc ngoai den rat nhieu
VB: khu danh cho tay do anh
VB: kaky

jackbl
26-11-2010, 05:56 PM
Since you are very smart, let me test you where is this "kaky" in the following sms. I know the answer already.

VB: co 1 khu bar danh cho khach nguoi nuoc ngoai den rat nhieu
VB: khu danh cho tay do anh
VB: kaky

U just pop out 1 sentence lidat how people can guess??? Lucky my IQ not bad. If I m not wrong, it is CLARK QUAY!!!

jackbl
27-11-2010, 02:51 AM
Poor students....

Universities with no libraries
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VietNamNet Bridge – Many universities in Vietnam do not have libraries. Others have libraries, but there, 21 students have to share one seat.

Students of Bac Ha Junior College, who study at the campus No 2 in Dong Ngac Commune in Tu Liem district in Hanoi are called the “students with many no’s”” no library, no textbooks. The students say that outside lectures, they just stay in rent rooms, because they do not have library to go to. This also means that they have to buy books themselves, because the school does not have textbooks compiled for many subjects.

Dao Thi Linh, a student of the Van Lang Junior College, said that her school only has two rooms which contain some 200 old books. “There are no textbooks for our subjects or reference books. Lecturers always tell us what books we have to buy. I don’t know when the school will have a library. The school has asked us to contribute books to the school’s library,” Linh said.

Other students in Hanoi, who come from the Hanoi Economics University and Polytechnique, and Dong Do people founded University, also said they never had their own libraries. “Even the campuses are rented,” they complained.

Nguyen Thi Chuyen, a student of Dong Do people founded University, said that the campus on Ton That Tung street is not the school’s main site, therefore, there is no library for students. In fact, there is a library on the main site at No 8 Nguyen Cong Hoan street, but it is useless, because only the students from one faculty can study there.

The campus of the Thang Long Transport Vocational School contains two rows of rooms with tens of classrooms. However, these are shared between different universities and junior colleges. Students have to go to classes in shifts: only when one school finish classes, students from other schools come..

“Our school even has to rent classrooms, so we don’t dream of libraries,” a student said.

The Hanoi University of Technology is considered the leading university in Vietnam. However, the big university only has one library with 770 seats, while it has more than 25,000 students.

“Many books are very expensive and students can’t afford them. Meanwhile, Polytechnique students cannot study without books,” said Do Van Dang, a fourth year student at the Hanoi University of Technology.
According to the Ministry of Education and Training, on average, there is only one seat for every 21.2 university students. Of the current 196 universities and junior colleges, 24 schools do not have normal libraries, while 119 schools do not have e-libraries.

“These are alarming figures for Vietnam’s university education. In other countries, universities always consider libraries as their soul or heart,” said Tran Duy Tao, Head of the Material Facilities Department under the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET).

Many universities do not have libraries, while many other universities have libraries, but the libraries do not meet the quality standards. Of the total 200 libraries surveyed by MOET, only 39 percent comply to the current standards, and only 34 percent use computer software for management.

Dr Tran Van Ba, Deputy President of the Hanoi University of Education, said that at university level, students need to spend much time on self-study, therefore, libraries are crucial.

“I cannot imagine the universities without libraries. Without libraries they are nothing more than ‘senior high school’,” he said (in Vietnam, the school system consists of primary, secondary and high school).

“I can say for sure that without libraries, universities will not be able to provide high quality training,” he added.

He went on to say that when MOET considers the application for establishing universities, it needs to find out if the schools have libraries and consider this a condition when deciding to license the schools.

Source: Tien phong

lovesprout
27-11-2010, 11:06 AM
U just pop out 1 sentence lidat how people can guess??? Lucky my IQ not bad. If I m not wrong, it is CLARK QUAY!!!

Yes. Kaki is Clark Quay. You are very smart. I think we all become smarter when we talk to VB more often. :rolleyes:

jackbl
27-11-2010, 12:42 PM
Recently VN also have same same issues with SGP :eek:

Two students stabbed, hospitalized in southern school violence
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Tran Nhu Huynh being treated at a Binh Duong hospital after being stabbed by a former schoolmate on Monday

An eleventh grader in Ho Chi Minh City was rushed to hospital Wednesday with severe knife injuries inflicted my young men while on his way home.

Doctors said Nguyen Ngoc Sang, 16, has a gash ten centimeters long on his back and one that had cut a vein on his finger that needs surgery.

Sang said a man sitting on the back of a motorbike had attacked him with a knife around one meter long.

His family said the boy'd had a conflict with a twelveth grader from his school during a football match over the weekend but it was resolved by the teachers.

A similar case happened to an eighth grader in Binh Duong Province Monday. She was stabbed by a former senior, possibly because of a previous conflict.

Tran Nhu Huynh, 14, was admitted to Binh Duong General Hospital with severe injuries and blood all over her uniform.

Huynh said her former schoolmate, only referred to as Tham, stopped her on the street and threatened her. Huynh tried to seek refuge in a shop but Tham managed to stab her in the back before she could enter it.

Tham left immediately while local residents rushed Huynh to hospital.

The victim said Tham, then an eleventh grader at Duc Tri school, had beaten her once about half a month earlier, for which the school had dismissed her.

Tham has been attending a private school since.

Huynh’s class finished earlier than usual on Monday but her mother was busy so she asked a friend for a lift home on a bicyle. She was attacked after stepping down from the bike and was trying to run away.

Police are investigating the cases further.


Source: Thanh Nien

vagrant
27-11-2010, 01:34 PM
I think we all become smarter when we talk to VB more often

When I talk to vb more oftern, I only become dam tac-ier :D:p

Btw, is there a pub at clarke quay with vb? I've seen a group of sexily dressed vb playing at the bridge area around 3am before.

lovesprout
27-11-2010, 02:36 PM
When I talk to vb more oftern, I only become dam tac-ier :D:p

Btw, is there a pub at clarke quay with vb? I've seen a group of sexily dressed vb playing at the bridge area around 3am before.

What is "tac-ier"? :confused: My English is not very good.

There is no specific pub in Clarke Quay where you can find VB. Some of them just work as a freelancer and try to hook up some rich foreigners there. The VB I told me she only drank beer with a guy, and that guy gave her $200! :eek:

Now, she no loner works at Joochiat and shifts her base to Clarke Quay.

jackbl
27-11-2010, 03:03 PM
When I talk to vb more oftern, I only become dam tac-ier

What is "tac-ier"? :confused: My English is not very good.

Siao liao. After U meet more VBs your tieng viet become worse....

dam tac-ier is not a proper english nor vietnamese word. It is make up of "DAM TAC"+ IER, meaning "more horny/lustful". Vagrant is playing with words.

lovesprout
27-11-2010, 03:21 PM
Siao liao. After U meet more VBs your tieng viet become worse....

dam tac-ier is not a proper english nor vietnamese word. It is make up of "DAM TAC"+ IER, meaning "more horny/lustful". Vagrant is playing with words.

so desu ne..

But I thought horny in Vietnamese is spelled as "dam dat" not "dam tac" :confused:

When I saw Vagrant's post, I thought he wanted to say become "damn tactical" + ier

FireShark
27-11-2010, 04:28 PM
so desu ne..

But I thought horny in Vietnamese is spelled as "dam dat" not "dam tac" :confused:

When I saw Vagrant's post, I thought he wanted to say become "damn tactical" + ier

lolx, tac is not use by vietnamese ony we use it. When I use tac to 1vn b4, she dun understand 1st but later when she understand, she provide me the correct spelling. :p

AdGuy
27-11-2010, 04:32 PM
Siao liao. After U meet more VBs your tieng viet become worse....

dam tac-ier is not a proper english nor vietnamese word. It is make up of "DAM TAC"+ IER, meaning "more horny/lustful". Vagrant is playing with words.

As TS, I need to control the standard of TV here.

There is no such term in TV as 'dam tac-ier'. It should be dam tac hon. :D

AdGuy
27-11-2010, 04:34 PM
lolx, tac is not use by vietnamese ony we use it. When I use tac to 1vn b4, she dun understand 1st but later when she understand, she provide me the correct spelling. :p

I disagree.

We would not have known how to use it unless it's taught by a VB :D

jackbl
27-11-2010, 06:32 PM
lolx, tac is not use by vietnamese ony we use it. When I use tac to 1vn b4, she dun understand 1st but later when she understand, she provide me the correct spelling. :p

Can u provide us with Her "correct spelling"? Thanks

FireShark
27-11-2010, 07:22 PM
Can u provide us with Her "correct spelling"? Thanks

She gave me dam tat. I also blur cos some use dam tac, some use dam dac so bro Jackbl, what really is the correct one. I used Dam Tac

v.killers
27-11-2010, 09:28 PM
puj don't seems to means buon.... :confused:

last night this vb sms me... "e pun a vi a nc con gai"
pun = buon

Puj = Buon
Pun also = Buon :D

jackbl
27-11-2010, 10:34 PM
Puj = Buon
Pun also = Buon :D

The expert has spoken..... long time no see u here to "teach" us :) ;)

jackbl
28-11-2010, 10:03 AM
Recently VN also have same same issues with SGP :eek:

Two students stabbed, hospitalized in southern school violence
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Education officials ordered to prevent students’ fights
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The Ministry of Education and Training has asked the departments of Education and Training in cities and provinces to crack down on fights among high-school students nationwide that have reached an alarming level.

The ministry asked its departments to raise students’ awareness of these wrongdoings as well as implement measures to impede violent fights among them.

The departments are required to work with police, parents associations, youth unions, and other relevant agencies in their efforts.

Measures should be effective in preventing violent fights and strict penalties should be imposed to deter them from violating regulations, said the ministry.

The ministry also inquired detailed reports of fights among students in the first semester of the academic year 2010-2011. Departments must send reports to the ministry no later than December 15.

Public concerns about students’ participation in fights have been raised recently as more fights took place. The ministry’s statistic showed that approximately 1,598 fights broke out in the country since the academic year 2009-2010. Schools have sent warning messages to 1,558 students, forced 735 students to leave schools in a short time.

Source: SGGP

jackbl
28-11-2010, 10:37 AM
Mobile phone market hot on dollar price increases
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VietNamNet Bridge – The mobile phone prices have increased sharply in recent days due to the dollar price increases. However, it is quite a surprise that the price increases do not make the purchasing power decrease.

The prices of iPhones, including the products distributed by official importers and the ones sold at private run shops, have increased dramatically.

In Vietnam, big companies distribute products they import to Vietnam through their official representatives, while private shops sell the products which are carried to Vietnam across the borders by foreign travelers or Vietnamese people on their way back from abroad.

In the last two weeks, the price of iPhone4 has increased by one million dong compared to the price in late September. However, despite the sharp price increases, shops still do not have enough products to sell, because the volume of iPhone4 brought from Hong Kong, China and Singapore has been decreasing sharply. Meanwhile, official distributors are selling iPhone 4 in dribs and drabs.

Therefore, not only private run shops, but official distributors have also raised the sale prices. VinaPhone last week adjusted the sale prices of some versions of products the mobile service provider is distributing. The price of iPhone 3GS-8GB (associated with pre-paid iSurf or iSurf0 packages) has soared from 11,099,000 dong to 11,299,000 dong, while the price of iPhone 4-16GB from 13,399,000 dong to 13,699,000 dong, and the price of iPhone 4-32GB from 15,799,000 dong to 16,099,000 dong.

As for the customers who use post-paid iTouch1, 2, 3 packages, the prices have increased from 10,599,000 dong to 10,799,000 dong for iPhone 3GS-8GB, from 12,799,000 dong to 13,099,000 dong for iPhone 4-16GB, and from 14,999,000 dong to 15,299,000 dong for iPhone 4-32GB. As such, the iPhones with pre-paid packages are more expensive by 500,000; 600,000 and 800,000 dong, respectively, than the products with post-paid packages

Besides, the dollar price increases have made the prices of iPhone 3GS-8GB increase by 200,000 dong, iPhone 4 by 300,000 dong. There has been no information about the sale price increases for iPhone products distributed by Viettel. Sources said that this will be the last consignment of import iPhone 3GS in 2010.

Not only the prices of iPhones, but the prices of Nokia brand mobile phones have also increased sharply by 2-5 percent on average. Some common models have seen the prices increase by 20,000-100,000 dong. Nokia 1208, for example, is now selling at 580,000 dong instead of 520,000 dong. Meanwhile, medium class products have seen the prices increase by 130,000-170,000 dong.

The price of Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, for example, has increased by 130,000 dong to 5,480,000 dong.

Hoang, who is in charge of Nokia brand products of a big retail chain, said that the prices of Nokia products have increased significantly mostly because of the dollar appreciation. Meanwhile, Samsung and LG products have not seen sharp price fluctuations because the South Korean manufacturers have production factories in Vietnam which do not bear big influences from the dollar price increases.

This is for the third time so far this year Nokia increases the sale prices of its products.

Despite the sharp price increases, the demand remains very high. IPhone 4 still tops the list of the most favourite smart phones.

However, analysts believe that the short supply would be improved as VinaPhone and Viettel plan to import more than 1000 iPhone 4 to satisfy the increasing demand.

Meanwhile, the distributors of Nokia products have complained that the sales have dropped by 10-20 percent due to the price increases. However, this does not change the current situation that Nokia products are still holding 50 percent of Vietnam’s market share.

Phuong Uyen

jackbl
28-11-2010, 10:51 AM
The “tragicomedy” of buying and selling iPhone 4 in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge – The iPhone 4 market has become scorching hot in Vietnam. Mobile phone service providers do not have enough of them to sell. The prices have increased several times.

A photo has been sent among Internet users these days which has received many amusing comments. The picture shows a Viettel’s employee who is talking to clients in the office - wearing a motorcycle? helmet.

“Perhaps he is afraid that someone would throw a brick in his head, because customers are angry that they cannot buy an iPhone 4,” one comment reads.

The author of the picture, a member of a telecom forum, took it when hewent to a Viettel’s shop to purchase an iPhone 4. Hewas told that the shop had ran out of them.

Of course, the Viettel employee was not protecting himself from a potential blow on his head when he was at the offie. This is just a funny comment. A source from Viettel, a big mobile phone service provider and one of the distributors of iPhone 4, said that the employee was wearing his helmet because he had just came into the office and being in a rushto serve clients he forgot to take it off.

However, a leader of the telecom company admitted that he understood why such a comment was made. The comment reflects the true current situation. Customers now cannot buy iPhone 4 from mobile service providers.

Many funny stories have been cited to illustrate the difficulties in purchasing iPhone 4. On the day when VinaPhone and Viettel began selling iPhone 4, a female employee of a big information technology firm, who was expected to give birth only a few days later, was still seen queuing to purchase a phone. When asked, the woman explained that she was determined to purchase an iPhone 4 from the service provider, because the sale prices are several million dong lower than the prices at private shops, while the quality is guaranteed. (Private shops are distributing the products which have been carried to Vietnam across the border by foreign travelers or the Vietnamese who return from foreign countries).

Meanwhile, a client, who registered to purchase an iPhone 4 online, came to the shop to make the payment and pick up her new phone, was told that she had to pay more than the previously announced price, because the seller has raised the prices. When the client was still thinking whether to buy the product, the saleswoman suggested that the she would purchase the registered product instead of the client.

The client later realised that if the saleswoman bought the product, she would then sell it to other people at a higher price, because the supply is very short.

A lmanager of VinaPhone said that the limited supply caused many tragicomic situations . “Only if we had been able to import tens thousands of those phones, there would be enough supply,” he said.

He said that he received a lot of requests from friends and relatives to help them get an iPhone 4. One time, he received a call from a person who threw insults at him because VinaPhone did not have enough phones to sell.

Nguyen Khac Hung, who lives in Hai Ba Trung district in Hanoi, said that mobile service providers are facing violent criticism from clients, who cannot understand why other people can purchase products, and they cannot.

Several days ago, VinaPhone unexpectedly raised the sale prices of iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 by 500,000-800,000. The price of iPhone 3GS 8GB has increased by 500,000 dong, while the prices of iPhone 4 16GB and 32GB have increased by 600,000 and 800,000 dong.

The new prices have been applied since November 23. This is for the third time, since iPhone 4 appeared on Vietnam market, that VinaPhone adjusts the sale prices. Explaining the decision, VinaPhone said that the dollar price have been increasing sharply, which has forced the service provider to pay higher for the imports. Meanwhile, it is very difficult to buy dollars from banks at quoted prices, making people turn to the black market

The first price adjustment was made on October 13, when the price of iPhone 4 with prepaid package increased by 200,000-500,000 dong. The second adjustment on October 25 applied to the products with post-paid packages.

A source from Viettel said it has not raised the sale prices, but it is still keeping a close watch over the current exchange rate performance in order to make suitable decisions.

Source: VnExpress

jackbl
28-11-2010, 10:53 AM
Vietnamese people “addicted” to mobile phones
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VietNamNet Bridge – More and more Vietnamese become addicted to mobile phones, as the service providers continue to lower the fees and the prices of luxury phones with many entertainment functions are also decreasing.

Vietnamese people are faithful to mobile phones

According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, it is estimated that Vietnam will import one billion dollar worth of mobile phones in 2010. The ministry believes that the mobile phone imports account for a big proportion of the total import value and this is one of the main reasons behind the high trade deficit. Therefore, it has been trying to restrict the imports, especially of luxury/expensive products.

Most recently, people in Hanoi, HCM City and Da Nang had to queue up in front of mobile phone distribution shops to purchase iPhone 4. A lot of people said they had to queue up from 5 am to be able to buy one.

Statistics showed that more than 10 million mobile phones were sold in 2009 in Vietnam. This means that one out of every eight Vietnamese people purchased a new phone. Experts have forecast that 12 million mobile phones would be sold in 2010, which means that one out of every seven people would purchase a new phone. Five years ago, no one could imagine that the number of mobile phone users would be so high.

Analysts say that Vietnamese people do not change their phones as frequently as people in Hong Kong, Taiwan or South Korea. However, the number of Vietnamese people using two or more mobile phones at the same time, or who buy new phones every six months or one year has been increasing significantly.

The lower the service fee, the bigger the number of mobile phone users

In the past, high fees were a big obstacle for mobile phone users. However, nowadays, with the stiff competition between the service providers, the fee has been decreasing sharply.

The current market is now controlled by three biggest service providers, Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone. Any move made by any one of them will have big impacts on the market.

For a long time, Viettel led the race of reducing service fee. However, since 2009, MobiFone and VinaPhone have joined in by continuously lowering their fees so as to ensure that theirs are always lower by 10 dong/minute than the fees offered by Viettel. After the latest fee reduction, the inner-network call charge set by MobiFone has reduced to 880 dong per minute (down by 10.24 percent), while the intra-network call charge has reduced to 980 dong per minute (down by 9.28 percent).

Most recently, Frost & Sullivan, the firm specializing in surveying telecom market, said that Vietnamese telecom companies are providing services at 4 cent per minute (800 dong), because there are too many ongoing promotion campaigns. Frost & Sullivan believes that the price war between the service providers will negatively impact Vietnam’s market, because the revenue growth will slow down, while service providers will not get enough money for re-investment. However, it is clear that the stiff competition of service providers will bring benefit to customers.

Thu Phuong - Buu dien

KangTuo
28-11-2010, 01:02 PM
Puj = Buon
Pun also = Buon

The expert has spoken..... long time no see u here to "teach" us

the effect of stying up in the mountain and not roaming around = better TV (for vk only)

KangTuo
28-11-2010, 01:07 PM
But I thought horny in Vietnamese is spelled as "dam dat" not "dam tac"

It should be dam tac hon. :D

Can u provide us with Her "correct spelling"? Thanks

She gave me dam tat. I also blur cos some use dam tac, some use dam dac so bro Jackbl, what really is the correct one. I used Dam Tac

Dam tac or dam tat?
mot chuc or mot chut?

vb seems like to interchange the "t" and "c".... :confused:

I learn the word as "tac" and "chut"

KangTuo
28-11-2010, 01:09 PM
Btw, is there a pub at clarke quay with vb? I've seen a group of sexily dressed vb playing at the bridge area around 3am before.

just be careful of be-de...
there is a certain area in CQ where the vb/bede ply usually appear...

jackbl
28-11-2010, 01:31 PM
the effect of stying up in the mountain and not roaming around = better TV (for vk only)

Yeah. He got his Co Giao 24X7 beside him. If nothing dun know, can ask ma :) ;)

jackbl
28-11-2010, 01:42 PM
Dam tac or dam tat? mot chuc or mot chut?

vb seems like to interchange the "t" and "c"....

I learn the word as "tac" and "chut"

The VBs may have stop their study early. Now we then start to learn TV and we search thru internet and dictionary. I believe our spelling shd be correct.

I also learnt the word as "tac" and "chut" :D

jackbl
28-11-2010, 01:50 PM
just be careful of be-de...
there is a certain area in CQ where the vb/bede ply usually appear...

Haha.... your gang got a few of them into DARKSIDE now. U can intro to them now :D :p

AdGuy
28-11-2010, 03:19 PM
Haha.... your gang got a few of them into DARKSIDE now. U can intro to them now :D :p

They prefer to tcss outside the pub then hug girl inside the pub.

KangTuo
28-11-2010, 05:06 PM
They prefer to tcss outside the pub then hug girl inside the pub.

no vb to hug that night ma.
if there is a tall vb, you will not see zaryl outside
if there is a 1.55 short, less then 20yo vb, ss08 will be inside for whole night.
if there is a cfm look milf, shadow and recaro will not smoke outside.
if i got target, i will not loiter outside
but true enough that the darkside group dont hug vb now.

jackbl
28-11-2010, 08:55 PM
but true enough that the darkside group dont hug vb now.

No wonder that group seldom post queries here. U see that whenever Lovesprout know New gals, he will post here for translation :D ;)

vagrant
28-11-2010, 09:59 PM
Siao liao. After U meet more VBs your tieng viet become worse...

kg phai, vi toi lau lam kg gap con gai moi ma

jackbl
28-11-2010, 10:11 PM
kg phai, vi toi lau lam kg gap con gai moi ma

Sorry I dun meant u. I meant Bro LoveSprout. I used to think that he is quite good in TV. :D ;) :p

AdGuy
28-11-2010, 11:31 PM
Sorry I dun meant u. I meant Bro LoveSprout. I used to think that he is quite good in TV. :D ;) :p

What you mean used to think? He is good

lovesprout
29-11-2010, 09:01 AM
No wonder that group seldom post queries here. U see that whenever Lovesprout know New gals, he will post here for translation

I post here because there are not many activities here. Not because I know some new VB. I need to clarify that.


Sorry I dun meant u. I meant Bro LoveSprout. I used to think that he is quite good in TV.

I feel I am still very weak in terms of speaking and listening. Last night a VB tried to teach me how to say "khach khac" (other customer) correctly. But after 10 minutes, she totally gave up. :( I think your verbal communication skill is better than mine, especially after you studied abroad at Hanoi recently. :D

jackbl
29-11-2010, 09:08 AM
I post here because there are not many activities here. Not because I know some new VB. I need to clarify that.

I feel I am still very weak in terms of speaking and listening. Last night a VB tried to teach me how to say "khach khac" (other customer) correctly.


Jusk joking with u. I know u wanted to share with us :)

Can share where you normally find your teacher? I also want to find 1 who willing to teach. I also no good in speaking and listening. I am ok with words but alot depend on online dictionary and internet search ;)

lovesprout
29-11-2010, 09:44 AM
Jusk joking with u. I know u wanted to share with us :)

Can share where you normally find your teacher? I also want to find 1 who willing to teach. I also no good in speaking and listening. I am ok with words but alot depend on online dictionary and internet search ;)

OK. I will share my secret hangout place with you.

Vietnamese Delight, Pho 99, No 57/58 Amoy St

It is not a bar, so you will concentrate more on your learning from teachers. :) Do not go during lunch time because waitresses are too busy. Evening is better.

KangTuo
29-11-2010, 09:53 AM
OK. I will share my secret hangout place with you.

Vietnamese Delight, Pho 99, No 57/58 Amoy St

Went there twice/thrice... when it first open. Supporting one of the eminent ktv gal who claimed her sis open this shop.

must be 2 years back already... wonder if they changed owner.

AdGuy
29-11-2010, 01:54 PM
Went there twice/thrice... when it first open. Supporting one of the eminent ktv gal who claimed her sis open this shop.

must be 2 years back already... wonder if they changed owner.

The current joint has been opened for about 2 years. The lady boss is a milf but the foods no good. Imho

jackbl
29-11-2010, 02:04 PM
Vietnamese Delight, Pho 99, No 57/58 Amoy St

It is not a bar, so you will concentrate more on your learning from teachers. Do not go during lunch time because waitresses are too busy. Evening is better.

Went there twice/thrice... when it first open. Supporting one of the eminent ktv gal who claimed her sis open this shop.


The current joint has been opened for about 2 years. The lady boss is a milf but the foods no good. Imho

Wow u guys know this places for so long. When u guys going there? Let's make a trip there, go for a while, look see look see :) ;)

VietnamLover
29-11-2010, 03:44 PM
As requested by jackbl about posting any more vulgar words. Here it goes. If any word is not correctly translated, then please help to correct them.

Cu - penis, dick
Cac - penis, dick
Him - pussy
Lon - pussy
Do khon khiep - asshole
Lo dit - asshole
Du me may - fuck your mother
Thang cac be - you have a small penis
Con di me may - your mother sucks goats
An cut ne con - you go eat shit
Cat me cu may di - cut off your dick
Ba chang - old woman
Cai lon ma may - your mom's pussy
Vo giao duc - uneducated
Cho cai - bitch
Dit me may - fuck your mum
Tao bop vu may bay gio - feel your tits now
Cac tao bu ne con - you have a very big dick
May den nhu cuc cut cho - you are black like dog shit
Cho de - son of a bitch
Ba tam - noisy person
Lai cai - gay
Lai duc - lesbian
Thang cha may - insult your father
Con me may - insult your mother
Dit con me may tec hang - fuck your mother until her vagina is broken
Thang nguc lon - suck a dirty vagina
An cac tao ne - eat my penis
Bu lon tao ne - eat my vagina
Bu cac tao - suck my dick
Dip di tung ngo nay di - fuck this stupid kid
Do ngu - stupid
Do khung - crazy
Con di - hooker
Thu dam - masturbate
Di du may - go fuck yourself
Di chet di - go die
May an long dai cham mui - eat pubic hair with salt-dip
Do cho chet - fucking dead dog
Dit ca ho nha may - fuck your family
Cai deo gi day? - what the fuck?
ba noi cha may - grandmother bastard
con di me may - mother-fucker
do con heo - pig
do ngoc, do ngu - fucker
du ma may - fuck you
thang cho chet - damned

jackbl
30-11-2010, 01:50 AM
Prices increasing but salary remains ..... :(

Workers fight for survival as prices soar
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As the lunar New Year festival approaches, the prices of goods have soared as usual. But the increase has come earlier this year. As the Vietnamese dong continues to depreciate, people have been faced with increased living costs.

Ta Van Sy, a labourer at HCM City's Tan Tao Industrial Park, said last month he had to send his wife and children back to their native province to cut costs as his family relies solely on his modest salary of VND2 million (US$102) a month.

"It is impossible to resist the price storm now," says Sy, "I work on Sunday to send extra money to my wife and children in the countryside."

To cope, workers have cut daily expenses dramatically.

Another worker, Pham Thi Vy, also earns about VND2 million a month and uses almost all of it to pay for food, electricity, water and her brother's school tuition.

Vy says she recently moved into a 10q.m room with a friend to save money.

As of mid-August, the monthly price for a room near the industrial parks and export processing zones in HCM City increased by between VND50,000 (US$2.5) and VND100,000 ($5.1).

Prices for foods like rice, cooking oil, meat, and vegetables have also increased to dizzying levels.

Nguyen Thi Nhung, an employee at a State enterprise in Ha Noi, jokes that shopping in supermarkets is harder than performing magic tricks.

"I have very little money and everything is expensive and all prices are increasing," Nhung says.

Economist Ngo Tri Long, former deputy head of the Market and Price Research Institute, attributes rising prices to multiple causes.

He says the exchange rate rise between Vietnamese dong and the US dollar is one factor.

Long says Viet Nam has been exposed to dollarisation (the holding by residents of foreign currency), meaning the impact of the rate adjustment may have been even stronger once imported goods are sold and people convert dollars to dong.

"The rate adjustment has devaluated the dong, causing increased input costs to produce goods," Long says.

The economist also attributes price rise to the loss of consumer confidence and to the trend among traders of hoarding rice to export to neighbouring countries, a situation Long says will immediately affect prices.

According to deputy director of the Ha Noi Industry and Trade Department Nguyen Van Dong, the total commodity circulation in February will be about VND19.2 trillion in value ($960 million) or an increase by between 20 and 22 per cent compared with the earlier months.

He says Ha Noi will have to import pork from other provinces because it has met only 70 per cent of the city's demand.

The inability to meet consumption demand will encourage hoarding or the spread of false information to raise prices and earn illegal profits, says deputy head of Ha Noi Market Watch Vuong Tri Dung.

To reduce pressure, Ha Noi authorities have decided to lend enterprises VND400 billion ($20.5 million) with preferential interest rates to help them stock goods for the lunar New Year period.

But Nguyen Minh Phong, an expert at the Ha Noi Socio-Economic Development Institute, says this will not be effective enough to stabilise market prices.

Phong suggests the State satisfy demand for foreign currencies among enterprises and apply drastic measures to stabilise the price of products like electricity, coal, water, and oil and gas.

Source: VNS

jackbl
30-11-2010, 02:00 AM
ASEAN Football Cup (AFF) 2010
======================================

Group B (host in Vietnam):

December 8

Vietnam – Singapore (7.30: pm VN time) at My Dinh Stadium

Channel 5 may be showing this match LIVE :)

jackbl
30-11-2010, 09:37 AM
A few months of saving may not enough to buy a wedding ring for workers in hcmc industrial zones..... :o :(

Poor workers presented wedding rings
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Ho Chi Minh City’s Young Workers Assistance Centre on November 28 presented wedding rings to 90 couples of poor workers, who have been working in city's industrial zones.

Earlier, the centre organized a group wedding for ten couples and presented wedding rings to them.

To date, the centre presented a total of 100 pairs of wedding rings to 100 couples.

The rings were donated by Gooman Jewellery, worth VND2 million (US$100) each.

The center has scheduled to offer 1,000 pairs of diamond rings to 1,000 married couples.


By Th.Hop, translated by Thanh Huong

creeve
30-11-2010, 10:34 AM
Hi folks,

Need some help with the following message:

A chao tam biet cac ban cua a dum e, a cho e goi loi chuc tot dep nhat den ban a nhe

This girl, when sending this message, is in the airport holding area waiting to board the plane back to HCM. She was the one that I mentioned in my post a few pages back that got caught. Stupid girl. Walked from G19 to G42 with her friend and while still in her work dress. How not to get caught?

Anyway, just knew her for a week plus but have been spending a lot of time with her. She also know a couple of my friends (which is probably who she is referring to as "cac ban" in the message above).

This is the message before the one above:

E nho se bao a khi can gi. e ve vn se rat la buon gi kg co a ben canh e

This message I understand but I don't think has any correlation to the message that I posted above.

Can anyone help with translating the message in blue?

Thanks...

KangTuo
30-11-2010, 11:24 AM
Hi folks,

Need some help with the following message:

A chao tam biet cac ban cua a dum e, a cho e goi loi chuc tot dep nhat den ban a nhe

I try to interprate...

she ask you to help her say goodbye to your friends. She send regards to your friends and wish them well.


It is always a sad feeling the moment we send vb back to vn and not seeing them again...especially when we spend alot of them with them during their stay in sillypore. But after 1 day, we will be finding new target again in JC/GL....

creeve
30-11-2010, 11:39 AM
I try to interprate...

she ask you to help her say goodbye to your friends. She send regards to your friends and wish them well.



KT, thanks a lot for your translation.


It is always a sad feeling the moment we send vb back to vn and not seeing them again...especially when we spend alot of them with them during their stay in sillypore. But after 1 day, we will be finding new target again in JC/GL....

:( This girl... Knew her for 9 days, spent almost every night with her, yet never asked me for a single cent. Even want to pay me taxi fare when I send her to work. Every moment we spent together, I will always cherish. This morning, I had proceeded to buy air ticket to visit her in January.

Since the Hanoi girl from last Dec, she's first girl to make me drop tear... I thought that after the Hanoi girl hurt me so deep, I will never again fall for any WL again. Like, have lah... But, kenna so poisoned like now, ** shake head ** Heck! She is not even pretty, don't have a great body, can't cook to save her life. In fact, just a plain Jane and won't even draw a second look from any passerby. But, her every smile... every time she looks at me... just melt my heart.

:(

Hope she can reach her hometown soon (Kien Giang, 8 hours commute by bus) and get in touch with me soon, as she promised.

KangTuo
30-11-2010, 12:18 PM
This morning, I had proceeded to buy air ticket to visit her in January.

Since the Hanoi girl from last Dec, she's first girl to make me drop tear...

this KC power very strong. Good luck bro.

jackbl
30-11-2010, 01:50 PM
E nho se bao a khi can gi. e ve vn se rat la buon gi kg co a ben canh e

IMHO, the above word gi should be vi.

vì = because

SureScore
30-11-2010, 06:38 PM
Hope she can reach her hometown soon (Kien Giang, 8 hours commute by bus) and get in touch with me soon, as she promised.

Another bro fallen for the VB kc trap. Welcome to the club.

FireShark
30-11-2010, 10:01 PM
Dear all Bros

Any KTV to recommend where they have VB. I heard that Tian Xin KTV near Mustafa is not bad. Anyone been there b4 and I heard the beer is a bit expensive. Am I rite?

KangTuo
30-11-2010, 11:17 PM
Dear all Bros

Any KTV to recommend where they have VB. I heard that Tian Xin KTV near Mustafa is not bad. Anyone been there b4 and I heard the beer is a bit expensive. Am I rite?

just name a few places with purely/mostly vb -
GL: top city aka sentosa, paramount, HM (upstair), afterdark
parklane: K2 and tuberose
others: V3, V4

tian xin issit RS? if so, bro recaro may give more review.

AdGuy
01-12-2010, 01:02 AM
just name a few places with purely/mostly vb -
GL: top city aka sentosa, paramount, HM (upstair), afterdark
parklane: K2 and tuberose
others: V3, V4

tian xin issit RS? if so, bro recaro may give more review.

Tian xin IS RS. :D

IMHO, GM beats RS any day... and it's cheaper.

Tot this was the TV lovers club thread? :eek:

AdGuy
01-12-2010, 01:04 AM
KT, thanks a lot for your translation.

Hope she can reach her hometown soon (Kien Giang, 8 hours commute by bus) and get in touch with me soon, as she promised.

Is there any point chasing something that has no ending?

Move on, there are many other trees in the forest, fish in the pond. :p

volcano
01-12-2010, 02:52 AM
just name a few places with purely/mostly vb -
GL: top city aka sentosa, paramount, HM (upstair), afterdark
parklane: K2 and tuberose
others: V3, V4

tian xin issit RS? if so, bro recaro may give more review.




Tuberose has change to hang flower joint already.....have gd memories of that place....its the place where i first get to know VBs...

KangTuo
01-12-2010, 03:03 AM
Is there any point chasing something that has no ending?

Move on, there are many other trees in the forest, fish in the pond. :p

borrow your words.
thought this is a TV lovers club thread?

when did the TS become uncle Ad-Gu-ny? hahaha

KangTuo
01-12-2010, 03:10 AM
Tuberose has change to hang flower joint already.....have gd memories of that place....its the place where i first get to know VBs...

half hfj half ktv.
cny period go there saw the stage and some singer
i think 2 month ago spme bro still go to the ktv for vb
2 weeks ago book room for ktv, still have vb but we went other place

tuberose is the place where i had my first bbbj by a malaysian babe in the toilet. is the place where i got my first hj in room by a local babe. is the place where i first time play with a minah mummy with shaven pussy.

Ange|Boy
01-12-2010, 08:56 AM
half hfj half ktv.
cny period go there saw the stage and some singer
i think 2 month ago spme bro still go to the ktv for vb
2 weeks ago book room for ktv, still have vb but we went other place

tuberose is the place where i had my first bbbj by a malaysian babe in the toilet. is the place where i got my first hj in room by a local babe. is the place where i first time play with a minah mummy with shaven pussy.

Wah Bro then it must be quite some years back right, cos I used to request K2 a few years back but stop goin after it stop being fun...
:(

FireShark
01-12-2010, 10:42 AM
Tian xin IS RS. :D

IMHO, GM beats RS any day... and it's cheaper.

Tot this was the TV lovers club thread? :eek:

Yeah is TV lovers Club..... Tat whys I'm asking where can find TV cos intend to cheong tonite. So this RS is it happening??? I heard the beer price is quite expensive rite??? Any bros been to this place before

creeve
01-12-2010, 12:55 PM
IMHO, the above word gi should be vi.

vì = because

Ah... I was puzzled what was the word gi doing there...


Another test for you... How would you explain "Sor Zai" (Cantonese for 儍子) to VB without sounding like you are scolding her stupid. Rather, like you are calling her "Sor Zai" in a lovingly manner?

creeve
01-12-2010, 12:57 PM
Is there any point chasing something that has no ending?

Move on, there are many other trees in the forest, fish in the pond. :p

Is there any point in insisting that everything must have a end result, when the process is what we enjoy?

creeve
01-12-2010, 12:57 PM
Another bro fallen for the VB kc trap. Welcome to the club.

Have been resisting hard for the past 13 months. Guess the harder you try to resist, the more painful the fall is.

creeve
01-12-2010, 01:00 PM
Yeah is TV lovers Club..... Tat whys I'm asking where can find TV cos intend to cheong tonite. So this RS is it happening??? I heard the beer price is quite expensive rite??? Any bros been to this place before

I guess you meant VBs since from what I remember, TV refers to Transvestites (also known as LadyBoys). Unless you changed your preference, that is.

FireShark
01-12-2010, 01:29 PM
I guess you meant VBs since from what I remember, TV refers to Transvestites (also known as LadyBoys). Unless you changed your preference, that is.

Yup, my mistake. should be VB. Thinking to go out cheong tonite but until today still don't know where to go....

siamloverboy
01-12-2010, 08:20 PM
Hi Bros
Anyone here can help me with the translation? Try use Vdict not so accurate. Thanks in advance. :)

Oxa lai vietnam luc may gio? De baxa sap xep thoi di chup hinh cuoi nguoi ta hen 2gio

lovesprout
01-12-2010, 09:24 PM
Hi Bros
Anyone here can help me with the translation? Try use Vdict not so accurate. Thanks in advance. :)

Oxa lai vietnam luc may gio? De baxa sap xep thoi di chup hinh cuoi nguoi ta hen 2gio

Husband, what time will you arrive vietnam? Let wife arrange time to take wedding photo, people make an appointment at 2pm.

jackbl
01-12-2010, 09:25 PM
Hi Bros
Anyone here can help me with the translation? Try use Vdict not so accurate. Thanks in advance. :)

Oxa lai vietnam luc may gio? De baxa sap xep thoi di chup hinh cuoi nguoi ta hen 2gio

As a practice, u can give u own translation and let the other expert correct u. I not so good, need context or background then can try

jackbl
01-12-2010, 09:27 PM
Husband, what time will you arrive vietnam? Let wife arrange time to take wedding photo, people make an appointment at 2pm.

Wow u so good. Can translate so fast, peifu peifu :)

KangTuo
01-12-2010, 09:33 PM
Wow u so good. Can translate so fast, peifu peifu :)

you are the best lah... but you very lazy to translate :D;)

lovesprout
01-12-2010, 10:18 PM
you are the best lah... but you very lazy to translate :D;)

I concur with your point. :)

siamloverboy
01-12-2010, 10:46 PM
Husband, what time will you arrive vietnam? Let wife arrange time to take wedding photo, people make an appointment at 2pm.
Thanks to Bro lovesprout

Indeed I will be flying there for my wedding dinner with my bx around end of the year. But the wedding photo need to delay further as I will be there at HCM around 5pm. Thanks to all Bros here as I have learn a lot from you guys here and also "Understanding Vietnamese Life partner" thread. Keep up the good work. Hopefully Bro here can contribute whatever little I can.

MrDarkSide
02-12-2010, 12:03 AM
Ehhh... You are marrying someone but the 2 of you cant communicate???? :confused:

jackbl
02-12-2010, 12:26 AM
I concur with your point. :)

Ehhh... You are marrying someone but the 2 of you cant communicate???? :confused:

Yeah. I concur with your point. I m confused. If u can't comm, how u express Ur feeling with her? If next time u and her are staying with Ur parents then unable to comm may lead to misunderstanding.

AdGuy
02-12-2010, 12:32 AM
Thanks to Bro lovesprout

Indeed I will be flying there for my wedding dinner with my bx around end of the year. But the wedding photo need to delay further as I will be there at HCM around 5pm. Thanks to all Bros here as I have learn a lot from you guys here and also "Understanding Vietnamese Life partner" thread. Keep up the good work. Hopefully Bro here can contribute whatever little I can.

Is there a table for TV lovers club members? :D

jackbl
02-12-2010, 12:32 AM
you are the best lah... but you very lazy to translate :D;)

Wow u see me so Up? Sorry I not going to buy Magnum ice-cream for u :D

Without context v diff to guess leh. I use vdict and dick-tionary to translate so with less info, will slower down the chance of accurate translation. I not so good as KT and Lovesprout. ;)

AdGuy
02-12-2010, 12:33 AM
Yeah. I concur with your point. I m confused. If u can't comm, how u express Ur feeling with her? If next time u and her are staying with Ur parents then unable to comm may lead to misunderstanding.

It's already so hard understanding a VB even if you know her language. Without communication... worse!

Yet again...

You say it best, when you say nothing at all. :D

KangTuo
02-12-2010, 12:42 AM
I use vdict and dick-tionary to translate

see see. i only use vdict. you are so good that you have your own DICK-tionary to think and translate.

i use dick to poke poke only

KangTuo
02-12-2010, 12:45 AM
Is there a table for TV lovers club members? :D

wrong question ask. should be...
is there a table + airticket + accomodation + syt vb for TV lovers club members? :p

siamloverboy
02-12-2010, 01:04 AM
Yeah. I concur with your point. I m confused. If u can't comm, how u express Ur feeling with her? If next time u and her are staying with Ur parents then unable to comm may lead to misunderstanding.
Yes Bros, I have to agree with what you said. I know my baxa for about half a year. She was introduced to me by my best friend WL gf. She is not a WL but is working in HCM selling something like yoghurt (not so sure). I like her a lot. She is like a simple lady to me, not demanding.
Anyway to cut the story, she tell me she is learning some basic chinese in vietnam. And I try to learn some vietnamese also. :):)

jackbl
02-12-2010, 01:16 AM
wrong question ask. should be...
is there a table + airticket + accomodation + syt vb for TV lovers club members? :p

Yeah, with all these in, we take leave to go there :) KT is the best here, so he can be your BEST man. :D We b ur bro :)

jackbl
02-12-2010, 09:07 AM
It’s worse than we think
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Motorbikers get stuck in a traffic jam on Thi Nghe Brigde, Ho Chi Minh City
Traffic jams seem to be an endless saga in Ho Chi Minh City, a saga that has inflicted great losses over the years on the southern metropolis.

In 2008, experts said traffic jams caused the city losses of VND14 trillion (US$718.68 million) a year. The HCMC Transport Association has complained about how much its member companies lose every year due to traffic jams.

However, there are losses that are substantially bigger than those figures. Incalculable losses.

Last week, Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong, 39, gave birth to her baby in a taxi as the vehicle was stuck in traffic jams for more than one hour on its way to hospital. Some newspapers called it a “miracle” when doctors managed to save the baby, who was born about 30 minutes before the taxi reached the hospital and had stopped breathing by then.

But, what if the “miracle” didn’t happen?

How much of a loss would that be?

In fact, many babies haven’t been as lucky as Phuong’s daughter.

Dr. Nguyen Huu Nhan, chief of Children Hospital No.1’s Emergency Department, said every year between ten and 30 children are stuck traffic jams as they are being taken to the hospital.

Most of the children are in critical condition and need emergency treatment, but because ambulances couldn’t reach the hospital quikly, many children died, he said.

There are other damages that we cannot quantify with money.

Apart from the physical discomfort and highly unhealthy breathing in of toxic fumes, there are psychological impacts of being stuck in traffic jams. We can already see people getting angry and starting a fight on flimsy grounds. Because everyone is in a rush, the looks of hostility and anger being exchanged between fellow citizens and commuters are increasing.

It might even be said that traffic jams make people less humane.

We are scared of streets, because they have taken too many things from us. Traffic jams have us in their grip, making our lives heavier. We don’t want to go out on the street, but we can’t help it, because we have to go to school and go to work.

We’ve asked: “When will the nightmare end?” Many times. And many times, plans have been announced about tackling traffic jams; yet they are still there and getting worse.

We are still waiting for an answer.


By Ngoc Vinh (Tuoi Tre)

KangTuo
02-12-2010, 10:35 AM
Yeah, with all these in, we take leave to go there :) KT is the beast here, so he can be your BEAST man. :D We b ur bro

did you forget the letter "A"??? ;):cool:

FireShark
02-12-2010, 11:31 AM
Hi Bro

Yesterday went to RS (Aka Tian Xin). Reached there around 2245hrs and the room there are fulled. Luckily, one of my friends had booked the room earlier. There are a lot of tall and pretty VB there. Enviroment not bad but min order is 6jugs of beer with room free (S$232). The place close at 1am but will extend untill 2am latest. The gals are naughty there. Due to too many customer, some pretty gals might have 4 to 5 tables. There isn't any mummy to bring the VB around and you could chose who to sit with. I choose a VB 1st time come to Singapore and that time she doesn't no have any other customers. Accompany for the whole 3hrs there. This place is recommended

lovesprout
03-12-2010, 01:48 PM
Just got these 2 sms from a VB and I don't know how to translate. Anyone can help?

We were talking about whether a girl likes you or your money.

1. nhung ai yeu that long cach ho do'i su quan tam anh se biet

(But anyone love true heart different from those .... you will know)

What is "do'i su quan tam"?

2. co ay hieu thao voi gd thi 1 thang anh co' the cho co ay cho gd 1 it tien
nhu vay chang tot hon sao

(She wants to fulfill her duty with family then 1 month you can give her family some money. Like that, it is better, isn't it?)

How to translate "chang" here? Normally, chang means "negative", but I think here only "nhu vay tot hon sao" is enough.

FireShark
03-12-2010, 05:36 PM
Just got these 2 sms from a VB and I don't know how to translate. Anyone can help?

We were talking about whether a girl likes you or your money.

1. nhung ai yeu that long cach ho do'i su quan tam anh se biet

(But anyone love true heart different from those .... you will know)

What is "do'i su quan tam"?

2. co ay hieu thao voi gd thi 1 thang anh co' the cho co ay cho gd 1 it tien
nhu vay chang tot hon sao

(She wants to fulfill her duty with family then 1 month you can give her family some money. Like that, it is better, isn't it?)

How to translate "chang" here? Normally, chang means "negative", but I think here only "nhu vay tot hon sao" is enough.

1st one should be "one loves you by one's owned heart and then you would know through her actions, instead of words"

2nd should be "she takes care of her family, at least it's better if you are able to give her some money monthly.

I hope i translate correctly

leecs
03-12-2010, 08:39 PM
Hi Bro

Yesterday went to RS (Aka Tian Xin). Reached there around 2245hrs and the room there are fulled. Luckily, one of my friends had booked the room earlier. There are a lot of tall and pretty VB there. Enviroment not bad but min order is 6jugs of beer with room free (S$232). The place close at 1am but will extend untill 2am latest. The gals are naughty there. Due to too many customer, some pretty gals might have 4 to 5 tables. There isn't any mummy to bring the VB around and you could chose who to sit with. I choose a VB 1st time come to Singapore and that time she doesn't no have any other customers. Accompany for the whole 3hrs there. This place is recommended

Been there a number of times. Not bad.....:):)

jackbl
04-12-2010, 02:02 AM
The condotel has landed
==================================

The condo-hotel is an alien concept for Vietnam but developers now believe the time is right to introduce this product to the market. Duc Hanh examines what the attractions are for investors and owners

So, first of all, what is a condo-hotel or a condotel? It’s a condominium project, which is operated as a hotel with a registration desk, cleaning service and more. It’s a popular concept around the world, but brand new to Vietnam.

Second question – what’s the appeal? The units are individually owned giving owners the option to rent out their unit via the hotel’s rental programme. Holidaymakers can rent the room out like any other hotel room, except they can enjoy those homely extras – such as a fully-equipped kitchen – while availing of all the luxury amenities like a swimming pool, a fitness center or 24-hour service.

Typically condotels are high-rise buildings in either major cities or holiday destinations. Owners can enjoy the benefits of the hotel chain’s marketing campaigns to lure in renters and trust the management to ensure a comfortable stay.

Pros and cons

There are pros and cons to condotel ownership. Pros include rental income to offset ownership expenses, a great vacation home, a cared-for home and potential price appreciation.

On the down side, you might have to make a reservation for your own unit several days or weeks in advance. There are risks associated with all hotel ownership as well, such as occupancy rates that might be based on general economic conditions or the potential destruction of the property.

Currently in Vietnam property developers have shifted their investment to this promising new real-estate segment. With the advantages of a long coast with a string of beautiful beaches, there is plenty of potential for further condotel development.

Nha Trang Plaza the pioneer

Known as the first condotel project in Vietnam, Nha Trang Plaza Hotel is a 40-storey building providing 240 luxurious five-star apartments of 126-280sqm in size. Located on the coconut-tree-lined Tran Phu street in one of the world’s most beautiful bays, Nha Trang Plaza blends in naturally with the environment offering guests a welcome break from the worries of the world in a truly stunning setting.

After Nha Trang Plaza Hotel, a vast number of condotel projects have been deployed. Olalani Resort & Condotel on Bac My An beach in Danang features three large villas, 88 apartments and 197 hotel rooms with high-end services including a spa, a mini-golf course, a casino and a water sports centre.

Ocean Vista Condotel is a five star project in Phan Thiet in the central province of Binh Thuan owned by Rang Dong Construction Corporation, which also features hotel rooms, villas and “condotel units” with luxury services including use of a golf course.

Investors of these condotel projects nurture great ambitions to bring their clients attractive investment and lifestyle opportunities. Timeshare possibilities also mean guests can exchange units with other timeshare owners from associated resorts around the world.

A burgeoning sector

In the forthcoming period, Song Da Thang Long JSC will launch the condotel Dragon-Pia project in Nha Trang. The project covers an area of nearly 22,000sqm in An Vien sea-tourist complex by Nha Trang Bay with a cultural centre, public services, shopping outlets, sports centre and an international standard marina. The project, which is scheduled to be completed by 2013, includes 240 luxury apartments with four-star services and facilities.

Nguyen Tri Dung, general director of Thang Long Song Da Joint Stock Co, said Nha Trang was an ideal place for building condo-hotels. Therefore, after carefully researching the market, the company decided to develop their property as a four-star condotel which is expected to bring more profit to investors, he said.

The key factor

The difference and advantage of condotel projects, in fact, is that it’s an investment with double profit. Customers can own an apartment in a luxury hotel managed by branded hotel management group in a famous tourist destination as well as affirming their “high-end status” when staying at the apartment and enjoying preferential treatment and hotel services.

However, the development of condotel in fact depends on policies to attract tourists and MICE by local authorities and industries. The success of condotel projects in Bali, Indonesia or Phuket, Thailand has been down to a comprehensive support system, including access to an international airport, positive promotion of tourism by local authorities, prestigious branding and reputable services. These elements attract high-end tourists and make them return to invest in property projects.

In Vietnam the concern is that investors only care about an increase in property price and a quick flip. Investors may be less concerned about the other elements, which create the value of the product and help develop the sector on a sound and sustainable basis.

Source: Timeout

jackbl
04-12-2010, 11:34 AM
Wedding day blues
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VietNamNet Bridge - As the bride’s family foots the bill at a Co Ho wedding party, families with a lot of nubile daughters are often left facing bankruptcy.

After a long chat, finally, Ka Hinh, a 57-year old Co Ho woman from Di Linh’s Gung Re commune, agrees to talk about her least favourite topic – weddings. “A wedding party must be a massive celebration, otherwise the bride’s family will be looked down upon,” says Ka Hinh with a rueful shrug.

It is a Co Ho tradition that the bride’s family foots the bill. Ka Hinh shakes her head in disgust at the memory of her own daughter’s wedding five years ago, an event which left her family riddled with debts.

There is an estimated population of over 100,000 Co Ho living mostly in Binh Thuan and Lam Dong provinces. In Ka Hinh’s commune there are nearly 2,100 households, mainly Co-ho people, who are living off coffee or maize cultivation. She claims many Co Ho families are living in poverty as a result of indulgent weddings parties.

When Ka Hinh’s daughter, Ka Sac turned 16 years old, she met a young man living in the next village. Ka Sac soon asked her parents to visit the man’s family, saying that she wanted to marry the man.

There are some stricts rules for this traditional affair. The initial meeting must be held late at night, when locals believe that all the genies can witness it and agree on the marriage of the couple. A lucky day is then selected for an engagement ceremony. On that day the groom’s family will bring cash, chickens, liquor and jewellery to the bride’s home. The two family heads will consult the bride’s ancestors and as long as everything goes well, a wedding will be held some months later, normally in spring when the weather is warm.

On that occasion the bride’s parents will visit the groom’s home with chicken and liquor, asking for the family’s permission to take the groom back to their home. After that a party is organised and the whole village is invited. Interestingly, it’s a matriarchal society – after the wedding, the groom will live with his wife’s family and the children will bear their mother’s surname.

Sac’s husband’s family demanded a fair bit in return for the loss of a son. This is not unusual, says Ka Hinh. “There is no ruling for such demands,” says Ka Hinh. “The groom’s family has the right to ask us for whatever they want. If we didn’t meet their demands, Sac would not have been able to marry their son.”

Sadly pride is at stake. It’s not honourable to baulk at demands or cancel the wedding. “Then Sac would be considered charmless, and she would not be able to find anyone after that. We have to accept her husband’s family’s demands,” says Ka Hinh, who claims Sac’s marriage cost her family VND40 million ($2,105).

That’s equivalent to 40 months of hard labour for Ka Hinh’s family. “And that’s excluding two buffaloes and three pigs we provided as offerings,” she adds with a sigh. “We borrowed a lot from relatives. Only one fifth of it has been paid off.” According to Ka Hinh’s husband, K’Rich in the past, people offered buffaloes, cows, pigs, gongs, skirts and jewellery.

“Today, everything is calculated in cash and gold,” says K’Rich. But this bitter couple is perhaps luckier than some. Next door, their neighbour has six eligible daughters, but no one is allowed to get married as the family claim they can’t afford a wedding party.

In Di Linh district’s Gia Bac commune where a large number of Co Ho people live, I meet a 50-year-old by the name of K’s Loc, who is cleaning his gongs in preparation for an upcoming performance at his niece’s wedding. Asked about the customs of Co Ho weddings, he claims that the bride’s family’s must present the groom’s family with expensive clothes, handkerchiefs and cash.

“Ten years ago, maybe you could give VND2 to VND3 million ($105.2 - $157.9), but now families might have to offer as much as VND30 to VND40 million ($1,578 - $2,105),” says K’s Loc.

If the bride’s family is poor, they can give the groom’s family the gifts, while the cash can be taken on as a debt. The groom can move to the bride’s house, but the wedding can take place only when the debt is paid off.
“It’s true that many families have fallen into poverty because of their children’s weddings. Many couples cannot hold a wedding ceremony as they are yet to pay debts though they have lived with each other and had kids,” K’s Loc says.

“Families with many daughters are living in awful poverty. When the parents die, the kids will inherit nothing but debts.”


Source: Time-out

FireShark
04-12-2010, 12:48 PM
Wedding day blues
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There are some stricts rules for this traditional affair. The initial meeting must be held late at night, when locals believe that all the genies can witness it and agree on the marriage of the couple. A lucky day is then selected for an engagement ceremony. On that day the groom’s family will bring cash, chickens, liquor and jewellery to the bride’s home. The two family heads will consult the bride’s ancestors and as long as everything goes well, a wedding will be held some months later, normally in spring when the weather is warm.

“Families with many daughters are living in awful poverty. When the parents die, the kids will inherit nothing but debts.”


Source: Time-out

I had attend a village wedding dinner before and now I know why the brides only serves the tea to their relative and elders in the night. It kinda of funny where the tea ceremony are serve in the night. Furthermore, when im a foreigner, they treat me like a king where they thought you are rich. Any bros here can talk about more about the wedding ceremony in Vietnam cos I intend to marry early 2012 and Im planning now. Need to know more about the tradition.

volcano
04-12-2010, 03:41 PM
I had attend a village wedding dinner before and now I know why the brides only serves the tea to their relative and elders in the night. It kinda of funny where the tea ceremony are serve in the night. Furthermore, when im a foreigner, they treat me like a king where they thought you are rich. Any bros here can talk about more about the wedding ceremony in Vietnam cos I intend to marry early 2012 and Im planning now. Need to know more about the tradition.



the ceremony u mention is actually a blessing by the elders.....n they drink white wine instead of tea.....

FireShark
04-12-2010, 04:51 PM
the ceremony u mention is actually a blessing by the elders.....n they drink white wine instead of tea.....

Their white wine damn difficult to drink and I find it dirty. Everytime when I went to my em yeu house, her grandfather everyday ask me to drink at least 10 small cups.

volcano
04-12-2010, 05:15 PM
Their white wine damn difficult to drink and I find it dirty. Everytime when I went to my em yeu house, her grandfather everyday ask me to drink at least 10 small cups.


true enough,most of the white wines r not so 'cleaned'....but if really must drink to entertain the elders then drink the brand 'Nep Moi'....should be a better quality.....:):)

if i am in village....normally i will be 'forced' to drink with the villagers n elders in the noon,normally will 'knock out' b4 the sun sets....:(:(

FireShark
04-12-2010, 07:04 PM
true enough,most of the white wines r not so 'cleaned'....but if really must drink to entertain the elders then drink the brand 'Nep Moi'....should be a better quality.....:):)

if i am in village....normally i will be 'forced' to drink with the villagers n elders in the noon,normally will 'knock out' b4 the sun sets....

Everytime when I drink with them, I limit myself maximum 20 small cups. Normally, after 15 cups, I will give excuses to go toilet, or find a place to hide, if not sure knock out before sunsets. :D

Once, I attend their relative wedding dinner, morning I started to drink by lunch I already find myself drunk. When my em yeu ride me back, she kept laughing at me.:mad:

Worse of all, in the nite, the hangover feeling really make damn headache.

Botarbolampar
04-12-2010, 07:07 PM
Their white wine damn difficult to drink and I find it dirty. Everytime when I went to my em yeu house, her grandfather everyday ask me to drink at least 10 small cups.

That day I attended my friend wedding, he drank about 40 small cup. He wasn't aware of the kick. After that Zzzzzzzzzzzzz xin roi.

AdGuy
04-12-2010, 09:36 PM
That day I attended my friend wedding, he drank about 40 small cup. He wasn't aware of the kick. After that Zzzzzzzzzzzzz xin roi.

More like chet roi. Hihi

FireShark
05-12-2010, 04:22 PM
That day I attended my friend wedding, he drank about 40 small cup. He wasn't aware of the kick. After that Zzzzzzzzzzzzz xin roi.

Lolx, Xin roi, lam gi lam tinh dc? :D:p

Hurricane88
05-12-2010, 05:39 PM
That day I attended my friend wedding, he drank about 40 small cup. He wasn't aware of the kick. After that Zzzzzzzzzzzzz xin roi.

hahaha...I tried only 3 small glasses of home concocted wine and the feeling was great...of course we drank alot of beer too...that night I can lam tinh 4 times without feeling tired...next morning can still pump...and best of all dun feel tired and no backache or pain anywhere for 2 days...these was already more than 3 years story...:p:)

jackbl
06-12-2010, 02:58 AM
Education officials ordered to prevent students’ fights
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Gang fights becoming obsession in schools
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VietNamNet Bridge – Repeated cases of school violence cases which occurred in recent days have raised doubts that the measures taken by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) and general schools to fight school violence are useless.

Measures still cannot help

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Tran Quang Quy said MOET has been applying comprehensive measures in an effort to stop school violence. He said local authorities, organizations, students and students’ families need to cooperate with each other to stop the evil.

The ministry has asked schools to have clear behaviors towards the fight cases. Schools must criticize the fighting and impose heavy fines on violent behaviors. They have also been told to tightly control the learning time of students at schools and apply drastic measures to prevent students from giving up lessons. A big problem now is that though students tell their parents that they go to school, they actually skip class and participate in join fights.

MOET has also called on schools to renovate the method of teaching citizen morality to students. The lessons about morality need to become more lively and attractive, so as to help strengthen the education of morality and life skills to students.

In HCM City, in April 2010, the city’s education and training department organized a seminar on combating school violence. At the seminar, Huynh Cong Minh, Director of the education and training department, admitted that though school violence has been existing for a long time, recently the number of cases and the seriousness of the cases have sharply increased.

Nguyen Khac Huy, Head of the Students’ Affair Division of the HCM City Education and Training Department, said that a lot of lessons have been learned from the seminar. Teachers need to take more care of students, provide analyses on the bad consequences of school violence, and regularly give advice to students on their problems. Educators have especially realized that a close cooperation between schools and relevant agencies, especially the police, is very important in preventing school violence.

With a lot of measures put forward and implemented, educators once felt secure that the school violence will be restrained. However, in reality, more and more school violence cases have still been occurring, which has sparked doubts about the effectiveness of the measures applied by the educators.

Civil affair committees have been set up for every class of Mach Kiem Hung Secondary School in HCM City. A branch of the Youth Union also exists in every class. The school has an open letter-box, to which every student can send letters and provide information about school violence cases. There is also a consultancy room managed by some key teachers of the school.

However, a case of school violence still occurred recently in the school. A group of female students beat another student in a class with the participation of many other students. The problem was that even the class monitor was also involved in the fight and the school did not know about the case until the clips of the fight were posted on Internet.

Phan Dinh Long, Headmaster of Mach Kiem Hung school, admitted that there is a trend of “taking off shirts and filming” at the school, and the serious thing is that students do not think they behaviours are very bad.

Students afraid of revenge

When asked why students do not provide information about fights to schools and relevant agencies, many students honestly said that they are afraid of revenge. Long admitted that the case shows the failure of the school in preventing school violence.

Nguyen Huu Khanh, Headmaster of Le Thi Hong Gam High School in HCM City, said though the school has taken drastic measures to restrain school violence, cases still occur sometimes. Students fight because they still have not realized the danger of their behaviors.

Ho Thi Ngoc Vuong from Nguyen Trung Truc High School, said that the current curriculum is too heavy in theory, while there are not many useful lessons on life skills and behavior, both important factors that help develop the personality of students.

Meanwhile, many people believe that the current fines on violations are still not heavy enough to deter students. Especially, they have also pointed out that it is the “achievement disease” (schools only want to report their achievements while trying to hide problems) which has made the school violence become more serious. The Lam Dong province’s police said that many schools refuse to provide the list of bad students, so that the police can take a close watch over them.

Source: Nguoi lao dong

jackbl
06-12-2010, 01:32 PM
“.vn” is the most dangerous domain in the world?
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VietNamNet Bridge – McAfee, the anti-virus solution provider, has released a report, saying that Vietnamese domains have become easy prey for technology criminals. However, Vietnamese experts still have doubts about the survey.



McAfee, using the database of Global Threat Intelligence service, analyzed 27 million websites from 120 countries. The database gathers the information from 150 million photodiodes located in 120 countries.

McAfee has found out that 58 percent of websites with the domain suffix “. vn” contain penetrating codes. When accessing the dangerous websites, computer users would have their sensitive information stolen. In general, 6.2 percent of total 27 million websites have been considered as “having high risks”. The figure is higher than the figure released last year, 5.9 percent.

Other websites which are considered high risk may contain some penetrating software which exploit programming holes to install attacking codes onto the computers of Internet users.

The web environment has become harsher – this is the conclusion by McAfee when viewing the recent activities of hackers.

The survey by McAfee pointed out that Vietnam has become the attractive destination for high-technology criminals in this year. In 2009, Vietnam’s domains only ranked 39th on the list of the riskiest domains worldwide. In this year’s report, Vietnam’s domains rank third on the list of most dangerous domains (29.4 percent), just behind commercial domains “.com” (31.3 percent) and “. infor”. Meanwhile, “.vn” is considered the most dangerous national domain in the world.

About 15,000 out of 24,000 websites with suffix “. vn” have been reportedly exploited and controlled by hackers.

Other national domains which also have high risks include Cameroon (.cm – 22,2%), Armenia (.am – 12,1%), Cocos (.cc – 10,5%) and Russia (.ru – 10,1%).

Among general domains, domains with the suffix “. infor” became popular in 2010 with its number of dangerous websites increasing by 94.5 percent. The number of risky domains with the suffix “.com” has reached one million.

To explain the increases of the penetrating activities, McAfee Labs’ Internet Security Research Director Paula Greve said hackers always target the regions which have low website registration fees and low risks of being discovered. Therefore, very safe websites this year can be the targets of hackers the next year.

However, Buu dien newspaper quoted Hoang Minh Cuong, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC) as saying that there are many “doubtful” points in the survey. “It is nearly impossible to see the number of dangerous websites increasing so dramatically over just one year,” he said.

Agreeing with Cuong, Nguyen Minh Duc, Director of BKIS (Bach Khoa Internet Security Centre), also said BKIS is quite surprised with the survey released by McAfee, especially because BKIS always works with malicious websites containing the codes exploited in Vietnam. BKIS thinks that the result released by McAfee is not very accurate. Among the 25,000 surveyed domains (Vietnam now has 170,000 websites with “.vn” domain, more than 50 percent of which are websites with malicious codes. “This means that there is a high probability of accessing the “.vn” websites which contain malicious codes. Meanwhile, the probability is low for normal internet users.

According to BKIS, in 2009, 1000 website attack cases in Vietnam were reported, while the figure in 2010 is about 700-800. The attacks mostly targeted the government’s websites (“.gov.vn”).

Buu dien also has quoted Vu Quoc Khanh, Director of Vietnam Computer Emergency Respond Team (VNCERT) under the Ministry of Information and Communication as saying that the ministry will contact McAfee to clarify the method McAfee used.

Prior to that, Kaspersky also released a report with similar pessimistic result.

P.V

AdGuy
06-12-2010, 10:53 PM
Aiyo bro jackbl, got more exciting news?

Tech news make Me want to falling asleep

vagrant
07-12-2010, 01:34 AM
got more exciting news?

Tech news make Me want to falling asleep

US may wan to print more $. USD vs SGD should go down further if that happens. Then it may be cheaper to cheong Vietnam. Exciting enough? :D

jackbl
07-12-2010, 02:08 AM
Here u go ........ Be a photographer :D


US may wan to print more $. USD vs SGD should go down further if that happens. Then it may be cheaper to cheong Vietnam. Exciting enough? :D

Aiyo bro jackbl, got more exciting news?

Tech news make Me want to falling asleep

Nude wedding photos is becoming a new trend in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge – The idea of taking nude wedding photos is new in Vietnam But it is anticipated to become a popular trend very soon.

In Vietnam’s neighboring country – China, taking nude wedding photos began in 2007 and by now it has become a populartrend.

Chinese youth explained that wedding is a unique event in their lives and taking nude wedding photos is to record their deep love and memorable moments. They are willing to pay a lot of money to have a nude wedding album.

But most Chinese parents think this is too much against customs.

In Vietnam, taking nude photos is said to become popular soon.

A person with nickname keynis wrote on az24.vn forum: “It is interesting! my girlfriend and I will take nude wedding photos”.

The manager of a photo shop on Le Duan road, Hanoi, told Life and Law Newspaper that taking nude wedding photos has been practised in Hanoi for nearly a year. There are two kinds of nude photos, partly and entirely nude.

He also said that prices depend on the amount of pictures, the quality of printing paper and the picture sizes but generally, couples have to pay at least VND9 million ($450) for an album.


couples are warned about problems if their pictures are dispersed.

Moreover, most of future mothers-in-law don’t like daughters-in-law who are “courageous” enough to take nude pictures.

Some photo shop managers said they are requested to promise/sign a contract with clients to keep their nude photos secret.



Ngoc Le

jackbl
07-12-2010, 09:05 AM
HCM City prepares six programs for New Year holiday
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VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities have made public the city’s plan to welcome the New Year, with six special programs.


Firework shows will take place at seven sites during the 15 first minutes of the New Year.

Nguyen Hue Road will be decorated with flowers and ornamental trees with the theme “New Height”, as the follow-up for the themes of previous years, including “Integration and Development” in 2005, “On the Road of Integration” in 2006, “Going out to the Sea” in 2007, “Overcoming Waves” in 2008, “Trust” in 2009 and “Spring of Sunrise” in 2010.

This year’s theme shows the city’s effort to attain higher economic and social achievements.

The Nguyen Hue Flower Road will open for public from 7 pm, January 31 2011 until 10 pm February 6 2011. During this time cars will be banned from the road.

Twenty-four districts will organize the “Banh Tet Festival” (banh tet is traditional rice cake of southern Vietnam). On this occasion, Saigon Tourist and the Department of Social, War Invalids and Social Affairs will present 10,000 banh tet to children at orphanages and social centers.

Banh tet offering rituals will be held at the Temple for Hung Kings, the Ho Chi Minh Museum and Ton Duc Thang Museum.

During the New Year festival, the roads of Nguyen Hue, Le Loi, Dong Khoi, Le Duan and Chi Lang Park will be decorated by color lamps from December 17 to January 4 2011.

Families living in these streets will be encouraged to decorate the front of their houses and participate in the Door-shows program.

A special show will take place on Nguyen Hue Road to welcome the New Year’s Eve on the evening of December 31. A light show will be held at the Sunwah and Palace buildings alongside a music show at the outdoor stage in front of the Sunwah building on Nguyen Hue Road. All vehicles will be banned from the road during this time.

PV

RJ2004
07-12-2010, 12:38 PM
Aiyo bro jackbl, got more exciting news?

Tech news make Me want to falling asleep

Vietnam loses 0-2 to Philippines, riots in HCM :p

FireShark
07-12-2010, 12:40 PM
Vietnam loses 0-2 to Philippines, riots in HCM :p

ASEAN soccer always kelong. You wont be able to guess who can win....

jackbl
07-12-2010, 02:13 PM
ASEAN soccer always kelong. You wont be able to guess who can win....

No wonder VN win the AFF cup last time. They must be KELONGing the last time :D They send a lot of "teachers" to the org???

creeve
07-12-2010, 03:26 PM
Anyone taken Tiger Airways to HCM before? How's the experience? Not a fussy traveller here.. Anyway, just bought tickets for 10/1/11 - 14/1/11 to visit my girl who just got caught 1 week plus back. Miss her a lot already... :(

Hurricane88
07-12-2010, 04:47 PM
Anyone taken Tiger Airways to HCM before? How's the experience? Not a fussy traveller here.. Anyway, just bought tickets for 10/1/11 - 14/1/11 to visit my girl who just got caught 1 week plus back. Miss her a lot already... :(

hahaha...I frequent traveler on Tiger and Jetstar...no problem la...all the same...just be patient and dun be frustrated with flight delays...in fact alot of us are frequent fliers...lost count how many times I had flied Tiger...:)

FireShark
07-12-2010, 07:16 PM
Anyone taken Tiger Airways to HCM before? How's the experience? Not a fussy traveller here.. Anyway, just bought tickets for 10/1/11 - 14/1/11 to visit my girl who just got caught 1 week plus back. Miss her a lot already... :(

I had frequent Tiger and Jetstar and Lion. Tiger use to be one of the best but with recent flight delays and other issue. I think it is better to take Jetstar or Lion.

leecs
07-12-2010, 08:44 PM
Seems to me that Tiger has the best prices....

AdGuy
07-12-2010, 10:15 PM
No wonder VN win the AFF cup last time. They must be KELONGing the last time :D They send a lot of "teachers" to the org???

I'm surprised they can win too.

Coz the girls there always put half ball, still can win?

AdGuy
07-12-2010, 10:19 PM
Btw, how come tieng viet lovers club also become news + tcss club?

jackbl
07-12-2010, 10:22 PM
Vietnam jailed 4 for trafficking women to Sgp
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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - An official says a court in southern Vietnam has sentenced four people to up to eight years in prison for trafficking women to work as prostitutes in Singapore.

Court official Pham Thi Ha says that ring leader Vo Thi Hiep was jailed for eight years for human trafficking and three others received three to six years behind bars on the same charges following Monday's trial in Tay Ninh province.

She says the ring was convicted of selling 10 Vietnamese women to a Singapore brothel for $50 each between September last year and February. The victims had been promised jobs at restaurants.

Ha said Tuesday that one trafficked woman refused to work in the brothel and arranged for her family to buy her freedom for $900. She then reported the ring to police.

AdGuy
07-12-2010, 10:26 PM
Bro jackbl, can u help us find out the whereabouts of the brothel mentioned in e post?

jackbl
07-12-2010, 10:40 PM
Btw, how come tieng viet lovers club also become news + tcss club?

Please start the Ball rolling by teaching us more TV :D ;)

jackbl
07-12-2010, 10:45 PM
“Underworld” existing in schools
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VietNamNet Bridge – School violence has become more serious with many more violence cases discovered. Students not only assaulted classmates, but they also brought lethal weapons to schools and threatened teachers.



The bullies in the school uniform

It is recognized as a school of national standards, but Dong Kinh Secondary School in Lang Son province has become famous not for its educational achievements, but for its number of school violence cases.

Nguyen Van Dai, 16, a 9th grader, related that he was attacked by a group of students right in the middle of the school yard. At 3pm of November 24, when Dai was holding the mobile phone of a classmate, he received a call from someone who called and insulted him. Tens minutes later, more than ten boys came to the school and repeatedly kicked him.

A lot of students witnessed the fight, but no one dared to intervene or prevent the boys from fighting. The gangsters only left after they knocked the boy unconscious. Luckily, Dai was brought to the Lang Son hospital and he has been recovering.

According to Dai, among the strikers, there were four 10th graders from Viet Bac High School in Lang Son province.



Student threatened teacher with knife

On November 3, in a geography lesson, La Trung S, an 8th grader, refused listen to the teacher and made disturbances in the class. Teacher Dang Minh Thai asked S to keep silent, but S ignored. S ate oranges in the middle of class and talked back to the teacher.

Teacher Thai, who was very angry at that time, said: “Are you also this misbehaved at home?”. Then S threw a book into the teacher. Returning to the class after reporting the case to the school’s management board, Thai was stunned when seeing S, who stood on the way with a knife.

Even the school’s security officers could not control S. Meanwhile, some students related that S threatened to damage the school if he is expelled from school.



Society keeps indifferent to school violence?

In the police report filed by Tran Nguyen Hong Anh, a 11th grader of Viet Bac High School , on September 26, V.A, a classmate, and five other female students came to Hong Anh’s house, where the group of female students sprayed Hong Anh with tear gas and beat Hong Anh with a motorbike helmet.

Tran Kim Chung, mother of Hong Anh, related that one week after Anh submitted the report, Tam Thanh ward’s police told Chung that since there were no witnesses or evidence, the police could not follow the case. Only after Chung tried to find witnesses and submitted further reports, have the police begun the investigation.

“Now I want to get the report about the investigation result, but the police have refused,” she said.

It seems that people keep indifferent viewpoints about the school violence. The case, where teacher Dang Minh Thai was threatened with a knife by a student, has made educators furious. However, people and agencies have different opinions about how to deal with the student. The school’s management board said that it would be better to “save” the student by giving him one more chance. Meanwhile, other people believe that the student needs to be heavily punished. When a group of Tien phong newspaper’s reporters said they wanted to interview Thai, the teacher was still in fear because she was still under too much pressure.

Source: Tien phong

Gang fights becoming obsession in schools
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AdGuy
07-12-2010, 10:52 PM
Please start the Ball rolling by teaching us more TV :D ;)

When u in school last time, did u teach your teacher? So how can I teach the teachers here?

jackbl
08-12-2010, 12:06 AM
Ten cops disciplined over sex scandal
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Police authorities in the northern province of Quang Ninh on December 6 decided to discipline ten police officers for allegedly filming the arrest of two naked prostitutes after the footage was posted on the Internet.


Accordingly, six police officers will be downgraded, from one to two badge ranks and one of them is going to be transferred immediately.

Second in command of the Cam Pha Police’s Social Crime Investigation Division Ngo Duy Nang will not have a salary increase for one year.

Leader of the Cam Pha Police’s Social Crime Investigation Division Le Si Toan and deputy chief of Cam Pha Police Hoang Thanh Nhuong will be downgraded two ranks to emulation work.

Senior lieutenant colonel Nguyen Quoc Tien, Cam Pha chief police will be downgraded one rank to emulation work.

Furthermore, The Cam Pha Police will not be recognized in the emulation unit for the year 2010.

In Vietnam, prostitution is still illegal. However, all police officers must respect persons they interview or have parties with, including prostitutes.

A clip shot from an unidentified location, posted on You-tube in November, shows a tattooed man and two naked girls trying to cover themselves with their hands, while the police officers yell insults at them.

A police spokernperson said, “One of the girls can be seen sitting on the bed naked, while an officer in plain clothes repeatedly shouts at her to stand up and extend her arms for him to take a picture. Another two police officers say humiliating things to the women, making them cry. While another police officer is taking pictures of the scene with his mobile phone”.

After the clip was posted on the internet, many people wrote to many newspapers demanding that the police ministry discipline the “uncouth” police officers.


By A.Minh - Translated by Thanh Huong

AdGuy
08-12-2010, 12:33 AM
Here u go ........ Be a photographer :D

Nude wedding photos is becoming a new trend in Vietnam
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Ah, this type one good. Sleepy also wake up.

Better if stories come with pics :D

jackbl
08-12-2010, 08:43 AM
Banh Xeo! – a traditional Vietnamese flavor
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Banh Xeo! – a delicious sounding word that brings back warm memories from the past; a word that a traditional Vietnamese family knows very well, because it is a taste which every Vietnamese has grown up with. It is a word etched firmly in the memory of all Vietnamese palates, nostalgic about their childhood.



Banh Xeo is best described as a pancake or crepe made from rice flour. It has always been a tradition to serve this dish as a comfort food to the family and also as a welcoming dish for friends and relatives visiting a Vietnamese home.

Vietnamese women learnt how to make this dish very early in childhood from their mothers. Banh Xeo has always been quintessentially a Vietnamese dish which added that special warmth of family and loved ones in a Vietnamese kitchen.

However, this tradition is slowly fading as Banh Xeo is now being sold commercially in supermarkets and restaurants. Although Banh Xeo is still accepted as a delicacy, it however lacks the flavor of home cooking.

The recipe behind Banh Xeo.

Modern day housewives hesitate from preparing Banh Xeo in their kitchen. The process requires effort and is time consuming. The rice is soaked overnight, then ground by hand before flavors and seasoning are added to taste. The stages of preparation are many and require a skilled hand in order to give the batter the right amount of fluffiness, crispness and flavor.

The process is far more complicated than it seems and every Vietnamese woman adept in the art of making a perfect Banh Xeo has a little secret trick up her sleeve! So much so, that in days gone by, mothers-in-law often asked their future daughters-in-law to make Banh Xeo to check their skills!



However, nowadays pre-mixed Banh Xeo flour is readily available. It is easier to prepare as the flour only needs to be mixed with water and it is ready to be fried in the pan. Among the many brand names of Banh Xeo available, the more popular one is ‘Huong Xua’ meaning ‘ancient flavor’.

The Huong xua Banh Xeo flour comes premixed with all the flavors and is the closest taste to the traditional Vietnamese Banh Xeo. It is crisp in taste and easy to make.

The modern housewife does worry about eating Banh Xeo as it is fried in oil. Those on a diet abstain from eating it! Though Banh Xeo made from Huong Xua flour does not require too much oil as it is produced with modern Japanese technology which does not let the flour retain oil and makes the crepes smooth and easy to make.

This new Japanese technology is a joint venture of a Japanese-Vietnamese enterprise called Intermix. It is the first such company in Vietnam and it has been successful in creating a fast and easy to make product. Besides their Banh Xeo flour, Intermix is also making other products such as cake and dumpling premixed flour.

By Phu Chi

creeve
08-12-2010, 09:02 AM
hahaha...I frequent traveler on Tiger and Jetstar...no problem la...all the same...just be patient and dun be frustrated with flight delays...in fact alot of us are frequent fliers...lost count how many times I had flied Tiger...:)

From your and FireShark's feedback, it seems like flight delay is really a problem with Tiger.

Depending on the outcome of my this trip (my first trip to Vn since 2000), I might join the rank of "Frequent Flyer" too... LOL...

I had frequent Tiger and Jetstar and Lion. Tiger use to be one of the best but with recent flight delays and other issue. I think it is better to take Jetstar or Lion.

Oh my god... Is it very bad? I'm supposed to buy tickets for internal flight to Kien Giang. Don't wanna end up delayed and then miss my internal flight. :( And I don't want to spend 8 hours in public transport either...

Seems to me that Tiger has the best prices....

Yeah... Bought Tiger because the ticket price for 10 & 14 Jan is only $10 / $30 respectively before taxes.

jackbl
08-12-2010, 01:55 PM
Only businessmen can afford tickets for Tet flights
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VietNamNet Bridge – The national air carrier Vietnam Airlines has announced it plans to launch tens of thousands air tickets into the market. However, booking agents say they still have not seen the tickets.

Earlier this month Vietnam Airlines announced that it will provide 11,000 more tickets for Tet flights in the first stage. However, booking agents have affirmed that no air route has seen additional flights.

Nhung, the owner of a booking agent in Tan Binh District in HCM City, said that she has been “hunting” for air tickets since the beginning of the month, but unsuccessfully.

The flights on HCM City – Hanoi route which will take off after January 24, 2011 (or December 21 of the Lunar Year) all have run out of economy tickets, and only business class tickets are left. to book business class tickets, one has to pay 3,350,000 dong . As for the Hanoi – HCM City route, to book the flights after February 7, 2011 ( the fifth day of the new Lunar Year), one will also have to become businessmen.

Nhung said that after Vietnam Airlines announced that it will launch more flights on Tet holiday, people call the booking agent regularly . A lot of passengers accept to pay 400,000-500,000 dong more . However, Nhung said the only thing she can do now is to book standby tickets. But now even standby tickets are not accepted on some air routes.

“I have heard that by the end of this year, Vietnam Airlines will announce another plan to launch more air tickets for Tet flights in the second stage. However, I still cannot understand why I cannot purchase any tickets in the first stage,” Nhung complained.

Nhung said that at the same time in 2009, economy class tickets also ran out. However, in the days just before Tet (from December 27 Lunar Year), tickets unexpectedly appeared on the market in big quantity. Nhung thinks that the scenario would repeat this year, and she has advised passengers to wait . However, as this is not certain, no passenger wants to wait, and they want immediate bookings.

As for HCM City - Da Nang route, passengers who want to fly from January 27, 2011 to February 2, 2011 (24-30 December of Lunar Year) now also only have business class tickets to buy. Of course, business tickets are much more expensive than economy tickets. In order to have a business ticket, one will have to pay 2,100,000 dong, while economy ticket.only costs 600,000 dong

Similarly, on the reverse route, if passengers want to fly on February 6-13 with Vietnam Airlines, they also have to buy business class tickets. Vietnam Airlines said it would offer more seats, about 3200 seats per day per route, an increase of 28 percent over the previous Tet and an increase of 44 percent in comparison with normal days. On peak days, the number of seats to be provided may reach 4000 seats per day, or double that of normal days.

However, to date, the demand has still been far exceeding the supply.

Meanwhile, talking with Sai gon Tiep Thi on November 25, a representative from Vietnam Airlines said that the air tickets on additional flights have been selling since the beginning of the month. However, even the additional tickets cannot meet the demand, because of the overly high number of passengers who have booked standby tickets.

However, many booking agents said that they do not know that tickets have been sold. some agents even think the sale of additional tickets will only begin at the end of the month.

The budget airline Jetstar Pacific has also reportedly sold all the tickets for the flights from December 22 of Lunar Year to Tet. As for Air Mekong, all the economy class tickets for HCM City – Hanoi flights on the days just before Tet have also been sold. However, the airline still has a lot of Full Deluxe class tickets to offer which are priced at 2,845,000 dong .

Truong Thanh Vu, Commercial and Service Director of Air Mekong, said that the airline will increase the transport capacity by 20 percent on Tet, raising the total number of seats to 3200 per day.

P. V

leecs
08-12-2010, 08:08 PM
Thought I could contribute a bit....

http://www.todayonline.com/World/Worldinbrief/EDC101208-0000250/Four-Vietnamese-jailed-for-trafficking-women-to-Singapore

Four Vietnamese jailed for trafficking women to Singapore

A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced four people to up to eight years in prison for trafficking women to work as prostitutes in Singapore.

Court official Pham Thi Ha said yesterday that ring leader Vo Thi Hiep was jailed for eight years for human trafficking and three others received three to six years behind bars on the same charges following Monday's trial in Tay Ninh province.

Ms Pham added that the ring was convicted of selling 10 Vietnamese women to a Singapore brothel for US$50 ($65) each between September last year and February. The victims had been promised jobs at restaurants.

One trafficked woman refused to work in the brothel and arranged for her family to buy her freedom for US$900. She then reported the ring to police. AP

Hurricane88
08-12-2010, 08:26 PM
From your and FireShark's feedback, it seems like flight delay is really a problem with Tiger.

Depending on the outcome of my this trip (my first trip to Vn since 2000), I might join the rank of "Frequent Flyer" too... LOL...


See bro...I had traveled last month in the midst of all the Tiger flight cancellations and delays...but my flight was very much on time and no problem...will fly again Tiger coming Xmas and TET...what's there to worry...hahaha...:)

lovesprout
08-12-2010, 08:37 PM
o viet nam neu nhu gia dinh nao qua ngheo thi nha nuoc se giup do cho so ho ngheo.

(In vietnam if family too poor then government will help give so ho ngheo)

What is "so ho ngheo"?

haha_123
08-12-2010, 09:31 PM
See bro...I had traveled last month in the midst of all the Tiger flight cancellations and delays...but my flight was very much on time and no problem...will fly again Tiger coming Xmas and TET...what's there to worry...hahaha...:)

My Tiger flight was cancelled on early October 2010. At that time, the counter staff said that it will take 4 to 6 weeks to process the refund, but until now I have yet to receive the refund nor heard anything from Tiger.

Haiz....How to trust Tiger again....How to fly with Tiger again??!!:mad:

Hurricane88
08-12-2010, 10:07 PM
My Tiger flight was cancelled on early October 2010. At that time, the counter staff said that it will take 4 to 6 weeks to process the refund, but until now I have yet to receive the refund nor heard anything from Tiger.

Haiz....How to trust Tiger again....How to fly with Tiger again??!!:mad:

Hahaha...u said it liao...was oct ma...haiz...now no problem la...I had flied more than 20 times on Tiger for the past 3 years more...no problem la...nvr mind you dun fly Tiger and more ppl dun fly...ticket will remain cheap...kekeke...:)

as for refund...just wait or bring them to CASE or Small Claims Tribunal...maybe faster lor...:p

BTW, oso fly more than 20 times on Jetstar too...oso no problem la...:)

AdGuy
08-12-2010, 11:33 PM
o viet nam neu nhu gia dinh nao qua ngheo thi nha nuoc se giup do cho so ho ngheo.

(In vietnam if family too poor then government will help give so ho ngheo)

What is "so ho ngheo"?

So Ho = households

Ngheo = poor

:D

jackbl
09-12-2010, 01:27 AM
So Ho = households

U are good. But where did u found So Ho=households, I find a few dictionaries but can only see hộ

haha_123
09-12-2010, 01:42 AM
Hahaha...u said it liao...was oct ma...haiz...now no problem la...I had flied more than 20 times on Tiger for the past 3 years more...no problem la...nvr mind you dun fly Tiger and more ppl dun fly...ticket will remain cheap...kekeke...:)

as for refund...just wait or bring them to CASE or Small Claims Tribunal...maybe faster lor...:p



In the confirmation e-mail from Tiger, it was written: "BE AWARE - Tiger Airways takes being on time seriously. Make sure that you get to the check in desk well before 45 minutes prior to scheduled departure. If you miss that time you miss the flight."

And so I took my luggage, hailed a taxi and paid the fare with midnight charges, only to find out that the flight was cancelled, along with hoardes of angry passengers with their luggage and children in tow. At that time, I thought what irony and that it was the biggest joke with that statement from Tiger.

Tiger is becoming an embarrassement to Singapore Airlines, the Transport Ministry and the Singapore Government. Whatever happened to the efficiency, punctuality and basic courtesy that I've come to expect in this country. Or am I just a typical Singaporean who only knows how to complain??!!:o:confused:

Hurricane88
09-12-2010, 10:22 AM
In the confirmation e-mail from Tiger, it was written: "BE AWARE - Tiger Airways takes being on time seriously. Make sure that you get to the check in desk well before 45 minutes prior to scheduled departure. If you miss that time you miss the flight."


Tiger is becoming an embarrassement to Singapore Airlines, the Transport Ministry and the Singapore Government. Whatever happened to the efficiency, punctuality and basic courtesy that I've come to expect in this country. Or am I just a typical Singaporean who only knows how to complain??!!

I think Tiger do takes it seriously...but due to unforseen circumstances they failed to deliver and had to refund...every airlines had to undergo such problems and not to mention Tiger...I was impress with Tiger's on time delivery prior to the fiasco...:)

As you had mentioned in your last paragraph...Tiger cannot keep embarrassing SIA and Singapore Government...you knew the BIG BOSS will not allow it to happen anymore...:)

BTW, my last trip last month, Tiger used a brand new Airbus A320 for my return flight and sure enuff the flight was not only on time but reached ahead of schedule and flight time was only 1hour 30minutes...that's impressive...:)

jackbl
09-12-2010, 01:40 PM
For those who been to Dalat, do you know that .....


Lam Dong Province promoting tea culture
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The central highland province of Lam Dong is regarded as the center of the largest Tea material region in the country. Its weather conditions and soil quality are suitable for tea planting.

Cau Dat, in Truong Tho Hamlet, Xuan Truong Commune, 30 kilometers from the city’s center of Da Lat, was where the French first brought fragrant tea trees in 1927 and officially established the Cau Dat Service of Tea. Cau Dat has been the cradle of the Lam Dong tea region for 80 years.

Then tea growing areas expanded to districts including Bao Loc, Bao Lam, Di Linh and Da Lat City.

The province has increased its tea area from 250 hectares to 300 hectares every year in the 2004-2010 period.

Currently, Lam Dong Province grows about 24,000 hectares of many tea varieties, with more than 30 local and foreign enterprises growing, purchasing and processing tea products.

So far, 20 businesses have been licensed VietGAP (Vietnamese Agriculture Practices) Certificate for their safe and high quality products.

Entrepreneurs have supported growers to apply high technologies in planting and processing tea. The cooperation will create a stable material source for companies, increase the income of farmers and develop the tea industry of the largest tea garden of Vietnam.

jackbl
10-12-2010, 04:38 AM
No wonder we see many "farmers" around JC/GL :eek:

Rice farmers becoming poorer, say experts
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Rice growers are becoming much poorer, said several experts at a seminar entitled “Vietnamese agriculture - effectiveness and sustainability,” which was held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Can Tho City People’s Committee on Tuesday.

Experts at the seminar said that this has been caused by the high expenditure for family and production and by degenerated soil.

Dr. Le Van Banh, head of the Mekong Delta Rice Institute, said, “In addition, low prices and fluctuating market trends, have made farmers more in need of government assistance, as they have not being able to regulate the price of rice."

According to the Mekong Delta Development Research Institute, agricultural output and exports have risen sharply, but this has not help farmers increase their level of income. The difference between the rich and the poor, and the urban and rural areas has become wider in recent years. The Mekong Delta annually contributes 90 percent of the country’s rice export volume.

Source: Tuoi Tre – Translated by Hai Mien

KangTuo
10-12-2010, 05:47 AM
Minh ten wuyen minh muon lam wen voi KT duoc khong? 15 minh ve roi ma khong du tien nhieu ban co the giup minh khong.
Minh di hotel voi ban ban co the cho minh 2tram khong. Mai noi ban de thuong va dep trai phai nhu vay khong?
Neu dong y thi goi cho minh so dt xxxxxx19. Neu khong thi dung goi nha.

I receive the above sms from wuyen, friend and housemate of Mai (koala bear) vai Mai hp..
Actually have been receiving many sms from another vb via Mai hp.

1) Never see wuyen before but will anyone call if receive such sms?
2) Why she call herself 'minh' but not 'toi' since she address me as 'ban'
3) Jackbl, since Mai and friend work in s***, you also go there often, can verify if any of her friend is same same as koala bear?

jackbl
10-12-2010, 10:45 AM
1) Never see wuyen before but will anyone call if receive such sms?
2) Why she call herself 'minh' but not 'toi' since she address me as 'ban'
3) Jackbl, since Mai and friend work in s***, you also go there often, can verify if any of her friend is same same as koala bear?

1) Since u got so much $$$ on that SIM card, why not call and test out? :D
2) There is many ways to address oneself
3) I will ask Mai who is Wuyen ;) but where u bringing me today?

jackbl
10-12-2010, 02:04 PM
New Biz idea??

Hiring marriage portion
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VietNamNet Bridge – With only VND2 million ($100), Lan made her parents happy as they could hold a big gold necklace to put on their daughter’s neck at her wedding anniversary.

As the price for gold is escalating in Vietnam, Lan said her parents couldn’t afford to give gold as her marriage portion as tradition. She decided to hire the gold necklace from a jewelry shop.

Hong, a worker, from Lac Trung Street, Hanoi, who is about to get married, told VietNamNet that she and her fiancé thought very carefully and decided to buy a pair of wedding rings and hire a gold necklace and a gold bracelet as marriage portions of the two families.

“We have to buy the wedding rings, otherwise we would have nothing to exchange at the wedding anniversary,” Hong said.

Hong and Lan are among many young people who went to jewelry shops in Hanoi to hire wedding jewelry.

This year, this service has been booming. A staff at a jewelry shop in Tran Khat Chan Street, Hanoi, said since mid-October, when the gold price has been continuously increasing, hundreds of couples have hired jewelries at his shop
He said the leasing prices range between VND500,000 and VND2 million for a set of, including a bracelet, a necklace and a pair of ear-rings, for 2-3 days.

For this price parents can be happy for their daughters will not feel guilty because they can’t give their daughter gold as marriage portion on their most important days.

The service has also gone online. Young couples can register to hire not only jewelry but also clothes and get other wedding services from online shops.

However, things don’t always go smoothly.

A family in Cau Giay district, Hanoi, hired a dozen of gold necklaces for their relatives to wear at their daughter’s wedding ceremony. However, the relatives who are old women from the rural areas thought that the necklaces are fake jewelry so after the wedding ceremony, they took off the necklaces and put them right on the tables. The bride’s mother burst into tears after the wedding because seven necklaces had disappeared, with the value equivalent to seven taels of gold.

Thu Ly

jackbl
11-12-2010, 10:23 AM
Vietnam lost half a billion dollar because it picked unripe coffee beans
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VietNamNet Bridge – Despite being a big coffee exporter in the world, Vietnam’s coffee is unable to obtain high prices. Experts have pointed out that this is because of the Vietnamese farmers have the habit of harvesting ripe and unripe coffee beans at the same time.

The coffee prices have been increasing significantly these days in the central highlands, the heart of Vietnam’s coffee production. The domestic price has climbed to 35,000 dong per kilo, the highest level in the past two years. Meanwhile, the robusta export price has also increased to $1945 per ton FOB.

However, even these increases do not make Vietnamese exporters and farmers happy, because Vietnam’s coffee is not considered as high quality in the world, which explains why the prices of Vietnam’s coffee are always lower than the prices of Indian, Brazilian and Columbian products.

It is puzzling why Vietnamese exporters and farmers have been agreeing to sell at the low export prices for such a long time, and have not done anything to change the situation.

Experts have pointed out that Vietnamese farmers have the habit of picking ripe and unripe beans at the same time. Ripe coffee beans regularly account for 80 percent, while sometimes the percentage of unripe coffee beans may reach 30 percent.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, the habit of picking unripe beans leads to the loss of 30 percent of coffee bean output every year, of 300,000 tons, worth $540 million (the average export price is $1800 per ton). If farmers pick 1100 unripe beans, they will be able to process one kilogramme of coffee, while if they pick ripe beans, the amount will allow to make 1.45 kilogrammes of coffee.

A question has been raised of why Vietnamese farmers continue to pick unripe coffee beans? The truth is that it is not that they want to pick unripe coffee beans but that they have no other choice. The habit is in fact imposed by the current way of collecting coffee beans applied by intermediate merchants (who collect coffee beans from farmers to sell to processing factories or export companies)
According to Nguyen Van Sinh, Deputy Director of Dak Lak Agriculture and Rural Development, merchants prefer a mixture of ripe and unripe coffee beans which is cheaper to, paying more for ripe coffee beans and paying lower for unripe coffee beans. Therefore, farmers would rather pick both unripe and ripe coffee beans at the same time, which requires lower labour costs, than selecting ripe beans,.

“The labour cost now is very high. With ripe coffee beans, farmers would be able to pick up 50 kilos a day, while thw unripe coffee beans, they would be able to pick up 200 kilos,” he said.

Why do Vietnamese enterprises only want to purchase mixed unripe and ripe coffee beans? The answer is that the current 150 coffee trading companies now cannot be picky about collecting coffee beans from farmers, because they rely on foreign partners. Foreign importers would accept high quality coffee products from India, Brazil and Columbia, but they would only buy coffee from Vietnam at low prices.

Director of a Vietnamese enterprise said that previously, Vietnamese enterprises competed fiercely with each other by lowering the export prices. Therefore, foreign partners tried to force the prices down.

“They purchase Vietnam’s coffee at low prices, then mix with the coffee from other countries to process,” he said.

Nevertheless, Vietnamese exporters think that Vietnam will be able to improve the current situation. If Vietnamese enterprises can improve the quality of coffee products, they will be able to control the prices in the world market as it is holding 40 percent of the robusta market.

Source: Saigon tiep thi

jackbl
11-12-2010, 04:12 PM
E-commerce to blossom
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VietNamNet Bridge - E-commerce transaction values in Vietnam will sky rocket in the next five years.

Nguyen Ngoc Diep, director of Vatgia.com, estimated that the e-commerce transaction values in Vietnam posted a 10 per cent monthly growth rate during the past three years.

“We estimated that the value would account for 4 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in the next five years from only 0.4 per cent and equivalent to around $400 million for the time being,” said Diep.

Vatgia.com is running one of the top e-commerce websites showcasing 4.1 million products through 12,000 online pavilions developed by 2,500 enterprises and shops in Vietnam. The website witnessed e-commerce transaction value of $12 million a month on average.

E-commerce transaction values accounted for 1 per cent of China’s GDP, equivalent to $40 billion. The value in the US made its largest in the world with 7 per cent of the US’ GDP or $980 billion.

A Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre report reads that Vietnam had around 30 million internet users by the end of November. However, only four per cent of those conduct transactions online.

“We are seeing a trend that internet surfers prefer to log into e-commerce websites rather than newspaper websites and what we should do from here is we should start educate internet users about online transactions,” said Diep.

Nguyen Hoang Hai and Associates lawyer Nguyen Hoang Hai said around 96 per cent of surveyed e-commerce websites in Vietnam did not contain guidelines for customers to handle possible transaction disputes.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoIT) is scheduled to issue the circular on management operations of websites providing e-commerce transactions for products and services later this year.

Under the circular draft, all e-commerce websites including operating websites must register to the MoIT for providing e-commerce transactions for products and services within 90 days. The MoIT will issue a special and common mark for its authentication for e-commerce websites. The move aims to increase trust of customers of e-commerce websites.

Tran Huu Linh, deputy director of MoIT’s E-commerce and IT Department said its next activities focused on translating e-commerce transaction practices further familiar with local customers.

Vietnam targets to have 70 per cent of large-scale enterprises and 30 per cent of small-scaled enterprises being e-commerce website members by 2015.

“We are cooperating with tax agencies and banks to measure official figures of e-commerce transactions as those e-commerce transactions must reports through tax agencies. We have just conducted a survey on large-scale enterprises for the report,” said Linh.


Source: VIR

jackbl
12-12-2010, 09:23 AM
Football crazy nation....

Travel firm hires airplanes for Vietnamese football fans
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VietNamNet Bridge – Immediately after Vietnam beat Singapore 1-0 to enter the semi-finals of AFF Cup 2010, hundreds of fans called travel agents to book trips to Malaysia, where Vietnam and Malaysia will meet in the first semi final game on December 15.

A local tourism company, Vietravel, hired two Vietnam Airlines airplanes, totaling 360 seats, which will both depart from Hanoi and HCM City to Kuala Lumpur and return from Kuala Lumpur to Vietnam on December 15, to serve football fans.

The trip from HCM City is priced at VND8.9 million and VND9.9 million for the trip from Hanoi.

The firm also offers 2-4 day tours to Malaysia, including ticket for the game between Vietnam and the host.

Hanoi Redtour booked 40 seats on Vietnam Airlines flights to Malaysia. Its four-day tours to Malaysia, plus a ticket to the semifinal match, are priced $469. Nearly 20 tourists booked the tour on December 9 morning.

Hanoi Tourist said travel firms are worrying about the shortage of air tickets to Malaysia. This company only received a booking for a group of 16 people to Malaysia on December 15.

On online forums, members called on each other to self organize tours to Malaysia to watch football.

PV

paulwwk88
12-12-2010, 06:07 PM
Help it so long and my head is spinning.... I was sitting with a vb then one of her friend notice that I can speak a bit tieng Viet and told her that I'm xao luon cuz I know tieng viet and she start to disbelive me and today I sent a SMS saying that her friend no good and she don't know me and how can said that I'm xao luon.... Then she reply with this....

XINH LOI VI ANH BIET ROI DO O BEN VN EM LAM RAT CUT CO CO QUA DAY EM TAN DUNG THOI GIAN DI LAM VA LAI DAU CO O LAU DUOC DAU VA LAI EM LAM NGHE NAY KHONG TOT DAU ANH DUNG SI NGHI VE EM NHIEU ROI KHONG VUI

Pls help

VietnamLover
13-12-2010, 01:02 AM
Minh ten wuyen minh muon lam wen voi KT duoc khong?

I do not think that wuyen is the correct Vietnamese name. Correct name should be Uyen.

jackbl
13-12-2010, 09:01 AM
Loan sharks scam HCMC students
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Students unable to repay debts fear for their limbs

Binh left his home in a nearby province and came to Ho Chi Minh City with dreams of a degree.

Struggling with the high costs of living in the city, he failed to pay his university fees in October and ended up borrowing VND5 million (US$256) from a friend.

When the friend asked him to return the money, Binh reluctantly went to one of the many loan sharks that lend money to cash-strapped students in the city.

“I had no choice. Banks and legal loan services won’t give me loans because I have no assets [to mortgage],” he said.

At a money lender’s in an alley off Tran Hung Dao Street in District 1, just steps away from the dormitories of the HCMC University of Economics and the HCMC University of Natural Sciences, Binh was “approved” for a loan at an interest rate of 21 percent per month.

To legalize the loan, Binh was made to sign a document saying he received the money as a deposit for a laptop he would deliver later.

Before he left, the lender warned the student with dire consequences if he failed to pay his debts. “They threatened to contact my family and cut off my limbs,” he said. Thankfully, he was able to pay off his debts within ten days.

But another student, Tu, was not that lucky. He was threatened and seriously bullied all November after failing to pay interest on a loan of VND11 million ($564). Fearing for his limbs and life, Tu borrowed money from his sister to pay off the interest. But he is still mired in debt.

According to Tu, hundreds of students have borrowed money from the same lender, identified only as C.

The 47 universities in HCMC attract thousands of students every year from around the country, especially the southern provinces. Loan sharks lurk around the universities and thrive on ripping off broke students.

Students get mired in extortionate interest rates, often ending up struggling to pay off just the interest, without any hope of getting out of debt.



Abundant bloodsuckers

Following a complaint from a victim student, Thanh Nien conducted an investigation and found hundreds of students who have seen their hardships turn into horrors.

Disguised as a relative repaying a student’s debt, a Thanh Nien reporter found that the loan shark popularly known as C. belongs to a ring with at least three unlicensed lenders around universities in HCMC.

He was told that he could pay the interest at any of the other “branches” in the city - at Street No. 2 near University of Technology in District 10, at D5 Street near a branch of Foreign Trade University in Binh Thanh District, and in the Thu Duc university area in Thu Duc District.

The service on D5 Street appears to be a pawn shop with a board advertising “low-interest loans with easy procedures.” A man called H. directed the “customer” to a nearby service on D2 Street to discuss the loan. However, he refused to lend money when the reporter presented an invalid student card.

Another loan shark in H.’s racket said many other loan sharks in Thu Duc university area charged even higher interest rates, of VND40,000 per day on a VND1 million loan, which works out to be 120 percent per month.

H. also claimed that the ring has tight connections with government and police officials who protect the illegal services.

According to state regulations, interest rates should be no more than 150 percent of the benchmark interest rate set by the State Bank of Vietnam. At the moment, the benchmark rate is 9 percent per annum, and the maximum interest rates charged by money lenders should not exceed 13.5 percent. Violating lenders can be punished by jail terms of up to three years and fines up to ten times the involved interest amount.



INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY

Following Thanh Nien’s report published Monday (December 6), the police in District 1 summoned 28-year-old Nguyen Manh Cuong, previously identified as C., for interrogation.

Cuong, who operates the money-lending service on Tran Hung Dao Street confessed he had lent money to students at a monthly interest of 21 percent. He also admitted that he had forced borrowers to sign false documents saying they received the money as a deposit for laptops.

However, he failed to say how many students had borrowed money from him. A subsequent police raid of his facility found records of 29 students who had borrowed a total of VND185 million. The police also found several leaflets introducing his services.

Police said Cuong has so far not revealed any connections with other loansharks’ services in Binh Thanh District or elsewhere in the city.

A District 1 police officer said they are investigating the case and are determined to crack down on the loan sharks.

Meanwhile, several students who had borrowed money from Cuong told Thanh Nien that they received anonymous phone calls instructing them to pay their debt at a facility in Binh Thanh District.

The Binh Thanh District police told Thanh Nien they would verify the information about the loan sharks operating in their jurisdiction.

Reported by Thanh Nien staff

jackbl
13-12-2010, 09:14 AM
Help it so long and my head is spinning.... I was sitting with a vb then one of her friend notice that I can speak a bit tieng Viet

Why dun u try out first? If it's incorrect, maybe the other experts here will correct u? :D ;)

zhu star
13-12-2010, 12:52 PM
I do not think that wuyen is the correct Vietnamese name. Correct name should be Uyen.

I may be wrong but I think it should be 'Huyen'. :)

jackbl
13-12-2010, 02:26 PM
U may wan to visit this place if u go to vung tau

A perfect hot spot
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Among the mountains of southeastern Vietnam, amidst the lush greenery of a primary forest, a perfect hot spot awaits your discovery.

Literally.

The Binh Chau - Ho Coc area teems with hot springs hidden in forests. They were “discovered” in 1928 by a French doctor named Salle.

The area consists of more than 70 visible hot springs with water temperatures ranging from 37 to 82 degree Celsius.

Tourists have been flocking to Binh Chau - Ho Coc hot springs since 1989 in search of relaxation and relief.

Experts say the water contains many substances like silica, nitrogen, sulfur, sodium, and chlorine that are useful for treating many types of illnesses.

The minerals in the water are said to be beneficial for the bones, muscles and skin, and to improve blood circulation, thus strengthening the immune system and facilitating the healing process.

Visitors soak their feet in hot water along a concrete channel winding through the area, and usually, do not forgo the opportunity to boil eggs in the 80°C wells.


We reached Binh Chau - Ho Coc after spending three hours on the bus from Ho Chi Minh City. The stiffness and muscle tensions of a somewhat long journey disappeared as we immersed ourselves in a pool where the water stayed at 37 degrees Celsius.

Beside the hot-water baths, the site now offers mud-baths, sauna, massage, jacuzzi and steam baths.

A sports-leisure complex to play golf, volleyball and tennis as well as a garden named Vuon Trang with a 1,000-seat open air stage have been added to the area to lure more visitors. The last-mentioned facility is often hired by companies for team-building activities and by others for concerts, dance performances and so on.

Other “attractions” include river fishing and rides on horse-carriages.

For the more scientifically inclined, or those looking for added adventure, the Binh Chau forest is an ideal place to explore.

Accommodation in Binh Chau is offered by eight hotels with the usual range of rooms, not to mention a few villas.

In 2003, the Binh Chau Hot Spring area was recognized by the World Tourism Organization as one of 65 sustainable ecotourism areas located in 47 countries worldwide.

Those visiting Binh Chau can also head to the Ho Coc Beach, around 15 kilometers from the hot springs.

The three-kilometer long, white sandy beach is more or less unspoilt – an idyllic get-away spot.

Reported by Thuy Long



GETTING THERE

• Binh Chau – Ho Coc tourism site is located in Bung Rieng Commune, Xuyen Moc District, Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, around 150 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City.

• From HCMC, travel along the National Highway 51 for 100 kilometers until Ba Ria Town. Then turn left to drive long the National Highway 55 for another 55 kilometers to reach Binh Chau – Ho Coc.

• Tourists wanting to come to the site by bus can buy tickets from the Mien Dong Bus Station at 292 Dinh Bo Linh Street in HCMC’s Binh Thanh District. Buses on the Saigon – Binh Chau route depart from 7 to 14:30 every day.

• To book tours, contact Saigon – Binh Chau - Ho Coc Eco-tourist Resort at (064) 3 871 131 (064) 3 871 131 /3 871 623 or (08) 3 997 0677 (08) 3 997 0677. The website www.saigonbinhchauecoresort.com provides more information.

paulwwk88
13-12-2010, 10:09 PM
Why dun u try out first? If it's incorrect, maybe the other experts here will correct u? :D ;)

ok i give my best try with it mean...

sorry because you know already at vietnam my work are very hard. came here i don't have much time to and be here for long and i came here heard a lot no good thing about here. you don't always think of me a lot will not happy.

was trying from yesterday to understand it hope i get right...:o

lovesprout
14-12-2010, 08:53 PM
Receive the following message when we talked about utility bill in vn.

"re ma ko mat lam dau nhung so voi o vn ko co tien va dong tien o vn thi moi mat thoi"

"cheap but not .... but this number at vn have no money and expensive at vn then..."

I have no idea how to make sense of this sentence. Please help. Thanks.

jackbl
14-12-2010, 09:12 PM
XINH LOI VI ANH BIET ROI DO O BEN VN EM LAM RAT CUT CO CO QUA DAY EM TAN DUNG THOI GIAN DI LAM VA LAI DAU CO O LAU DUOC DAU VA LAI EM LAM NGHE NAY KHONG TOT DAU ANH DUNG SI NGHI VE EM NHIEU ROI KHONG VUI

ok i give my best try with it mean...

sorry because you know already at vietnam my work are very hard. came here i don't have much time to and be here for long and i came here heard a lot no good thing about here. you don't always think of me a lot will not happy.

IMHO, ..... came here I make use of time go work and come here can't be long and I work this job no good, U dun think about me alot already, no happy.

jackbl
14-12-2010, 09:19 PM
Young daring thieves.....


Nghe An: Thieves cracking ATM machines arrested
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Police in the central Nghe An Province on December 9 arrested three thieves, who breaking into an ATM machine to steal money.

The ATM machine belongs to Saigon Commercial Bank’s transaction office on Nguyen Sy Bach street, Vinh City.

The case occurred around 3 am when three people including Phung Bao Quoc,14; Pham Doan Hung, 14 and Pham Duc Chinh, 15.

Quoc resides in Thanh Duong commune, Thanh Chuong District, Nghe An Province. Hung and Chinh reside in Vinh City.

They heard the news that thieves broke open an ATM machine in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Phu District and stole more than VND1 billion (US$51,000) on November 23. They accessed internet to study the way to steal money from ATM machine.

They bought a fire extinguisher, a cutting machine, insulated pliers and crowbars.

The three subjects were arrested when they had cut the ATM machine’s power and camera.

The three subjects are ninth grade at the Doi Cung secondary school.

Quoc is player of U-15 Song Lam Nghe An football team.

Police said it is the first time that thieves broke into ATM machine in Nghe An Province.

lovesprout
14-12-2010, 09:23 PM
XINH LOI VI ANH BIET ROI DO O BEN VN EM LAM RAT CUT CO CO QUA DAY EM TAN DUNG THOI GIAN DI LAM VA LAI DAU CO O LAU DUOC DAU VA LAI EM LAM NGHE NAY KHONG TOT DAU ANH DUNG SI NGHI VE EM NHIEU ROI KHONG VUI

Pls help

Too add on: cut should "cực" meaning "苦". It is difficult to translate this word into English.

jackbl
15-12-2010, 12:19 AM
Banh Xeo! – a traditional Vietnamese flavor
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Pho: Common “name card” of Vietnamese
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Just as Italy has spaghetti, France has croissant, and China has dim sum, Vietnam has pho as a delicacy to offer to the world’s gourmets.


Pho, a Vietnamese noodle soup usually served with beef or chicken, came into existence in North Vietnam in the early 20th century and then spread to the South in mid 1950s. The soup includes rice noodles and is often served with basil, lime, bean sprouts, and peppers that are added to the soup by the eater.


National dish

While a distinctive Vietnamese dish, pho is said to have French and Chinese influences, according to two theories that both explain the origin of the word “pho.” Nguyen Tung, a Vietnamese anthropologist based in Paris, supports the theory that says the name originates from “fun” in Chinese (Cantonese), which means noodle.

Under this assumption, it was likely that Chinese refugees who flocked into Vietnam in the late 19th century brought pho with them, as well as many other dishes which were later Vietnamized, including “hủ tiếu” (kuyteav), “hoành thánh” (wonton), “xá xíu” (char siew), “lạp xưởng” (Chinese sausage), “nước tương” (soy sauce), and “lẩu” (hot pot ), etc.

Meanwhile, the other theory speculates the name comes from the French “feu” (fire), as in the dish pot-au-feu French troops brought into Vietnam in the late 19th century. The supporter of the theory was R.W. Apple, Jr., the late correspondent and editor at The New York Times, who wrote about war and revolution, politics and government, and food and drink.

I, the author* of this article, still wonder which theory is closer to the truth. The noodle soup of the Chinese does not pay much attention to the quality of the stock, while the pot-au-feu of the French has good broth but it uses vegetables instead of rice noodles. Is it likely that the Vietnamese made the best use of both of them to make the unique pho for their own? Anyway, pho has long become one of the best traditional food in Vietnam and can be enjoyed anytime and anywhere.

Half a century ago, writer and gourmet Nguyen Tuan (1910-1987) wrote: “Morning, noon, afternoon, evening or night can be an excellent time for having pho. During the day, eating a bowl of pho is as enjoyable as drinking a cup of tea while talking with close friends. Pho is so delicious that hardly anyone would refuse an invitation for a pho. For low income people, they can easily entertain their friends to it without the worry of being out of pocket.”

Thus, pho can be regarded as the soul and symbol of Vietnamese cuisine in anywhere in the world, from small eateries in Hanoi, the cradle of the noodle soup, to large shopping centers in the US’s Orange County or the Left Bank of Paris, France. Nowadays, pho is not only a popular dish for Vietnamese people but also among the choices of gourmets in many other countries at any time, day or night. Moreover, pho has also become an entry in both English and French dictionaries.


Pho follows Vietnamese migrants to the world

In a certain extent, the spread of pho around the world had a connection with the country’s history in the 20th century. It appears that pho came into existence in Vienam in 1910-1912, right before many Vietnamese young people were forced to emigrate to France to help the "mother country" fight against Germany during World War I.

About thirty years later, when World Ward II came to its end, many Vietnamese soldiers in the French army were naturalized in France and then settled down in France or its colonies. It was the second generation of Vietnamese immigrants who brought pho to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and even Micronesia, an island country in Western Pacific region. By the 1950s và 1960s, it was not difficult to find a Vietnamese restaurant with pho in Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, Pondichery or New Caledonia.

In 1954, when the Geneva Accord was signed, dividing Vietnam at the 17th parallel, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people moved from north to south and vice versa. Northerners introduced their flavored noodle soup to Southerners who then modified the specialty by adding sprout, basil, thorny cilantro, and some other spices.

During some years after 1975, when the Vietnam War ended, millions of people left Vietnam to settle down in many other countries. Today, there are about 4 million overseas Vietnamese, or around 5 percent of the country’s population of 86 million. Over half of all overseas Vietnamese are living in the U.S., where a great deal of pho restaurants owned by Vietnamese immigrants has contributed to bringing the Vietnamese traditional dish to the American gourmets.

However, it is not only in the US but also in other countries where there are Vietnamese communities, from Denmark to New Zealand or from Japan to Israel, that pho has emerged as one of the favorite dishes of local people.

* The author of this article: Vu Duc Vuong, a writer and teacher in California, the U.S.


Source: VietnamNet – Translated by Quang Hung

jackbl
15-12-2010, 09:23 AM
VN encounter same thing as we hv with Mio and Starhub :D

Sport broadcast right controversies
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VietNamNet Bridge – While the controversy over K+ doesn’t cease, the public is upset by the information that a private firm - AVG - has held the broadcast right of the national football championship V-League for 20 years.

The race among television broadcasters is said to push up the copyright fees, resulting in higher fees for football fans.

It is reported that AVG has reached an agreement with the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) on holding the exclusive broadcast right of the V-League for the next two decades. This firm is negotiating with other sports federations to purchase the broadcast right of other sport events.

AVG’s move attracts public attention because this is the first time other kinds of sports, not only football – most popular in Vietnam – is in question.

According to information from the AFF, AVG will pay VND6 billion dong ($300,000) annually, doubling the pay from the national Vietnam Television (VTV) or VTC. In addition, the pay will rise by 10 percent yearly, plus 20 percent from advertising profit.

Some VFF officials also said that it is more comfortable to cooperate with AVG than VTV, which often expressed a “haughty” attitude.

With these factors, it seems that AVG is much better partner than VTV or VTC.

However, fans worry that AVG may be the second K+.

Though AVG stated that it would allow other broadcasters like VTV, VTC, HTV, etc. to broadcast V-League without “earning profit” but it has to pay billion dong of copyright fees to V-League, so it will have to seek money from broadcasting V-League.

“Commercializing entertaining TV channels is an indispensable trend of modern media. This is a good sign because once competition among broadcasters is fiercer, they will have to try to better serve the audience,” analyzed Dr. Nguyen Van Dung from the Institute for Press and Broadcasting.

Dr. Do Thu Hang, also from the Institute for Press and Broadcasting, warned broadcasters to not only be after profit and neglect low-income audience, otherwise they will be boycotted.

She said that the government should have specific regulations on information supply for the media and giving priority to national broadcasters in purchasing the broadcast right of national events.



The lesson from Singapore

Early this year, the Singaporean media market experienced an unprecedented situation.

The two largest TV broadcasters SingTel and StarHub announced that Singaporeans might have to watch the World Cup 2010 in Malaysia because they couldn’t afford to buy the broadcast right from the FIFA.

The reason was that they competed to buy the broadcast right, which pushed up the copyright fees to a very high level.

Hundreds of people demonstrated to boycott the two broadcasters. This was a rare demonstration in this country. Nearly 30,000 people joined a campaign on Facebook which called the audience to boycott the two channels because their competition made the fees for watching the World Cup seven times higher than that in 2006.

The Singaporean authorities immediately banned the exclusive broadcast right of all sport tournaments and told the two broadcasters to cooperate with each other to serve the people.

Finally, SingTel and StarHub had to pay only $15 million to FIFA to air the World Cup on both channels. The price was equivalent to the half of the initial price.

Earlier, the two broadcasters’ race for the English Premier League broadcast right turned Singapore into the most expensive country for watching football.

Singaporean Minister of Information, Communications and Art Lui Tuck Yew admitted that the theory “the market will self regulate” is wrong in this case.

Vietnam’s media management agencies should learn from Singapore to prevent losses for the audience.

Lan Huong

jackbl
15-12-2010, 02:08 PM
Vietnam Internet idol
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VietNamNet Bridge - The Internet limelight has become Vietnam’s fastest route to fame. No one here is making a Justin Bieber-sized living off of their online stardom, but people are developing careers.

This new celebrity niche is filled with two kinds of stars.

There are the sexy teen singers who have been sucked into a growing online media machine, and freelance talents, who are winning fans with their own home-grown talent.


Fame fatale

Local teen singers usually launch their careers by whipping up a fan base on social networking sites (everything from YouTube to Zing). The savvier among them leverage the attention into promotional contracts and even careers.

Indeed, Vietnam is now home to those who exclusively publish and manage online artists.

Despite the emergence of middlemen, Khanh Hung, a reporter from Yeah1! entertainment magazine says that Internet fame here is still easy-come, easy-go. He cited Elly Tran as a leading example of the new trend.

“A few photos emerged showing [Elly’s] sensual curves and she shot into instant limelight,” says Hung.

“Despite her superficial appeal, she is well-known not only in Vietnam but also in China and Korea. Now she has become an actress, model and expects to be considered a real ‘artist’,” he said

For Hung, Tran’s “career” has not been particularly praiseworthy.

“But it is obviously effective,” he said.

Hung argues that the current army of teen stars actually prefer Internet fame to developing skills or talent.

These so-called stars woo teenagers with their good figures and puppy love songs. They usually start by being rated as “hot” by online gawkers.

Before long, they land contracts with websites who produce their music.

They also get managers who help handle their images and make sure their sites provide new constant content - pictures, daily news and new songs.

What goes up, must come down These stars are also easy prey for scandals.

Truong Quynh Anh, 21, started releasing online songs last year.

Before long, she had entered into contract with pop-star turned manager Thanh Thao. Anh was Thao’s first find.

Thao, 33, has made a career of plucking tender flowers off the internet and promoting them. Her company now manages five exclusive singers.

When Anh broke up with Thao to pursue her own singing career, rumor spread that Thao hounded the girl and her family in an effort to prevent her career from taking off.

Thao denied the rumors and alleged that Anh’s new manager had instigated the scandal to grab headlines.

In any case, it’s clear from the kerfuffle that Quynh Anh had crossed from the semi-anonymous innocence of internet stardom to the sordid world of television and music.


Making the jump

There are those who don’t merely rely on looks to draw the attention of internet fans.

Don Nguyen, whose real name is Nguyen Duc Chung, has studied business in the US for six years. During his time abroad, he never tired of following the misadventures of the country’s colorful pop icons.

Before long, he was dressing in wigs, and mimicking the stars on a webcam in his room. Nguyen spent his free time mimicking his favorite performers, thousands of miles from home. His YouTube posts attracted hundreds of thousand page-views and he has since become a popular Internet comic.

At first, Nguyen claimed the clips were just something he did in his spare time. But, when he returned home, last year, his pastime became a career.

Thanh Loc, a celebrated Vietnamese theatrical performer, had been parroted by Nguyen in a bawdy 30-minute imitation.

The actor sought out his mimic and the two released an online comedy clip together that went viral. Nguyen found himself fielding major media offers. He took a role in a TV series and his career took off.

Henry Hieu, a friend of Loc’s, says Don Nguyen has a gift, but he still needs more time to be challenged and trained.

“Making people laugh by imitating others cannot be called art, it is just a skill,” Hieu says. “Don Nguyen has to create his own work. Otherwise, he will just be considered a copycat and may quickly fade away.”

Despite the criticism, Nguyen says the internet provided him with a chance to pursue his passion.



Young, gifted and hot

After posting homemade cover-song clips on YouTube early this year, seventeen year-old Thai Trinh has become the toast of Ho Chi Minh City.

Netizens went wild for the cute girl’s voice and guitar skills.

Now, she can be seen playing at coffee lounges and bars all over town. The self-taught guitar player is a regular performer at Coocku Nest Cafe on Ho Xuan Huong Street.

Trinh, says she’s still shocked with by her sudden fame. Singing is her passion, but she’s trying to balance all the attention with her studies.

Doan Trang, a Vietnamese student studying in Australia became a big fan of Trinh by watching her online. While visiting home, she’s managed to catch a few of her shows.

For Trang, the girl is proof that “the gap between the online world and reality could be bridged by real talented people,” she said. “Fame can be anyone’s."


Source: Thanh Nien

jackbl
16-12-2010, 09:41 AM
Ha Long Bay, Con Dao Islands among best tourist destinations
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Ha Long Bay of Vietnam has been listed among the world’s ten most outstanding tourist destinations by Lonely Planet Magazine.
Two of Vietnam’s coastal destinations have been listed among the world’s ten most outstanding tourist destinations by Lonely Planet Magazine, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

Ha Long Bay, in the northern province of Quang Ninh, has made it onto the list of the 10 most outstanding coastal destinations.

About 500 ships ply the waters of Ha Long Bay, designated as the World Heritage site in 1994, carrying millions of tourists every year, according to the VNAT.

Quang Ninh has attracted 5.3 million visitors so far this year, 2.5 million of whom visited Ha Long Bay.

The other nine locations were the Norwegian Fjords, the Amazon River, the Franklin River in Australia, the Quetico

Provincial Park in Canada, the Kerala backwaters in India, New Zealand's Milford Sound Bay, the Greek islands, Disco Bay in Greenland, and the Galapagos Archipelago off the coast of Ecuador.

Con Dao Islands, an archipelago off the coast of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, was listed in the top 10 most mysterious and outstanding islands in the world for an ideal holiday.

The island was featured for its unspoiled beaches and dark history as a site for inhumane prisons – often known as the Alcatraz of Southeast Asia.

The list includes Socotra off the coast of Yemen, Australia’s Torres, Yaeyama from Japan, Iles du Salut of Guyana, Ulleungdo from Korea, San Blas Islands from Panama, Taiwan’s Penghu; Bay and Hog Islands of Honduras and Uganda’s Ssese.

Source: Agencies

jackbl
16-12-2010, 02:02 PM
Many from SBF :D

Vietnam twinkles in foreign visitors
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VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam’s tourism industry is witnessing its golden age.

Vietnam is emerging as one of the top tourism spots for visitors from Thailand, Australia, Japan and Singapore for their next vacations, according to a recent tourism survey conducted by Visa, a global payments technology company, and the Pacific Asia Travel Association.

The Asia-Pacific Travel Intentions Survey 2010 included 6,714 respondents from 13 countries and territories. It said that among future inbound tourists who were most likely to visit Vietnam in the next two years, 17 per cent were from Thailand, 16 per cent were from Australia and 11 per cent were from Japan and Singapore.

These countries are Vietnam’s key tourism markets, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s (MCST) Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

According to Vietnam’s General Statistics Office, Vietnam received over 4.6 million foreign tourists during this year’s first 11 months, up 36.5 per cent against the same period last year.

Tourists from Thailand to Vietnam augmented by 42.6 per cent, Australia 31 per cent, Japan 22 per cent, China 76.7 per cent and South Korea 38 per cent against 2009’s corresponding period.

Foreign visitors most likely to visit Vietnam in the next two years ranked natural scenery, new places and affordability as their top attractions. They are also likely to be single and preferred to stay at four-star hotels compared with other types of accommodation. They would budget more than $1,200 for their next vacation and pay more for good food and the opportunity to experience new cultures, according to the survey.

“The survey can partly help tourism companies devise their future tourism plans, and help local authorities continue turning Vietnam into a more attractive tourism destination,” said Do Thi Hong Thoa, director of the Hanoi-based Viet Traditions-Travel Services Joint Stock Company.

Truong Minh Ha, Visa’s country manager in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, said that with tourism emerging as one of Vietnam’s key economic drivers, the survey showed where visitors to Vietnam were coming from, their plans and what motivated them.

“This information is very useful for the Vietnamese tourism industry to help identify opportunities and create promotional activities based on their preferences and to attract more tourists,” Ha said.

MCST Minister Hoang Tuan Anh recently reported that in 2010 Vietnam would be visited by over five million foreign tourists, and the number of local tourists would be over 28 million. The industry expects total revenue this year would be over VND85 trillion ($4.47 billion).

This means that the number of foreign tourists to Vietnam will augment by 76 per cent against last year. Meanwhile, the World Tourism Organization forecast that world tourism would grow by only 5-10 per cent this year.



Source: VIR

jackbl
16-12-2010, 06:12 PM
Same as what we experienced in our pubs & KTV :(

All smoke, no fire
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Vietnam’s ban on smoking and its curbs on tobacco promotion are being observed comfortably in the breach

A public smoking ban that took effect almost one year ago has been ineffective, and tobacco companies are having a field day in Vietnam.

Nguyen Thanh Binh, a journalist based in Ho Chi Minh City, says with sense of irony that he is virtually unaware of any smoking ban.

“When the ban came into force a year ago, everyone kept talking about it. But since then we’ve seen no enforcement or sanction, so what’s the point of observing it?” said the 25-year-old scribe who smokes 15 cigarettes per day on average.

A Vietnamese government decree effective January 1 this year prohibits smoking indoors in public places. But little headway has been made since.

“We have to admit that enforcement and compliance are [still] poor,” said Pham Hoang Anh, Vietnam director of HealthBridge Canada, an international NGO which seeks to work with partners worldwide to improve health and health equity through research, policy and action.

“[It is] due to the weak level of sanctions, unclear enforcement mechanisms, low public awareness of the regulation and of the hazards of secondhand smoke, and high social acceptability of smoking.”

Expats are none the wiser about the ban.

“Australia banned smoking in bars while I was living in Vietnam. Moving back home and having to leave your drink with a security guard was very strange but it did inspire a kind of camaraderie amongst the smokers,” said an Aussie expat in Hanoi who declined to be named.

“Here [in Vietnam] that's less necessary as most expats already know each other. I've never seen the smoking ban enforced. No one even knows there is one.”

The Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2010, the international standard for systematically monitoring adult tobacco use and tracking key tobacco control indicators, shows that currently around 15.3 million people actively smoke in Vietnam and an estimated 46.8 million are exposed to secondhand smoke.

“[These facts] provide strong evidence that the tobacco epidemic continues throughout the country,” said Jorge Alday, a spokesperson for New York-based NGO World Lung Foundation.

Smoking caused around 40,000 deaths in Vietnam in 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates. This figure could surge to 70,000 by the end of 2030 if drastic measures are not taken, the UN agency warns.

Internationally, second-hand tobacco smoke kills upward of 600,000 people every year, nearly a third of them children, according to the first-ever global assessment published last month in the British medical journal The Lancet.


Big brother

It is not just the ban that has been ineffective.

Anti-tobacco groups have criticized tobacco companies for capitalizing on legal loopholes in Vietnamese laws to launch aggressive marketing campaigns to promote the habit and the product.

Vietnam ratified in 2005 the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, an international treaty which requires countries to restrict tobacco publicity. Vietnamese laws also ban direct and indirect advertising, sponsorship and promotions, even at sales outlets.

Under the regulations, cigarette companies are not supposed to display more than one pack of a cigarette brand at any sales point. But companies and retailers have circumvented this rule by displaying different varieties of the same brand like menthol, lights or regular, anti-tobacco groups say.

They add that this strategy will lead to brands creating a variety of flavors or types so that, as in Vietnam, certain brands can dominate a large section of the display, while using just one pack of each kind.

As for indirect promotions, Alday of the World Lung Foundation says, “In Vietnam as in many other places, direct advertising has been replaced by more subtle promotional techniques such as corporate social responsibility projects. Examples include funding education or youth projects across the country or even providing disaster relief.”

Anh of HealthBridge Canada adds, “The aim of these activities is to manipulate the public’s attitude toward their reputation and send the message that they are looking out for the public’s best interest.”

Vietnam’s amended Trade Law 2005 bans all forms of sponsorship by tobacco companies. But the law stopped short of completely prohibiting sponsorship of philanthropic activities.

So far this year, British American Tobacco–Vinataba (BATVJ), a joint venture between the London-based British American Tobacco company and the Vietnam National Tobacco Corporation, has been in the news for providing five Vietnamese provinces with 22.5 million seedlings totaling VND1 billion ($51,300). BATVJ is also being investigated for cooking its books between 2006 and 2008, police in the southern province of Dong Nai, where the joint venture is based, said in October.

The Vietnam National Tobacco Corporation (Vinataba) had also, through media channels, announced pledges of VND5 billion to support poverty alleviation efforts in Bac Ai District in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan.

But the Bac Ai District government said in a recent report that they had received nothing from Vinataba and asked the state-owned tobacco giant to honor its “corporate social responsibility.”

Anti-tobacco groups have urged Vietnamese legislators to clearly define advertisement to prevent any circumventing ploys by the tobacco industry.

The government has been drafting a comprehensive tobacco control law since 2008 but the bill is set to be submitted to the National Assembly, Vietnam’s legislature, for reviewing and passing early next year.

“There are plenty of gaps that can be filled in this issue... Vietnam should follow the WHO guidelines on the protection of public health policies from commercial and other vested interests belonging to tobacco industry,” said Anh.

Vietnam plans to impose heavy environment taxes on tobacco from 2012 onwards. Currently, cigarettes are taxed at 32 percent. With a tax increase of 20 percent, retail prices would increase by about 10 percent and government tax revenues will go up by VND1.9 trillion, the WHO estimates.

“The tobacco epidemic has had severe health and economic consequences for individuals and the society,” said Nguyen Thi Xuyen, deputy minister of Health. “To protect Vietnamese from tobacco use's related burdens, the Ministry of Health has strongly supported policies for implementing the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.”

‘What will be, will be’

Journalist Binh said he is not afraid of any health consequences of tobacco. This gung ho attitude towards smoking impacts worries anti-tobacco groups the most. They say that as long as there is little awareness of the health dangers, smoking will remain socially acceptable.

According to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey 2010, 47.4 percent of Vietnamese men currently smoke. At a conference in HCMC last week, the Tumor Hospital filed a report pointing out that the southern economic hub records around 6,000 new cancer cases every year. So far this year, the hospital has admitted over 14,000 cancer patients compared with 13,200 last year. Lung and liver cancer accounted for the highest percentage among the male patients, the hospital report said.

But Binh said he saw no reason to worry. “What will be, will be. I have been smoking in all the places that I used to smoke.

“The ‘ban’ here is [almost] nothing. As far as I can see, changes are too subtle to be noticed.”

Reported by An Dien

jackbl
17-12-2010, 01:35 PM
Yahoo see VN no up :rolleyes: :confused:

Yahoo has no respect for Vietnamese clients
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VietNamNet Bridge – There is not a single internet user in Vietnam that does not know Yahoo, the leading online service provider in the world with free diversified and attractive services. However, it seems that the service provider has different attitudes to different markets and has been providing services with different levels of quality to different clients.

No need to respect newly emerging market?

Yahoo began providing the services specifically designed for Vietnam’s market in early 2000s. The pioneering service provider might have realized the great potentials of a huge market with a population of 80 million. However, according to VnMedia newspaper, some services for Vietnamese clients are not high quality, services even though they are free of charge.

It is estimated that 98 percent of Vietnamese internet users (about 20 million people) access the internet to read news. Especially, a significant number of people access Yahoo regularly to read general news updates. However, the news service by Yahoo Vietnam has been provided in a way which is completely below the international standards and stature of the giant. Can it be true that Yahoo has been deliberately forgetting to invest to develop news services, the basic service which has been catching the attention of nearly all Vietnamese internet users?

Presentation mistakes, design mistakes, and “automatic” mistakes

Also according to VnMedia, mistakes appear daily on all of Yahoo Vietnam’s bulletins. The mistakes in presentation and the displayed links prove to be the typical examples. While the biggest advantages of Internet bulletins are that they allow readers to link to different news articles and search relating stories, many bulletins of Yahoo Vietnam that quote Vietnamese big newspapers do not show weblinks. In many cases, the news on Yahoo show links, but the links do not exist, leaving readers dumbfounded when they cannot find the relating stories. Meanwhile, the disorderly links at the end of original news articles overshadow the often redundant phrases in the news articles.

VnMedia has cited some links as follows:

*http://vn.news.yahoo.com/tto/20101208/tpl-vu-buon-ban-ho-co-quan-chuc-nang-vao-ef16c59.html
*http://vn.news.yahoo.com/vne/20101209/ten-nhung-man-ot-lop-ngoan-muc-74fc0b1.html
*http://vn.news.yahoo.com/vne/20101125/tsc-100-hoc-phi-cho-7-truong-h-tai-anh-154962f.html
*http://vn.news.yahoo.com/vne/20101207/ten-my-nhan-sanh-ieu-ben-sieu-xe-spyker-74fc0b1.html


Mistakes of this kind appear every day on Yahoo News in Vietnamese version which have not been corrected later. Besides, the bulletins have been presented in a very careless way that does not follow any coherent style. The content of the bulletins are not identical, while news articles regularly have unrelated information or explanations that have not been edited or put in the right order. The noteworthy thing is that this is the chronic problem which has existed for a long time. However, there is no sign showing that the service provider has realized the mistakes and it wants to correct them.

As for choosy readers, the news on Yahoo News (Vietnamese version) is not high quality. Especially, the news articles are considered as “want ads” rather than articles. Meanwhile, the “ads” are always in advantageous positions on the home page of the bulletins.

All the issues above cited prove to be contrary with the Yahoo News (international version). Online all readers can witness the best things of the “giant” Yahoo with multi-media language (not only text and normal images). As such, Vietnamese people may feel offended because of the discriminatory treatments.

Online service providers do not provide online services

It is not easy to find the columns “Tro giup” (help) and “Phan hoi” (feedback) on Yahoo news from which people can seek support from the service providers. In order to do that, you need to become very skillful internet user. Meanwhile, Vietnamese clients cannot get online support and there is no hotline contact. Meanwhile, even small e-commerce websites in Vietnam can provide support through the hotlines, or through Yahoo Messenger – the instant message service provided by Yahoo itself.

According to analysts, the problems can be settled very easily, especially for a giant provider like Yahoo. The problem now is whether the service provider wants to fix the problems and when it wants to do this.

Though Vietnam remains a small market which still cannot generate a high turnover to the service provider, Vietnamese clients still want respect from the giant service provider, because on the virtual market of the internet, everyone wants to be equal to each other.

Source: VnMedia

jackbl
18-12-2010, 05:50 PM
Over 4000 Vietnamese women and children trafficked abroad in five years
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VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 1600 human trafficking cases were discovered in Vietnam in the past five years, with over 3500 women and nearly 500 kids being sold abroad, according to statistics by the Public Security Ministry.

According to statistics, over 60 percent of the victims were sold to China and 11 percent to Cambodia. Police also arrested 2900 people involved in these cases.

Human trafficking has become very complicated in Vietnam in recent years. Some cases discovered by police were organizational and transnational.

Vietnam is trying to build laws and cooperate with other countries to curb human trafficking.

It is estimated that at least 22,000 women and children were illegally sent to China during the 1990s.

In Vietnam, trafficking can take the form of arranged marriages that frequently result in the women becoming domestic slaves rather than wives. Other victims find themselves in the sex trade instead of the factory job they were promised.

According to UNICEF, approximately 60% of the estimated 45,000 prostitutes in Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh, are Vietnamese.

Vietnamese men, women, and girls are trafficked for sexual and labor exploitation in Cambodia, China, Thailand, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the Czech Republic for commercial sexual exploitation.

Women and men are trafficked for forced labor in factories and for construction or as domestic servants. Vietnamese trafficking victims are recruited through fraudulent marriages, false promises of employment, licensed and unlicensed migrant labor recruiting agencies.


PV

jackbl
19-12-2010, 04:41 AM
U can use ipad in vn now :)

Local network launches data plan for iPad
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A Vietnamese wireless operator, Vinaphone, has launched the first-ever data service in Vietnam for the iPad, a popular tablet-shaped computer produced by Apple Inc.

The 3G data plans, which became available on Tuesday, start from VND35,000 per month for one gigabyte a month, Vinaphone said in a statement.

Vinaphone called the launch of the new service “a new step forward in the cooperation between Apple and Vinaphone in Vietnam.”

The iPad has become a big hit for Apple since it was first introduced in April this year. According to Citigroup’s estimates, 35 million tablet PCs will be sold worldwide next year and about 26 million of them will be the iPad.

Not long after the international launch, local phone and electronics shops in Vietnam started selling the tablet, at much higher prices than those listed on the Apple website.

Apple has over 300 retail stores worldwide but it has not opened one in Vietnam. The company, however, sells the iPad to Vietnamese customers online.

Lao Dong newspaper on Tuesday cited a source as saying Vinaphone also plans to distribute the tablet officially in Vietnam. The network and military-run Viettel are the nation's two official distributors of Apple’s iPhones.

Source: Thanh Nien

jackbl
19-12-2010, 02:45 PM
3G in Vietnam: even “the poor” can use high quality services
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VietNamNet Bridge – At first, 3G services in Vietnam were thought to be designed only for those with high income. However, since service providers have been continuously lowering their fee, 3G has become affordable for the majority of people.

3G services have been provided in Vietnam for one year. At first, Vietnamese people thought that these were “luxurious” services they could never afford. However, they have changed their minds.

Trung, an ADSL broadband user, said that he has been using this service since 2006. But now he switched to 3G service.

Explaining his decision, Trung said that the quality of 3G Internet is in no way inferior to ADSL, while he can use the Internet everywhere, and the charges are “reasonable”. Now, he accesses Internet every day with Fast Connect provided by MobiFone, one of the three biggest mobile service providers in Vietnam.

Trung is not alone. More and more Vietnamese people with medium incomes chose 3G broadband services to surf on Internet. An ADSL service package, is no less than 100,000 dong a month. Meanwhile, , it is easy for clients to find a mobile broadband plan that is suitable to their needs for which they only have to pay 50,000 dong

Trung said he could not believe that the charges for 3G services could be so low until he saw that service providers kept on reducing them. MobiFone, for example, has been lowering the charges several times over the last year, since it began providing 3G services.

Most recently, the service fee for Mobile Internet has reduced by 80 percent to 10 dong/10kb from 50 dong. Meanwhile, the service fee for Fast Connect has reduced sharply by 94 percent to 65 dong/Mb from 1024 dong.

Currently, there is gap between the fees charged by big service providers such as VinaPhone, Viettel and MobiFone. However, analysts say it is not big, while clients have a choice of based on the service? popularity, telephone? brands, and quality of customer service.

According to the Ministry of Information and Telecommunication and mobile service providers, mobile Internet is the main selling point of 3G services .

Seeing the growing demand, service providers compete with each other in offering various discounts and promotions to make their products more affordable to Vietnamese customers. As the result,, 3G services are not considered as “luxurious” any more, as service providers aim to “bring 3G to everyone”.

A year ago, when MobiFone officially launched 3G services into the market, Le Ngoc Minh, Director of VMS MobiFone said he believed that with the high demand, his compnay would be able to regain its investment capital quickly. He estimated that some 10-15 percent of 35 million registered MobiFone subscribers switch from 2G to 3G services.

Source: Dau tu

jackbl
20-12-2010, 10:53 AM
Biz opportunity........

Vietnam’s market of applications for mobile phones attractive in foreigners’ eyes
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VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s market, with 50 million regular mobile phone subscribers, a developing 3G infrastructure , but a limited number of mobile phone applications, is gold mine for foreign companies.


The unexplored territory

According to the Ministry of Information and Communication, Vietnam now has 156.1 million phone subscribers, 90.32 percent of which are mobile phones (180.7 phones per 100 people). Vietnam has been listed among the markets with the highest growth rates in the world.

The market is predicted to develop significantly in the time to come, when Vietnam utilizes 3G technology on a large scale. MobiFone is now providing 60 different services based on mobile network, VinaPhone 50. However, the services are just basic services.

The mobile phone application market is considered a gold mine as Vietnam is trying to develop 3G technology, and the number of people using smartphones has been rapidly increasing. According to Vien Thong A, a distributor of mobile devices, smartphones have witnessed the most impressive growth rates in the last few years. 367,712 smartphones were consumed in 2009, representing a sharp increase of 434 percent in comparison with 2008. Meanwhile, the growth rate of popular mobile phones has dropped from 34 percent in 2008 to 24 percent in 2009.

Hoang Ngoc Diep, former General Director of Indochina Qualcomm, said that 3G technology in Vietnam has not been fully exploited and has not developed sustainably. “Digital content services remain very poor,” he said

Diep believes that Vietnam now needs more and more enterprises to join the mobile applications market, especially foreign companies which have significant experience in developing mobile applications integrated with e-commerce and e-government


Will foreign companies jump into the market?

Considered a gold mine, of course, Vietnam is catching the eyes of foreign companies.

In early November, Opera Software, a Norwegian company, organized a market survey tour to Vietnam. Rolf Assev, strategic director of Opera Software said that he was so surprised that Opera accounted for 70 percent of the mobile browser market in Vietnam especially because Opera Software has not had any advertisement campaigns in Vietnam.

“Vietnam is really a very attractive market that we must not miss,” he said

According to Opera Software, in Vietnam, 67 percent of people connecting to the internet with mobile devices are using Opera Mini browser, while 15 percent are using the Nokia’s browser.

On average, each person using Opera, uses 6MB of data and reads 237 websites a month, mostly news sites, domestic online newspapers, Google searches, entertainment clips on YouTube. Vietnam is now ranking the 7th among the top 10 countries that use Opera Mini.

Impressed by what they have found in Vietnam, the Norwegian company has decided to carry out commercial activities in Vietnam. The company said it will shake hands with mobile service providers in Vietnam including Viettel, VinaPhone, MobiFone to provide mobile applications, and soon localize products for local users.

Nguyen Huu Hanh, General Director of Yahoo! Vietnam also said the company is now keeping a keen eye on the market at a time when Vietnam is clearly trying to develop 3G technology.

According to Hanh, two years ago, when launching Yahoo! Mobile, there were only 250,000 users. One year later, the figure rose to 1.2 million, and by October 2009, when 3G network was launched, the services attracted 4.1 million users



Source: Thoi bao Kinh te Saigon

jackbl
21-12-2010, 09:57 AM
Lesbian wedding in Hanoi heats up online community
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VietNamNet Bridge – Just several hours after a clip featuring a wedding party of two girls in Hanoi was uploaded on Facebook, it became a big controversy on online forums in Vietnam.

The couple, both 19, knew each other for a long time and a big wedding was organized recently, which surprised their friends and relatives.

The bride is a student at the Hanoi International Raffles University. The other bride is a project manager at a media company in Hanoi and a marketing employee for another firm.

After the wedding, the couple lives with their parents. After one girl finished her course at Raffles, they will go abroad for further studies.

In the wedding party, the couple had very intimate kisses but some are worried about their future.

Cuong Mars Le, who posted the wedding clip, wrote: “They are very brave to go after their happiness but we should understand the feelingsof their parents. Though they accepted the wedding and were happy for their children, there is still sadness deep inside their hearts. Was that a mature or ebullient decision of young people?”

This is the first public wedding party of homosexuals in Hanoi.



LT

v.killers
21-12-2010, 10:27 PM
Jack kor kor,

This thread become a Vietanmese news thread izzit? :D

hahahaha !!!

leecs
21-12-2010, 11:16 PM
Informative...................

jackbl
22-12-2010, 02:27 AM
Jack kor kor,

This thread become a Vietanmese news thread izzit? :D

hahahaha !!!

Yes, since nobody post so I post some news to liven this thread :D

KangTuo
22-12-2010, 09:38 AM
Yes, since nobody post so I post some news to liven this thread :D

Reason can be either of the 3 -
1) A lot of TV expert now. No translation require.
2) Vb sms is all about 'tien'. Bros sms is all about 'lam tinh'
3) Bros who post questions, will get scolding from jackbl, so mind as well don't post. :p

jackbl
22-12-2010, 10:34 AM
3) Bros who post questions, will get scolding from jackbl, so mind as well don't post. :p

Since u so free, go find out in recent 6 months when did I scold ppl???

There are so many online dictionary now... They may be getting the help from there..... If there is still people asking for translation for "Anh yeu em", what you think? :D

jackbl
22-12-2010, 02:37 PM
HCM City is “poorer” than Hanoi
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VietNamNet Bridge – Per capita income in HCM City, Vietnam’s largest city, is higher than the capital city of Hanoi but its poor rate is higher.

The survey of poverty in Hanoi and HCM City in 2009, sponsored by the UNDP, reveals a surprise results: HCM City is “poorer” than Hanoi.

The survey rates the poverty in the two cities not only based on income and spending, but also the people’s approach to social welfares, education and health services, housing, social activities and security.

Based on the national poverty standards, which is mainly measured by income, HCM City’s poverty rate is lower than Hanoi’s, with 0.31 percent and 1.27 percent respectively. According to the survey, Hanoi’s per capita income is VND2.321 million/year and it is VND2.445 million in HCM City.

However, the poverty rates based on other standards of HCM City are higher than those of Hanoi. For instance, HCM City’s ratio of illiteracy, ratio of people without health insurance, the number of people who live in housing space of less than 7 square meters are higher than Hanoi’s.

The new methodology of poverty measurement shows that in both cities, rural mirgrants and immigrants have a more difficult approach to social welfares than urban dwellers and those who are not immigrants.

This methodology also proves that income is not the most important element to measure poverty, but social welfares and people’s participation in social activities.

The survey reveals that the rate of poor people and immigrants who don’t participate in social activities is higher than well-off people and those who are not immigrants. The most popular reasons for this situation are: these people are not allowed to participate, they don’t have family record books, and they think that these activities do not pertain to them.

The survey shows that inequality in having access to social services exists in the two biggest cities in Vietnam, especially between immigrants and those who have family record books.

The survey also points out that poverty eradication policies based on economic standards (income and spending) are insufficient. Vietnam should pay more attention to improve the social welfare system, housing, education and health services, etc. for the people, to facilitate the people, especially immigrants and the poor, to take part in social activities and social organizations.

The survey, carried out by the two cities, is the first of its kind, which approached to poverty in a multi-faceted way and the first source of information about poverty and the life of immigrants in Hanoi and HCM City.

It was implemented in October and November 2009.

After the survey results are made public, the survey organizing board will invite prestigious experts to analyze the relations between poverty situation and hunger eradication and poverty eradication policies to make suggestions to the two cities in amending their policies.

Thuy Chung

RJ2004
22-12-2010, 06:20 PM
Yes, since nobody post so I post some news to liven this thread :D

post some viet porn vids leh :D

jackbl
22-12-2010, 06:32 PM
Sitting on mounts of gold, why is Vietnam still poor?
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VietNamNet Bridge – That is the question that Dr. Vu Minh Khuong, a lecturer at the National Singapore University, has received from many Singaporeans.

They said Singapore has only one seaport and one Sentosa Island while Vietnam has many seaports and many beautiful islands like Phu Quoc, Ha Long, Van Phong, etc. but it is listed among countries with low average per capita income and low competitiveness.

This question is difficult for Singaporeans but it is not difficult for those who understand Vietnam.

Dr. Khuong said that Vietnam has a large potential for development but Vietnam doesn’t know where it should focus.

According to Khuong, Vietnam’s case is like that of a man who is very versatile, who can play music very well and can also draw nice paintings. With so many talents, he sometimes does scientific research, other times plays music and then draws paintings and in the end he doesn’t become a scientist nor a musician nor a painter.

For example, Quang Ninh province in northern Vietnam has Ha Long Bay and abundant reserves of coal. The province both explores coal and develops tourism but coal exploration harms the Ha Long Bay’s natural environment.

Tourism development in Quang Ninh, sadly, focuses on attracting large numbers of visitors, who however don’t spend much money there.

Quang Ninh is not the only one example in Vietnam. Provinces in the Red River Delta are wondering how to explore the giant coal reserves under their rice granary, which is the dream of many countries in the current context, when food security is the top priority.

Local governments in Vietnam are striving for high growth rates and industrlisation, not thinking about the advantages they already have. Their development plans are all similar. And this means that they lose their competitiveness.

Let’s look at the seaport development in Vietnam. All coastal provinces in Vietnam want to have their own seaports. In the next ten years, Vietnam will build up to 39 seaports, with 108 wharves. Is it good? The more seaports there are, the less goods each seaports will service, which in turn, means higher costs.

In the US, there are only three major seaports along the 1900km-long western coast.

Vietnam seems to forget Malaysia’s lesson of seaports development. Prior to the 1970s, it had only two big ports. The government decided to build four more national and three domestic ports, resulting in the redundancy of seaports and severe competition among them.

With a strategic position and a long coast, Vietnam has the advantages to become an international transit center but will Vietnam take the chance?

There was a time when all provinces and cities tried to have their own sugar and cement plants and now they are racing to have their own steel plants and seaports, which are all small.

Vietnam currently doesn’t have an international transit container seaport. It has some international ports like Saigon, Da Nang and Hai Phong, which can host big vessels but their services don’t meet the demand, service charges are high and the customs clearance duration is long (3-7 days on average compared to 10 minutes in Singapore). There is no adequate investment in the railway and road networks connected with these ports. Infrastructural facilities are poor.

Experts mention a story which is shows how regional interests hindering the overall development:

The Cai Mep-Thi Vai seaport in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau welcomed big foreign cargo ships. In every aspect, this port was suitable to become an international transit port. However, HCM City and Long An also wanted to turn their ports into international transit ports while there was a shortage of capital.

Attracting foreign investment is another area, which can partly answer the question why Vietnam doesn’t become rich though it “sits” on mounts of gold.

Though the country has a common policy on foreign investment but to lure investors, many provinces and cities have broken the rules, by offering many more incentives.

A survey by the Ministry of Finance at 48 provinces and cities in 2006 revealed that up to 32 provinces issued illegal documents, which offered special incentives for investors and 11 provinces violated the regulations on corporate income tax.

The race to attract foreign investment among provinces harmsthe national economy. This is the race to the “bottom”.

“Instead of competition, cooperation and combination among provinces and sectors must be encouraged,” advised Professor Michael Porter.

Vietnam should seriously consider its position in the global economy at present and define its advantages that can make its name in the world.



Phuong Loan

AdGuy
22-12-2010, 11:08 PM
Since u so free, go find out in recent 6 months when did I scold ppl???

There are so many online dictionary now... They may be getting the help from there..... If there is still people asking for translation for "Anh yeu em", what you think? :D

People who dunno wtf anh yeu em is should not be here. :D

v.killers
23-12-2010, 02:24 AM
Reason can be either of the 3 -
1) A lot of TV expert now. No translation require.
2) Vb sms is all about 'tien'. Bros sms is all about 'lam tinh'
3) Bros who post questions, will get scolding from jackbl, so mind as well don't post.

Clap Clap !!! em noi chuyen hay wa ah...:D

But never know Jackbl will scold ppl one leh! Saw him ken CHAK jialat by Vbs....:p

zhu star
23-12-2010, 09:45 AM
post some viet porn vids leh :D

Long time no see? Where you hiding?:D

Ange|Boy
23-12-2010, 11:38 AM
People who dunno wtf anh yeu em is should not be here. :D

HAHAHAHA,

so true.

RJ2004
23-12-2010, 02:53 PM
Long time no see? Where you hiding?:D

not hiding leh, can be spotted here and there... jackbl spotted me a few times :D

zhu star
23-12-2010, 03:07 PM
not hiding leh, can be spotted here and there... jackbl spotted me a few times :D

Ofcos Jacklb can spot you lah he is Viet gals king mah, anywhere got vbs he sure goes there! :)

jackbl
23-12-2010, 04:07 PM
not hiding leh, can be spotted here and there... jackbl spotted me a few times

Ofcos Jacklb can spot you lah he is Viet gals king mah, anywhere got vbs he sure goes there!

It is more difficult to spot RJ2004 than spotting CHIO VBs.

What Viet king?! I just a nobody. Not like ZhuStar, at least got 3 gals fighting over him :cool:

Today someone send me a Xmas greeting "You going to be 3X soon. At this age you should doing some meaningful in helping yourself & contribute to our society. Stop wasting times on these viet dogs"

Thanks for your concern.

Hereby wishing everyone in SBF:

Giáng Sinh vui vẻ! Nô-en vui vẻ!

zhu star
24-12-2010, 09:11 AM
It is more difficult to spot RJ2004 than spotting CHIO VBs.

What Viet king?! I just a nobody. Not like ZhuStar, at least got 3 gals fighting over him

Hereby wishing everyone in SBF:

Giáng Sinh vui vẻ! Nô-en vui vẻ!

I fully agree with you. RJ2004 is certainly very slippery. Never see him for more than a year!

As for myself, I lost all three gals already (see my signature) Perhaps it is better is way, can also save money.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL SBF BROTHERS AND SISTERS

AdGuy
24-12-2010, 10:26 AM
Chuc cac ban giang sinh vui ve va hanh phuc.

Which means...

Wish everybody merry Christmas and horniness. Hehe.

jackbl
24-12-2010, 12:38 PM
9x and “scandals” in 2010
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To have a broad view about the thinking, morals and lifestyle of a group of young people in Vietnam, VietNamNet reviews “trends” and scandals caused by youngsters who were born in the 1990s (9x) in 2010.



Taking sexy pictures to post on blogs

This trend appeared in recent years but it was strictly condemned by the online community and the public after an 8th grader in the northern coastal city of Hai Phong posted sexy pictures of herself on her blog. In these pictures, she wore an unbuttoned school uniform.

After this scandal, the trend “developed”. When “showing off breasts” was outdated, teen girls tried to attract public attention by taking nude pictures in groups. There are many photos of 4-5 schoolgirls who showed off their nude bodies in sexy poses.

Teen couples also uploaded their own pictures to their blogs, in which they were nude and in suggestive poses. Being protested, they deleted the pictures but they were already copied and posted on many other websites. Notably, these couples were very young and their bodies aren’t fully developed.

This trend seems to be still favored by part of modern youth.

In late July, the online community was stirred up by a 1.49 minute clip in which a young man, wearing a mask carried a pink cuddly toy on his head. Immediately, a young girl approached, kneeled down and prostrated continuously. Other young people appeared around the girl and also kneeled down to prostrated the toy.

These youngsters explained that they “taped” a group named “Improve Everywhere” in the US, which improvises harmless but funny jokes in public. However, this clip was protested on the Internet as a bad joke.

Not long after that scandal, hundreds of teens wore red T-shirts, carried banners and big portraits of Korean actors to join a parade to send the best wishes to their Korean idols.

This odd parade was strongly protested by the public.

Another trend is “selecting boyfriend/girlfriend for one night”. The “trend” is initiated by a 9x girl who posted an advertisement online seeking a boyfriend for her birthday night. According to the advertisement, the “winner” must be handsome, stylish, rich and must have a SH motorbike (luxurious motorbike).

The advertisement was criticized strongly but it has been quickly used by other teens. Before holidays, online advertisements to seek boyfriend/girlfriend for one night were posted on many websites.

Shooting shocking and strange clips to post on teen blogs to attract visitors is also a trend. Among the most shocking clips is the clip in which a 9x girl spoke obscene words for up to nine minutes.

Another shocking clip is the one named “How to seduce a boy” in which a girl called herself “Kem” introduces how to have sexy pictures.

After that, a series of clips produced by teens shocked viewers, including “9x girls dance sexily”, “high-school couples make love on the roof”, etc.

Teens also posted clips that they furtively shot others in sensitive circumstances. Two clips that filmed a group of girls beating another girl caused public turmoil. Police investigated these clips and solved the cases.



Cao Thuy Thom

albert05
24-12-2010, 03:08 PM
Chúc các bạn của tui một mùa giáng sinh vui vẻ,va` một năm mới bình an


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٩ - merry christmas & happy new year

٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶٩( -̮̮̃-̃)۶٩(-̮̮̃•̃)۶٩(●̮̮̃●̃)۶٩(•̮̮̃ •̃)۶ -
MERRY CHRISTMAS

jackbl
28-12-2010, 05:26 PM
How big will be Tet bonuses?
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VietNamNet Bridge – It is expected that the Tet bonuses to be offered by foreign invested enterprises to their staff will be half as much or double that of the previous year. The finance and banking, telecom, oil and gas and other service sectors are also expecting relatively high bonuses.

Tet will only come in more than one month, but many enterprises have already prepared Tet bonuses for their staff. The bonuses have been decided based on the business performance of enterprises and individual performance.

Nguyen Tuan Quynh, Chair of SFC, a fuel company, said that the company had a prosperous year 2010, therefore, the Tet bonuses will be bigger than that of the previous year. All the employees will get the 13th month salary and two-month salaries for Tet.

The Tet bonus levels have decided based on the business result in 2010. The highest Tet bonus level would be 55 million dong. “This year’s Tet bonuses seem to be higher than in the previous year because SFC has a prosperous year n 2010,” Quynh explained.

He said that in previous years, the company only released information about Tet bonuses just before Tet. However, the company wants to declare the Tet bonuses soon to encourage its staff. Once anticipating the Tet bonuses, the employees can set up their Tet purchase plan.

Garment and footwear companies have promised to offer bigger Tet bonuses this year Every worker will get the bonus equal to one-month salary at least. This was confirmed by Pham Xuan Hong, Deputy Chair of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association, and General Director of Saigon 3 Company

Hong said every worker will get one-month salary at minimum and 2.5-month salary at maximum. However, he added that Tet bonus increases will not be high enough to cover the price increases.

Garment companies have experienced a prosperous year. Enterprises get a lot of orders in the post-global crisis period. many enterprises have enough work to do until the end of the second quarter of 2011. However, they say they do not hope to see their profit increase sharply in the next year, because the input material prices have been increasing sharply

Duc Thanh Wooden Furniture Corporation has not made official declarations about the Tet bonuses, but the company’s General Director Le Hai Lieu said his 1000 workers will get bigger Tet bonuses this year. Every worker will get the 13th month salary. Besides, they will also get other bonuses based on their contribution to the company.

General Director of Hung Vuong Joint Stock Company also said that Hung Vuong makes a large profit this year, estimated at 500 billion dong, because the company benefits from the exchange rate fluctuations. Therefore, the Tet bonuses will certainly “satisfy the staff”

Nevertheless, many other companies are not really satisfied with their business results in 2010. Phan Dinh Son, Director of Bao An Company said that the turnover growth rate is below the expectation. Therefore, the Tet bonuses for Bao An’s staff will not be higher than the previous year. According to Son, the highest Tet bonus level would be about 30 million dong.

To date, the Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs has not received all the reports from local departments about the Tet bonuses.

Mai Xuan Tri, Deputy Director of the Khanh Hoa province’s Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the Tet bonuses of the enterprises in the province will be lower than the previous Tet. The highest expected Tet bonus level is 71 million dong, while the lowest 30,000 dong.


C. V

FireShark
28-12-2010, 11:46 PM
Hi all

Long time didnt logged in laio. Hope all have a happy New Year with new resolution.

AdGuy
28-12-2010, 11:49 PM
Hi all

Long time didnt logged in laio. Hope all have a happy New Year with new resolution.

You too man!

jackbl
29-12-2010, 02:02 PM
So u guys dun go to HJ joints when u visit vn, go to hospital la :)

Sperm in short supply in Vietnam metro
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Doctors prepare sperms for an in vitro fertilization case at Hung Vuong Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City. Sperm shortage at the city hospitals have made infertile couples more desperate.
Infertility is a growing problem among young couples in Ho Chi Minh City, doctors say. What’s worse, the city is short on sperm.

Some desperate couples have even turned to anonymous online sources that offer to help them conceive, in the biblical sense.

Doctor Hoang Thi Diem Tuyet, head of the Infertility Faculty at Tu Du, the city’s leading Obstetrics and Gynecology hospital, says 32,020 couples sought help for conception during the first nine months of this year—up 6.5 percent year-on-year.

Every day, around 150 people seek consultation and examination for infertility at the hospital, Dr. Tuyet said. Around 10 percent of those couples require in vitro fertilization (IVF)—a process in which the female egg is fertilized from outside the body.

“Since the faculty was established [in 1997], nearly 4,000 children have been conceived through IVF,” she said.

In the statistics release by Tu Du Hospital, 39 percent of the infertility cases are attributed to husbands, 27 percent to wives and 21 percent to problems with both parties. The cause of 13 percent of said cases has not been determined.

Rising demand

“The demand for infertility treatment has been increasing,” said doctor Nguyen Thi Ngoc Suong, head of the Infertility Faculty at Hung Vuong Hospital.

Every day, the Hung Vuong faculty sees between 80-90 couples. Doctors here prescribe in vitro fertilization to between 20 and 30 couples each month, according to Dr. Suong.

Most of the patients at the clinic range between 31-35 years of age and come from all walks of life. Some couples are in their early twenties.

In many cases, infertile couples put off conception for work or financial reasons for many years after marriage. They may use a variety of different birth control measures during that period, said Ho Manh Tuong, general secretary of the HCMC Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Association.

“The pressure of life, of work combined with dietary and environmental conditions cause conception problems,” Tuong said.

Falling supply

Despite a growing demand, hospitals are chronically short of good sperm.

Tu Do Hospital only releases sperm from its bank after a healthy deposit is made.

Dr. Tuyet said that once a physician at Tu Do advises a couple to go in for an IVF, the husband and wife then have to track down a sperm donor. It’s not been official how much the donors would get.

Many couples can’t get over the embarrassment of asking anyone for help. In some cases, Tuyet said, their own families prevent them from using scientific intervention to effect conception.

Even when infertile couples find a donor, the deposit they submit is tested for several months to ensure it is viable and disease-free. Sometimes, if the sperm donation fails to meet hospital standards, it cannot be exchanged for a healthy sample.

Moreover, “it’s not easy to find someone willing to donate sperm,” said Dr. Suong from Hung Vuong Hospital.

Desperate times

Doctor Tuong said some couples waited so long for sperm donations that they gave up. Some were prescribed IVF at age 30 but had failed to track down a viable sperm donor by age 40, he said.

The doctor said some desperate couples appear enticed by illegal online sperm supplies or private clinics.

Health inspectors in HCMC recently found a doctor at a clinic in District 1 selling sperm for VND10- 15 million (US$513-770) per dose. The doctor further offered to inject the healthy sperm into the wife’s reproductive system for VND5 million.

Many men have been selling sperm online for between VND4-16 million ($205-820) - some even offer to deliver their sperm directly into the womb.

Doctors say these practices can result in infectious diseases and do not guarantee success because the sperm has not been tested.

Dr. Tuong, of the city infertility association, asserted that the government should actively encourage people to donate sperms; they are donating other organs, he pointed out.

Yet Tuong did express concern that too much sperm donation might cause blood relation problems, later.

Reported by Thanh Tung

jackbl
31-12-2010, 02:37 PM
Super-scooter selling like hot cakes despite price storms
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VietNamNet Bridge – Despite the economic difficulties, the super-scooter market in Vietnam remains hot with more and more new luxury models launched onto the market and the increasing purchasing power of consumers.


143 million dong was the sale price of the Piaggio Beverly that Piaggio Vietnam imported and launched onto the market last week. In fact, the sale price of luxury scooters is nearly the same with the price of a medium class car. However, the despite the high prices luxury scooters still have been selling like hot cakes.

“The clients that we target are high income earners. These can be the clients who have cars already, but still want to own motorbikes,” said Costantino Sambuy, General Director of Piaggio Vietnam. It is clear that it would be much easier to drive on motorbikes in the inner city with heavy traffic.

143 million dong, equal to $7000, is a fortune for low and medium income earners. However, this is a mediocre sum of money for high income earners. Especially, analysts say $7000 is not too high if compared with other scooter models, like Honda Spacy 125 or Dyland SH, which are much more expensive.

Prior to that, in June 2009, Piaggio Vietnam launched Vespa LX125 at 60 million dong, a relatively high price level in comparison with the average prices on the market. However, the model still sold very well. In 2009, Piaggio Vietnam sold 22,300 products, about 3500-4000 products a month.

In 2010, the motorbike manufacturer plans to churn out 50,000 scooters from its factory in Vietnam and sell 72,000 products, including both products assembled in Vietnam and imported cars in order to diversify the products. Costantino Sambuy told Dau tu newspaper two weeks before the end of 2010 that the manufacturer fulfills all the business targets set earlier this year.

Alongside Piaggio Vietnam other motorbike manufacturers are also trying to introduce luxury models to attract wealthy customers. Honda Vietnam, for example, introduced Honda SH 125 and Honda SH 150 with the manufacturer’s suggested retail price of nearly 100 million dong and 121 million dong, respectively.

The market of super-scooters for high income earners has witnessed the emergence of a giant from Italia - Ducati. After opening the first showroom in HCM City, Dong Duong Company, the official distributor of Ducati decided to march towards the north, introducing models at prices $15,000 and $70,000 in Hanoi.

The managers of Dong Duong also said that they do not target popular clients, but target high income earners who purchase luxury scooters for their collection or just for fun

The returning of the luxury products to Vietnamese market was marked by the opening of the Kawasaki showroom run by Phuong Mai Company in HCM City and Hanoi.

Right after that, the Vulcan 900 Custom, with a sale price of $17,000 receive a large number of orders, along with Boss 174cc and KSR 112 cc.

Besides, the motorbikes with the cylinder capacity of 400-18,000 cc with the sale prices of $20,000-52,000, imported under the mode of complete built units, have also been available at Ravo Motor Showroom in Hanoi.

With attractive names like Honda Shadow 750cc, Honda CB400 Hyper Vtec Revo, Harley-Davidson Heritage Softail, Suzuki GSR600, Triumph America, Ravo Motor is the paradise of motorbike players. The clients of the showroom are mainly the members of the Hanoi Motorbike Club and sports motorbike fans.

According to the General Department of Customs, in 2009, 115,000 motorbikes worth $132 million were imported to Vietnam. By December 15, 2010, 92,654 CBU motorbikes had been imported.

C. V

paulwwk88
01-01-2011, 07:23 PM
Anh biec kg toi qua em cung 2 vo chong chi o chung di coi ban phao bong vui o la vui con anh co gi vui ke em nghe voi hi hi

Can really understand the 1 highlighted in red:confused:

Any bro can help.... Thanks

jackbl
01-01-2011, 07:47 PM
Tết tây 2011 vui vẻ !

lovesprout
01-01-2011, 08:11 PM
Anh biec kg toi qua em cung 2 vo chong chi o chung di coi ban phao bong vui o la vui con anh co gi vui ke em nghe voi hi hi

Can really understand the 1 highlighted in red:confused:

Any bro can help.... Thanks

vo chong = husband and wife (夫妻)
chi = sister
o chung = together
coi = see
ban = launch (放)
phao bong = firework
vui = happy

So this sentence means, "together with sister and her husband to see firework very happy"

paulwwk88
01-01-2011, 09:32 PM
vo chong = husband and wife (夫妻)
chi = sister
o chung = together
coi = see
ban = launch (放)
phao bong = firework
vui = happy

So this sentence means, "together with sister and her husband to see firework very happy"

thanks a lot bro.....sad she never ask me to go with her :(

pak qi ko
03-01-2011, 12:14 AM
Let me help u with the simpler one.

LAN SAU should be Next time.
Hi, i got the following sms, but don't know what that mean? Please Help.

1) ban loa aj za.
2)ua seo anh nhan tjn zo so may em loa chuc mung nam moj.
3)em loa em cua chj bay jo em xaj so nai oh.

AdGuy
03-01-2011, 11:21 PM
Hi, i got the following sms, but don't know what that mean? Please Help.

1) ban loa aj za.
2)ua seo anh nhan tjn zo so may em loa chuc mung nam moj.
3)em loa em cua chj bay jo em xaj so nai oh.

Wa. This is super cheem viet. Never seen anything like this before. This is 1 SMS? The sentences dun seem to link.

SureScore
04-01-2011, 12:39 PM
Hi, i got the following sms, but don't know what that mean? Please Help.

1) ban loa aj za.
2)ua seo anh nhan tjn zo so may em loa chuc mung nam moj.
3)em loa em cua chj bay jo em xaj so nai oh.

Read already can faint. Can't understand one bit.

jackbl
04-01-2011, 01:26 PM
Hi, i got the following sms, but don't know what that mean? Please Help.

No head no tail. My level cant decode. Sorry :(

MrDarkSide
04-01-2011, 01:46 PM
1) ban loa aj za.
2)ua seo anh nhan tjn zo so may em loa chuc mung nam moj.
3)em loa em cua chj bay jo em xaj so nai oh.

1) Who are you ?

2) Why you send me sms, "Happy New Year" ?

3) I'm the younger sister. Am using this phone number now.


Anyway, this is a rojak, street sms. Vietlish vs Singlish.

KangTuo
04-01-2011, 01:46 PM
Hi, i got the following sms, but don't know what that mean? Please Help.

1) ban loa aj za.
2)ua seo anh nhan tjn zo so may em loa chuc mung nam moj.
3)em loa em cua chj bay jo em xaj so nai oh.

is "loa" a vb name?

kawaguchi
05-01-2011, 01:06 AM
Not sure if any tieng viet sifu here can help decode this email my friend cut and paste to me, my level cant help , so not sure if any1 here can understand

"Tai sao bay gio anh hu zay ngay nao cung di uong bia om con gai anh co biet em buon khi dien thoai nhan tin cho anh khong tra loi moi loi noi va mot tin nhan kho khan doi voi anh zay sao khong biet em lam vi co loi ma anh no long nao doi xu em nhu zay em muon anh noi anh da co con gai de em biet em kg ngi den anh nua vi em luon ngi rang anh con yeu em"

I only understand something like "why now you together drink beer hug girl, sad, you dont know what i work because".. really catch no ball

lovesprout
05-01-2011, 08:51 AM
Not sure if any tieng viet sifu here can help decode this email my friend cut and paste to me, my level cant help , so not sure if any1 here can understand

"Tai sao bay gio anh hu zay ngay nao cung di uong bia om con gai anh co biet em buon khi dien thoai nhan tin cho anh khong tra loi moi loi noi va mot tin nhan kho khan doi voi anh zay sao khong biet em lam vi co loi ma anh no long nao doi xu em nhu zay em muon anh noi anh da co con gai de em biet em kg ngi den anh nua vi em luon ngi rang anh con yeu em"

I only understand something like "why now you together drink beer hug girl, sad, you dont know what i work because".. really catch no ball

She said if you dare to hug girls again, she will cut your balls to feed a dog. :p

Just kidding la. Here it is:

"Why you are bad like that, everyday go drink beer and hug girls, do you know I am sad, when call you or sms you, you don't answer. Every words, every sms difficult for you (me?), why you don't know I work because of money but what kind of heart you treat me like that? I want you to tell me that you already have (other) girl to let me know, I will not think about you again, because I often think you still love me"

kawaguchi
05-01-2011, 01:16 PM
thanks lovesprout, sounds correct. u really expert

Hurricane88
05-01-2011, 02:24 PM
"Why you are bad like that, everyday go drink beer and hug girls, do you know I am sad, when call you or sms you, you don't answer. Every words, every sms difficult for you (me?), why you don't know I work because of money but what kind of heart you treat me like that? I want you to tell me that you already have (other) girl to let me know, I will not think about you again, because I often think you still love me"

if you trust WL then pigs oso can climb trees...hahaha...:)

Woodland777
05-01-2011, 04:41 PM
if you trust WL then pigs oso can climb trees...hahaha...:)

I got to agreed with this. 99%% is out to suck as much $$$ as possible before she retire

kawaguchi
05-01-2011, 07:20 PM
this time round my turn to need some translation help:
from 2 sms which is truncated, so i link everything up
"em biet va em hieu that tinh xa anh roi em rat buon em biet la em ve ho chi minj kg hoc tieng trung quoc vi em ve nha khong co tien sin loi nhung that xu em chua bao gio ngi yeu tien cua anh vi em yeu anh tien cua anh cung nhu tien cua em neu anh kg con yeu em nua that xu em rat buon anh co biet rang bay gio em khoc nhieu lam kg tai sao minh dang yeu nhao va bay gio tro nen nhu zay"

i only know the first part is " I know and understand ..... I very sad I know ... I go ho chi minh never study Chinese because I go home no money sorry but.... the rest i catch no ball liao "

lovesprout
05-01-2011, 08:45 PM
this time round my turn to need some translation help:
from 2 sms which is truncated, so i link everything up
"em biet va em hieu that tinh xa anh roi em rat buon em biet la em ve ho chi minj kg hoc tieng trung quoc vi em ve nha khong co tien sin loi nhung that xu em chua bao gio ngi yeu tien cua anh vi em yeu anh tien cua anh cung nhu tien cua em neu anh kg con yeu em nua that xu em rat buon anh co biet rang bay gio em khoc nhieu lam kg tai sao minh dang yeu nhao va bay gio tro nen nhu zay"



Hi bro, my first translation is free, but my second translation... uhm.. you own me a mug of beer. :)

I know and I understand that true love leaves you far away already. I am very sad. I know that I went back to HCM (but) I didn't study Chinese, because I went home (but I) had no money. Sorry. But really, I never think about loving your $$. Because I love you, your money is also like mine. If you really don't love me more, I am very sad. Do you know that now I am crying a lot? Why we are in the middle of love with each other, but now it becomes like that?

This sentence is so classic.. "Because I love you, your money is also like mine" I like it!

FireShark
06-01-2011, 11:32 AM
Hi bro, my first translation is free, but my second translation... uhm.. you own me a mug of beer. :)

I know and I understand that true love leaves you far away already. I am very sad. I know that I went back to HCM (but) I didn't study Chinese, because I went home (but I) had no money. Sorry. But really, I never think about loving your $$. Because I love you, your money is also like mine. If you really don't love me more, I am very sad. Do you know that now I am crying a lot? Why we are in the middle of love with each other, but now it becomes like that?

This sentence is so classic.. "Because I love you, your money is also like mine" I like it!

Mee toooooo... I love it your $$$ is like my $$$ but not her $$$ is my $$$ too... kakakak

zhu star
06-01-2011, 05:23 PM
This sentence is so classic.. "Because I love you, your money is also like mine" I like it!

Trai oi, din know Viet vb can write so well!:)

VLBK03
07-01-2011, 10:23 PM
Hi bro,can help me to translate this:-

"Em co biet la ngay sinh nhat cua anh em rat la buon.anh biet tai sau em khong chuc mung anh khong.vi em nghi la anh co nguoi yeu benh canh nen e khong dam phien anh vi e so anh khong duoc vui.ba e vua moi mat nen em cung rat la buon.thoi minh co duyen ma khong co no thi em se co ngan quen anh giong nhu em co gang quen di viet ba em mat vay do.em chuc anh happy birthday kiss you."

Try using vdict but not able to fully translate so thanks for your help.

MrDarkSide
08-01-2011, 12:49 AM
The dotted is just some KC stuffs, what I felt. Anyway, you already got the crux out.

AdGuy
08-01-2011, 12:57 AM
I am trying but translation may not be complete, some other samsters have to help you a bit, to fill in at those dotted spaces.

I know of your birthday. I am very sad. You know why I don't wish you happy birthday? Because I heard that you have lover besides you so I don't want to trouble you because I don't want you to be unhappy. My grandma has just passed away so I am very sad. .................I'm going back to Vietnam because my grandma has died. Wish you Happy Birthday, kiss you.

Sorry, I'm still learning so can I just check on where the above bolded items are in the Viet version?

Thanks for helping

MrDarkSide
08-01-2011, 01:03 AM
Now that you mention, I think ba e vua moi mat is My grandma has just passed away.



sleep, wet dream, sleep, wet dream, sleep, wet dream...

AdGuy
08-01-2011, 04:41 PM
Now that you mention, I think ba e vua moi mat is My grandma has just passed away.



sleep, wet dream, sleep, wet dream, sleep, wet dream...

You are right.

Ba e vua moi mat means grandma recently died.

v.killers
08-01-2011, 04:45 PM
Hi, i got the following sms, but don't know what that mean? Please Help.

1) ban loa aj za.
2)ua seo anh nhan tjn zo so may em loa chuc mung nam moj.
3)em loa em cua chj bay jo em xaj so nai oh.

I think the spelling all wrong...

1) ban loa aj za - should be - ban la ai vay

2) Ua seo anh nhan tjn so may em loa chuc mung nam moj -should be - Uh, sao anh nhan tin so may em la chuc mung nam moi?

3) em loa em cua chj bay jo em xaj so nai oh - shuold be - em la em cua chi, bay gio em sai so nay oh....


I write like that many people know roi ;)

v.killers
08-01-2011, 04:51 PM
Mee toooooo... I love it your $$$ is like my $$$ but not her $$$ is my $$$ too... kakakak

I always tell all my bxssss.......

You money is my money, and my money is my money :D:D

v.killers
08-01-2011, 04:58 PM
Hi bro,can help me to translate this:-

"Em co biet la ngay sinh nhat cua anh em rat la buon.anh biet tai sau em khong chuc mung anh khong.vi em nghi la anh co nguoi yeu benh canh nen e khong dam phien anh vi e so anh khong duoc vui.ba e vua moi mat nen em cung rat la buon.thoi minh co duyen ma khong co no thi em se co ngan quen anh giong nhu em co gang quen di viet ba em mat vay do.em chuc anh happy birthday kiss you."

Try using vdict but not able to fully translate so thanks for your help.

some words that sexonair missed out.

I am trying hard to forget you, just like trying to forget grandma* :D

I am still learning.....any wrong pls forgive me...kekeke

v.killers
08-01-2011, 04:59 PM
Sorry, I'm still learning so can I just check on where the above bolded items are in the Viet version?

Thanks for helping

troi oi.....em thong minh wa ah....:D

AdGuy
08-01-2011, 06:59 PM
some words that sexonair missed out.

I am trying hard to forget you, just like trying to forget grandma* :D

I am still learning.....any wrong pls forgive me...kekeke

Thanks for your help.

E hieu roi.

v.killers
08-01-2011, 08:18 PM
Thanks for your help.

E hieu roi.

Hieu thi tot, kg hieu thi chet di....:p

AdGuy
08-01-2011, 09:08 PM
Hieu thi tot, kg hieu thi chet di....:p

Ko co con gai om, sap chet roi.

v.killers
09-01-2011, 09:46 AM
Ko co con gai om, sap chet roi.

Troi oi.....em chi muon om gai thoi dung kg? JC / GL nhieu lam ma:p

jackbl
11-01-2011, 02:52 PM
Now that you mention, I think ba e vua moi mat is My grandma has just passed away.

You are right.

Ba e vua moi mat means grandma recently died.

"ba" could also means FATHER.

KangTuo
12-01-2011, 01:19 AM
I write like that many people know roi ;)

suddenly you very free to do translation.... how come ha?
most probably you brought a viet teacher from jc/gl back home to help you study and translate :D

paulwwk88
12-01-2011, 07:28 PM
I asked her that had eat already and she....

E chua co an a an nho an dum e lun nha.hjhj..

Can understand what is she talking:confused:

lovesprout
12-01-2011, 08:39 PM
I asked her that had eat already and she....

E chua co an a an nho an dum e lun nha.hjhj..

Can understand what is she talking:confused:

I have not eaten. When you eat, always remember to help me eat (my portion), ok?

v.killers
12-01-2011, 08:43 PM
suddenly you very free to do translation.... how come ha?
most probably you brought a viet teacher from jc/gl back home to help you study and translate

Yes... my 28 gal MIA....:( tonite going u know? :)

After tonite I will going Batam for 4 days....huhuhuhuhu:o

KangTuo
13-01-2011, 12:09 AM
Yes... my 28 gal MIA....:( tonite going u know? :)

After tonite I will going Batam for 4 days....huhuhuhuhu:o

MIA no problem for you mah.... go find new one at 674 tonite lor.

jackbl
13-01-2011, 02:36 AM
E chua co an a an nho an dum e lun nha.hjhj..



I have not eaten. When you eat, always remember to help me eat (my portion), ok?

Her sentence construction got some error, but u still can figure out what she means. U really good! Shifu!

lovesprout
13-01-2011, 06:59 PM
Her sentence construction got some error, but u still can figure out what she means. U really good! Shifu!

Really got some error ma? I thought it is correct..

E chua co an. a an nho an dum e lun nha

an dum = help me eat
lun should be "luon"

paulwwk88
13-01-2011, 08:41 PM
I have not eaten. When you eat, always remember to help me eat (my portion), ok?

really found my sifu already :D....... chua co an mean have not eat...i was thinking it is i eat already....:( die la later angry me already

paulwwk88
13-01-2011, 09:01 PM
Really got some error ma? I thought it is correct..

E chua co an. a an nho an dum e lun nha

an dum = help me eat
lun should be "luon"

i notice that she dun like to use the letter O maybe a new type of sms format :D

buon=bun
luon=lun :eek:

jackbl
14-01-2011, 02:17 AM
E chua co an. a an nho an dum e lun nha

Only u can understand what she say.... "A an nho an dum e".
I only understand "A nho an dum e". So u are shifu lor :)

jackbl
14-01-2011, 02:20 AM
thoi minh co duyen ma khong co no thi em se co ngan quen anh giong nhu em co gang quen di viet ba em mat vay do.

I still dun know what she means. Can anyone help?

KangTuo
14-01-2011, 07:15 AM
Only u can understand what she say.... "A an nho an dum e".
I only understand "A nho an dum e". So u are shifu lor :)

you don't ge si ge si act don't understand lah.
"a an. nho an dum e"
i put a 'full stop' in between, easier to understand liao lah.
"you eat. remember eat on my behalf"

lovesprout
14-01-2011, 09:27 AM
I still dun know what she means. Can anyone help?

uh? I thought someone translated this sentence already.

How do you guys translate duyen (緣) into English?

thoi minh co duyen ma. khong co no thi em se co ngan quen anh giong nhu em co gang quen di viet ba em mat vay do.

We have 緣. Without it, then I will try to forget you like I try to forget my grandmom who just passed away.

Here "di viet" probably means that her aunt wrote to her and told her about the death of her grandmom.

di = aunt
viet = write

jackbl
14-01-2011, 10:52 AM
I am trying but translation may not be complete, some other samsters have to help you a bit, to fill in at those dotted spaces.

I know of your birthday. I am very sad. You know why I don't wish you happy birthday? Because I heard that you have lover besides you so I don't want to trouble you because I don't want you to be unhappy. My grandma has just passed away so I am very sad. .................I'm going back to Vietnam because my grandma has died. Wish you Happy Birthday, kiss you.

uh? I thought someone translated this sentence already.

How do you guys translate duyen (緣) into English?

thoi minh co duyen ma. khong co no thi em se co ngan quen anh giong nhu em co gang quen di viet ba em mat vay do.

We have 緣. Without it, then I will try to forget you like I try to forget my grandmom who just passed away.

Here "di viet" probably means that her aunt wrote to her and told her about the death of her grandmom.

di = aunt
viet = write

He missed the ..... space portion. I was told by AdGuy that you are good so I would like to seek your advice :)

I am confused on the words "viet/di viet" :(

spextacus
14-01-2011, 01:17 PM
troi oi.....em thong minh wa ah...

Anh cung thong minh lam ma.. Dung kg a?

Hieu thi tot, kg hieu thi chet di...

e kg hieu.. phai chet roi.. a lam guip e chet dung kg? hay la 2 ng chet chung di..

Troi oi.....em chi muon om gai thoi dung kg? JC / GL nhieu lam ma

moi lan di uong bia voi a, chi co a mot minh ngoi con gai thoi.. buon qua.. vi tien cua e it hon tien cua a.. huhu :p:D

spextacus
14-01-2011, 01:18 PM
uh? I thought someone translated this sentence already.

How do you guys translate duyen (緣) into English?

thoi minh co duyen ma. khong co no thi em se co ngan quen anh giong nhu em co gang quen di viet ba em mat vay do.

We have 緣. Without it, then I will try to forget you like I try to forget my grandmom who just passed away.

Here "di viet" probably means that her aunt wrote to her and told her about the death of her grandmom.

di = aunt
viet = write

Thay ciao OI!!!!!!

spextacus
14-01-2011, 01:21 PM
i notice that she dun like to use the letter O maybe a new type of sms format

buon=bun
luon=lun

There are lots of versions of sms-writing.. Some of them are plain lazy so they try to find the faster way to write an sms by omitting alpabets from the actual words..

So the morale of the story is.. know more VBs, sms with them alot more.. then you will get the hang of it.. ;)

jackbl
14-01-2011, 01:51 PM
moi lan di uong bia voi a, chi co a mot minh ngoi con gai thoi.. buon qua.. vi tien cua e it hon tien cua a.. huhu :p:D

Thay ciao OI!!!!!!

Wow dun know here got another expert who also can write TV so well.... Can you be my Thay Giao too?

spextacus
14-01-2011, 03:33 PM
Wow dun know here got another expert who also can write TV so well.... Can you be my Thay Giao too?

I am not that good.. just passable tieng viet to KC VBs only.. ;):D All of us learn through everyday conversing with the VBs ma..

Bro Lovesprout can be my thay giao.. His TV powderful nhe..

paulwwk88
14-01-2011, 04:59 PM
i told her that if my friends no go her work place with to drink then i no go. she answer...

zay la ban a k dj a cug k muon dj vo e lun faj k?

what does she saying with the 1 highlight in red:confused:

calling my shifu lovesprout:D

creeve
14-01-2011, 06:12 PM
i told her that if my friends no go her work place with to drink then i no go. she answer...

zay la ban a k dj a cug k muon dj vo e lun faj k?

what does she saying with the 1 highlight in red:confused:

calling my shifu lovesprout:D

"then is your friend no go, you also don't want go with me always, right or not?

vo => voi
lun => luon
faj => phai

Make sense?

paulwwk88
14-01-2011, 09:39 PM
help help......wht she mean?:eek:
i asked she understand what i write then she answer...

k wan vag wa ah

and from what i know from her sister that she no understand what i was writing...she the 1st who say this :(

lovesprout
14-01-2011, 10:48 PM
I am not that good.. just passable tieng viet to KC VBs only.. ;) All of us learn through everyday conversing with the VBs ma..

Bro Lovesprout can be my thay giao.. His TV powderful nhe..

Thanks for your compliment. We can learn from each other ma. Many masters here are better than me, but I have more free time to answer questions here than those masters. :rolleyes:

help help......wht she mean?:eek:
i asked she understand what i write then she answer...

k wan vag wa ah

and from what i know from her sister that she no understand what i was writing...she the 1st who say this :(

Just guessing. She wanted to say,
khong. quan vang qua ah
"No, the bar is very empty (no customers)"

AdGuy
14-01-2011, 11:39 PM
"then is your friend no go, you also don't want go with me always, right or not?

vo => voi
lun => luon
faj => phai

Make sense?

I agree :D

spextacus
15-01-2011, 03:15 PM
"then is your friend no go, you also don't want go with me always, right or not?

vo => voi
lun => luon
faj => phai

Make sense?

zay la ban a k dj a cug k muon dj vo e lun faj k?

vay la ban anh khong di, anh cung khong muon di voi em luon, phai khong?

So your friend don't go, you also don't go with me, right or not?

Bro creeve, I think there is no 'always' in this sentence.. Please, let the masters correct me :p:D

paulwwk88
15-01-2011, 04:47 PM
:confused: how they related "W" with "QU" ah...really dun understand :(

jackbl
15-01-2011, 06:00 PM
:confused: how they related "W" with "QU" ah...really dun understand :(

Pronunciation :)

AdGuy
15-01-2011, 07:26 PM
Pronunciation :)

Bad pronunciation you mean

creeve
15-01-2011, 07:49 PM
:confused: how they related "W" with "QU" ah...really dun understand :(

Precisely... especially when you cannot find W in the entire 29 alphabets for Tieng Viet.

creeve
15-01-2011, 07:54 PM
vay la ban anh khong di, anh cung khong muon di voi em luon, phai khong?

So your friend don't go, you also don't go with me, right or not?

Bro creeve, I think there is no 'always' in this sentence.. Please, let the masters correct me :p:D

My bad lor... As I cannot find a logical translation for "lun", I take it that she meant "luôn", which, now that I checked back my dictionary, can mean "often" (when used 1 time - luôn) or always (when used 2 times - luôn luôn).

Which means, she reply should read like this (?):

So your friend don't go, you also don't go with me often, right or not?

spextacus
15-01-2011, 08:01 PM
My bad lor... As I cannot find a logical translation for "lun", I take it that she meant "luôn", which, now that I checked back my dictionary, can mean "often" (when used 1 time - luôn) or always (when used 2 times - luôn luôn).

Which means, she reply should read like this (?):

So your friend don't go, you also don't go with me often, right or not?

I didnt find the dictionary.. hihi.. so you just taught me a new word..

In the sentence, I think luon is used as a slang.. Singapore got singlish so Vietnam have Vietlish..

for example,
dung quen anh nhe..
don't forget me hor..

nhe is used as a slang here.. just like how we use hor..

also encounter VBs sms: Dung quen em nha..

nha can be house, but in this instance, its used as a slang..

Hope I didnt say anythg to piss anybody off.. just a 2 cents worth of vietlish..

lovesprout
15-01-2011, 09:43 PM
My bad lor... As I cannot find a logical translation for "lun", I take it that she meant "luôn", which, now that I checked back my dictionary, can mean "often" (when used 1 time - luôn) or always (when used 2 times - luôn luôn).
o with me often, right or not?

In the sentence, I think luon is used as a slang.. Singapore got singlish so Vietnam have Vietlish..

When "luôn" appears at the end of the sentence, it is difficult to translate it into English, but it can be translated as "一直" in Chinese.

e.g 1 "Anh ko muon di voi em luon" (你一直不跟我去)
e.g 2 "O ben day muon an cai do ma e dau goi cai do la cai gi, boi vay nhin doi luon." (在這里我想吃奌什麼, 卻不知那些東西叫什麼, 只好一直餓著)

Just my 2 dong of advice.