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jackbl
20-11-2014, 01:38 AM
Vietnam spends $1.14bn on foreign cars in 10 months: customs
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Vietnam’s imports of automobiles in the January-October period posted strong growth in both volume and value, data from the General Department of Vietnam Customs shows.

The Southeast Asian country imported 51,600 complete automobiles in the year to October, a steep increase of 79 percent compare to the same period last year, according to the general customs department.

These cars were worth VND24 trillion (roughly US$1.14 billion), up a record 96 percent from the same period last year.

Imports from key markets also expanded sharply from a year earlier.

Vietnam imported 96,500 cars from China, a 205 percent increase year on year, in the ten-month period, while imports from Thailand rose 68 percent to 107,100 units, and South Korea, 5 percent and 13,000 units.

Of the 51,600 cars imported in the Jan-Oct period, 22,800, or 44.2 percent, are automobiles with nine seats or less, while the respective numbers of trucks and other automobiles were 20,500 and 7,500 units, according to the customs department.

Vietnam has apparently become a magnet for global luxury carmakers as three major industry players have already opened, or plan to open, showrooms in the Southeast Asian country, and particularly in the capital city of Hanoi.

British luxury automobile manufacturer Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Limited launched its first Vietnam showroom in Hanoi on August 27, whereas Bentley Motors is slated to open its first dealership in the city this month.

A strong player from Italy, Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., has also chosen Vietnam as a destination for the expansion of its dealer network across Asia Pacific.

Besides Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Lamborghini, other brands such as Lexus, Audi and Porsche are also present in Vietnam.

While consumption of luxury cars in the Southeast Asian country is still small, the interest of ‘upper-class’ customers in cars worth hundreds of thousands of U.S. dollars “is enough for automakers to open showrooms” here, according to The Saigon Times Online.

Most of these customers are celebrities or business moguls, the economic newswire said.

curious76
21-11-2014, 09:08 AM
Cứ cố gắng làm mọi thứ trở nên đẹp đẽ thì lại bị đổ vỡ ...có con đường nào đi đến thành công mà không có khó khăn chứ !!! Cố lên sẽ làm được thôi cứ sống chậm lại nghĩ khác đi và yêu thương bản thân mình nhiều hơn là được
— at noi dat niem tin qua nhieu..suy cho cung da dung hay chua.

Can anyone help to translate what it meant?

jackbl
26-11-2014, 01:01 AM
Top 10 spiritual tourist attractions in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Book of Records (Vietkings) has announced the top 10 spiritual destinations that attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists.

1. The Mot Cot Pagoda

The Mot Cot Pagoda (one pillar pagoda), which was built on a 4m high pillar with a diameter of 1.2m in Hanoi in 1049, is recognised as the most architecturally unique.

The temple was built by Emperor Ly Thai Tong, who ruled from 1028 to 1054. According to the court records, Ly Thai Tong was childless and dreamt that he met the Avalokitesvara Boddhisattva (Kuan Yin – Goddess of mercy), who handed him a baby boy while seated on a lotus flower. The Emperor then married a peasant girl that he had met and she bore him a son. He constructed the temple in gratitude for this in 1049. According to a theory, the pagoda was built in a style of a lotus emerging out of the water.

During the Ly Dynasty era, the temple was the site of an annual royal ceremony on the occasion of Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha. A Buddha-bathing ceremony was held annually on April 8 in the Lunar Calendar by the monarch, and it attracted monks and laymen alike to the ceremony. The monarch would then free a bird, which was followed by the people.

2. Chua Huong (Perfume Pagoda)

Chua Huong (Perfume pagoda) is located in Huong Son (Perfume Mountain), 70 km southwest of Hanoi. Chua Huong is a cluster of temples and shrines in the general vicinity of Huong Son. The pagoda is located in My Duc hamlet in the province of Ha Tay.

According to the book, Huong Son Thien Tru Pha, Huong Tich temple was built during the reign of Le Chinh Hoa (1680-1705), by a monk who happened on the site on his way to search for enlightenment. Other shrines and temples were later built in this area to take advantage of the local beautiful scenery.

Perfume pagoda has a long history in Vietnamese literature. This temple has been a theme of many songs, topic of poetry, used in literary works as well as backdrops for paintings.

3. Yen Tu Mountain

Located in Thuong Yen Cong Commune, about 40 kilometres from Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province, Yen Tu is a magnificent mountain in Vietnam with silky streams running around bamboo forests; green pine forests, and towers and ancient temples appear and disappear alternately.

Yen Tu region is well-known worldwide for its beautiful landscapes, historical relics and hundreds of ancient pagodas and towers, especially Dong (Bronze) Pagoda, with its peak at 1,068 meters above sea level.

King Tran Nhan Tong devoted his life as a Buddhist monk in Yen Tu after his abdication.

4. Bai Dinh Pagoda

Bai Dinh Pagoda is a complex of Buddhist temples on Bai Dinh Mountain in Gia Vien District, Ninh Binh Province. The compound consists of the original old temple and a newly created larger temple. It is considered the largest complex of Buddhist temples in Vietnam and has become a popular site for Buddhist pilgrims from across Vietnam.

The 700-hectare complex holds many records in Vietnam and also in Asia like the biggest Buddha Shakyamuni statue in Asia, the biggest bronze Trikaya (the three bodies of Buddhas) in Vietnam, the largest Ngoc (Pearl) Well in Vietnam, the biggest bronze bell in Vietnam, the longest corridor with 500 Arhat statues, and the largest number of Bodhi trees in Vietnam.

5. Thien Mu Pagoda

Thien Mu Pagoda (namely Heaven Fairy Lady Pagoda), also known as Linh Mu Pagoda, is a most fascinating and ancient pagoda in Hue city. It is situated on Ha Khe hill, on the northern bank of the Perfume River, in Huong Long Village, 5 kilometres from Hue city, which is easy to reach from the city centre.

The name of the pagoda derives from a special legend. Long time ago, an old woman appeared on the hill where the pagoda stands today, telling local people that a Lord would come and build a Buddhist pagoda for the country's prosperity. Lord Nguyen Hoang therefore ordered the construction of the pagoda. With this mysterious history, the pagoda has attracted a great number of tourists from inside and outside of the nation to come and explore the legend themselves.

6. Truc Lam Monastery

Truc Lam is a Zen Buddhist temple outside the resort town of Da Lat.

The construction of Truc Lam Monastery started on April 28, 1993 and ended in 1994. The inaugural ceremony followed on March 19, 1994. Two days later, Master Thich Thanh Tu made an announcement of closing the inner part of the monastery from the public, so that the monastic practitioners could practice without distraction.

With the goal of renovating Vietnamese Zen of Tran dynasty, the Master started to translate and lecture all writings and teachings of Truc Lam's sect. Since that time, all monasteries founded by the Master applied the same rites and practiced each night the "Rite of Repentance," which was written by King Tran Thai Tong.

7. Christ the King

Christ the King, of Vung Tau is a statue of Jesus, standing on Mount Nho in Vung Tau, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province. The Vietnam Catholic Association built the statue in 1974 and completed it in 1993.

It is 32 metres (105 ft) high, standing on a 4 metres high platform, for a 36 metres total monument height with two outstretched arms spanning 18.3 metres. There is a 133-step staircase inside the statue.

8. Ba Den Mountain

Ba Den Mountain is located 11km Northeast of Tay Ninh Town and 106km from Ho Chi Minh City. It is a famous complex of cultural, historical and beautiful sites covering an area of more than 24 square kilometres.

The complex includes three mountains: Heo, Phung and Ba Den, of which the 986meter-high Ba Den is the highest peak in the south.

Ba Den Mountain is also called Black Lady Mountain. According to legends, Ly Thi Thien Huong, Black Lady, was forced to marry the son of a rich mandarin while she fell in love with a poor man who was fighting the aggressors. Rather than marrying a man she did not love, she threw herself from the mountain.

9. Cao Dai Temple

Cao Dai Temple, also known as Holy See, is the centre of Cao Dai faith, an indigenous Vietnamese religion that incorporates the teachings of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism as well as some elements of Christianity and Islam.

The Great Temple was built between 1933- 1955 in Tay Ninh province about 90 kilometres northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Caodaiists believe that all religions are the same in principle and they credit God as the religion’s founder.

10. Ba Chua Xu Temple

Ba Chua Xu Temple (Lady of the Realm) lies at the foot of Sam Mountain, Chau Doc Town, An Giang Province. It is said that the goddess is so sacred that anyone who offers incense to her can realise all his/her wishes.

VOV/VNN

BronzeGod
30-11-2014, 11:02 AM
Top 10 spiritual tourist attractions in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam Book of Records (Vietkings) has announced the top 10 spiritual destinations that attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists.

1. The Mot Cot Pagoda

The Mot Cot Pagoda (one pillar pagoda), which was built on a 4m high pillar with a diameter of 1.2m in Hanoi in 1049, is recognised as the most architecturally unique.

The temple was built by Emperor Ly Thai Tong, who ruled from 1028 to 1054. According to the court records, Ly Thai Tong was childless and dreamt that he met the Avalokitesvara Boddhisattva (Kuan Yin – Goddess of mercy), who handed him a baby boy while seated on a lotus flower. The Emperor then married a peasant girl that he had met and she bore him a son. He constructed the temple in gratitude for this in 1049. According to a theory, the pagoda was built in a style of a lotus emerging out of the water.

During the Ly Dynasty era, the temple was the site of an annual royal ceremony on the occasion of Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha. A Buddha-bathing ceremony was held annually on April 8 in the Lunar Calendar by the monarch, and it attracted monks and laymen alike to the ceremony. The monarch would then free a bird, which was followed by the people.

2. Chua Huong (Perfume Pagoda)

Chua Huong (Perfume pagoda) is located in Huong Son (Perfume Mountain), 70 km southwest of Hanoi. Chua Huong is a cluster of temples and shrines in the general vicinity of Huong Son. The pagoda is located in My Duc hamlet in the province of Ha Tay.

According to the book, Huong Son Thien Tru Pha, Huong Tich temple was built during the reign of Le Chinh Hoa (1680-1705), by a monk who happened on the site on his way to search for enlightenment. Other shrines and temples were later built in this area to take advantage of the local beautiful scenery.

Perfume pagoda has a long history in Vietnamese literature. This temple has been a theme of many songs, topic of poetry, used in literary works as well as backdrops for paintings.

3. Yen Tu Mountain

Located in Thuong Yen Cong Commune, about 40 kilometres from Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province, Yen Tu is a magnificent mountain in Vietnam with silky streams running around bamboo forests; green pine forests, and towers and ancient temples appear and disappear alternately.

Yen Tu region is well-known worldwide for its beautiful landscapes, historical relics and hundreds of ancient pagodas and towers, especially Dong (Bronze) Pagoda, with its peak at 1,068 meters above sea level.

King Tran Nhan Tong devoted his life as a Buddhist monk in Yen Tu after his abdication.

4. Bai Dinh Pagoda

Bai Dinh Pagoda is a complex of Buddhist temples on Bai Dinh Mountain in Gia Vien District, Ninh Binh Province. The compound consists of the original old temple and a newly created larger temple. It is considered the largest complex of Buddhist temples in Vietnam and has become a popular site for Buddhist pilgrims from across Vietnam.

The 700-hectare complex holds many records in Vietnam and also in Asia like the biggest Buddha Shakyamuni statue in Asia, the biggest bronze Trikaya (the three bodies of Buddhas) in Vietnam, the largest Ngoc (Pearl) Well in Vietnam, the biggest bronze bell in Vietnam, the longest corridor with 500 Arhat statues, and the largest number of Bodhi trees in Vietnam.

5. Thien Mu Pagoda

Thien Mu Pagoda (namely Heaven Fairy Lady Pagoda), also known as Linh Mu Pagoda, is a most fascinating and ancient pagoda in Hue city. It is situated on Ha Khe hill, on the northern bank of the Perfume River, in Huong Long Village, 5 kilometres from Hue city, which is easy to reach from the city centre.

The name of the pagoda derives from a special legend. Long time ago, an old woman appeared on the hill where the pagoda stands today, telling local people that a Lord would come and build a Buddhist pagoda for the country's prosperity. Lord Nguyen Hoang therefore ordered the construction of the pagoda. With this mysterious history, the pagoda has attracted a great number of tourists from inside and outside of the nation to come and explore the legend themselves.

6. Truc Lam Monastery

Truc Lam is a Zen Buddhist temple outside the resort town of Da Lat.

The construction of Truc Lam Monastery started on April 28, 1993 and ended in 1994. The inaugural ceremony followed on March 19, 1994. Two days later, Master Thich Thanh Tu made an announcement of closing the inner part of the monastery from the public, so that the monastic practitioners could practice without distraction.

With the goal of renovating Vietnamese Zen of Tran dynasty, the Master started to translate and lecture all writings and teachings of Truc Lam's sect. Since that time, all monasteries founded by the Master applied the same rites and practiced each night the "Rite of Repentance," which was written by King Tran Thai Tong.

7. Christ the King

Christ the King, of Vung Tau is a statue of Jesus, standing on Mount Nho in Vung Tau, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province. The Vietnam Catholic Association built the statue in 1974 and completed it in 1993.

It is 32 metres (105 ft) high, standing on a 4 metres high platform, for a 36 metres total monument height with two outstretched arms spanning 18.3 metres. There is a 133-step staircase inside the statue.

8. Ba Den Mountain

Ba Den Mountain is located 11km Northeast of Tay Ninh Town and 106km from Ho Chi Minh City. It is a famous complex of cultural, historical and beautiful sites covering an area of more than 24 square kilometres.

The complex includes three mountains: Heo, Phung and Ba Den, of which the 986meter-high Ba Den is the highest peak in the south.

Ba Den Mountain is also called Black Lady Mountain. According to legends, Ly Thi Thien Huong, Black Lady, was forced to marry the son of a rich mandarin while she fell in love with a poor man who was fighting the aggressors. Rather than marrying a man she did not love, she threw herself from the mountain.

9. Cao Dai Temple

Cao Dai Temple, also known as Holy See, is the centre of Cao Dai faith, an indigenous Vietnamese religion that incorporates the teachings of Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism as well as some elements of Christianity and Islam.

The Great Temple was built between 1933- 1955 in Tay Ninh province about 90 kilometres northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Caodaiists believe that all religions are the same in principle and they credit God as the religion’s founder.

10. Ba Chua Xu Temple

Ba Chua Xu Temple (Lady of the Realm) lies at the foot of Sam Mountain, Chau Doc Town, An Giang Province. It is said that the goddess is so sacred that anyone who offers incense to her can realise all his/her wishes.

VOV/VNN

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Bros who want to exchange points, simply up me and I will return favour as soon as I can

jackbl
09-12-2014, 12:41 AM
Height of Vietnamese lowest in Asia
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VietNamNet Bridge - The average height of Vietnamese men is 164 cm, 8 cm less than that of men in Japan and 10 cm less than men in South Korea.

However, the height could be improved with a reasonable diet, experts say.

For the past 30 years, the height of the Vietnamese people has improved but very slowly, with only 1 cm increase in 10 years.

The height of women was also very low, close to 154 cm, according to Dr. Le Bach Mai, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Nutrition.

Dr. Mai said that the Vietnamese people’s height was the lowest in Asia. Many studies have shown that the development of the child’s height depends on genetics (20%), nutrition, sports training and environment (80%).

In fact, the traditional meals of Vietnamese people have changed positively but are still imbalanced. Demand for carbonated soft drinks is on the rise.

"Some suggested that carbonated soft drinks do not affect health; this is not true," said Dr. Mai.

“Soft water, besides natural sugars in foods, is often included with glucose or fructose. These sugars provide easy kcal. A soft drink can contains up to 36g sugar. As announced on the manufacturer's label, 100 ml of soft water create 42 kcal. The problem is that consumers rarely read tiny texts on the label. Besides, no one buys a soft drink can and drinks only 100ml. That means a 300 ml can provides nearly 140 kcal, while it takes 45 minutes to walk to consume 100 kcal," Dr. Mai said.

The experts also said that these drinks make the body lose calcium. Mai proposed a luxury tax on soft drinks and carbonated soft drinks.

The percentage of overweight and obese children in Vietnam has increased nine times in 10 years and now accounts for 6.3% of all children.

Le Ha

jackbl
10-12-2014, 01:15 PM
Expat teachers in Vietnam – Part 1: The story of Robert Ackley
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Editor’s Note: Robert Ackley, 27, who currently teaches at ILA English Language Center in Ho Chi Minh City, said half-jokingly, “The American dream is dead so I’m chasing the Vietnamese dream.” Ackley tells the story of why he came to Vietnam to be a teacher and shares his impressions of the country.

Left home thanks to wanderlust

A year and a half ago I was in Boston working for a library storage facility. Basically, we had a warehouse that would temporarily hold books for libraries that were moving or being renovated. Most of my time was spent slouched in a chair scanning barcodes of old books into a catalogue that seemingly had no end. Occasionally I would snap photos of particular titles of interest, but this work was far from fascinating and anyone with fingers and thumbs could do it.

It was cold, there was snow, it was Boston. I swore that every winter I spent in the Northeast of America would be my last. I remember the final weekend at home before coming to Vietnam there were back-to-back storms that caused so much chaos on the roads that the city issued a driving ban. It was actually illegal to drive your car and anyone caught driving could be subject to arrest! It was also illegal to park on the streets so people were forced to shovel out spots wherever there was room, which became pretty creative. Aside from the unique experience of walking down the middle of an empty three-lane road in the strange quiet of a blizzard, I was done with these winters and tired of this weather.

While the weather was at times unbearable, it was not the driving force behind my decision to move abroad. Rather, it was the monotony of a string of jobs that all fell far from any career path coupled with a bit of wanderlust.

When choosing where to take the CELTA [Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages] and in turn where to live, I had a small set of criteria in mind: cheap, different, exciting. Vietnam seemed to satisfy my criteria, but I’ll be honest, I didn’t really know what I was getting into prior to coming here, and how could I?

There were other places I could have chosen to live that would have afforded me a more economic life. Places like South Korea, Taiwan and Japan are all destinations that offer comparable if not better compensation for teachers than in Vietnam. However, there was a certain mystery shrouding my perception of Vietnam, and this was ultimately what drew me in.

Sure, I did my homework by reading about the culture in Vietnam, I browsed teaching forums to try to gain insight into the expat way of life, and I learned the Vietnamese numbers on the plane, but I’ve always found it best to keep expectations minimal as they’re too easily shattered, especially on the other side of the earth.

The salary provided from teaching is ample enough to live and can provide some savings, but most teachers quickly turn it over to finance their travels. With Vietnam offering diverse landscapes and easy access to the rest of Southeast Asia, it’s hard to let the money pile up when a week-long trip to Thailand or Cambodia is more than feasible, and well within our budgets at that. I’ve managed to visit Thailand, Cambodia and Laos during my 16-month stay in this region and I’m sure I’ll visit a few more places. I will say though, no country has impressed me more than Vietnam.

Teaching is fun

At the time my teaching experience was limited, but I had taken an online TEFL course and had also volunteered to conduct one-on-one speaking classes with adults at a non-profit language center. This, to me, was not enough. I started shopping for CELTA courses, which would provide a month of training as well as hands-on teaching experience, which I lacked.

The CELTA course in Ho Chi Minh City was my life for the first 30 days I was here, but proved to be worth the time and effort. With a college degree and a fresh CELTA under your belt, a plethora of options will become available to you. It really comes down to you and what exactly you want to do. Some teachers choose to work at language centers, which are heavy on weekend hours, while others value their weekends and keep to public school schedules during the week. For those with the necessary skills and experience there are international schools and universities, which offer more competitive salaries.

Deciding to wave my weekends goodbye, I took a job at a language center, which has proved to be rewarding in more ways than one.

Teaching, while sometimes maddening, has turned out to be good fun the majority of the time. Sure, there are young students who consistently try to thwart my lesson plans, but there are also management systems created to tame these mavericks and replace their mischief with inspiration. I’ve found these young learners to be the most inspiring to teach as they learn so fast and possess such pride and excitement in their new knowledge.

Teenagers can be shy and “too cool” sometimes, but they just need their interest sparked by content that is appealing to them. Once they’re comfortable around you it’s easy to find classroom conversations going in all different directions. With any class, time creates comfort, rapport is built and soon you know how to tailor your lessons to fit your students’ needs. It all gets easier from there.

A charming city

The chaos in Vietnam was visible in photos and videos of the traffic, but what remained of a long, complicated history of struggle and war was unknown to me. However, signs of vitality and spirit seemed to be swarming in the economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City.

My first reaction to the city upon arriving was “Uh, I can’t live here.” This thought raced through my mind as I tried to cross the street with little success. The sheer volume of people present in Southeast Asia was the hardest thing to cope with in my first few months.

After teaching in Vietnam for a little while, it’s easy to realize that free time is not hard to come by. I work about 20 hours a week, spend 4-8 hours a week planning, and the rest is mine. I try to fill those extra hours by skateboarding around the city, playing soccer, reading, and going out for drinks sometimes. Occasionally, I go bowling too. However, I have met some foreigners who have trouble finding hobbies in a place that lacks the comforts of home. Jogging, for example, quickly becomes a chore if you don’t live in close proximity to a park. Similarly, outdoor enthusiasts may have a hard time finding a hike anywhere nearby. These are the disadvantages of living in a big, crowded, sprawling city.

Like anything though, there are advantages to living here as well. Those of us coming from the West are blessed with the cheap prices of almost everything and minimal bills. For me, transportation and food come to mind, not to mention the endless restaurants with different varieties of international cuisine. Here we also live amongst a friendly population of locals who are quick to lend you a hand when your motorbike won’t start or point you in the right direction when you are lost in Go Vap District.

The city has a certain charm and maybe that’s what keeps some of us here. For many though, they have the urge to keep moving, and that’s the sadness that comes with teaching. Contracts always come to an end and friendships are fleeting. However, the wheel keeps turning and new teachers come to give the city a go. This is the nature of the beast. Some will stay and some will go. As for me, I can’t say, but I’m here for now.

jackbl
28-12-2014, 11:32 PM
Expat teachers in Vietnam – Part 2: Why they come
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Ease of finding a well-paid job, a comfortable and affordable cost of living, and an interesting culture are some major reasons for scores of foreigners from across the globe to come to Vietnam to work as teachers.

Many expats from western countries told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that they see coming to Vietnam as a chance to explore Asian culture because it is easy for them to earn money from teaching to travel to other countries around the continent.

Natalie Markides, who was born in Cyprus and graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom, said that she wanted to work in a Southeast Asian country to travel around Asia after finishing university.

“I picked Vietnam because when I researched the job prospects, it appeared that it was better paid for teachers in comparison to other countries such as Thailand,” she said.

“I also thought that as Vietnam uses an alphabet script similar to English, that would make it easier for me to adjust in terms of daily life,” the young woman, who is currently teaching English to fifth graders at public schools in Ho Chi Minh City, elaborated.

Chris Roll used to be a primary school teacher in the U.K. and came to Vietnam in 2009 to teach English at ILA English Language Center in Ho Chi Minh City. Before Vietnam, Roll had spent four years teaching English in Africa.

“I know Europe and Africa quite well but I did not know Asia. I wanted to go and live somewhere in Asia just because that would be a new experience for me. My friend recommended Vietnam, saying that Vietnam is a lovely country,” Roll said.

Meanwhile, Timothy Connell, who has been a physical education teacher at the American International School in the city for the last seven years, told Tuoi Tre, “I just wanted to travel around Asia, but when I arrived in Vietnam, I fell in love with the local culture right away and decided to stay longer,” the Aussie said.

A low cost of living is another main reason why many expats decide to come to Vietnam for teaching. “I was only able to save about 20 percent of my income from teaching back home but in Vietnam, I can save up to 50 percent. I use part of the income to support my family and pay loans that I obtained from the government to study at university,” Connell said.

Lindsay Erdman, another teacher at the American International School, told the newspaper that she plans to stay longer in Vietnam because she wants to learn more about the country’s culture and people.

Erdman, teaches visual arts at the international school, said that during her first week in the country, her motorbike broke down at a corner in District 1. An older local man then pointed to a KFC restaurant on the other side of the road.

“I needed to have my bike repaired. I did not want to eat anything,” she recalled. “I argued with him using body language for ten minutes and the old man was angry with me,” she said.

The Canadian woman only realized how generous and kind the local man was being when he took her bike across the street and showed her a small bike repair shop on the sidewalk in front of the KFC.

“It has been a learning process and it was very humbling. I learned that you have to be more open to people when they try to help you. I’m not here to teach other people only. I’m here also to learn from other people,” she said.

Safe and comfortable

Unlike adventure-seeking Western teachers, some Asian teachers said they choose to live in Vietnam as expatriates thanks to the safe and comfortable living environment. Most of them are experienced teachers, who are in huge demand in the country.

After spending three months seeing how life is in Vietnam, V. Ashok Kumar from India decided to move to Ho Chi Minh City to live here with his wife and little daughter in 2008. “I told my father that I wanted to come to Ho Chi Minh City since this city is growing rapidly and he agreed,” Kumar said.

“Vietnam has a climate and living conditions similar to those in India. The country is even safer than my home country,” Kumar, who lectures in applied science at RMIT Vietnam in District 7, added. RMIT Vietnam, an Asian hub of Melbourne-based RMIT University, which is Australia's biggest tertiary institution, is a common place for Asian teachers.

Meanwhile, it was quite difficult for Cherry Sriratanaviriyakul from Thailand to convince her mother to allow her to be a teacher in Vietnam at first, but she succeeded in doing so eventually. Now she teaches information systems at RMIT and has been living in Vietnam for almost six years.

“Before coming to Vietnam, I had lectured in hospitality at an international university in Bangkok for four years. My colleagues told me about RMIT and I decided to give it a try because I wanted to live abroad,” Sriratanaviriyakul said.

Anna Lyza Felipe, who had taught at a university in the Philippines for 15 years, received a surprise call from RMIT for a job interview when she was on vacation in Vietnam three years ago.

“I just sent my CV to RMIT without caring about the results. But when my vacation was coming to an end, I received a call for an interview from the school,” the Filipina said. “After that, I talked to my university in the Philippines and made a decision to quit that job to come to Vietnam,” she said.

Sriratanaviriyakul, Kumar, and Felipe chose to live in the Phu My Hung urban area in District 7 because there is a large community of expats there so they face few language barriers and little culture shock. Phu My Hung is also safe and comfortable and in close proximity to their school.

jackbl
05-01-2015, 12:05 AM
Motorbike owners in Saigon required to pay road fees from Jan 1
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Ho Chi Minh City authorities will begin collecting an annual road maintenance fee of up to VND150,000 (US$7) from motorbike owners as of January 1, 2015.

At its Tuesday meeting, the city People’s Council approved the People’s Committee’s proposal to impose the yearly road fee on motorbike owners in the city – the only locality in Vietnam that has yet to levy the fee on motorbike riders.

Accordingly, owners of motorbikes with engines of up to 100 cubic centimeters (cc) will have to pay VND50,000 ($2.33) per annum, and those who own bikes with 100-175 cc engines will be liable for a higher rate, VND100,000 ($5.61) per year.

As for bikes with engines of over 175 cc, the fee rate will be VND150,000 ($7) per year. No fee will be imposed on electric bicycles.

The people’s committees of wards, communes and towns are tasked with instructing motorbike owners to fill out fee declaration forms for motorbike use, according to the fee collection plan of the city Transport Department.

Based on such declarations, local people’s committees will assign staffs to collect the fees and grant fee receipts to owners at their home.

Alternatively, motorbike owners can pay the fee directly at their local people’s committee.

By late 2013, the number of motorbikes subject to the fee was more than 3 million, according to statistics from the city’s districts.

The total amount of fees to be collected may reach VND300 billion ($14.02 million) per year, the department said.

The fee will be collected pursuant to Government Decree 18/2012 dated March 13, 2012 on the establishment, management, and use of the Road Maintenance Fund.

Under the decree, users of motorized vehicles were supposed to pay a road maintenance fee, which was intended to feed the fund, from June 1, 2012, but the government later delayed the fee collection until January 1, 2013, given that people were facing difficulties in their daily lives due to the troubled economy.

However, while all other localities have set out their own fee rates and collected the fees since 2013, Ho Chi Minh City has continued to postpone its fee collection to spare residents any further burdens.

jackbl
07-01-2015, 12:35 AM
Home food delivery at night in Ho Chi Minh City
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At midnight, you can call to order food from a restaurant to be delivered at home within half an hour at a trivial extra cost, any day of the week.

This ever-expanding service in Ho Chi Minh City has helped provide more choices for a nighttime meal without the need to go out. Before, you might have had only instant noodles at home.

The service is very busy at night, especially from 11:00 pm till 3:00 am.

Orders can be made in both Vietnamese and English.

Now, customers can order via websites or telephone and ask for home delivery at midnight with the total bill costing just VND58,000 (US$2.8).

Dishes available on menus range from rice and noodles to fried fish cake, fried chicken, baked octopus, salad, pizza, hamburgers as well as Japanese, Indian, and Thai specialties.

The dishes are illustrated with images and prices on the websites.

Well known websites for home food delivery include www.vietnammm.com, www.ncook.vn, and www.blogandem.com. They are also available on Facebook pages.

A customer tested the service by ordering a noodle soup dish with beef and a peach juice for VND58,000 at midnight. At 12:30, a restaurant worker knocked on the door of the given address to deliver the food and receive cash.

The home delivery cost ranges from VND5,000 to VND20,000 (25 U.S. cents to $1), depending on the distance in the city.

The dishes are not too expensive, averaging VND30,000-40,000 ($1.5-2) each.

The website www.vietnammm.com offers one of the most professional services, acting as an intermediary between restaurants and diners. Customers accessing this site can order in Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese or English.

On receiving orders via the website or telephone, Vietnammm will transfer them to the restaurant chosen by a customer and the business will then be in charge of food delivery.

Accessing the website, customers can select not only food but also the restaurant processing it. A list of over 800 restaurants offering home delivery services is available on this website.

Though the website is available at all times, most restaurants are closed from 3:00 am until early the following morning because there are few orders.

The owner of one restaurant said that she has sold more dishes to customers for a year thanks to her coordination with www.vietnammm.com.

The demand for ordering meals at night is big and increasing in this city, according to another restaurant owner.

Pham Van Tai, of www.ncook.vn, said his business receives an average of 70 orders for home food delivery from 3:00 pm till 3:00 am.

One problem restaurants face now is the lack of delivery staff. Several owners admitted they sometimes have to refuse orders since they would be unable to deliver them quickly.

jackbl
12-01-2015, 12:00 AM
Decoding Vietnam’s road culture through David Beckham’s picture
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HANOI – I first learned that football great David Beckham visited Vietnam from the Facebook post of a Vietnamese American friend. A post on Beckham’s official FB page has sparked a bit of controversy for its depiction of modern Vietnamese society.

A depiction that is utterly accurate.

Beck’s site sports a photo of a woman using a camera phone to take a snapshot of the international celebrity as she sits on her motor scooter. She is not wearing a helmet as required by law and, worse, is holding an infant between her knees.

“I’m all for fans taking a picture but not sure this is the safest way to do it!” Beckham wrote.

It’s hard to believe that such a sight would shock anyone who has been in Vietnam for more than a few days. But it’s easy to see why some Vietnamese find the image embarrassing, as some expressed among the thousands of comments prompted by the post.

“This is an ugly face of Vietnam,” said Van Deng Yeu, according to one news report.

“A baby in her lap? That’s crazy,” declared one Minh Anh.

Crazy, perhaps, but also very Vietnamese.

Yes, the Beckham fan was flouting the law – but don’t very many Vietnamese do this on a daily basis? Helmet laws are often ignored, as are laws restricting the use of handheld devices. Small children are routinely carried on motorbikes without helmets or, it seems, other safety precautions. Only the blind don’t see this.

For foreigners visiting Vietnam, the crazy traffic offers the first dose of culture shock. My first weekend, my son and I were surprised by a rush-hour herd of motorbikes that crowded up behind us – on a sidewalk. Foreigners gawk and drop their jaws at the sight of motorbikes piled with cargo that is often odd – beehives, bags of tropical fish, flat screen TVs – and/or seems unwieldy. But it’s the sight of families squeezed onto a motorbike – four and even five butts on a long seat, plus a baby in mommy’s arms – that provokes moral outrage. Foreigners can be aghast: Don’t the Vietnamese care about the children? Aren’t there any child endangerment laws?

After a few weeks in Vietnam, my standard quip to visiting Americans is to expect on any given day to see about 30 or 40 instances of behavior that, back home, would be a violation of our (overprotective) child safety laws. But as someone who often uses my old Nuovo to carry the kids, I also know some outrage is misplaced.

My experience is that parents carrying children on motorbikes are typically among the safest drivers on the road. They rarely hurry and navigate carefully because they know the cargo is precious. (Of course there are exceptions: I was appalled by the young man who held an infant in his lap with his left hand, while navigating with the right at a dangerous speed.) When I’m out on the road, my larger concerns are car and truck drivers who act as if they owned the road, giddy teenagers who are fast and reckless, and the many motorists who are dialing or texting as they drive. Twice in recent days I had to swerve to avoid such motorists who weren’t paying attention to the road.

Mobile phones have become a deadly menace to drivers in much of the world. The consequences of becoming distracted driving a ton of metal can be much greater than the typical distracted motorcyclist in Vietnam.

But as Vietnam’s growing economy inspires more Vietnamese to buy sedans and SUVs, I fear that this could become a great problem in Vietnam. I, for one, am very reluctant to drive a car in Vietnam. “It’s nerve-wracking,” a friend once told me. “The other day I nearly killed a kid.”

So if somebody offers me the keys to a car, I say thanks but no thanks. Maybe someday Vietnam’s motoring culture will be safer, but not yet.

The news article that reported Beckham’s Facebook post included this sobering detail: About 14,000 people lose their lives every year in Vietnam due to traffic accidents. I have a hunch it will get worse before it gets better.

jackbl
15-01-2015, 12:58 AM
Expat-style Christmas in Vietnam
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Editor’s Note: Stivi Cooke is an Australian expat who has lived in Hoi An City in Quang Nam, a province in central Vietnam, for six years.

Awww... Christmas is here again. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Big C and Metro, along come the mayhem and merriment of Kris Kringle Kapers for kids. Fortunately for me I’m a single dad of two young puppy dogs so the decorating is not difficult – red: carrots in their meals, green: vegetables and some tinsel around the Doghouse.

Actually the only trouble I’ve had so far is putting up the Christmas lights in the windows because Vietnamese power sockets are located somewhere near the North Pole.

Central Vietnam gets into the groove as good as – if not better than – the rest of the country. Plenty of shops selling tinsel and decorative stuff around Hoi An and Da Nang, although it does get weird when your Santa costume is made in China, your Christmas tree smells of lemongrass and you’re saying “Giang Sinh An Lanh” instead of “Merry Christmas”!

If you’re an expat married to a local, it’s quite a fun mix of Vietnamese frivolity and western bemusement as traditional Vietnamese winter foods such as Beef Hotpot (Lau Bo) or Vietnamese Winter Melon Soup (Canh Bi Dao) are served instead of a roast dinner with gravy and mint. I have a theory that if gravy was more widely known by the locals we’d go a long way to making the Vietnamese taller and fatter.

At Christmas I miss my mum’s roast lamb but there’s plenty of great food out there. Yet tourism has brought fine western dining with all the Christmas trimmings our way too. The resorts and hotels do a good trade in massive meals with western customs such as the Christmas pudding cake, custards and Christmas candies ready for eager little mouths.

I smile a lot in the traffic when mums wrap the kids in miniature Santa suits and hang off the back of the motorbike as they trundle off to the markets. Not sure if it’s the colors or just the general feeling of fun that gets them hooked but it’s irresistibly cute. It makes you wonder if the kids think Santa is a colorful version of the lucky Buddha!

It’s funny how Christmas turns adults into big kids too. Expats roaring around town with a Santa hat flapping in the cold air or fat old Englishmen men sitting in a bar in a row with the pre-requite hats chatting about sport and visas. It’s not called the ‘silly season’ for nothing.

Christmas parcels however are frustrations as they turn up later...say April... in lovely crumpled wrapping paper and slightly smudged Chrissie cards. Each year my mum sends something and that’s what I get...something. Eck.

I was surprised when I discovered how many Vietnamese Christians there are and the ‘wannabes’ – Vietnamese who like going to church for the songs and the company. I’m an Atheist even though I believe in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny, Batman, Superman and Iron Man. In Hoi An, we have a spectacular Christmas display and midnight carols which habitually stop traffic until the wee hours of the morning. Still I find Vietnamese resort staff singing western carols in fractured English a little bizarre, although rather funny, especially when they try to hit the high notes. And Vietnamese wearing reindeer horns sets me off in uncontrollable giggles.

More than a few expats head back to their home countries to spend time with their loved ones and for the rest of us, it’s time to catch up with other expats we’ve probably not seen for months as we’re not really a cohesive group and tend to gather only at mating season or when the heat forces us (so we claim) to a drinking hole while warily keeping an eye for predators.

Christmas also reminds us all of the poverty and hardships that locals still have to overcome and spurs expats to host charity events and fundraisers during the winter months. We are fortunate to have so many considerate and generous entrepreneurs and restaurateurs in central Vietnam willing to host these events.

Like every expat my thoughts often turn to the life I left behind in my home country and what I have here to be thankful for – good friends, interesting company, cheerful neighbors and in my case, great students! I don’t miss much from my former life as a minion of the system but I’m so lucky to have gotten out of the system when I did.

So this year I’d like to wish each and every one of my readers and fellow expats a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

May 2015 be as fun as you hope for and may you and your families enjoy another hot, sweaty year; just go to the beach then. And if you can’t keep your new year’s resolutions then you should break them with the endlessly cheerful style of Vietnam! “Giang Sinh An Lanh!” (Merry Christmas!), “Chuc Mung Nam Moi!” (Happy New Year!).

jackbl
23-01-2015, 01:26 AM
Vietnam tourist attractions open for free, offer diverse activities during Tet
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A number of relics in Hanoi, Hue, and Hoi An Ancient Town will be open to tourists for free during Tet (Lunar New Year), while a myriad of activities are poised to take place in several other localities to celebrate the holiday.

Many cities and tourist attractions across the country will brim with life thanks to a slew of exciting activities during the upcoming Tet – the country’s largest holiday.

This year’s Tet kicks off on February 19.

Hanoi

The Hanoi People’s Committee has decided six of the capital’s relics and scenic spots will be open free to visitors on Lunar New Year’s Eve and the first two days of the new year, or from February 18 to 20.

The spots are Ngoc Son and Quan Thanh Temples, Tay Phuong, Thay and Huong Pagodas, and Duong Lam Ancient Village.

Pyrotechnic shows are also expected to light up 30 spots in the city on Lunar New Year’s Eve.

Five high-range firework shows are set to sparkle over Hoan Kiem (Sword) Lake, Thong Nhat Park, Lac Long Quan Garden, Van Quan Lake, and My Dinh National Stadium.

The other 25 low-range firework shows will take place in other areas.

Hoi An

Authorities in Hoi An City, located in the central province of Quang Nam, have decided to provide tourists with free entry to UNESCO-recognized Hoi An Ancient Town and other relics in the vicinity for four days over Tet.

Free entrance to the ancient town will be available on Lunar New Year’s Eve and the first three days of the lunar new year, or February 18 to 21.

Twenty-one other relics will also be open for free during these four days, including Cau (Bridge) Pagoda, Cam Pho Temple, Quan Cong Shrine, local museums, Quan Thang, Duc An, Phung Hung and Tan Ky Old Houses, the Tran Lineage’s house, Chinese souvenir houses, and three tombs dedicated to Japanese merchants Gu Sokukun, Tani Yajirobei, and Banjiro.

Festive activities are also to run in Hoi An Ancient Town, including a “neu” (long bamboo pole) erecting ritual, which will take place in several relics from Lunar New Year’s Eve to the 7th day of the new year, or February 18 to 25.

A “neu” erection, which sees different objects of symbolic meaning hung onto a lanky bamboo pole, is a long-standing Tet rite to worship gods, ward off evil spirits, and pray for good luck.

A Tet fair will kick off at 10:00 pm on Lunar New Year’s Eve at Hoai River Square and in Hoi An Garden.

Performances of “bai choi,” a folk game and form of art found in 11 provinces in the central region, will also be held at cultural centers in Hoi An from Lunar New Year’s Eve to the 3rd day of the new year.

Hue

According to the Hue Monuments Conservation Center, free entry will also be offered at several of the relics belonging to the UNESCO-recognized Hue Complex of Monuments, located in central Vietnam’s Thua Thien-Hue Province, on the first three days of the Lunar New Year, or from February 19 to 21.

A host of activities will also liven up several spots in the country’s imperial capital during Tet, including royal games, lion-dragon-kylin dancing, and performances of calligraphy, traditional music, and martial arts.

Khai Tuong Edifice, part of the An Dinh Secluded Palace, which was inaugurated in late December last year, is also open to tourists for free from January 20 to March 30.

Da Nang

Four spots in the central city of Da Nang will also glitter with spectacular 15-minute firework shows on Lunar New Year’s Eve.

The spots are Hai Chau District’s Nguyen Van Troi Bridge, Ngu Hanh Son District Sports Center, the area in front of Lien Chieu District’s Administrative Center, and Hoa Vang District’s Monument.

The local People’s Committee announced on Friday last week that one of this year’s Tet festivities is a major flower street which will span from Bach Dang Street to the west side of Rong (Dragon) Bridge.

The street will run from February 9 to 24 and costs some VND5 billion (US$233,013).

Part of it will be dedicated to a light garden, which features five towers of glasses, large circles of LED lights, and bouncing music.

The city will also host street music performances along Bach Dang Street and “tuong” (traditional opera) plays.

Ho Chi Minh City

The southern hub will also burst with life with scores of festive activities during the Tet holiday.

One of the highlights is the city’s iconic Tet Flower Street, which will be relocated to Ham Nghi Street from its usual downtown venue, Nguyen Hue Street, local authorities announced in late December last year.

The flower street, which will span from the section adjacent to Quach Thi Trang Roundabout to the Ho Tung Mau-Ham Nghi intersection, will be adorned with a wide variety of blooming flowers, as well as gorgeous flowery and leafy artificial arrangements shaped as goats – the Lunar New Year’s zodiac sign.

Tran Hung Viet, CEO of Saigontourist, a local travel firm and head of the Tet flower street’s organizing board, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Wednesday that the construction of the large and smaller artificial arrangements and adornment have been 70-80 percent complete.

The street will bloom with over 65 artificial arrangements and around 130,000 flower tubs of various breeds.

The construction of a goat family, which will be arranged in a dominant position at one end of the flower street, has been almost finished.

The goats stand between 1.2 and 2.7 meters tall.

The flower street will open to the public at 7:00 pm on February 16 and close at 10:00 pm on February 22 – or from the 28th day of the final lunar month to the fourth day of the Lunar New Year.

Another highlight is the city’s Tet book street, which will go on in sync with the flower street.

The book street, with “Ban Sac Viet-Hao Khi Vietnam” (Vietnamese Identity-Vietnamese Spirit) as its theme, will take place on a section of District 1’s Ham Nghi Street which spans from the Ho Tung Mau-Ham Nghi intersection to Ton Duc Thang Street.

The book street will feature sections of e-books, children’s books, books for the visually impaired, and rare, critically acclaimed tomes.

One of the key sections will showcase photos, archives, maps, and other historical evidence as well as the latest materials on Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagoes.

Firework shows are also expected to glitter over eight spots on Lunar New Year’s Eve, namely District 2’s Thu Thiem Tunnel, District 1’s Bitexco Financial Tower, District 11’s Dam Sen Park, the District 12 Culture Center, District 9’s Historical, Cultural Park, Hoc Mon District’s Nga Ba Giong Relic, Binh Chanh District’s Lang Le-Bau Co area, and Can Gio District.

jackbl
25-01-2015, 04:44 PM
越南语成语600句《一》


1 Anh em khinh trước, làng nước khinh sau 家火不起,野火不来
2 Áo gấm đi đêm 锦衣夜行
3 Ăn bát cơm dẻo, nhớ nẻo đường đi 食饭不忘种田人
4 Ăn bẩn sông sâu 不干不净、吃了长命
5 Ăn bơ làm biếng, hay ăn lười làm 好逸恶劳
6 Ăn cám trả vàng 吃人一口,报人一斗;吃人糠皮,报人黄金
7 Ăn cây táo rào cây sung (cây xoan ) 吃力扒外
8 Ăn có nhai, nói có nghĩ 食须细嚼、言必三思
9 Ăn cơm chúa, múa tối ngày 饱食终日、无所事事
10 Ăn cơm gà gáy, cất binh nửa ngày 鸡啼饱饭、三竿出兵;起个大早、赶个晚集
11 Ăn cơm nhà vác tù và hàng tổng 吃一家饭、管万家事
12 Ăn cháo đá bát, qua cầu rút ván 过河拆桥
13 Ăn chẳng có khó đến thân 好事无缘,坏事有分
14 Ăn chọn nơi, chơi chọn bạn 择善而从
15 Ăn độc chốc mép 独食独生疮
16 Ăn không nên đọi, nói chẳng nên lời 笨口拙舌
17 Ăn mày đòi xôi gấc (ăn trực đòi bánh chưng) 乞丐讨肉粽
18 Ăn miếng trả miếng 以眼还眼、以牙还牙
19 Ăn một bát cháo, chạy ba quãng đồng 吃一碗粥、走三里路
20 Ăn ngay nói thật mọi tật mọi lành 天理良心、到处通行

devilcheong
25-01-2015, 06:49 PM
越南语成语600句《一》


1 Anh em khinh trước, làng nước khinh sau 家火不起,野火不来
2 Áo gấm đi đêm 锦衣夜行
3 Ăn bát cơm dẻo, nhớ nẻo đường đi 食饭不忘种田人
4 Ăn bẩn sông sâu 不干不净、吃了长命
5 Ăn bơ làm biếng, hay ăn lười làm 好逸恶劳
6 Ăn cám trả vàng 吃人一口,报人一斗;吃人糠皮,报人黄金
7 Ăn cây táo rào cây sung (cây xoan ) 吃力扒外
8 Ăn có nhai, nói có nghĩ 食须细嚼、言必三思
9 Ăn cơm chúa, múa tối ngày 饱食终日、无所事事
10 Ăn cơm gà gáy, cất binh nửa ngày 鸡啼饱饭、三竿出兵;起个大早、赶个晚集
11 Ăn cơm nhà vác tù và hàng tổng 吃一家饭、管万家事
12 Ăn cháo đá bát, qua cầu rút ván 过河拆桥
13 Ăn chẳng có khó đến thân 好事无缘,坏事有分
14 Ăn chọn nơi, chơi chọn bạn 择善而从
15 Ăn độc chốc mép 独食独生疮
16 Ăn không nên đọi, nói chẳng nên lời 笨口拙舌
17 Ăn mày đòi xôi gấc (ăn trực đòi bánh chưng) 乞丐讨肉粽
18 Ăn miếng trả miếng 以眼还眼、以牙还牙
19 Ăn một bát cháo, chạy ba quãng đồng 吃一碗粥、走三里路
20 Ăn ngay nói thật mọi tật mọi lành 天理良心、到处通行

Bro Jackbl.. can help translated to English... :p I'm a banana.. Ha-ha.... Thanks :D

damong777
25-01-2015, 06:54 PM
越南语成语600句《一》


1 Anh em khinh trước, làng nước khinh sau 家火不起,野火不来
2 Áo gấm đi đêm 锦衣夜行
3 Ăn bát cơm dẻo, nhớ nẻo đường đi 食饭不忘种田人
4 Ăn bẩn sông sâu 不干不净、吃了长命
5 Ăn bơ làm biếng, hay ăn lười làm 好逸恶劳
6 Ăn cám trả vàng 吃人一口,报人一斗;吃人糠皮,报人黄金
7 Ăn cây táo rào cây sung (cây xoan ) 吃力扒外
8 Ăn có nhai, nói có nghĩ 食须细嚼、言必三思
9 Ăn cơm chúa, múa tối ngày 饱食终日、无所事事
10 Ăn cơm gà gáy, cất binh nửa ngày 鸡啼饱饭、三竿出兵;起个大早、赶个晚集
11 Ăn cơm nhà vác tù và hàng tổng 吃一家饭、管万家事
12 Ăn cháo đá bát, qua cầu rút ván 过河拆桥
13 Ăn chẳng có khó đến thân 好事无缘,坏事有分
14 Ăn chọn nơi, chơi chọn bạn 择善而从
15 Ăn độc chốc mép 独食独生疮
16 Ăn không nên đọi, nói chẳng nên lời 笨口拙舌
17 Ăn mày đòi xôi gấc (ăn trực đòi bánh chưng) 乞丐讨肉粽
18 Ăn miếng trả miếng 以眼还眼、以牙还牙
19 Ăn một bát cháo, chạy ba quãng đồng 吃一碗粥、走三里路
20 Ăn ngay nói thật mọi tật mọi lành 天理良心、到处通行

wow damm profound...:confused::confused:

KangTuo
26-01-2015, 03:17 PM
越南语成语600句《一》


1 Anh em khinh trước, làng nước khinh sau 家火不起,野火不来
2 Áo gấm đi đêm 锦衣夜行
3 Ăn bát cơm dẻo, nhớ nẻo đường đi 食饭不忘种田人
4 Ăn bẩn sông sâu 不干不净、吃了长命
5 Ăn bơ làm biếng, hay ăn lười làm 好逸恶劳
6 Ăn cám trả vàng 吃人一口,报人一斗;吃人糠皮,报人黄金
7 Ăn cây táo rào cây sung (cây xoan ) 吃力扒外
8 Ăn có nhai, nói có nghĩ 食须细嚼、言必三思
9 Ăn cơm chúa, múa tối ngày 饱食终日、无所事事
10 Ăn cơm gà gáy, cất binh nửa ngày 鸡啼饱饭、三竿出兵;起个大早、赶个晚集
11 Ăn cơm nhà vác tù và hàng tổng 吃一家饭、管万家事
12 Ăn cháo đá bát, qua cầu rút ván 过河拆桥
13 Ăn chẳng có khó đến thân 好事无缘,坏事有分
14 Ăn chọn nơi, chơi chọn bạn 择善而从
15 Ăn độc chốc mép 独食独生疮
16 Ăn không nên đọi, nói chẳng nên lời 笨口拙舌
17 Ăn mày đòi xôi gấc (ăn trực đòi bánh chưng) 乞丐讨肉粽
18 Ăn miếng trả miếng 以眼还眼、以牙还牙
19 Ăn một bát cháo, chạy ba quãng đồng 吃一碗粥、走三里路
20 Ăn ngay nói thật mọi tật mọi lành 天理良心、到处通行

You taking Phd in Tieng Viet :confused::eek:

miumiu6464
26-01-2015, 05:47 PM
Permanent Head Damage (PhD)

jackbl
27-01-2015, 01:52 AM
You taking Phd in Tieng Viet

Permanent Head Damage (PhD)

Kns! I come here to share, u come here to suan :(

jackbl
27-01-2015, 01:59 AM
越南语成语600句《二》

21 Ăn nhạt mới biết thương mèo 落魄方知穷人苦
22 Ăn ốc nói mò; nhắm mắt nói mò 瞎说八道;向壁虚造
23 Ăn quả nhớ kẻ trồng cây 食果不忘种树人
24 Ăn quàng nói bậy, ăn nói lung tung 信口开河;信口雌黄; 胡说八道
25 Ăn vụng đổ vạ cho mèo, vu oan giá họa 屈打成招
26 Ăn xổi ở thì , mổ gà lấy trứng 杀鸡取卵;杀鸡取蛋
27 Ba bà chín chuyện; tam sao thất bản 话经三张嘴,长虫也长腿
28 Bà con xa không bằng láng giềng gần 远亲不如近邻
29 Ba đầu sáu tay 三头六臂
30 Ba mặt một lời 三头对案;三面一词
31 Ba mươi chưa phải là tết 别言之过早
32 Bán trôn nuôi miệng 皮肉生涯
33 Bát nước đổ đi khó lấy lại 覆水难收
34 Bắn đại bác cũng không tới 八竿子打不着
35 Bằng mặt không bằng lòng 貌合神离
36 Bắt cá hai tay 双手抓鱼
37 Bắt cóc bỏ đĩa 炊沙作饭
38 Bắt chó đi cày, 狗咬耗子
39 Bé không vin, cả gẫy cành 小时不教、大时不肖
40 Bệnh nào thuốc nấy 对症下药

miumiu6464
27-01-2015, 09:30 AM
Kns! I come here to share, u come here to suan :(

Just joking lah... He started first...

jackbl
02-02-2015, 12:58 AM
越南语成语600句《三》

41 Biết người biết ta, trăm trận trăm thắng 知己知彼、百战百胜(百战不殆)
42 Bình cũ rượu mới 旧瓶装新酒
43 Bình chân như vại, khoanh tay đứng nhìn 高枕无忧, 袖手傍观
44 Bó đuốc chọn cột cờ 百里挑一
45 Bốc thuốc theo đơn 照方子抓药
46 Bới bèo ra bọ, bới lông tìm vết 吹毛求疵
47 Bụng bảo dạ 自言自语;自说自话
48 Bụng cứ rốn (lòng ta vẫn vững như kiềng ba chân) 无动于衷
49 Bụng làm dạ chịu 责无旁贷;自作自受;作法自毙
50 Bụng thối như cứt 一肚子坏
51 Bụt chùa nhà không thiêng 家庙不灵
52 Bút sa gà chết 惜墨如金
53 Bữa đực bữa cái 三天打鱼两天晒网
54 Bức vách có tai (bờ tường có mắt) 隔墙有耳
55 Cá không ăn muối cá ươn 不听老人言、吃亏在眼前
56 Cà cuống chết đến đít còn cay 死不改悔
57 Cá lớn nuốt cá bé 大鱼吃小鱼
58 Cá mè một lứa 难兄难弟(一丘之貉)
59 Cá nằm trên thớt 鱼游釜中
60 Cả thèm chóng chán 一暴十寒

freeman69
18-02-2015, 12:52 PM
Any Brother have Vietnamese Chinese New Year Greetings

Hurricane88
18-02-2015, 12:58 PM
Any Brother have Vietnamese Chinese New Year Greetings

here...dug out from old posts year 2011

http://www.sammyboyforum.com/showpost.php?p=5637654&postcount=7145

http://www.sammyboyforum.com/showpost.php?p=5642590&postcount=7161

http://www.sammyboyforum.com/showpost.php?p=3420089&postcount=1836

jackbl
24-02-2015, 12:52 AM
越南语成语600句《四》

61 Cả vú lấp miệng em; Gái đĩ già mồm, Cái chày cãi cối 强词夺理
62 Cái kim trong bọc lâu ngày cũng lòi ra 纸包不住针
63 Cái khó ló cái khôn 急中生智
64 Cái nết đánh chết cái đẹp 德重于貌
65 Cãi nhau như mổ bò 大吵大闹
66 Cái sảy nảy cái ung 千里之堤、溃于蚁穴
67 Càng già càng dẻo càng dai 宝刀不老;老当益壮
68 Cáo chết ba năm quay đầu về núi 狐死首丘;树高千丈,叶落归根
69 Cáo đội lốt hổ, cáo mượn oai hùm 狐假虎威
70 Cạy răng không nói một lời 不哼不言
71 Cầm cân nẩy mực 掌枰划线
72 Câm như hến 噤若寒蝉
73 Cẩn tắc vô áy náy 有备无患
74 Cầu được ước thấy 得心应手
75 Cây cao, bóng cả 树高影大
76 Cây có cội, nước có nguồn 木有本,水有源
77 Cây muốn lặng mà gió chẳng ngừng 树欲静而风不止
78 Cây ngay không sợ chết đứng 真金不怕火炼;身正不怕影子斜
79 Có bệnh mới lo tìm thầy 病急乱投医
80 Có bột mới gột nên hồ 巧妇难为无米之炊

oneharu
01-03-2015, 06:16 PM
google translate? LOL

forgotoldnick
02-03-2015, 11:32 PM
google translate? LOL

Bụng bảo dạ
KKDD

oneharu
03-03-2015, 03:51 PM
noj z do? hjhjhj

profx
08-03-2015, 10:07 AM
越南语成语600句《四》


Thanks for your 越南语成语, did u find them in books or internet website?
Mind to share which book? Purchased in local? or which website?
Thank you

jackbl
11-03-2015, 01:09 AM
越南语成语600句《五》

81 Có cô thì chợ cũng đông, cô đi lấy chồng thì chợ cũng vui. 有你不多、没你不少
82 Có chạy đằng trời 插翅难飞
83 Có chí thì nên; có công mài sắt có ngày nên kim 功到自然成;有志竞成
84 Có đầu có đuôi, có ngành có ngọn 有条有理、有头有尾、有板有眼;
85 Có đi có lại mới toại lòng nhau 礼尚往来
86 Có gan ăn cắp, có gan chịu đòn 敢做敢当;有种犯料、有胆到案
87 Có làm thì mới có ăn, không dưng ai dễ đem phần đến cho. 春花秋实
88 Có mắt như mù; có mắt không tròng 有眼无珠、有眼不识泰山
89 Có mới nới cũ, có trăng quên đèn 喜新厌旧
90 Có nuôi con mới biết lòng cha mẹ 不养儿不知父母恩
91 Có tật giật mình 做贼心虚;谈虎色变
92 Có tích mới dịch nên tuồng, có bột mới gột nên hồ 巧妇难为无米炊
93 Có tiền mua tiên cũng được 钱能沟通神;钱大买钱二炮
94 Có tiếng không có miếng 有名无实
95 Có thực mới vực được đạo 衣食足方能买鬼推磨
96 Cóc đi guốc, khỉ đeo hoa 东施效颦
97 Cóc gẻ mà đòi ăn thịt thiên nga 瘌蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉
98 Coi trời bằng vung 不知天高地厚;狗胆包天;目空一切;无法无天
99 Con có khóc mẹ mới cho bú 孩子哭了,抱给他娘
100 Con chị chưa đi, con dì nó lỡ 姐姐不嫁,耽搁了妹妹

jackbl
13-03-2015, 01:54 AM
越南语成语600句《六》

101 Con chị nó đi, con dì nó lớn (tre già măng mọc) 后浪推前浪
102 Con giun xéo mãi cũng quằn 忍无可忍
103 Con không chê cha mẹ khó, chó không chê chủ nghèo 儿不嫌母丑,狗不嫌家贫
104 Con nhà tông không giống lông cũng giống cánh 万变不离其宗
105 Con ông cháu cha 王孙公子(公子哥儿)
106 Con sâu làm rầu nồi canh 害群之马
107 Cõng rắn cắn gà nhà 开门揖盗;认贼作父;引狼入室
108 Cõng rắn cắn gà nhà, rước voi về giày mả tổ 背蛇害家鸡、招象踏祖坟
109 Cọp chết để da, người ta chết để tiếng 牛死留皮、人死留名
110 Cốc mò cò xơi (mình làm người hưởng) 火中取栗
111 Cơm áo gạo tiền 衣食住行
112 Cơm gà cá gỏi 炮风烹龙
113 Cơm không ăn, đòi ăn cứt; nhẹ không ưa,ưa nặng 吃硬不吃软;敬酒不吃吃罚酒;
114 Của ít lòng nhiều 千里送鹅毛
115 Của người phúc ta (mượn hoa cúng phật) 借花献佛;慷他人之慨
116 Của rẻ là của ôi, của đầy nồi là của chẳng ngon 便宜没好货
117 Của thiên trả địa 悖入悖出
118 Cùng đường đuối lý 理屈词穷
119 Cha mẹ sinh con trời sinh tính 龙生九种(种种个别)
120 Cha nào con ấy 有其父必有其子

oneharu
15-03-2015, 04:42 PM
Google translate de.... attract attention only

jackbl
16-03-2015, 01:03 AM
Ho Chi Minh City police bust prostitution ring stealing clients’ possessions via secret tunnel

Ho Chi Minh City police on Friday arrested three members of a prostitution ring that used a secret tunnel to steal the properties of their clients in Go Vap District.

Colonel Van Tra Lao, chief of the Go Vap District Police Department, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that the agency decided to apply criminal detention to Dinh Thi Thanh, 40, Do Cao Loc, 41, and Huynh Thi Trung, 25, after nabbing them on charges of "prostitution" and "theft of property."

The arrest came after police officers caught the ring red-handed committing their criminal act in a snap swoop at midnight on Friday in Go Vap District after a two-month investigation into the case, seizing all related exhibits.

The ambush was launched after police officers were fed information by local residents on organized prostitution and property thievery in the area.

Trung and a client, T.M.H., 29, were having sex in a house when Loc stole VND3.8 million (US$177) from H.

Police officers rushed in when Loc and Thanh were counting the cash in another room of the house.

The three confessed that Thanh began to rent the house on Tan Son Street to organize prostitution there at the beginning of this year.

She then had a secret passage built from a room of the house to the toilet and cooperated with Loc and Trung to surreptitiously steal money from their clients.

Whenever there was a client in the room, Trung would notify Loc by phone. Loc then sneaked into the room from the passage to steal the properties of the clients having sex with Trung.

Then, the stolen money would be divided among all three. In addition, Trung paid Thanh VND50,000 ($2.33) as room rent each time having a guest for VND150,000-200,000.

jackbl
22-03-2015, 02:34 PM
Weekend getaway in Ba Ria-Vung Tau
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VietNamNet Bridge – As Saigon has become hotter recently, we made a trip to Ho Tram in the southern coast province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau to enjoy sea breeze and chill out on the beach.


The tourist site, about 12km from Vung Tau City, has a peaceful white soft sand beach with lots of sports and leisure activities. There is a poplar forest contributing to the romantic view of the site. Tourists can also try some local specialties, including Moc Nui noodles at the price of VND15,000 per bowl or grilled fish costing from VND10,000 to VND15,000 per dish and grilled deo snail with onion. Guests can order live seafood to cook to their favorite taste. They can boil, steam or grill seafood at the price of VND10,000 per portion.

There is an interesting venue nearby which tourists should spend some time to discover. That is Thien That, locally known as Monkey Pagoda, located at the foot of Ky Van Mountain in Phuoc Hai Commune, Long Dat District of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.


The pagoda has simple architecture but the statue of the Buddha sitting on a lotus base looks beautiful. There is a path on a side of the pagoda leading to Ky Van Mountain which is appealing to travelers thanks to numerous stones in unique shapes like dolphin, elephant and turtle.

There is also a stone looking like a snake holding a pearl in its mouth that represents prosperity or a huge stone similar to the Buddha’s head. Tourists might see a stone that looks like a bending elephant or an ancient bo tree with its roots sticking to stones.

The pagoda is also home to around 200 monkeys that usually gather and play together in the daytime. Tourists can give banana to these monkeys but they should pay attention to their belongings as these naughty animals might snatch them.

by Bao Quyen

jackbl
25-03-2015, 01:46 AM
Vietnam sex worker gets 2 years for stealing from foreigner
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A Vietnam court has sentenced a woman to two years in prison for stealing assets including a luxury wristwatch, a cellphone, and cash from a foreign man after having sex with him in August last year, local media said.

Tran Thi Thuy Trang, 35, a sex worker in Ho Chi Minh City, received the sentence on charges of stealing property at her trial opened by the municipal People’s Court on Thursday.

According to the indictment, Trang often sought potential foreign customers at bars and restaurants in an area covering such streets as Bui Vien, Pham Ngu Lao, and De Tham in Pham Ngu Lao Ward in District 1.

Local residents usually call this area the “Westerner’s zone” or “backpacker area” as it has long been home to a community of foreigners who visit the city.

At 3:00 am on August 1, 2014, Robert John S., a 72-year-old man of Papua New Guinea nationality, was drinking beer at a bar on Bui Vien Street when he met Trang.

The man then asked Trang if she would agree to spend a night with him at his home in District 2 for VND2 million (US$93), and she consented.

When the two arrived at S.’s house, he handed the cash to her before they began to have sex.

S. fell asleep after sex and Trang then stole a Rolex wristwatch – which was valued at VND180 million ($8,370) – a cellphone, and VND11.5 million ($535) in cash.

Trang left the house and the man discovered the theft when he woke up the next morning, but he did not report the case to police.

She then pawned the watch for VND50 million ($2,330). She gave her mother VND39 million ($1,815) for debt repayment.

The woman spent the remaining money on personal needs.

Several days later, S. met Trang again in the “backpacker area” and asked her to return the items she had stolen from him.

Trang promised the foreigner that she would return them and gave him an indentify card that shows her photo but is in another person’s name.

She, however, broke her promise and S. reported it to police, who then began to search for the woman.

On August 16, police arrested Trang while she was drinking at a bar on Bui Vien Street, according to Ha Noi Moi (New Hanoi) newspaper.

On searching her, police found and seized many fake ID cards. Trang later admitted to stealing assets from the foreigner.

At the court yesterday, Trang told the jury that she committed the theft to get money to pay for her mother’s debts.

Considering that it was her first time committing such an offense and she had shown sincerity in making statements on her crime, the court’s jury decided to give her the above sentence.

jackbl
30-03-2015, 12:18 AM
Revealed: Ring forces girls to arouse drinkers in cafés in southern Vietnam
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Based on three distress messages from a young woman to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper’s hotline on Sunday last week, a group of reporters tracked down a ring that forced young women to sexually satisfy customers in dim-light coffee shops and successfully came to the victim’s rescue on Thursday.

A woman named D., 23, who hails from the north-central province of Thanh Hoa, managed to send three SMS messages to the Tuoi Tre hotline in a desperate attempt to get rescued from a coffee shop where attendants are required to let drinkers hug, kiss, and caress them in the southern province of Binh Duong.

Based on the clues D. provided, a group of Tuoi Tre reporters instantly set off on their pursuit of the ring.

Under disguise

On Monday, one day after receiving D.’s distress messages, a female reporter called the phone number 0986012… and talked to a 37-year-old man named Vu.

Vu is the one that has posted recruitment notices on several websites, seeking good-looking girls for coffee shops and karaoke parlors.

To check on the reporter’s looks, Vu came to see her in a businessman-like manner at a café on Cu Lao Street in Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City.

The man introduced himself as the owner of a series of large coffee houses, massage and karaoke parlors in the city’s Tan Binh District.

Vu reassured the reporter that her youthful appearance would earn her at least VND40 million (US$1,864) a month, while the expenses for clothes and makeup would be covered.

On Wednesday, after picking up the reporter near the An Suong Flyover in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City, Vu took her to nearby Binh Duong instead of Tan Binh District as previously agreed.

On the way, he exposed himself as a fraudster by insisting that she sexually arouse customers and allow them to caress and kiss her while working in coffee shops.

Around 8:30 am the same day, Vu “sold” the reporter to another man named Long for VND3.5 million ($163) at a café in Di An Town in Binh Duong before leaving.

She was immediately taken by Long to Xuan Thuy Café, which had around 10 murky, damp sheds in the rear.

The sheds were packed with male clients, who were served by two scantily-clad girls.

After agreeing to pay her VND4 million ($186) each month, Long forced the Tuoi Tre reporter to sign a contract, which required her to serve clients for three months.

She was also required to learn how to arouse customers and not to venture out on streets in any circumstances.

Long also warned that the reporter would have to tempt her clients into ordering at least 30 glasses of drinks each day at VND20,000 ($1) apiece, or she would be denied salaries or bonuses.

During only the first few hours into her first day “at work,” the reporter was coerced into tending to almost 20 male clients, who came in a wide age bracket.

Chi, from the southern province of Kien Giang, who was assigned to show the reporter the way around, advised her to try her best and please customers; otherwise, she would get locked up.

Around 4:00 pm the same day, Long took the reporter to Vang Anh Café, which is some 200 meters from his own, to serve more customers.

The shop owner, who is Long’s elder sister, seized her cellphone.

The reporter was finally “bailed out” the following day by other Tuoi Tre reporters for VND3.5 million.

Long said all such cafés in the neighborhood pay brokerage fees of VND2.5 million ($117) to VND3.5 million, depending on the women’s looks.

Techniques of sourcing country girls

According to the Tuoi Tre reporters’ investigation, Vu has used different pseudonyms to look for young women with good appearance via online recruitment notices.

The notices advertise that the women’s meals and accommodation will all be covered, while they will earn monthly incomes of VND45-50 million ($2,097- 2,330).

Many women have fallen prey to such enticing ads.

The newspaper’s investigation reveals that Vu is the main “distributor” of young women to many dim-light cafés in the Dong Chieu area in Tan Dong Hiep Ward, Di An.

He “sold” women to café owners for VND3-3.5 million each, depending on their looks.

Most of the girls are coerced into sexually satisfying clients and are even beaten.

With no money to bail themselves out, these women have no choice but to come to terms with the situation.

Short on attractive female attendants, these café owners are always on the scour for pretty young girls, and place orders with such intermediaries as Vu.

Trang, the owner of Thuy Trang Café in Dong Chieu, divulged that female workers who have quit their factory jobs due to starving incomes and hard work make a good source of supplies for her coffee shop.

According to Luu, who runs Mi Sa Café in the same area, the neighborhood is home to 19 such dim-light cafés, and thus competition is relentlessly intense.

Rescue

On Thursday, Quan, the owner of Anh Thu Café in Dong Chieu, and his wife demanded VND3.5 million in return for D.’s freedom.

D. is the girl who sent distress messages to Tuoi Tre earlier.

Twelve days after being “sold” by Vu to Anh Thu Café, D. has finally returned to the safety of her home after Tuoi Tre reporters paid the money.

She said that earlier this month, she came across Vu’s recruitment ad for a karaoke parlour attendant.

Tempted by the high salary mentioned in the ad, D. bought into Vu’s words and came to meet him.

Vu then took her straight to Binh Duong and “sold” the woman to Quan.

D. said that she and four other women were forced to serve clients from 6:00 am every day until there were none left.

They were locked up in their room by night and were not allowed to go out under any circumstances.

jackbl
31-03-2015, 12:40 AM
In southern Vietnam, ‘Taiwanese islanders’ now shake head at foreign marriages
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Many women on a so-called “Taiwanese island,” located off the southern Vietnamese city of Can Tho, have now given up on their dreams of turning over a new leaf by marrying foreigners and settling in their husbands’ home countries.

Over 10 years ago, a wave of women marrying foreigners hit Tan Loc Island, now known as Tan Loc Ward, which is administered by Thot Not District.

The locality has since been dubbed “Taiwanese island,” as the number of local women getting married to Taiwanese men and living in their husbands’ homeland ranked among the highest compared to others across the Mekong Delta in southern Vietnam.

According to Do Trung Ngon, vice chair of the Tan Loc Ward People’s Committee, Tan Loc Island is around 32 square kilometers in area.

Prior to 1990, locals earned their living by growing sugar cane, processing it into sugar, and making honey wine.

However, the craft ended in bankruptcy due to a lack of modern technology.

The fad of marrying foreigners shaped up in this “dark age,” Ngon said.

Girls from families whose business fell apart or from a poor background and with inadequate schooling then ventured out and married Taiwanese men, who were generous enough to provide their in-laws with money to buy motorbikes and build houses.

Rumors soon spread and brought on a new trend.

The local government later shifted the locality’s economy and provided auspicious conditions to develop different crafts and farming businesses in order to create more jobs for local women.

Farmers gradually came up with the island’s new specialty produce including plums, mangos, guavas, and various kinds of vegetables.

Several craft villages of weaving, sewing, seafood processing, and fine arts came into being around the same time.

Nguyen Phuoc Thu, the owner of a two-hectare plum orchard who hires some 10 workers a day, is positive that there are plenty of seasonal jobs on the island now, as crops of rice, guavas, and peanuts keep alternating within a year.

“Labor corporations” are formed and recruit between 70 and 80 hands, who are mostly women.

Abundant, well-paid jobs have considerably improved Tan Loc women’s incomes and boosted their optimism about a bright future within reach right in their hometown.

That has also helped deter them from gambling on their life by marrying foreigners and living far away from home.

“I find it much more reassuring to marry a person from the same locality. I can also stay near my parents and relish the plain yet priceless familial and nuptial bliss,” Kim Trinh, a local woman, said.

She added that she is paid over VND100,000 (US$5) for picking plums for some hours, and joins her husband in growing vegetables on their 1,500m² land plot.

Le Thi Kieu Lam, of Tan Loc Ward’s Women Association, divulged that in the past few years, her association has offered free training and kits for embroidery, cooking, and makeup work to some hundreds of women.

Many of them now work for textile companies or earn over VND250,000 ($11.4) per day as seamstresses, Lam added.

The woman noted that over the past several years, she and other members of her association have been active in providing counseling for women who plan to marry foreigners.

“We’re neither supportive of nor against their intentions to tie the knot with foreigners. We mostly supply them with adequate information and sound advice instead and leave the final decisions to them. Fortunately, around eight out of every 10 women who receive our counseling have been put off the insecure prospect of marrying foreigners so far,” she added.

According to Thot Not District’s Women Association, as of January 2015, over 3,000 women in the district were married to foreigners. Among them, 1,680 wed Taiwanese, while 1,198 others espoused South Koreans.

Thirty-two of the 3,000 brides later returned to their hometown for good or are re-married.

“The number of women marrying foreigners tends to be on the steep decline. Previously over 100 women in the district did so per annum, and the figure dropped to only 45 last year. Over 60 percent of local women give up on their dreams of marrying foreigners each year,” said Nguyen Kim Phuong, the association’s chair.

Le Thi Hang was one of Tan Loc Island’s first women to marry a Taiwanese and moved with him to his country 17 years ago.

Hang, now 40, runs a thriving business in Taiwan and is blissfully married with a 15-year-old son.

Over the years, she has sent home quite a lot of money to help her parents pay off their debts, build their current house, and contribute to the construction of bridges and roads in their neighborhood.

Hang, who said she will move back to her hometown later, said that much of the inherent social stigma against women marrying foreigners has now been removed.

Many other Vietnamese brides are not as fortunate as Hang.

In recent years, there're relentless reportings of such women suffering brutal domestic violence and sexual abuse by their foreign husbands and in-laws, with some even losing their lives.

jackbl
02-04-2015, 02:32 AM
Swimming – A must-have skill in Vietnam
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Editor’s Note: Stivi Cooke is an Australian currently based in central Vietnam.

Everyone’s aware of how dangerous the traffic in Vietnam can be. But do you know that between one and 10 children, per day, drown in Vietnam?

It’s an irony that Australians living on one of the driest continents in the world, yet surrounded by 25,000 kilometers of coastline with more than 10,000 beaches, grow up learning the dangers of water and the need to learn to swim well enough to survive in the water.

My mother and my elementary school both insisted on swimming lessons, although swimming is not a compulsory subject in Australian education anymore. Interestingly, official organizations in my country such as the Royal Life Saving Society are calling for the re-introduction of mandatory swimming lessons for all elementary school children.

Vietnam has a 3,260 kilometer-long coastline with hundreds of beaches and 41,900 kilometers of waterways, rivers, streams and so on, so it should place the need to acquire swimming skills squarely in the nation’s curriculum.

It’s not a luxury; it’s a necessity to learn. Interaction with the water in Vietnam for children is a daily activity exposing them to the hazard with little knowledge of how to deal with problems in the water.

Children here cross, wade or walk or take river boats at rivers and creeks to go to school. Many children help their parents with fishery or farming activities next to water reservoirs, tanks and ponds. Heavy seasonal rain in the mountains, flash flooding and occasional urban flooding add to all these risks. Adding to the dangers is the extensive lack of safe, strong bridge crossings for the general rural population.

Water safety is mostly taught as a textbook activity but should be a compulsory rural school subject as well. With few educational resources available or money for swimming pools or paid instructors – the problem remains difficult to resolve or improve without outside assistance.

This brings me to the great work being done by Swim Vietnam, a non-governmental organization founded by Joanne Stewart in 2008. Since its inception, over 9,500 children have been taught to swim, over 150 adults trained as swimming teachers and Swim Vietnam is operating seven swim schools, according to its website. Over 20,000 primary school children have attended Swim Vietnam's classroom-based water safety education presentations.

Swim Vietnam is a shining example of what can be done instead of throwing our hands in the air and imagining the problems are too big to overcome. They also run courses for pool lifeguards, First Aid and CPR, which is an emergency technique to help people breathe and pump blood through their bodies until professional medical help can arrive.

As for the schools – got a teacher who loves swimming? Get them trained with Swim Vietnam!

I’d love to see schools develop coloring-in competitions on water safety or perform a school play based on this theme. How about “Know the water before you swim” T-shirts? It would be fantastic to have swimming safety slogans on kids’ helmets! Media! Where are you? It’s your duty to promote the cause of children being safe too! What do you think? Do you have a good idea that can help spread the lesson?

It’s my own opinion and nothing to do with Swim Vietnam – I’d like to see Vietnamese authorities take a stronger legal and patrolling role in checking and insisting on real fencing, or at least strong barriers, around water holes, retaining tanks for agriculture and industry and especially around construction sites where kids are likely to play in their free time. I know the laws are there yet I feel they should be more strictly enforced.

Parents must be diligent in monitoring and reminding their children about water safety, and adults must warn children against or forbid them from swimming in areas they suspect or know to be unsafe. We must break past the wall of not telling other people what to do, at least in the case of kids not obeying rules in traffic and in this case, playing in areas that parents, police and security guards know to be unsafe.

So speak up, help out, spread the lesson, put up a fence and check on where the kids are and what they are doing.

And above all – have a safe and happy summer swimming and having fun!

jackbl
07-04-2015, 01:58 AM
Vietnam tops Southeast Asia regarding beer, wine consumption growth
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Vietnam ranks first in Southeast Asia in terms of beer and wine consumption growth though its GDP just stands at number eight in the region, according to statistics by the Hanoi-based Health Strategy and Policy Institute.

Vietnamese spend around US$3 billion a year on beer and VND16 trillion ($744.2 million) on wine produced in plants, Vu Thi Minh Hanh, deputy head of the institute, said at a conference on the prevention of the bad effects of beer and wine on Thursday.

The spending on wine was counted on the basis of the lowest price, Hanh noted, meaning that the real number may be higher.

The amount of wine distilled at home in Vietnam is estimated to reach tens of millions of liters a year, and was excluded from the above-mentioned number.

The average consumption of beer and wine in the world has not increased in the last ten years, at around 6.2 liters (using wine as the unit) per capita per annum.

Meanwhile, each Vietnamese person drank an average of 3.8 liters of wine a year in the 2003-05 period, and 6.6 liters in 2010, according to Hanh.

It is forecast that each Vietnamese will drink an average of seven liters of wine in 2025.

Tran Thi Trang, deputy head of the legal department under the Ministry of Health, said at the meeting that alcoholic beverages are directly involved in three kinds of cancer and are indirectly associated with seven other cancers.

Trang added that Vietnam is preparing a law to prevent the ill effects of wine and beer.

jackbl
19-04-2015, 01:44 AM
Vietnam police warn of sex tourism boom as child sex abuse on the rise
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The number of child sexual abuse cases in Vietnam increased 6.3 percent in 2014 from a year earlier, police revealed Friday.

The number of such cases known to police has been on the rise over the last few years, Lieutenant Colonel Khong Ngoc Oanh, from the Ministry of Public Security, told a conference on child sexual abuse in Hanoi.

The event was held by the People’s Police Academy and Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation, a Hanoi-based charitably funded non-governmental organization which aims at improving children’s life.

An estimated 1,500 children are victims of child abuse every year, of which 80 percent suffer sexual abuse, Oanh said, citing police’s statistics.

Last year the number of criminal cases related to child sexual abuse rose 6.3 percent compared to a year earlier, he added.

Most of the perpetrators of sexual abuse cases are children’s acquaintances, neighbors, relatives, or stepfathers.

Some of them keep in touch with children through mobile phones and Internet, while the victims lack experience on how to protect themselves from exploitation.

Blue Dragon Children’s Foundation has protected around 30 boys, most of them are street children abused by perpetrators who are fortune tellers or foreign doctors visiting Vietnam.

The laws on the prevention of prostitution and criminal laws consider prostitution as sexual intercourse between men and women while there’s no regulation to protect boys over 16 years old from sexual abuse.

The lieutenant colonel noted that the problem is the first phase of a sex tourism phenomenon in Vietnam. Although there are only few cases so far, sanctions and prevention measures should be considered to avoid a boom in sex tourism, as has been noticed in some neighboring countries.

However, it is hard to deal with the perpetrators as tourists might leave the country immediately after involving in a prostitution or child sexual abuse case, he added.

Paulaner
24-04-2015, 02:33 PM
Cuoc song myon mau Trai nghiem... Mau den wa roi ... Gio mau xanh canh nuoc bien toi hihi thik

Can anybody help to translate this
Thank you

KangTuo
25-04-2015, 03:40 PM
Cuoc song myon mau Trai nghiem... Mau den wa roi ... Gio mau xanh canh nuoc bien toi hihi thik

Can anybody help to translate this
Thank you

Meaning life can be describe with colors.
Dark days over, bright days come. (Black color over already, blue color come)

Not exact translation as i am only guessing "myon mau trai nghiem"

Hurricane88
25-04-2015, 03:45 PM
Meaning life can be describe with colors.
Dark days over, bright days come. (Black color over already, blue color come)

Not exact translation as i am only guessing "myon mau trai nghiem"

thought you are sexpert and you still need to guess...:)

my guess is

I lead a colourful life...dark days are over...bright days are here which I like...

Paulaner
26-04-2015, 09:35 AM
Thanks Bro

jackbl
26-04-2015, 10:46 AM
Meaning life can be describe with colors.
Dark days over, bright days come. (Black color over already, blue color come)

Not exact translation as i am only guessing "myon mau trai nghiem"

I think your guessing is about there :)
muôn mầu trải nghiệm

RockViet
30-04-2015, 12:05 AM
30.4.1975 - 30.4.2015

ngày 30 tháng 4 năm 1975

Giải phóng 40 năm
Không có gì quý hơn độc lập tự do

解放40年
没有东西贵过独立和自由


Độc lập - Tự do - Hạnh phúc
--- 独立--- 自由 ---- 幸福

jackbl
04-05-2015, 01:34 AM
Take a break, Vietnam!
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I had to laugh reading about some talk that ‘Vietnam has too many holidays!’ I could imagine the growling and grumbling over a few cold beers in an air-conditioned bar while watching football beamed in from half way around the world. Reunification Day was celebrated on Thursday across the land – the final moment when Saigon fell and the north and south were finally one. Considering how hard the vast majority of the people work – I say take the holiday! And buy a hammock!

All my classes have been cancelled this week with students begging for the time off – quite funny that I actually had to teach them how to say, “Bạn nói lại đi! (Repeat again!) ‘Mr Stivi, can we have the week off?’” And my hotel training work too, with great claims of “Teacher, we’ll be busy! Many guests!” That’s odd; I thought tourist numbers were down this year?

Many northerners head off on holidays to places like Hue, Da Nang and Hoi An – the best destinations in the world (really! I live here!), while southerners try to escape the heat heading to the beach cities such as Vung Tau or Nha Trang. I know they are northerners because they always seem to have big, expensive SUVs, sunglasses in cars with tinted windows and fifteen family members crammed in the back with grandma looking out the rear window.

Even for the poorer groups, students and workers it’s a nice break to visit families and friends back in their hometowns. Friendships are incredibly strong here and it’s quite common to remain friends with schoolmates and colleagues you haven’t seen for years or decades. My students often tell me it’s so relaxing to eat mum’s food again and enjoy the peace of the countryside after the pace of study and part-time work.

More than a few of my students also save quietly for months to go travelling to places they’ve never been to. In a country where I’ve frequently met people who have never visited the capital city of their area or the next province, it’s great to see the glow on their faces as they chatter away about travel plans or come back with 300 badly taken photos. I think it’s really amusing that 20 million (I’m guessing) young Vietnamese have cameras and smartphones but no-one ever attended a photography lesson.

Celebrations in my semi-rural area on the edge of Hoi An started already with the usual blast of Jet engine music into the deep purple humid evenings and the movie star spot-lights sweeping the sky for alien spaceships. We have regular shows funded by the local committees for the poorer people who can’t afford to attend the big celebrations or are simply too old or too young to go. I think the shows are a good idea actually. However it’s hard to believe my local loudspeaker announcements of imminent power cuts when those lights stretch so powerfully into the night.

Even though I’ve lived here now nearly seven years I still find it quite fascinating to see the local people hustle quickly to get the rice harvested this year. I saw two carts with some old half-rusted grain thrashers that separate the rice from the plants being pulled by hand past my house by two groups of tiny middle-aged men grinning in the heat. They really need the holiday!

I have no great plans to travel or visit the festivities as I’ve got young puppies to look after (five!) and more writing to do. But that’s OK because I’ll enjoy the holiday in a closer meaning to its true heart – the land and the people.

My street is a messy obstacle course of bricks stacked, sand hills for the cement, gardening and pot making, piles of wood under covers and chickens crossing the road. Everyone here is a house-builder, fence painter; carpenter, farmer and all their kids go to high school and some to university – a hard investment for some families here. One of the families in the street waited for four years for their daughter to finish university before they could save for a big flat screen TV. Yet all the red and yellow star flags are out and folks are starting to slow down.

To me, this is the real reunification, not the marches, speeches and fireworks, simply – a chance to take a break.

A chance to talk to your neighbors and sing karaoke badly, drink some rice whisky in the cooler night air. To welcome home children studying in Ho Chi Minh City and help mum and dad water the growing Tet trees. Smell the mint and lemongrass in perfect rows, watch the chickens grow fatter and flick the television channels a thousand times without really watching while cuddling the kids and feeding the dog. Most importantly of all, not getting up at 5:00 am to kick the motorbike fifteen times before it starts or shout at your cousin to hurry because you’re late for school!

Wherever you are, and whoever you are across this great nation – take a break, you deserved it!

jackbl
08-05-2015, 12:43 AM
Saigon’s soul is not being lost: expat
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Editor’s note: Thad Guyer writes to Tuoi Tre News to “give a little different perspective” into our Monday’s op-ed, where an expat argues that Ho Chi Minh City is becoming a city without a soul after living there for four years.

Read Guyer’s story, which reflects the author’s own view, below and please don’t hesitate to send us yours.

The idea that Saigon is "losing its soul" should be assessed in more than one way.

I agree with the sentiments of the article and comment, but want to give a little different perspective.

A city can appropriate architectural heritage and replace it with modernity without necessarily having lost its soul. Rather, a city can evolve its soul in depth and complexity.

I am an American living in District 4, which is largely untouched by any bulldozers. It is rich in two to four story old homes and buildings. For the most part, the other outlying districts beyond the core center of District 1 are intact.

What is happening in Saigon now has equivalence to Midtown Manhattan or Brickel in Miami, where skyscrapers have replaced some traditional neighborhoods with modernity.

Part of what counts is whether the high-rises themselves have architectural value, as with Shanghai, New York City, Miami or Hong Kong, and I think Saigon's architectural modernity is compelling and exciting.

As so beautifully portrayed in Ken Follet's novel “Pillars of the Earth,” architecture communicates to a population about who they are and where they are heading, whether the structure is a great cathedral or a towering skyscraper.

The Bitexco Financial Tower in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1, in my estimation, has given the younger generation (mediation age 24) in the city a sense of progress, expectation and inclusion in the global order.

The new Saigon skyline along the river is being developed in a way that inspires this generation with hope and confidence that their country, ravaged by world powers 40 years ago, is now being embraced economically by those powers.

In this regard, the government has shown itself capable of ushering in modernization in a responsible manner. That modernization is the key to the economic well-being of coming generations of Vietnamese.

Saigon's soul, in my opinion, is not being lost. It is simply becoming more sophisticated in the highly localized streets of the financial center in District 1.

Thad Guyer

hoian
25-05-2015, 06:42 PM
This thread a bit quiet so I thought I should revive it.

Here is something my friend wrote. I thought it's a very polite and creative way of asking something about my past.

I copy n paste in its original form, see if u can guess what it means:

E nghj khj 2ngu0j da vu0t qua gj0j hang. h0 se k the b0 nhau chu

williamtkk
26-05-2015, 01:17 PM
E nghj khj 2ngu0j da vu0t qua gj0j hang. h0 se k the b0 nhau chu

I am a beginner learner of tieng viet, dont know the meaning, but will try using linguistic and replace :

- j to i,
- 0 to o

E nghi khi 2 nguoi da vuot qua gioi hanh. ho se k the bo nhau chu

hoian
26-05-2015, 01:51 PM
Basically she is asking me if I have had sex with my previous ex before. But she is asking in a more polite and indirect way.

My answer to her was:
La lich su roi e... a chi muon nhin thuong lai...

And her response was: Hj.truj 0j. a cung kheo dung tu wa

E nghi khi 2 nguoi da vuot qua gioi hanh. ho se k the bo nhau chu

Anyway my reason for sharing this is for us to learn TV together and share share. I am still kindergarten level and wish to learn more frm the seniors here.

Another point I am trying to make is... translators only help to a certain extent. The only way to improve (at least for me)...is through sheer practice... TCSS a lot with native speakers who have ZERO knowledge of English. :p

hoian
26-05-2015, 01:56 PM
Vietnam now have their own phone called Bphone. But looking at the specs and price of almost 10 trieu, I think it's rather ex.

I think most VBs will not use Bphones (low status). China-made phones (eg Xiaomi, Huawei, etc) they will throw away cos they hate China. So I guess that leaves us with iPhones and Samsungs. :rolleyes:

http://news.zing.vn/Bphone-gia-tu-999-trieu-dong-post543069.html

Hurricane88
26-05-2015, 02:11 PM
Basically she is asking me if I have had sex with my previous ex before. But she is asking in a more polite and indirect way.

My answer to her was:
La lich su roi e... a chi muon nhin thuong lai...

And her response was: Hj.truj 0j. a cung kheo dung tu wa



so chim...how can asking about 2 person in the past relationship...can be asking if you bonk her...:confused:

E nghi khi 2 nguoi da vuot qua gioi hanh. ho se k the bo nhau chu

La lich su roi e... a chi muon nhin thuong lai...
this is history....I only want to look to future...

Hj.truj 0j. a cung kheo dung tu(thu) wa...
omg...you are quite skillful to make excuses...

hoian
26-05-2015, 02:43 PM
Thanks. This last part had me scratching my head but I figured it out after awhile. Chatting in tv in real time can be quite challenging but it forces one to learn at a faster pace. :)

...Hj.truj 0j. a cung kheo dung tu(thu) wa...
omg...you are quite skillful to make excuses...

jackbl
27-05-2015, 04:51 AM
Basically she is asking me if I have had sex with my previous ex before. But she is asking in a more polite and indirect way.


Sorry to ask further. Did you assume she's asking u about the sex thing ??? From her sentence I can't find anything related to it. So chim leh..... I think I have gone back to square 1. Need further learning. Huhuhu.

jackbl
27-05-2015, 04:55 AM
Thanks. This last part had me scratching my head but I figured it out after awhile :)

What have u figured out? Can share share ?

FireShark
27-05-2015, 08:29 AM
Thanks. This last part had me scratching my head but I figured it out after awhile. Chatting in tv in real time can be quite challenging but it forces one to learn at a faster pace. :)

Me too also no head no tail. This tieng viet look sound chimmmmm

hoian
27-05-2015, 03:37 PM
I am a bit hesitant to give the full context because a bit personal but here goes... the topic was about my past flings... here's what she said which led me to assume what she wanted to know abt my past sexual relationship:

She: E nghj khj 2ngu0j da vu0t qua gj0j hang. h0 se k the b0 nhau chu

She: Anh va co ay da tung quan he voi nhau chua

Me: Told her its been a long time ago ... 3... 4 yrs ago roi...

She: Y a la 3 4 nam la sa0...Moi quan he cua a voi co ay la lich su roi...

Then I start to change topic..

She: Hj. truj 0j. a cung kheo dung tu wa..
(heee... omg... u are clever to evade... not sure if she misspelt "dung tu"...could be "dong tu"??)

Note: I am still learning as I go along. Pls correct me if my assumptions are incorrect. Thanks. :p


Sorry to ask further. Did you assume she's asking u about the sex thing ???

hoian
28-05-2015, 06:57 PM
Learn to speak like a local

Today I hope to share with bros on how to speak like a local. If you refer to phrase books, Youtube lessons etc, they teach the basics.. but seriously... no one on the streets speak in such a formal and structured way.

Let's start with the following. Will add on bit by bit when I have time.

When someone asks you if you can speak tv, a local way of answering is:
Biet chut ít em. (Know a bit, em).

I like to use this phrase to tease someone about enjoying herself without inviting me:
Di choi khong ru. (similar to "bojio" or go enjoy, never invite me..)


... more later...

Jiaolang
28-05-2015, 06:58 PM
Thanks for sharing. Will take note!

jackbl
29-05-2015, 01:06 AM
She: Hj. truj 0j. a cung kheo dung tu wa..
(heee... omg... u are clever to evade... not sure if she misspelt "dung tu"...could be "dong tu"??)

My interpretation is that she praise u are skillful in using words.

vietboy
12-06-2015, 09:38 AM
My interpretation is that she praise u are skillful in using words.


Agreed with prof jackbl. :)

jackbl
14-06-2015, 02:14 AM
Agreed with prof jackbl. :)

Where the hxxx u arised from??? I think your tieng viet now must be very skillful. Everyday also "drink" vietnamese saliva. Hehe

jackbl
14-06-2015, 02:16 AM
Learn to speak like a local

Today I hope to share with bros on how to speak like a local. If you refer to phrase books, Youtube lessons etc, they teach the basics.. but seriously... no one on the streets speak in such a formal and structured way.

Let's start with the following. Will add on bit by bit when I have time.

... more later...

Why are we waiting????? ;) :D

jackbl
14-06-2015, 01:38 PM
Dancers at bars, beer clubs in Vietnam – P1: Their work
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Beautiful women with sexy bodies wear only glittering underwear and dance on elevated platforms.

After drinking beer and wine, guests gathered in big groups whirl around the dancers amid continuously moving colorful light beams and loud music.

This is the common atmosphere at most bars and beer clubs in major cities in Vietnam, which are popular at night.

The job of those sexy dancers is not only to lure guests into dancing but also to ‘entertain’ the eyes of guests with their sexy bodies.

Dancers do not work individually for bars and beer clubs but belong to dance groups, the owners of which have contracts with bars regarding the performance time and the number of dancers they need.

Light job, heavy salary

This is a favorite job of young and beautiful girls since it is well paid even though they do not need to possess good academic certificates.

And the demand for dancers is also increasing thanks to the opening of more bars and beer clubs.

Catching the ‘need of the market,’ some people have set up their own music groups and recruited beautiful women to train them to become dancers.

Dancers are paid by their group owners and are at the disposal of the owners to assign them to any bar or beer club.

The common standards required for a dancer to be recruited include a cute face and appearance and a height of at least 1.6 meters. Those who do not know how to dance will be trained by the owners.

Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper journalists recently disguised themselves to enter a group and learn the ‘true trade’ behind the colorful lights onstage.

After reading a recruitment advertisement in a newspaper, the journalists contacted N., an owner and trainer of a music group in Ho Chi Minh City. N. was previously a professional dancer.

Meeting for the first time at her class, N. glanced at the women’s bodies and decided to allow the undercover journalists to join her training.

Each training session lasted around an hour and N. mainly trained five basic exercises, for example the rhythmic physical movements to music.

The exercises were repeated many times.

At the end of the session, N. told her dancers, “I need you to train diligently so you each will earn a minimum salary of VND9 million [US$414] a month, excluding tips from guests.

“On average you will perform at one or two bars a night and get paid VND700,000 [$32] each.

“I will cover the cost for the performance uniform.”

At the second training session with N., more girls were recruited in. Some did not know how to dance while others worked as disc jockeys (DJs) and danced well.

Quyen, a 20-year-old woman from Tien Giang Province in the Mekong Delta, and her aunt, 22, were two of the newcomers. A student joined the class as well.

Quyen said she works as a DJ at a bar and is paid VND12 million ($552) a month. Her job ends before midnight so she wants to learn dancing to work after that time.

Making even simple motions leaves dancers sweaty and tired.

N. has a total of 30 dancers who are assigned to perform at bars in Ho Chi Minh City and the surrounding provinces.

After only two sessions, N. sent her newcomers out to perform at bars.

The Tuoi Tre journalists also learned that another dancing group is owned by a woman named X.L., who is better known by bar owners thanks to her beautiful dancers.

X.L.’s dancers are at least 1.66m tall and have good looking faces and sexy bodies.

Most of them have had cosmetic surgery on their breasts, bottom, eyes and nose.

On X.L.’s Facebook page she boasts of recruiting dancers with monthly income from VND9 million ($414) to VND18 million ($828) after three months.


The stage

The changing room for dancers at bars is often a small corner in an attic above the bar. This is also where they do make-up before their performance.

The stage for a dancer is actually a small platform some 50cm higher than the dance floor which guests use.

The position and the height ensure that guests sitting at tables are able to see dancers and make them feel like they are dancing with the dancers.

Each dancer is required to dance for three to four periods of time, each lasting ten minutes.

Besides dancers on platforms, guests in bars can also have their eyefuls of the sexy bodies of dancers and talk with girls, who are actually beer waitresses, at every table.

On the elevated stage, dancers do not need to follow uniform acts but can display their freestyle during the ten minutes.

Not only do they dance on the platform, dancers also observe to see if any guest signals at them.

After their performance, they will come to the guests who signaled to smile and drink beer with them, and then talk and take tips.

For dancers, the tips are meant to cover their sweat and work on stage. But it could also be the start of a new relationship.

After performing, every dancer rushes toward water bottles to gulp them down to satisfy their thirst after losing sweat.

hoian
14-06-2015, 02:54 PM
I have a few FB friends who work as DJs in HCMC. Even the DJs need to have sexy bodies and they like to post sexy pics and let their "fans" know where they are performing next. Very competitive industry.

hoian
14-06-2015, 03:11 PM
Today's lesson in TV: Useful phrases.

If your gf asks u when u are cheonging, what about your wife?
You can reply: "Xa mat cach long ma".
Which means "out of sight, out of mind".

Another useful phrase:
A khong giau em (I have nothing to hide from you).
"Giau" is from the word giấu giếm (hide, cover up).

Ranh is another word quite often used which means "free time".
Eg Ranh roi em di mua - Go buy when you are free.

Another phrase:
Dua em ti thoi - I am just joking with you.

jackbl
15-06-2015, 02:48 AM
Today's lesson in TV: Useful phrases.

If your gf asks u when u are cheonging, what about your wife?
You can reply: "Xa mat cach long ma".
Which means "out of sight, out of mind".

Do you meant when you are cheonging, what is your wife doing?

Then she'll reply you this "Nguu tam Nguu, Ma tam Ma"!!! ( Birds of a feather flock together)

jackbl
28-06-2015, 04:30 PM
Don’t let ugly individuals bring Saigon into disrepute: expert
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Saigon should not continue letting its reputation be tarnished by the ‘ugly Saigonese,’ those who see foreign tourists as cash cows and blatantly extort them, a seasoned urban studies expert argues.

Dr. Nguyen Minh Hoa said he did not coin the term “ugly Saigonese,” but learnt it from a Malaysian professor, who is the head of an institute for environmental research and has frequently been on business trips to the southern Vietnamese metropolis.

“Professor Badarudin began using that phrase after being badly treated many times by a few people in Saigon,” Hoa said in a piece sent to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

The Vietnamese urban studies expert used the former name of Ho Chi Minh City in his statement.

He is among many readers who provided feedback on recent Tuoi Tre reports that unearthed scammers exclusively targeting foreigners in the city.

These scammers are coconut peddlers who are willing to charge foreign tourists cut-throat prices, or invite them to pose for a photograph with their ganh – the bamboo yokes hung with baskets at each end used to carry the fruits around – and demand up to VND200,000 (US$10) for it.

A recent undercover Tuoi Tre mission revealed that foreigners are charged by street vendors as much as VND200,000 for two coconuts, which normally cost only VND30,000 ($1.4) at most.

“The professor told me he is annoyed by the xe om [motorbike taxi] and street peddlers almost every time he is in the city,” Hoa said.

“He once had to pay VND2 million [$93] for a taxi ride from the city’s downtown to RMIT University in District 7.”

Hoa said he works at an organization frequently visited by scientists all over the world, most of whom are cheated by Vietnamese cabbies at least once.

“The taxi drivers would drive without resetting the meters, or take our guests on roundabout trips,” he said. “And our female guests always fall victim to the dishonest vendors who sell coconuts, key chains and maps both on the streets and in the markets.”

Hoa underlined that these international scientists will have a negative impression of Ho Chi Minh City thanks to such bad experiences, no matter how the Vietnamese side tries to excuse and explain.

“Even worse, these international guests will share their bad stories with others,” Hoa said.

Hoa himself is a frequent flyer, and he said it is no surprise to see more than 80 percent of visitors to Vietnam never come back.

“There are dozens of warnings about scams, rip-offs and pickpockets in Vietnam on global travel guidance websites or forums,” he said.

“Our tourism authorities have also strived to improve things, but it does not seem to be enough to reassure tourists.”

The power of public voice

Hoa said the ‘ugly Saigonese’ are those who come to Saigon from other localities to earn a livelihood.

Ho Chi Minh City is known as a melting pot, and while some try their utmost to contribute to the city’s development, others only seek to earn money by all means, even through scams and crimes.

“These are the real ‘ugly Saigonese’ who ruin the reputation of this city,” Hoa pressed.

One problem is that laws are not harsh enough to penalize these scammers.

“The question is why such ugly actions do not exist in Malaysia, Singapore, or South Korea but they can easily be found in Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City?” he said.

Hoa said while local residents and tourists cannot bank on the law to have the ‘ugly Saigonese’ penalized, another kind of power should be deployed to “prevent them from bringing the city into disrepute.”

“We should use social attitude and the public voice,” he elaborated.

The expert said the scammers or dishonest peddlers may be discouraged from continuing their acts when they are repeatedly mentioned in the media and condemned, criticized and boycotted by members of the public.

“They will have to review their behavior and actions once their family members, such as parents and children, feel ashamed of what they are doing,” he concluded.

jackbl
01-07-2015, 01:08 AM
He said, she said and culture shock issues from a Vietnam perspective
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Editor’s note: Stivi Cooke is living in Hoi An, a small town in central Vietnam.



A journalist from Tuoi Tre News asked me about people’s reactions to Vietnam once they return to their home countries. She wanted some opinions about a New Zealand teacher’s criticism of Vietnamese life told to a Vietnamese student in the Australasian country.

The Vietnamese student narrated the whole story in Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper in mid-May. In one of his multi-cultural management classes, a teacher who had just returned after two years of working in Vietnam told his students about some habits of Vietnamese people like littering or driving on the sidewalk. Moreover, he said it was “horrible” that Vietnamese put ice in every single kind of beverage they have. The Vietnamese student felt upset, then stood up in the class and said, "I think you need more time to understand Vietnamese culture. Every country has its own social issues and I believe that it's not appropriate to make fun of such things in a multi-culture management class.”

The student then wrote a letter to the school’s deputy rector, saying after two years of living in New Zealand, he understands every country has its own social issues, and no place is perfect. “We cannot judge a culture because it’s different from ours,” he wrote. “There’s nothing hard to understand that people in a tropical country like Vietnam put ice into drinks to cool down their body temperature.”

The school’s deputy principal stood on his side and held a meeting where the teacher apologized to the students. The teacher expressed that he should have used “surprising” instead of “horrible” to describe things.

I told our intrepid journalist a little bit about ‘culture shock’. She asked me to write some more about this and what I thought about the teacher/student incident.

Many people who live and teach in another culture suffer 'culture shock' and automatically measure the new culture against their own country. This teacher only told their side of the story and I don't think the teacher really understood that some bad things happen simply because Vietnam is still a developing country. For example, electricity is expensive in some places so drinks are not stored cold. Littering is an issue of responsibility to the environment which we only learn from school or great parents. Since the teacher apologized, that should be the end of the story.

I used to think that many things were terrible like pissing next to the road but now I'm so used to it that it doesn't really worry me - except the traffic. The ice in the drink is unimportant and the littering is not everywhere so that's really not that true either. The teacher seemed a little bit arrogant to me.

Culture shock is a strange thing. It’s a little bit like grief when someone dies. Everyone has a different reaction. It’s the reaction you get when you are in a foreign country and everything is different and you struggle to make sense of what happens around you. While tourists get a mild dose of this – they can return home so the impact is not lasting.

For expats like me, living a long time in a foreign culture can be quite stressful until you get used to the food, the customs, the way of life and huge distance between their thinking and your thinking. You would be quite surprised how people quit and go home while others take to a foreign culture without any great problems.

I remember arriving in Hanoi around midnight in the summer heat of 2006. I was travelling with an Australian guy who wanted to meet a friend in Hoi An. Our trip to the hotel was like suddenly being thrown into the middle of a typhoon – people roaring past on old motorbikes so close that I could have shaken their hand – the overwhelming smells of food piled high on the bikes and the wall of noise surrounding us.

My friend freaked out and swore all the way to the hotel. We found a restaurant that was open very late next to a street corner and watched Hanoi’s traffic insanity over some cold beers and a good steak. He vowed to stay indoors until we got to Hoi An and never left his room while we were in Hanoi.

But I loved it. The next day I was all over town – the lake, the mausoleum, the French quarter – on a cyclo, a three-wheeled tourist bicycle. Later in Hoi An, I just fell in love with Vietnam for reasons that I still, after seven years of living here, don’t fully understand.

Yet it has never been easy here. The daily frustrations of communication and getting your needs met begin to eat away at your patience and your tolerance of local habits. Things start to become ‘black and white’ – that’s good, this is terrible, I hate it when Vietnamese do this or that, why can’t they think like me, it’s simple to me and impossible to them... the list of irritations can be mind-boggling.

A pet hate (something people like to complain about a lot) was Vietnamese shaking my hand with wet hands. My god, I think... why? Why don’t they dry their hands? Don’t they know about diseases? Another thing that really got under my skin was the apparent inability to admit that something is wrong, incorrect or that they made a mistake. It didn’t take me long to understand that two hands shaken in the air means “I don’t know but I’m not saying anything.”

Yet I learned to live with the differences by trying to understand – ask questions – why do you do this or that? Also I took the time to think about what life is like from a Vietnamese point of view – the need to be practical yet at the same time focused completely on what they are doing at that particular time, not the effects on the people around them. It starts to make sense then.

The New Zealand teacher had lived in Vietnam for two years and was reporting back to the class impressions of life in Vietnam when the Vietnamese student (who had also lived in New Zealand for two years) took offence, complained to the rector of the school and asked for an apology from the teacher.

Everyone judges or measures the life around them. We can’t help that – it’s part of what makes us human. As I see it, both the teacher and the student are a bit hypocritical for picking only the negative parts – but to be fair – what the teacher said was GOOD about Vietnam wasn’t reported.

Then there’s the issue of thoughtfulness. Should the teacher have been more careful about what was said? Should the Vietnamese student have made such a fuss about it?

As an Australian, I do hear comments from time to time about how awful Australians can be when we travel – mostly as young backpackers, rather than more worldly-wise folks. I’m used to it and I sometimes agree. So this is the point of view to me – everyone has the right to complain... and to be offended... however, demanding that one person say sorry is sometimes too much unless there was genuine malice in the comments by the teacher.

And as for the student? Well, it’s not so unusual to hear complaints about a country, any country, and it is part of becoming wiser to let some comments slide rather than make a scene about it.

The simple truth is that the good and the bad of anything are things we love to comment on. So I’d say to both of them...

Get used to it. And learn to live and let others live.

hoian
01-07-2015, 03:31 PM
Just to keep this thread alive.
Anyone understands this phrase?

Em khong muon anh hua leo nua.

84978
01-07-2015, 04:25 PM
Nice sharing bro jackbl

jackbl
02-07-2015, 01:40 AM
Anyone understands this phrase?

Em khong muon anh hua leo nua.

Yes Sir! Why?

hoian
02-07-2015, 03:09 PM
Wow u are so proficient in TV. It took me awhile to figure out.

Em khong muon anh hua leo nua.
Means: I don't want you to make empty promises.

Hua - promise
Leo - I guess it's from the phrase "leo cay" which means "fly aeroplane".

PS: Pls correct me if I am wrong.


Just to keep this thread alive.
Anyone understands this phrase?

Em khong muon anh hua leo nua.

Yes Sir! Why?

Hurricane88
02-07-2015, 03:21 PM
Wow u are so proficient in TV. It took me awhile to figure out.

Em khong muon anh hua leo nua.
Means: I don't want you to make empty promises.

Hua - promise
Leo - I guess it's from the phrase "leo cay" which means "fly aeroplane".

PS: Pls correct me if I am wrong.

to me...it means...

I dun want you to make anymore promises

hoian
02-07-2015, 07:16 PM
I just check with a native speaker... "empty promises" is correct. :p

to me...it means...
I dun want you to make anymore promises

jackbl
03-07-2015, 01:14 AM
Em khong muon anh hua leo nua.
Means: I don't want you to make empty promises.

PS: Pls correct me if I am wrong.

Good work!!

jackbl
05-07-2015, 04:26 PM
Expats love to discuss scams, not Vietnam traditional arts: insider
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Editor’s note:­ Michael Tatarski, our English language editor, expresses his thoughts on topics he thinks Tuoi Tre News should focus on, and those that should receive less attention, as he congratulated the news website on its fifth birthday on Thursday last week.

Congrats to Tuoi Tre News on the 5th birthday. Overall I think Tuoi Tre News does a good job.

I really like the stories that highlight people doing good things here, especially as a lot of expats seem to be quite negative, even though they chose to live here.

For example there was a recent story about an old teacher helping to educate kids for free in central Vietnam – stories like that are good to see.

It's important to cover uglier stories as well, but I like that there is a balance between the two.

I also like the stories about parts of society you don't normally see, like the photo essay on coal miners the other day. I've heard about coal production in northern Vietnam but that's the first time I've ever seen pictures of it.

Saigon is so flashy that I think sometimes people forgot that other parts of the country are still very poor or have to do very dirty work to make a living. That doesn't mean there needs to be a ton of stories about poor people, but just about other parts of society.

Any story that looks into scams or other annoyances, especially in Saigon, is good. There was the series about the coconut vendors, and there are plenty of people like that to investigate. These are the types of things that expats love to discuss and share.

If you were to run a story about a xe om (motorbike taxi driver) who purportedly keeps robbing people you would gain a lot of new readers. It's good that there have been multiple articles criticizing problems with visas, as that is a huge problem for people here.

There are also some stories that I don't really think are appropriate for a foreign audience. For example, pieces about old styles of Vietnamese music or theater, etc. A few people may find this interesting, but most expats don't care because they are fading out and we never come across them. If Vietnamese aren't interested in them anymore, we certainly won't be.

Also, one note about some of the posts I've seen from the Tuoi Tre News Facebook page - it's better not to post things like “OMG!” with a story, as people might not take it seriously. That's fine for Buzzfeed or some sort of gossip site, but I think Tuoi Tre News should be more professional. I know stuff like that is trendy but not everyone likes it.

Anyway, those are just a few thoughts. Like I said, overall you guys are doing a really good job, and I enjoy seeing what comes through my inbox every day – the stories have definitely helped me gain a deeper understanding of Vietnam. Good luck with the future!

jackbl
01-08-2015, 01:07 AM
Wanted in Vietnam: Good-looking English teachers. What?
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As we get closer to the start of a new academic year, the advertisements for native English speaking teachers are on the rise, particularly outside the five main cities. The ads are a strange mix of promises too good to be true and schools in dire need of someone, anyone...SOON.

All promise some mix of a good salary or hourly rate, accommodation and teaching hours – sadly few actually mention assistance with working permits, one-year visas or health and police checks. I hope the law changes in the near future to put the responsibility and liability on the hiring schools to complete the legal paperwork, as South Korea and Japan do, often through hiring companies. It’s good to have dreams, hey?

Then there’s that great ad – the one that really catches your eye with bad spelling, wild promises (free accommodation on the beach – what...a tent?) or those mad requirements – must have ten years of experience in teaching kids (I’d go mad...) or worse... must be ‘good-looking’. Oh... and under thirty five years old.

Now as much as I admire good looking people for that certain healthy glow that I absolutely hate because I don’t like exercise – it’s rather discriminatory, isn’t it?

During the last two to three years there has been the controversy of hiring teachers from the Philippines for what was claimed to be better wages than teachers from the West. The suggestion that they would never be as popular or as professional as Western educators was also disturbing, as was the notion that they didn’t ‘look’ Western enough.

Gee, thanks a lot. I’m 57 years old with 25 years of experience. Tragically – yes, I’m crying into my beer as I write these words…not good looking enough, as the wrinkles grow around my eyes, my chin begins to sag and my hair is a fabulous mix of George Clooney ‘salt and pepper’ and the last remains of beach boy blonde.

Sure, all my students say I’m very handsome, but I’ve been telling them for years to go to the eye doctor.

The issue also confronts older women, teachers over fifty and fat people too. How discriminating are local English centers willing to become in the heated contest to grab market shares and student dollars? Quite a lot, it seems. The stories are everywhere on Internet forums of disappointed, experienced teachers losing out to younger, more ‘hip and groovy’ backpackers waving freshly printed CELTA certificates in front of 21-year-old recruiters who can barely understand your English.

I imagine sometimes before I go to sleep that one day there will be a MATURE certificate, Mega Awesome Teacher Utilizing Real English, which will bring equality to the level A, B and C English classrooms of Vietnam and sweep away the British teachers with their 50 different accents and the Americans (12 to 15 accents) and leave the way clear for Australian teachers with just one accent across the 3,000 kilometers of the land down under. Canadians, however, have one of the best English accents in the world – they are often good drinkers too.

So dear academic centers – consider my lonely voice of protest – hire good, ugly teachers! We do the job better, quicker, funnier, more practically and without all those horrible golden smiles. Please write a new advertisement:

Wanted: Good Teaching Person – Must Have MATURE Certificate...

hoian
02-08-2015, 04:57 PM
Vietnam’s rush to develop risks damaging its natural attractions

New resorts, cable cars and casinos threaten unspoiled landscapes as tourism sector struggles to balance modernisation and development with conservation

Fred Trinh sometimes closes his eyes and pictures the lane that drew him to Phu Quoc in 2011 – a double row of palm trees, barely concealing the sea, meandering down a red dirt road. But the 39-year-old Vietnamese-Canadian businessman opens his eyes again and reality crashes in. He can barely see that road through the shantytown of migrant workers drawn to the island’s reckless resort boom.

“The first time I came back, I marvelled at its coastlines and just how beautiful, raw and natural it was,” Trinh says of the island in the Gulf of Thailand. “Now bulldozers are cutting up this raw beauty to make it into something more recognisable to tourists – familiar global hotel chains and resorts.”

Continue reading here...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/01/vietnam-tourism-rush-development-conservation

pting
06-08-2015, 02:14 AM
Lately was in HCM short trip, force to engage in vietnamese language with a FL using message. Lucky with the help of a friend to translate, totally catch no balls for me. Quite a interesting vietnamese conversation for newbie so i share it.

Me: E co ranh ko
(Are you free)

Her: a qua duong XXX dja chj 811 ks XXX nhe
( can u come to street XXX address 811 hotel XXX)


When i reach hotel, i sms her.

Me: a dang o KS XXX, neu e ranh thi a se di lay ph
( I am at hotel, if u still free then i will book room)

Her: a dj ly ph dj.
( you quick go book a room)


After i get a room & msg her

Me: a lay ph roi, e den ph 202 gap a nhe
( I book room already, come room 202 meet me ok?)

I dont handle the language well, just copy and paste the message for learning and sharing.
Sorry to those Viet expert will be boring conversation.

hoian
07-08-2015, 07:45 PM
Nothing wrong with yr tv. Can understand. So did she turn up?

U could have added... e ko leo cay nhe, phai tra tien ma (dun fly aeroplane ya... have to pay money). :p

Lately was in HCM short trip, force to engage in vietnamese language with a FL using message. Lucky with the help of a friend to translate, totally catch no balls for me. Quite a interesting vietnamese conversation for newbie so i share it.

jackbl
07-08-2015, 09:29 PM
U could have added... e ko leo cay nhe, phai tra tien ma (dun fly aeroplane ya... have to pay money). :p

U need to rephrase your sentence for easier understanding. ( she thought she need to pay u if she didn't come) :D

pting
15-08-2015, 01:56 AM
Nothing wrong with yr tv. Can understand. So did she turn up?

U could have added... e ko leo cay nhe, phai tra tien ma (dun fly aeroplane ya... have to pay money). :p

Yeah she did turn up. For me, better to keep it simple.

ph4rox
29-08-2015, 09:31 AM
Dear sifus,

My very close friend managed to view a chat log of his soon to be viet wife to her close friend.

Need help to translate the meaning

Chuyen lam card no cug co tu noj voj e, noj ky gjay roj no se co gag lam card cho e.

e cug ko muon lay no dau,nhung h lay moj dc o day nen thoj ke vay, ko DJ woc nhung o Lau lam cug do hon o vn roj moj lan wa cug Kho.

h no keo ke me no, mjh doc o day mjh lam cug dc.

Thoj e DJ tam.


Many thanks..

volcano
29-08-2015, 04:23 PM
Dear sifus,

My very close friend managed to view a chat log of his soon to be viet wife to her close friend.

Need help to translate the meaning

Chuyen lam card no cug co tu noj voj e, noj ky gjay roj no se co gag lam card cho e.

e cug ko muon lay no dau,nhung h lay moj dc o day nen thoj ke vay, ko DJ woc nhung o Lau lam cug do hon o vn roj moj lan wa cug Kho.

h no keo ke me no, mjh doc o day mjh lam cug dc.

Thoj e DJ tam.


Many thanks..


wish ur friend gd luck

the gal marry ur friend so that she is able to stay in Sinkie as ur friend say will apply "card" (shld be LTVP) for her.

say ur friend poor but none of her business,she can ownself go work.

ompramapood
30-08-2015, 02:46 PM
Any kind bro can help me translate?
http://i.imgur.com/inFkxMN.png

Thanks in adv.

FireShark
31-08-2015, 02:56 PM
wish ur friend gd luck

the gal marry ur friend so that she is able to stay in Sinkie as ur friend say will apply "card" (shld be LTVP) for her.

say ur friend poor but none of her business,she can ownself go work.

Agree; simply this vb just wana to work in Singapore after getting the LTVP. Tell your frd better stop thinking of marrying her. She is just using your frd as stepping stone.

miumiu6464
08-09-2015, 03:24 AM
Can sifu here help me to translate this message:


A cung lon tuoi roi .cong viec bay gio cua a no cung duoc on dinh .e thay a nen nghi ve viec ket hon .sao nay cuoc song gia dinh . hanh phuc .vui ve hon khi a ở mot minh.

Khong ai muon minh
That bai ca . Tu cong viec cung nhu trong hon nhan .va cung khong ai hoan hao ve moi mac .hon nhan a do vo .e ngi khong ai ma te hai lan .


Background

Met this girl in a bonk house in jb, and chatted a bit during the session. Today added her to my wechat, talked a bit about my job. Then she suddenly sent me the above message. But, without the symbols, it's kinda difficult for TV novice like me to decipher...

Can sifus here kindly help please.

Thanks...

Kennytcp
08-09-2015, 10:58 PM
Hi anyone knows where to find viet FLs?

profx
08-09-2015, 11:35 PM
I not sifu but will try to simplify the meaning, some sentence dont understand so i skip or guess the meaning.....hope other help to explain better....

A cung lon tuoi roi .cong viec bay gio cua a no cung duoc on dinh .e thay a nen nghi ve viec ket hon .sao nay cuoc song gia dinh . hanh phuc .vui ve hon khi a ở mot minh.

You are not young already, your job is stable, I feel you should think about having a family, then you will be more happy than when you are single.

Khong ai muon minh
That bai ca . Tu cong viec cung nhu trong hon nhan .va cung khong ai hoan hao ve moi mac .hon nhan a do vo .e ngi khong ai ma te hai lan .

Nobody want fail in their marriage or job, though your marriage did not work out, i think not everyone fail twice.


Can sifu here help me to translate this message:

deptrai4u
12-09-2015, 07:35 AM
Nobody want fail in their marriage or job, though your marriage did not work out, i think not everyone fail twice.


Yah lor , people usually fail more than twice.... hihi.. Some has made it into habit and continue to fail...:D

blahzzz
14-09-2015, 09:20 PM
I've just took a step further with a VB and she posted this.. I've tried both google translate and vdict but getting different results. Can any kind TV master assist with a translation?

Yêu ai chớ cứ yêu hoài
Sống dai mới biết yêu nhiều hại tim

Hurricane88
14-09-2015, 09:37 PM
I've just took a step further with a VB and she posted this.. I've tried both google translate and vdict but getting different results. Can any kind TV master assist with a translation?

Yêu ai chớ cứ yêu hoài
Sống dai mới biết yêu nhiều hại tim

My try...:)

Yêu ai chớ cứ yêu hoài
Love anyone not love forever

Sống dai mới biết yêu nhiều hại tim
Live long then only know love more harmful to heart

blahzzz
14-09-2015, 10:58 PM
My try...:)


Thanks bro H88!
This girl so scared to love..

xeon2
19-09-2015, 03:16 PM
Hi pple, I am a newbie here and hope some kind bros can help me on the below translation. Troubled by this as my gf went out and not contactable till 4am after this conversation with her gal fren.

Gf: co ji ko chi? k co khach ha
fren:
Ah c đang ngôi k
tửi dat 2 ng a ơ mỹ ve ru c ra choi
co minh c ru Anna
Với đua bạn cung dc

C dang ơ quan ngôi k xong rui. ghe choi c
Chút di gold 11h tui nó vô trươc
Đi di có minh c ah
Hqua 10 thăng minh c

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Moderator88
19-09-2015, 04:14 PM
This is a very good forum!:)

ciwilover
13-10-2015, 04:08 PM
xjn chao a e, e moi chi noj dc tjeng vjet chut chut hay xjn a e gjup do e :)

jackbl
14-10-2015, 04:15 PM
You can even write in short-form now. Where got need anyone to help u???!!! :D

HornyKingKong
14-10-2015, 08:55 PM
Brothers,
dont mind.
may i post this beautiful Viet song for yr easy listening pleasure.
ENJOY!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSDBwSWw5Ug

BeverlyCrusher
14-10-2015, 09:04 PM
This is a nice song good job

HornyKingKong
14-10-2015, 09:57 PM
SORRY
SORRY

bUMP To activate subscription.

FireShark
15-10-2015, 01:01 PM
Brothers,
dont mind.
may i post this beautiful Viet song for yr easy listening pleasure.
ENJOY!

Hi

There is a link to post Vnese Song here

https://www.sammyboyforum.com/showthread.php?t=140708&page=43&highlight=vietnamese+song

jackbl
14-11-2015, 11:26 PM
Brothers,
dont mind.
may i post this beautiful Viet song for yr easy listening pleasure.
ENJOY!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSDBwSWw5Ug

Good posting! The song comes with English translation. Good way to learn vietnamese too. Also got pretty vb to see ;) :D

jackbl
14-11-2015, 11:36 PM
My fav song of Khac Viet. Vietnamese lyrics with English translation:

Chi anh hieu em
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KtZhWvYhOHg

HornyKingKong
15-11-2015, 12:30 AM
Hi

There is a link to post ]

Bro,
Sorry for my mistake,
noted with thanks.

glad Other Bros like the song. Thks!...:p.

jackbl
15-11-2015, 01:56 PM
glad Other Bros like the song. Thks!...:p.

Yeah! Got 1 song similar to the one you posted, with many vb in the MV,:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NJl6mbzDwxY

HornyKingKong
15-11-2015, 02:13 PM
Bro Jackbl,
thks, from same Vietnam Music Revolution.
Yes, nice song & Nicer VB heehee.

:p

jackbl
16-11-2015, 12:48 AM
A song introducing the country Vietnam:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aJujwLyNn18

jackbl
16-11-2015, 11:57 PM
It's a bit boring but I wanted to bring to you the National Anthem of Vietnam :D

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SceSkkRtC2s

jackbl
18-11-2015, 01:08 AM
A funny song but easy to pick up :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7DeSmd50rxc

jackbl
19-11-2015, 12:19 AM
Young emerging singer to represent Vietnam at 2015 MTV EMAs
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A young, emerging Vietnamese singer has officially become the representative of Vietnam to take part in the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards, which will be held in Italy, MTV Vietnam announced on Monday.

Son Tung M-TP, a Vietnamese singer from the northern province of Thai Binh, will represent the country to compete with other international artists in the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards 2015, to be held in October in Milan.

Fans were allowed to vote for their favorite artist in a poll by MTV Vietnam from August 17 to 23. The final results were released one day later.

This 21-year-old singer has surpassed other famous local contestants, including Bui Anh Tuan, Dong Nhi, Giang Hong Ngoc, Hoang Thuy Linh and Trinh Thang Binh to enter the next round.

“I hope that my Vietnamese fan will continue to support me,” Tung said, adding that he has to prepare for the next round, in which contestants among ASEAN countries will compete with each other.

The MTV EMAs are aired on more than 60 MTV channels in different countries, which are watched by over 700 million households the world over.

jackbl
19-11-2015, 12:24 AM
Song from the singer above:

Chac ai do se ve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XeYKXoK4WY

FireShark
19-11-2015, 01:26 PM
Young emerging singer to represent Vietnam at 2015 MTV EMAs
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A young, emerging Vietnamese singer has officially become the representative of Vietnam to take part in the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards, which will be held in Italy, MTV Vietnam announced on Monday.

Son Tung M-TP, a Vietnamese singer from the northern province of Thai Binh, will represent the country to compete with other international artists in the 2015 MTV Europe Music Awards 2015, to be held in October in Milan.

Fans were allowed to vote for their favorite artist in a poll by MTV Vietnam from August 17 to 23. The final results were released one day later.

This 21-year-old singer has surpassed other famous local contestants, including Bui Anh Tuan, Dong Nhi, Giang Hong Ngoc, Hoang Thuy Linh and Trinh Thang Binh to enter the next round.

“I hope that my Vietnamese fan will continue to support me,” Tung said, adding that he has to prepare for the next round, in which contestants among ASEAN countries will compete with each other.

The MTV EMAs are aired on more than 60 MTV channels in different countries, which are watched by over 700 million households the world over.

Currently he is one of the hottest singer in Vn and he had a lot of advertisement ads.

jackbl
20-11-2015, 08:50 AM
Ang mo sing vietnamese song

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=me0dsJsWefo

webdust
20-11-2015, 10:16 AM
Actually it seems like Viet girls that come Sinkieland work(apart from those married local men one), all working in vice related activities. That's what I have observed, anyone can relate to?

jackbl
21-11-2015, 01:51 AM
Currently he is one of the hottest singer in Vn and he had a lot of advertisement ads.

Song from Son Tung M-TP

Em cua ngay hom qua

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-YPuuLBWC7s

blk437
21-11-2015, 01:28 PM
Đây là lần thứ 2 biết thế nào là cảm giác rung động với một người. Rung thì rung chứ bất cần nhé hahaha ( hình như cũng chẳng biết iu thật lòng là gì, ai làm tui iu thật lòng zùm cái đi 😂)
Hi. Can some expert help ? What's the meaning of this?

jackbl
21-11-2015, 03:33 PM
Dreaming of corruption-free Vietnam

Editor’s note: Do Thi Minh Thuy, 60, visualizes Vietnam as a corruption-free country in the next two decades in her submission to the “Ky Vong Viet Nam 20 Nam Toi” (“My Expectations for Vietnam in 20 Years”) writing contest.
I dream that streets in my neighborhood would no longer be congested and polluted and under the grip of horrendous, fatal traffic accidents.
The dream could have come true, as a street with an investment worth billions of dong was opened to traffic, to residents’ elation. Their exaltation was short-lived, however, as not long after the inauguration, the street experienced serious sinking, with its concrete and asphalt protruding and creating treacherous potholes.
I dreamed of being tended to at hi-end hospitals boasting a team of dedicated, skilled medical staff. However, the multiplication of testing results plunged me into despair.
As Dr. Nguyen Thi Bich Hong said, “No one imposes taxes on dreams, but dreaming must be accompanied by actions and the best efforts.”
So I just keep dreaming. I now dream that in the next two decades, the city would no longer have streets being repeatedly dug up, as some members of the project management board have pocketed part of its earmarked funding.
I also dream that everyone would land a job with stable income and not fall prey to labor brokers, or be disadvantaged by those with good relationships. State-owned companies would no longer cause whopping losses due to their incompetent staffers and officers who use bogus degrees or hire someone else to complete their studies.
I dream that there would no longer be legal cases involving former civil servants who are linked to the underworld. No investigative officers would cause miscarriage of justice to citizens, and no teachers would receive bribes in return for good marks.
In a nutshell, all these dreams are feasible if they are not shattered by bribe-taking “pests,” who help retard the country’s growth, contaminate moral standards and undermine residents’ faith in the State and the Communist Party of Vietnam.
State President Truong Tan Sang acknowledged that such “pests” are corrupted by money and land. Corruption is currently a thorny problem. In 2014 alone, 256 cases and 593 defendants were uncovered and indicted, with losses totaling up to thousands of billions of dong.
I still hold a conviction and cherish hopes that such depraved officials would be eliminated from society in the next 20 years.
Let’s act together
The combat against corruption is an intense, challenge-packed fight indeed. However, nothing would be impossible with concerted effort from the entire society.
It’s about time each of us joined the State and the Party in such combat, and devised an urgent action plan.
+ As for civil servants and Party members:
State officials and Party members are all supposed to be corruption “terminators,” and set shining examples for people. They should also train themselves to stay immune from tempting offers of personal gain, and keep a watch on one another to prevent offenses.
They also need to strongly condemn bribing, not turning a blind eye to violators and giving them the penalties they deserve.
State officials must also be fully conscious of their capacity and not try to cling onto their positions at any cost, causing losses for the country and people.
For instance, there are State employees who do not go to university, but use fake degrees to receive salaries intended for those with a university education, or advance to higher positions. Such acts would certainly lead to corruption and require tough penalties.
+ As for the State:
The State should take good care of its officials and staffers with salaries and bonuses in accordance with their abilities and overall expense levels.
The State should recruit or promote personnel depending on their own abilities, not on their relationships. The practice of recruiting children of officials at agencies, irrespective of their abilities, should be scrapped. This practice has adversely impacted agencies’ work performance and may lead to neglect of duty.
The administrative agencies should also tighten their management and inspection so as to detect wrongdoings and deter violators.
For instance, in places where house construction is not permitted, a number of State officials take bribes and turn a blind eye to illegal construction.
The government should also encourage and guide locals to engage in the combat against corruption, as people are the government’s “spies.” It takes joint efforts to triumph over corrupt officials. The government should also provide proper protection and rewards for whistleblowers.
+ As for people:
People should be wary enough not to fall prey to corrupt officials and inadvertently become bribe givers. Once, after I registered for a temporary residence record, a civil servant told me to pay the fee for a residence book. I gave him a banknote of VND100,000. He took it and thanked me. I later found out that others paid a mere VND10,000 for a book like mine. I then realized I had unwittingly given a bribe.
People should also properly exercise their right to be a “master.” They should make wise, prudent decisions when it comes to selecting representatives during elections.
Citizens should also be brave and resolute enough to denunciate bribing.
I believe that if all of society joins hands, corruption would be eradicated in 20 years’ time.
We dream and take actions to the best of our ability, which is key to realizing our dreams.

jackbl
22-11-2015, 01:32 AM
Đây là lần thứ 2 biết thế nào là cảm giác rung động với một người. Rung thì rung chứ bất cần nhé hahaha ( hình như cũng chẳng biết iu thật lòng là gì, ai làm tui iu thật lòng zùm cái đi 😂)

No expert here. Using translator.

This is the 2nd time heart feeling stirred by someone. Dun give a damn about it hahaha (apparently did not know what love truly is, can someone help make me truly in love)

blk437
22-11-2015, 04:16 AM
Thanks bro jackbl.

jackbl
22-11-2015, 08:05 PM
Song from Son Tung M-TP

Am tham ben em
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o4XrUEKnZmk

jackbl
23-11-2015, 07:22 AM
To bikini or not bikini on Vietnam beaches?

I love seeing attractive women in bikinis at the beach – I really, unashamedly do.

Da Nang’s recent tourism proposal has raised eyebrows and lowered a few jaws. City officials’ claim that there are too many people in pajamas at the beach is sadly true, and deeply upsetting to us Westerners, used to a more cosmopolitan sense of fashion. For example, if I had known before coming to Da Nang that this was the situation, I’m sure I would have decided to live in Hai Phong.
It’s a similar phenomenon to the one where women on motorbikes wear jackets, hats under helmets with long sleeve gloves, sunglasses and pattern designs that must have come straight from the most boring designer in China. The invisible woman anyone? It gives me headaches, eye strain and the need for a strong whisky. So yes please, more bikinis at the beach!
What really distresses expats like me are the old cut-off jeans and T-shirt combinations. I cannot see how orange and purple go together, nor for that matter, violet and yellow text on a pink background. Would someone please teach the Chinese garment gurus the color wheel? It’s an ‘eyesore’ – something that is ugly – and offensive to my artistic sensibilities. I feel as if I should run away and look at renaissance paintings just to get my breath back.
Pajamas on the beach to me are a mark of poverty. One should give them enough money to go shopping in Big C. Think of how much energy you would save by washing a tiny bikini compared to soggy pajamas with sand stuck to the material. No, no – pajamas are for children at bedtime, not the 24/7 fashion parade that is Da Nang society.
Trashy clothes are downright dangerous at the beach too. Jeans and T-shirts absorb too much water and become heavy enough to exhaust swimmers quickly. Also, I wonder how many young women realize how much a wet T-shirt reveals when a bikini could hide so much more.
In a population with such poor awareness of water safety, the banning of such clothing would be a very good thing. Many teenagers and adult Vietnamese men now wear Lycra or Polyester swimwear which is strong and doesn’t absorb much water, while also drying out quickly. Long sleeve versions of this swimwear are good for kids who need more protection from the sun’s ultra violet light too.
All that being said, locals could just as easily complain about the appearance of foreigners at Da Nang beaches. I often stare in horror at obese, middle-aged foreigners going for a swim when they should really be in hospital on a forced diet of fresh air and Vietnamese tea. Tragically, bikinis and the like often only serve to prove that Western culture is in steep decline.
I also support bikinis on the beach for the mental health benefits of looking at great women lying in the sunshine and enjoying happy waves. It inspires me to know that people are clearly fit, healthy and having a great time. I come home with a big smile on my face just thinking about it.
Bikini mania would be a boost to the local tailoring industry too, employing more people to cut even tinier bits of material to sell at booming market prices. Discover your friend is wearing the same bikini as you? Horror! No problem, run up the beach to the nearest bikini stand and return hotly original and eye-catching for all to see. It’s a win-win for everyone surely.
All up, I have to say that this is a progressive move towards modernizing tourism and bringing the fashion of Rio and Paris to the pristine sands of central Vietnam.
So yes please, more bikinis at the beach

jackbl
24-11-2015, 07:45 AM
Song from Son Tung M-TP

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJkIlN8dWl4

FireShark
24-11-2015, 10:12 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJkIlN8dWl4

Why suddenly all crazy about this Singer Song Tung.

jackbl
24-11-2015, 08:04 PM
Song from Son Tung M-TP


Tro ve noi do
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8EHRq6mK-og

jackbl
24-11-2015, 11:39 PM
Brothers,
dont mind.
may i post this beautiful Viet song for yr easy listening pleasure.
ENJOY!

Inspired by your posting, I decide to post songs with viet+Eng sub so that people can learn vietnamese as well :)
Hope it helps! If not you have to learn from the source :D

jackbl
25-11-2015, 01:27 PM
Song from Son Tung M-TP


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zef0eqwOFZU

jackbl
26-11-2015, 06:05 AM
My fav song of Khac Viet. Vietnamese lyrics with English translation:
Anh khac hay em khac
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=66I6jX-QDIA

jackbl
26-11-2015, 10:25 PM
My fav song of Khac Viet. Vietnamese lyrics with English translation
Ngo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM7QkKtTm4I

jackbl
27-11-2015, 02:12 PM
Nguoi co don
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiSKpgvhaDk

jackbl
28-11-2015, 08:10 AM
In Vietnam, debate underway over whether sex buyers should be named and shamed


A debate has broken out over a recent proposal by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs that the names of sex buyers should be revealed as a measure to deter them from resorting to sex services still considered illegal in Vietnam.
The ministry has also suggested that their buying sex should be informed to the places where sex buyers are working and the authorities in the localities where they are living.
The ministry said that the current fines, from VND500,000 (US$22.2) to VND10 million ($440), applied to sex buyers are still low and thus cannot prevent them from repeating their acts.
Therefore, publicizing the names of sex buyers should be considered an official administrative punishment inflicted on them, with a view to driving back prostitution, the ministry said.
Sex work is unlawful and regarded as a social evil in Vietnam.
Advocacy vs. opposition
Numerous readers of Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper have expressed their consent to the publication of sex buyers’ names, saying that “once having their names publicized, sex buyers would not have the guts to come to prostitutes again.”
Pham Thi Thuy, a sociologist, also supported the proposal.
“This is the best way to drive back prostitution that is affecting public health and familial happiness. Under certain circumstances, only strong measures can help steer sex buyers away from sex services,” Thuy said.
However, the biggest challenge to the proposal is how to implement it effectively, she added.
“Vietnamese people respect social relationships very much. They therefore can publicize the names of some sex buyers while covering up others’, depending on each rapport,” she elaborated.
There may be a situation in which sex buyers will have their names made known to the public if they are ordinary people and will have them kept in secret if they are in certain positions, the sociologist further explained.
Meanwhile, many other Tuoi Tre readers have argued that such measures would not be helpful but they could result in consequences.
“Naming and shaming sex buyers would probably bring about an adverse effect on individuals, their families and even the entire society,” a reader said.
Instead of publicizing the names of sex buyers, many other measures should be considered, including subjecting them to public labor.
People’s names should be publicized only when they have committed criminal crimes such as drug trafficking.
“In my opinion, the publication of sex buyers’ names may lead to circumstances in which they bribe law enforcement officers so that they would not disclose their names,” Tran Le Nguyen, a reader from Ho Chi Minh City’s Go Vap District, said.
Nguyen also emphasized that the first thing to be dealt with is whether or not the acts of buying and selling sex should be banned.
Worry about law conflict
Lawyer Ha Hai, from the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association, said that the proposal can lead to a law conflict.
“If the proposition is accepted, it will contradict the law, especially the Constitution,” lawyer Hai said.
Citing Article 21 of the 2013 Constitution, the lawyer said, “Everyone has the right to inviolability of their private life, personal and family secrets; and is entitled to protect their honor and reputation. The security of information about private life, personal or family secrets shall be guaranteed by law.”
“Some people reckon that the publication of sex buyers’ names is a lawbreaking act, but they still consider this a necessary move to combat prostitution,” Huynh Phuoc Hiep, another lawyer, said.
However, it will be a serious mistake to promulgate an unlawful regulation to curb prostitution, he noted.
Lawyer Pham Thanh Binh remarked that sex buying or selling is an administrative violation that should not be treated criminally, and therefore the names of the sex buyers are advised not to be publicized.
People engaging in sex buying should not be considered criminals except for cases in which they purchase sex from minors, lawyer Binh said.
He advised that lawmakers should carefully consider the possible consequences of such name publication.
“It may cause unforeseeable social consequences. There were circumstances in which people committed suicide after the names of their fathers were revealed as sex buyers,” the lawyer warned

jackbl
28-11-2015, 04:28 PM
Anh muon quay lai
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tTHT6O5ZWjU

jackbl
29-11-2015, 12:59 AM
87 percent of Vietnamese women admit to being sexually harassed: survey


Eighty-seven percent of women in Vietnam experience sexual harassment at least once in their life yet many refuse to look for help, according to findings of a national survey on domestic violence.
The statistic was announced by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Representative in Vietnam Ritsu Nacken during a policy forum on sexual violence against Vietnamese women and young girls in Hanoi on Wednesday.
The event was organized to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which is observed annually on November 25, by the UNFPA, in cooperation with the Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
The day was designated by the United Nations General Assembly under Resolution 54/134 to raise awareness of the fact that women around the world are still subject to rape, domestic violence and other forms of violence.
Eighty-seven percent of Vietnamese women have been sexually harassed in public, and 58 percent of married women in the country reportedly experience either physical or sexual violence from their spouses, Nacken said, citing findings from the national survey.
However, the majority of victims do not seek help due to a lack of social services that are designed to support them in such cases, experts said at the forum.
Many also choose to stay silent after experiencing abuses as they fear criticism and discrimination from the community, they added.
Vietnamese convention unintentionally contributes to the alarming increase in violence against women, Deputy Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam was quoted by newswire Dan Tri as saying.
Many measures to prevent it from happening and to advocate gender equality were suggested at the forum, including employing media to raise public awareness of sexual violence, encouraging victims and the community to raise voices against crimes against women, establishing social services specializing in helping the victims, and amending the law to bring offenders to justice.

Wendella
29-11-2015, 10:19 AM
Hey would this be an ok place to ask for a bit of translation help? My go-to guy for quick translations of difficult texts has disappeared on me suddenly.

Any help would be appreciated.

I guess I'll just include it here in this post rather than wait for an ok, if it's not ok then just ignore it.

OMG... Di lam k dc bao nhieu tien.:~ mà con bi chot nua.:+ minh co song ac voi ai dau. (
thoy T nhin de coi thu ban bay dở tro meo nao ra nua 8-)..
Ip

I get some of it but there's a lot that is obscure to me.

jackbl
29-11-2015, 10:45 AM
OMG... Di lam k dc bao nhieu tien.:~ mà con bi chot nua.:+ minh co song ac voi ai dau. (
thoy T nhin de coi thu ban bay dở tro meo nao ra nua 8-)..
Ip

I get some of it but there's a lot that is obscure to me.

Tell me what u get some of it then I try on my part. As many people say I'm using copy-and-paste so allow me more time on online translators. :D ;)

Wendella
29-11-2015, 11:36 AM
Tell me what u get some of it then I try on my part. As many people say I'm using copy-and-paste so allow me more time on online translators. :D ;)

this is the part I'm most curious about...

thoy T nhin de coi thu ban bay dở tro meo nao ra nua

I think we need someone really familiar with how young people here use sms slang too -- google translate has no clue what that last part means, unless it really means: Woven T nhin de considered bad fly ash collected ban musty sort of old ;-)

Thanks

jackbl
29-11-2015, 01:37 PM
I have asked another vb what that sentence meant. She also dunno. Need to know the context and the person writing the sentence must write with correct spelling and sentence construction. Hehehe

jackbl
29-11-2015, 06:10 PM
this is the part I'm most curious

Thanks

If u can understand 1st part then you already have basic standard liao. Dun think too much on 2nd part. Maybe she write too chim liao

levine
29-11-2015, 07:38 PM
what's the best translator (app or online) around?
best if can copy and paste to message on phone

Wendella
29-11-2015, 08:00 PM
If u can understand 1st part then you already have basic standard liao. Dun think too much on 2nd part. Maybe she write too chim liao

I'm not Singaporean, I dunno what chim liao means.

See, here is the thing. That post is in Zalo from the day she met me. I'm wondering if the 'musty and kind of old' is about me. 2nd part is important. First part is not. ;)

FireShark
29-11-2015, 09:29 PM
I'm not Singaporean, I dunno what chim liao means.

See, here is the thing. That post is in Zalo from the day she met me. I'm wondering if the musty and kind of old' is about me. 2nd part is important. First part is not. ;)

Chim = difficult to understand

KangTuo
29-11-2015, 10:24 PM
I have asked another vb what that sentence meant. She also dunno. Need to know the context and the person writing the sentence must write with correct spelling and sentence construction. Hehehe

2nd part link to 1st part.
if know 1st part, can guess meaning of 2nd part.

KangTuo
29-11-2015, 10:32 PM
OMG... Di lam k dc bao nhieu tien.:~ mà con bi chot nua.:+ minh co song ac voi ai dau. (
thoy T nhin de coi thu ban bay dở tro meo nao ra nua 8-)..


part 1
work but don't earn much yet always let other disturb. I didn't even do bad things to other.

part 2 (my guess)
forget it. Let's see what other bad game you will come out with.

hope I am somehow correct as I have not been polishing my tieng viet for months :)

jackbl
29-11-2015, 11:12 PM
part 2 (my guess)
forget it. Let's see what other bad game you will come out with.

hope I am somehow correct as I have not been polishing my tieng viet for months :)

Yes you are right. No polish still can guess correct.

jackbl
29-11-2015, 11:17 PM
hope I am somehow correct as I have not been polishing my tieng viet for months :)

Today u made me changed my view of your tieng viet level. Hahaha.

Thought u are only good in conversational vietnamese but the sentence above made me impressed by your Reading Skill too :)

Wendella
29-11-2015, 11:54 PM
part 1
work but don't earn much yet always let other disturb. I didn't even do bad things to other.

part 2 (my guess)
forget it. Let's see what other bad game you will come out with.

hope I am somehow correct as I have not been polishing my tieng viet for months :)

wow, I did not expect it to be this meaningful.

Looks like 2nd part has nothing to do with me after all.

She's out of that bad situation now. She never admitted to me it was that bad, but I guessed it probably was.

smallplayer
30-11-2015, 12:10 AM
part 1
work but don't earn much yet always let other disturb. I didn't even do bad things to other.

part 2 (my guess)
forget it. Let's see what other bad game you will come out with.

hope I am somehow correct as I have not been polishing my tieng viet for months :)

I also thought u only polish your hand grabbing.
New stock arrival at our old joint...Some may suit your hand size.
They may need polishing

hoian
30-11-2015, 12:14 AM
Northern accent. :)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tTHT6O5ZWjU

KangTuo
30-11-2015, 08:32 AM
Yes you are right. No polish still can guess correct.

lucky guess only :)

KangTuo
30-11-2015, 08:34 AM
Today u made me changed my view of your tieng viet level. Hahaha.

Thought u are only good in conversational vietnamese but the sentence above made me impressed by your Reading Skill too :)

reading and interpreting is part of my job leh :)
no practice conversation skill for long period liao... speak more chinese to my bx.

KangTuo
30-11-2015, 08:36 AM
I also thought u only polish your hand grabbing.
New stock arrival at our old joint...Some may suit your hand size.
They may need polishing

si bei bo eng polish hand grapping or tongue twisting liao.
let all the guys who are free to do the polishing ba.

jackbl
30-11-2015, 08:50 AM
reading and interpreting is part of my job leh.

Now you become vietnamese interpretator or u translate vietnamese book to English book? :D ;)

jackbl
30-11-2015, 08:52 AM
let all the guys who are free to do the polishing ba.

Let me know Where the place. I ask other people to go there support :D

Wendella
30-11-2015, 09:27 AM
Northern accent. :)
Actually Quy Nhon, a bit north of Nha Trang

Wendella
30-11-2015, 09:30 AM
lucky guess only :)

Thanks so much for your help on this one.

jackbl
30-11-2015, 09:54 AM
Actually Quy Nhon, a bit north of Nha Trang

From the song, u actually know where the singer is from???

jackbl
30-11-2015, 09:55 AM
Northern accent. :)

For most of the songs the pronounciation is Northern accent. Capital is Hanoi, northern vn.

Wendella
30-11-2015, 10:45 AM
From the song, u actually know where the singer is from???

Sorry no, I meant the girl I met in that club, the one you guys helped me translate.

smallplayer
30-11-2015, 11:45 AM
si bei bo eng polish hand grapping or tongue twisting liao.
let all the guys who are free to do the polishing ba.

is it now ICA more lax..so every morning now go near your workplace piak piak..
no time for anything else.
Sniper also busy...report strength overseas...
think mus jio jio soon nhe

"life is short - u only got 1 dick. Go figure how hard to play"

KangTuo
30-11-2015, 10:04 PM
Let me know Where the place. I ask other people to go there support :D

The place is ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVXYZ

KangTuo
30-11-2015, 10:06 PM
is it now ICA more lax..so every morning now go near your workplace piak piak

Hiaz... should be 4-5 months no do rounding there liao.

jackbl
01-12-2015, 08:05 AM
Song from Khac Viet
Den khi nao
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hnuJs8seYYA

jackbl
02-12-2015, 10:03 AM
Song from Khac Viet
Loi Hua
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-rAGuVl5eQw

VIETLONER
02-12-2015, 10:07 AM
Nice Song. I like Vietnam and their song very much.

jackbl
03-12-2015, 12:30 AM
Song from Khac Viet
Anh nhan ra
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eDYNF6_13VQ

jackbl
03-12-2015, 10:39 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DaqpwJ237IU

jackbl
04-12-2015, 08:40 PM
Nhu vay nhe
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OnQ5QwWFCkU

Wendella
05-12-2015, 12:10 AM
SOmeone just asked me about this PM he got from a danchoi girl:

Da gjo e dag ket k roj a

Context:

He SMSd her "em co ranh khong?"

she replied "ai?"

he gave the website password

then she replied as above

My bad translation attempt is that at this time she's finished working.

Hurricane88
05-12-2015, 12:12 AM
SOmeone just asked me about this PM he got from a danchoi girl:

Da gjo e dag ket k roj a

Context:

He SMSd her "em co ranh khong?"

she replied "ai?"

he gave the website password

then she replied as above

My bad translation attempt is that at this time she's finished working.

She said she ended working for the day...:)

Next time start early around 11am onwards...usually quit around 9 to 10pm unless her regular clients...:)

Wendella
05-12-2015, 09:20 AM
She said she ended working for the day...:)

Next time start early around 11am onwards...usually quit around 9 to 10pm unless her regular clients...:)

Thanks much.

Obviously some of them replace letter i with letter j often.

Are they doing same replacing letter h with letter k? I was guessing ket meant het. That's right?

btw this wasn't for me, it was a guy who PM'd me asking for help with it.

KangTuo
05-12-2015, 10:15 AM
SOmeone just asked me about this PM he got from a danchoi girl:

Da gjo e dag ket k roj a

Context:

He SMSd her "em co ranh khong?"

she replied "ai?"

he gave the website password

then she replied as above

My bad translation attempt is that at this time she's finished working.

my guess is that her reply is to his last msg where he send her a website password.

she is saying 'yes, now I am linking up to the site'

NoImbecile
05-12-2015, 01:32 PM
Following up on the messages (thank you, W), I got the following message set:
Me: Em co ranh khi nao
Her: Aj vay
me: Web password
Her: May Gjo A
Me: Bay Gio
Her: A dag o dau, Nay gjo dt e het tjen

I lost her meaning on the last one. Any help appreciated

jackbl
05-12-2015, 04:30 PM
Da gjo e dag ket k roj a


My bad translation attempt is that at this time she's finished working.

My guess: Yes now I'm tied up(busy) not free.

jackbl
05-12-2015, 04:31 PM
Me: Bay Gio
Her: A dag o dau, Nay gjo dt e het tjen

I lost her meaning on the last one. Any help appreciated

Where are you now? Just now my phone run out of money.

KangTuo
05-12-2015, 10:23 PM
My guess: Yes now I'm tied up(busy) not free.

expert tio si expert lah

jackbl
06-12-2015, 12:07 AM
expert tio si expert lah

I checked dicktionary one leh. Spent few hours lor. If the others also check I think they will find the answer.

jackbl
06-12-2015, 12:31 AM
what's the best translator (app or online) around?
best if can copy and paste to message on phone

I used a few. Lac Viet dictionary, vdict.com and Google translate.

KangTuo
06-12-2015, 12:53 PM
I checked dicktionary one leh. Spent few hours lor. If the others also check I think they will find the answer.

different dicktionary liao...
I check dicktionary also. spent few minutes nia
ket = link, so my interpretation

Hurricane88
06-12-2015, 01:12 PM
different dicktionary liao...
I check dicktionary also. spent few minutes nia
ket = link, so my interpretation

I knew the gal is engaged with client...usually if gal still keen to take on more clients will just ask the client to book a room and sms her the room number...only takes 15-20mins to service a client and max 30 mins...:)

the fact gal said tied up at around 9-10pm means she is not keen to work anymore and ended the day...:)

jackbl
06-12-2015, 01:20 PM
different dicktionary liao...
I check dicktionary also. spent few minutes nia
ket = link, so my interpretation

My dicktionary has slow respond. Sometimes check instant reply. Sometimes check long reply. Sometimes even no reply. (Page not found) :(

Wendella
06-12-2015, 10:04 PM
Ok here's one...
Conversation with a girl who I am pretty sure is out of town. I asked...

I: em o dau?

She: E ve que moi toi ne met muon luon
(Guess: she has gone for some nights.. Tired want always? -- the gist is she's out of town, I guess)

I: Ok. Em den HCM khi nao?

She: E ve hai ba ngay e len roi
(Guess: I go 2 or 3 days -- I left (HCM) already)

Hurricane88
06-12-2015, 10:09 PM
Ok here's one...
Conversation with a girl who I am pretty sure is out of town. I asked...

I: em o dau?

She: E ve que moi toi ne met muon luon
(Guess: she has gone for some nights.. Tired want always? -- the gist is she's out of town, I guess)

I: Ok. Em den HCM khi nao?

She: E ve hai ba ngay e len roi
(Guess: I go 2 or 3 days -- I left (HCM) already)

E ve que moi toi ne met muon luon
I went back province home just reached very tired

E ve hai ba ngay e len roi
I went back 2 3 days and I go back hcm

Meaning - she is with a bf or a carrot for the night and not keen to take you as client...just my 2 cents worth

Wendella
06-12-2015, 10:23 PM
E ve que moi toi ne met muon luon
I went back province home just reached back hcm very tired

E ve hai ba ngay e len roi
I went back 2 3 days and I am back hcm

Meaning - she is with a bf or a carrot for the night and not keen to take you as client...just my 2 cents worth

This doesn't actually make sense in the context cuz we met up yesterday daytime and she told me she was driving 5 hrs to the countryside (or 5:00 evening, not totally sure). Sorry I didn't include that necessary bit of background.

This one isn't P4P, not for me at least.

Thanks

jackbl
06-12-2015, 10:38 PM
This doesn't actually make sense in the context

I think u some how or rather understand the sentence. With context u know whether a translated sentence is correct or wrong. :)

Hurricane88
06-12-2015, 10:38 PM
This doesn't actually make sense in the context cuz we met up yesterday daytime and she told me she was driving 5 hrs to the countryside (or 5:00 evening, not totally sure).

This one isn't P4P, not for me at least.

Thanks

Corrected as above...:)

jackbl
06-12-2015, 10:41 PM
She: E ve que moi toi ne met muon CHET luon

I go back hometown just reached. Tired until want to die. She missed a word.



She: E ve hai ba ngay e len roi

I go back hometown 2-3 days I will back to hcmc

Wendella
06-12-2015, 10:45 PM
Ok thanks again to both of you.

A few weeks back she had sent me a message that said she LEN NGAY MAI-- which was right when she had quit her job and then left to go to countryside for a while.

Wendella
07-12-2015, 11:24 AM
thớt có linh thớt vào phán cho 1 tiếng nào...calling all viet language experts, whats this mean..it was posted after i posted something in my terrible vietnamese on a viet versian of sbf

Me I have no idea (cutting board cutting board :D ) but suggest you also add whatever you posted before this to give some context.

I learned this the hard way here just last night.

profx
07-12-2015, 11:40 AM
Does it mean, "Admin, please said something"
thớt có linh thớt vào phán cho 1 tiếng nào...calling all viet language experts, whats this mean..it was posted after i posted something in my terrible vietnamese on a viet versian of sbf

TomMaffo1ter
07-12-2015, 03:29 PM
thớt có linh thớt vào phán cho 1 tiếng nào...calling all viet language experts, whats this mean..it was posted after i posted something in my terrible vietnamese on a viet versian of sbf

I asked a Viet she also not sure.

linh thớt - ko hieu?

thớt - THIS WORD cannot find in dictionary.

jackbl
07-12-2015, 10:38 PM
I asked a Viet she also not sure.

linh thớt - ko hieu?

thớt - THIS WORD cannot find in dictionary.

I asked 2 Viet. They also dun understand. My level too low to understand.

解铃还须系铃人

jackbl
08-12-2015, 11:00 AM
actually i know or suspect the meaning, and adding what i posted isnt relevant, i posted taht i went looking for some place but couldnt find it...i just wanted to TEST people here...ps i replied to you latest pm

I failed the test. Can release the answer?

profx
08-12-2015, 02:18 PM
It is translated by 2 vietnamese student, not myself. But the viet students who help me with this translation are not sure if they are correct too.

Nothing to be embarrass when come to learning, whenever someone ask for help, if we are unsure, we use the word "I try", most of them did not claim they are able to translate everything. We try and we learn.

Profx is the winner, not sure if its his own vaocab, asking a viet or using a dictionary, but the exact translations is "Threadstarter have soldier ( follower) TS (enter) and please answer (raise voice)", tho jackbl is a close second in terms of abiliity, all the other "supposed" experts are all bad to the point they embarrass themselves when they offer translations imo

TomMaffo1ter
08-12-2015, 02:36 PM
It is translated by 2 vietnamese student, not myself. But the viet students who help me with this translation are not sure if they are correct too.

Nothing to be embarrass when come to learning, whenever someone ask for help, if we are unsure, we use the word "I try", most of them did not claim they are able to translate everything. We try and we learn.

If Viet uni grad born in Vietnam cannot translate then what you expect from those who are not native born.

I agreed with you that there is nothing wrong to try translate and post here. Anyway nobody claimed to be expert.

profx
08-12-2015, 02:46 PM
You not tired playing clone games? :rolleyes:

If Viet uni grad born in Vietnam cannot translate then what you expect from those who are not native born.

I agreed with you that there is nothing wrong to try translate and post here. Anyway nobody claimed to be expert.

jackbl
08-12-2015, 03:01 PM
all the other "supposed" experts are all bad to the point they embarrass themselves when they offer translations imo

I think if give context to the sentences many will be easier to understand.

oxygen99
08-12-2015, 03:58 PM
I have always wanted to find and fxxx those hot viet syt, any bros know where to find such girls?

TomMaffo1ter
08-12-2015, 04:09 PM
You not tired playing clone games? :rolleyes:

We are the same person if you dun know.

I can send you my 2 uni certs to prove that.

TomMaffo1ter
08-12-2015, 04:10 PM
I have always wanted to find and fxxx those hot viet syt, any bros know where to find such girls?

I am the best in Vietnam and sure can get pretty girls. Unless you have any to exchange with me otherwise dun pm me.

NoImbecile
08-12-2015, 08:20 PM
3rd time lucky hopefully:

Me: Em C Ban Khng
G: Sao ak ( I was lost on this one, but following my tutor's suggestion of when in doubt,...)
Me: website password
G: Da

Now Google is stumped on this, which leaves me in the same situation.

As for my homework, I'm slowly working through this thread and tryin to compile a myself a handy reference (I don't expect much success even after getting the whole list together)

profx
09-12-2015, 12:44 AM
Ok after double confirmed with another vietnamese.
"thot co linh" does not mean "TS have soldier"

Have "linh" just how they express situation like "talking about that person and he appear immediately" (Speak of the devil).
In this case probably the TS just posted this topic and someone came in immediately to write about it so thereby "TS have linh" (thot co linh)

The rest is as per what TomMAffolter mention, since someone posted, they called "TS pls come and answer"

Not sure is it correct but thanks TomMAffolter for sharing. :)

Profx is the winner, not sure if its his own vaocab, asking a viet or using a dictionary, but the exact translations is "Threadstarter have soldier ( follower) TS (enter) and please answer (raise voice)",

jackbl
09-12-2015, 11:12 AM
3rd time lucky hopefully:

Me: Em C Ban Khng
G: Sao ak ( I was lost on this one, but following my tutor's suggestion of when in doubt,...)
Me: website password
G: Da

Sao ak = Why huh?
Da = yes

Wendella
09-12-2015, 06:57 PM
If Viet uni grad born in Vietnam cannot translate then what you expect from those who are not native born.

I agreed with you that there is nothing wrong to try translate and post here. Anyway nobody claimed to be expert.

Tom how were you able to get a good translation of that one?

jackbl
11-12-2015, 08:05 AM
Hay la chia tay

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wQIEvyJ3BCk

jackbl
11-12-2015, 11:26 PM
Yeu lai tu dau

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oA6T-7ohUNs

jackbl
12-12-2015, 01:43 PM
Another vn song with eng sub

Neu nhu anh den

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JVIFH-bmRj8

jackbl
12-12-2015, 11:08 PM
Chinh la anh

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G1GcTHyS1S4

jackbl
13-12-2015, 09:09 AM
Malaysian tourist recounts cabby cheat in downtown Ho Chi Minh City

Editor’s note: Y.L. and her family have recently fallen victim to a scam taxi driver in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City, who has “a professional trick” to distract his passengers and steal their money.
In this piece sent to Tuoi Tre News, the Malaysian recounts her incident to “prevent more tourists from being victimized” as well as stop unscrupulous people from “tainting the name and image of the country."
This year is my fifth consecutive year visiting Ho Chi Minh City.
I have returned so many times because I like the food in Vietnam and I met nice and friendly Vietnamese people on my trips.
However, what I have encountered on this last trip may hold me back from returning to the city.
I have always been warned of taxi scams in Ho Chi Minh City and been advised to only take the two more reliable taxis, Vinasun and Mai Linh.
I have been taught by my friend who lives in the city how to identify fake Mai Linh or Vinasun taxis, including incorrect telephone numbers or misspelled company names, etc.
Unfortunately, bad luck struck me on December 1 at 10:00 am when my family and I boarded a Vinasun taxi right outside the Saigon Central Post Office.
I checked that it was a real Vinasun taxi, as it stated the correct phone number, 38.27.27.27, and also noted that the cab had a notepad, a new device recently installed in all Vinasun cars.
As it was my last day in Ho Chi Minh City, I had lowered my guard, which I now regret. I usually take note of the driver's name and taxi identification number but this time, my family and I paid only brief attention to the driver’s name and the taxi ID.
Upon reaching our destination, Ben Thanh Market, the driver hurried my parents and I who were seated in the back to alight. He was rude. My parents got out, but I remained because I wasn’t sure if he would harm my husband or just drive him away.
As the meter showed a fee of VND27,000 my husband was about to give him VND30,000 but the driver was reluctant to accept the money and started taking out a newspaper over my husband's hands and wallet.
He wrote "27" on the newspaper (as if we could not read it from the meter). My husband took this to mean he wanted small change so he looked for smaller notes in his wallet. The driver became even more impatient and took the newspaper out again to cover my husband's wallet and hands. We found it suspicious so we shouted at him.
After the commotion, my husband managed to take out VND26,000 and to our surprise, the driver accepted the money and quickly released my husband's seatbelt, demanding that we alight as if he had picked the wrong passenger who made him suffer a loss in fare.
We alighted, but just before we could close the taxi door properly, the driver drove off.
After the taxi left, my husband felt suspicious over what had happened, checked the money in his wallet and found at least VND1.5 million was gone. We clearly remembered that we had three VND500,000 bills and we had just lost them in seconds.
The driver managed to grab about VND1.5 million from my husband's wallet by using the newspaper to cover it and distracting us with an argument. He had clearly performed the fraud before as he was fast and did it without us noticing.
We then walked back to our hotel and got the hotel staff to accompany us to the police station to make a report.
Unfortunately, the police officer refused to take our statement and asked us to go to another police station. All in, we visited two police stations but we were told that we could not lodge a police report because the police do not serve tourists.
Upon returning from my holiday, I contacted Vinasun and the company sent me pictures of some taxi drivers to identify and I managed to identify the driver who robbed us.
With the help of some graduates of the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), who were outside the Saigon Central Post Office taking their graduation pictures at the time we boarded the taxi, I managed to ask for one of their pictures, which has the taxi in its background.
The taxi identification number is similar to what I have remembered.

Vinasun told me that this taxi driver had been sacked in 2014 and he had colluded with other cabbies in multiple cheating cases.
Many cases have been reported but I was told that the police won’t take any action because the victims are tourists. There is not enough evidence to arrest him.
This part puzzles me - why should such a thief still be allowed to go around Ho Chi Minh City without any action against him?
How can he still be in a Vinasun uniform? How can he still be colluding with Vinasun's taxi drivers in performing all these robberies when many incidents have been reported?
I share this story to create awareness to readers of this scam which could happen to anyone, especially tourists.
This man will continue to repeat the act because no action has been taken against him thus far.
The incident has definitely left a bad impression on my parents who visited Ho Chi Minh City for the first time in their life, and it has definitely taken my trust away from a supposedly reputable taxi company.

jackbl
13-12-2015, 07:04 PM
Another victim of scam taxi in central Ho Chi Minh City speaks out

Editor’s note: Paul Threlfall gives another account of what appears to be a ring of fraudulent taxi drivers targeting foreign tourists in downtown Ho Chi Minh City.
The Australian and his wife were conned out of a few hundred Australian dollars by a dishonest taxi driver in September, in a case similar to that of Malaysian tourist Y.L., as he recounted in this story sent to Tuoi Tre News.
On the morning of September 22, we took a Mai Linh taxi from the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica to Ben Thanh Market.
Upon arrival, we offered the taxi driver VND100,000 for the VND23,000 taxi ride. He said he did not have change so we said that would be OK, and that he could keep the change for a tip. He refused and wanted the right money.
There was then much fussing about it by the taxi driver with our envelope which contained both Vietnamese dong and Australian dollars, and we thought he was trying to help us and get the exact money for the fare.
Then a large amount of the money spilled out of the envelope onto the floor of the taxi, so I was busy trying to recover my money. After a minute or two, he accepted the 100,000 dong and we got out of the taxi and he departed.
It was then that we discovered that 300 Australian dollars was missing, and it was too late to do anything because the taxi had left.
We were very unhappy that we might have been robbed. We have been to Vietnam many times and this is the first time we have experienced dishonesty.
We then thought we might go back to the Notre Dame cathedral and ask if a woman in green uniform (who was there when we hailed the cab and who we thought was a police officer) might remember the taxi driver who took us to Ben Thanh.
The woman called her male colleague across and they did remember him and not only that, pointed out that the taxi was parked across the road.
These green-uniformed people and I confronted the taxi driver, who later pulled out five AU$50 notes from his pocket and passed them to me.
I asked about the six AU$50 notes held together by an elastic band but he insisted only five notes were found in his taxi.
There is no way I can verify that he 'found' the money, but I have my suspicions that the AU$300 was secretly put in his pocket during the earlier confusion in his cab.
My wife and I really appreciate the assistance these officers gave us, without which we would have been AU$250 poorer.
We hope that this man and woman, who have assisted a couple of elderly Australians with their positive and very helpful manner, will be recognized and rewarded by their seniors.
I also hope my story can help warn tourists about some dishonest taxi drivers.
Again, I am sorry that the police did not take any action.
But this will not stop us visiting Vietnam in the future.

jackbl
14-12-2015, 08:11 AM
Tips to avoid scam taxi in downtown Ho Chi Minh City

There are several scam taxis in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City that only pick up foreign passengers, and it is strongly advised that foreigners look for help from a green-uniformed team when it comes to hailing a cab.
A Malaysian tourist and an Australian couple this week shared with Tuoi Tre News accounts of how they lost cash after falling for relatively similar tricks employed by two different scam cabbies in the downtown area.
The bad news? They were not the only victims.
A common trick these scammers use is insisting they be paid what the taxi meter shows, even though the foreign passengers offer generous tips.
The passengers will thus have to take out their wallet to find money, which is not an easy task as they are not familiar with Vietnamese banknotes.
Then, the cabby will try to create a messy situation to distract the tourists from their wallet and steal their cash without them even noticing.
In the case of Y.L., a Malaysian tourist, the fake Vinasun taxi driver used a newspaper to write down the amount of money he wanted to be paid and showed it to her husband, while the paper was in fact used to cover his hands stealing VND1.5 million (US$70) from him.
Aussie Paul Threlfall, in the meantime, dropped some of his money onto the scam Mai Linh taxi floor after the driver tried to grab his envelop, where he kept the banknotes. The cabby quickly took AU$250 ($182) when he was busy collecting the bills back.
Y.L.’s husband offered to pay VND30,000 for a VND27,000 ride, whereas the Australian tourist generously gave VND100,000 even when the meter showed only VND23,000. But in both cases the drivers refused to take the gratuities.
“The driver who robbed Threlfall had previously targeted another foreign couple with a similar ploy,” Ho Ngoc Dat, a member of a team in charge of assisting and guarding tourists in the city’s downtown, told Tuoi Tre News.
Dat is the man who helped Threlfall find the scam taxi driver and got back his money.
The Australian thought he was helped by a police officer, but Dat is actually a member of the ‘tourist guard’ team, managed by Thanh Nien Xung Phong Co., a city-based public service provider.
The team members wear green uniforms and stand guard in front of popular attractions in the downtown area, ready to help foreign tourists.

“The dishonest cabby [who defrauded Threlfall] always targets foreigners, and he drives more than one fake taxi,” Dat revealed.
“Today he will be a [fake] Mai Linh driver, and tomorrow he’d disguise himself as a Vinasun cabby.
“Police officers are kept informed of his cheating.”
Asked to be separately seated
Both Y.L. and Threlfall managed to have photos of the taxis that defrauded them, which show they were victimized by two different scammers.
The Australian tourist, in a separate email sent to Tuoi Tre News, also described another trick by such fraudulent taxi drivers.
“I think there are some taxi drivers in Ho Chi Minh City who try to separate wife and husband into front and back seats to cause confusion and argument to distract passengers,” he told Tuoi Tre News.
Before stealing Threlfall’s cash, the scam Mai Linh driver asked him and his wife to sit separately, and the couple was told to do the same when they flagged down another cab after the incident, which helped them realize it was indeed a trap.
“After our experience with the taxi driver from Mai Linh, we looked for another taxi to take us back to our hotel,” he recounted.
“We waved down one outside the Saigon Central Post Office, and the driver indicated that I should get into the front seat and my wife into the rear, just like the bad driver we had at the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica.”
Realizing it was a ‘bait’ similar to what he had previously undergone, Threlfall refused to sit as he was told, and got into the back seat with his wife.
“It was at this point that the driver made indications with his car key that he could not start the cab and that we should get out and hail another taxi,” he said.
The couple eventually got out of the cab, only to see that “ten seconds later the car 'magically' started and drove off without us.”
Dat, the tourist guard, eventually helped him hail an authentic cab.
Seek help from tourist guards
Dat said his teammates know clearly which taxi drivers are dishonest, so it is recommended that foreign visitors request assistance from the team.
“After helping Threlfall get back his money and flag down a taxi, I told the dishonest driver not to continue swindling foreign tourists as it just ruins the image of the city,” Dat said.
The tourist guard revealed that fraudulent taxi drivers usually offer to give the team ‘coffee money’ to ignore them, but they will never accept it.
“I hate dishonesty so I always keep a close watch to be able to provide help on time,” Dat said, explaining why he could easily help the Threlfalls to find the driver who had cheated them.
“I just do my job to keep the image of this city a beautiful one.”
Thanh Nien Xung Phong Co. says on its website 60 percent of the tourist guards can speak English, so visitors will have no problem asking them for help.
“We are tasked with protecting foreign tourists when they are disturbed by street vendors or overcharged by xe om [motorbike taxi] or taxi drivers,” Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, head of the team, told Tuoi Tre News on the phone.

jackbl
14-12-2015, 08:25 PM
US man gives advice to duck, tackle taxi cheats in Vietnam

Editor’s note: John Wyman did not go through a whole month in the first quarter of this year without being cheated by a taxi driver in Ho Chi Minh City.
The American man, who in some cases managed to settle the score with fraudulent cabbies, shared his stories with Tuoi Tre News, plus some recommendations on how to effectively avoid or confront scam taxi drivers.
First time cheated – January 2015
I took a taxi from Ben Thanh Market to the Cho Lon area in District 5, and asked the approximate fare (which should be around VND70,000) when the cab came.
The driver kept up a steady patter in broken English, while I paid attention to the meter.
As we arrived at the Cho Lon Bus Station, the meter read VND77,000.
The driver pulled over and I handed him VND100,000 for the fare, but he said that it was not enough as the meter now read VND770,000, which I refused to pay.
He then locked the car doors, forgetting that I could just as easily unlock them.
He became extremely agitated, but I said calmly that I would have the policeman standing near the bus station come over and straighten this out.
At this point he unlocked the door (which I had already opened), grabbed the VND100,000 note and told me to get out.
Then I demanded my change. He argued but I refused to leave the cab till I got my money. He relented.
Second case – February 2015
I took a Vinasun taxi from District 10 to the InterContinental Hotel which we had done numerous times and the fare never exceeded VND100,000.
This time, the meter was partially covered and we did expect there would be a problem when we arrived at the hotel.
Sure enough, upon arrival, the driver uncovered the meter and it read VND250,000.
Again, I refused to pay, instead going into the hotel and explained the problem.
A hotel staff member came out and spoke to a couple of other cab drivers about the correct fare. They all agreed that the maximum fare would have been VND90,000-100,000 depending on traffic.
The hotel paid the driver (I reimbursed them later) and the Vinasun cabby took off.
I attempted to report it to the company, but they denied that they had any cab of that number or a driver of that name.

Latest case – March 30, 2015
I took a Mai Linh cab, dispatched from their office to our house to take us to Tan Son Nhat airport.
Since there were three of us, we had quite a lot of luggage.
When we arrived at the airport, the driver told me to go get a cart and he would help unload.
I left my computer bag on the front seat since I did not want to have to watch it and load the cart.
As soon as I returned to the spot, the driver had dumped our luggage at the curb and drove off with my computer.
I immediately contacted both the Mai Linh dispatcher at the airport who basically stalled for 15 minutes asking nonsensical questions, and could eventually find his cellphone number.
While this was going on my wife directly called the Mai Linh Office, which wanted to know the cab number, which we did not have. They knew who picked us up, but refused to contact the cabby.
When we had our Vietnamese friend contact the cab company they wanted the serial number of the computer, which we provided.
We never heard another thing from them and since we were departing on an international flight, we could do nothing.
How to avoid scam drivers, and to confront them?
Since I am a very large American, standing 193cm and weighing 110kg, I am not easily intimidated and usually overcome these difficulties.
Unfortunately, many other tourists are easily intimidated and hesitant to report incidents to the police, since they either won’t/can’t speak English or just ignore you.
So here are some advice and recommendations.
1. Stick to the major cab companies, Mai Linh and Vinasun
2. If possible, call the cab company for pickup, which is less likely to deliver a counterfeit taxi. You can also use GrabTaxi or Uber since it is pre-paid.
3. Always get/take quick photos of the taxi number, plate number and driver information.
4. When confronted by a cab driver, never take your money out in front of him. If he refuses your payment, walk away. Let him call the police. If he argues about not having the correct change, pay him what you have, not more than the meter. It is his problem if he does not have change. (I do not mean asking for change from VND500,000 for VND30,000 fare).
5. If you must take an unfamiliar cab, be sure to check that the meter is reset and that it appears reasonable. No matter where in the world I travel, I make sure I know the approximate fare to where I am going, and have that amount available so I do not need to dig through unfamiliar currency.
6. If arriving at an airport (better book in advance if staying at a hotel), do not take any available cab there. Ask for Mai Linh or Vinasun – you might wait a couple of minutes, but it is much less likely to be ripped off. Again a little checking on the Internet will let you know the expected fare from the airport to your destination.
7. When unloading your luggage, stay with the car until everything is unloaded, and double check, because once it pulls away anything left is gone.
8. Be very careful around tourist sites, the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica, Saigon Central Post Office, Zoo, etc. Many of these cabs will rip you off. Better to walk a 100m distance to a business or hotel and catch a cab.

jackbl
15-12-2015, 07:59 AM
Song from Ho Quang hieu

Khong cam xuc

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JMF5mkyCxEs

Moderator88
15-12-2015, 05:35 PM
Haha..scam is everywhere la! Sbf also got plenty Liao! Do more charity in wetnam to earn more good karma!:)

blur185
15-12-2015, 05:46 PM
wah after MIA from SBF so long this thread is still alive!

xin chao ban! o day ai cg khoe kg? neu co ai kh hieu cai gi voi tieng viet toi co the giup ban viet lai tieng anh nha.

jackbl
15-12-2015, 10:35 PM
wah after MIA from SBF so long this thread is still alive!.

I got many newspapers report and YouTube to show here so this thread still alive lor :D

blur185
16-12-2015, 09:59 AM
I got many newspapers report and YouTube to show here so this thread still alive lor :D

good to see you still updating vn news! Cheers Bro!:)

Naka_Timo
16-12-2015, 10:02 AM
Haha..scam is everywhere la! Sbf also got plenty Liao! Do more charity in wetnam to earn more good karma!:)

Upped you back liao

SuPerMANzz
16-12-2015, 05:11 PM
Hi bro, anyone can intro me to good viet fl?

kcir
17-12-2015, 05:43 AM
Anyone know the meaning of this "Phe qua ma oi". Many many many thanks to anyone that help.

jackbl
17-12-2015, 07:40 AM
Anyone know the meaning of this "Phe qua ma oi"..

Shiok ahhhh my mother.... Other than "ma oi", you can replace with "Troi oi " (my god) or "Anh oi" (my honey - she calling you), etc.....

You must be making love or heavy petting her to make her express that sentence. Good work!!!!

jackbl
17-12-2015, 10:45 PM
Ho Quang hieu - Em la Hanh phuc trong Anh

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iHSqpYbgkBk

Wendella
18-12-2015, 02:36 AM
Here is another of those super abbreviated SMS messages:

Me: Em khoe khong? 8.30 sang o day. Anh dang uong ca phe o nha me cua anh.

Her: E cung bt a ah

I guess bt means biet (know) but overall I don't know what she means here.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

KangTuo
18-12-2015, 07:04 AM
Here is another of those super abbreviated SMS messages:

Me: Em khoe khong? 8.30 sang o day. Anh dang uong ca phe o nha me cua anh.

Her: E cung bt a ah

I guess bt means biet (know) but overall I don't know what she means here.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

bt = bình thường = normal

jackbl
18-12-2015, 08:18 PM
Singaporean sets example of good deeds to young Vietnamese via charity trip

A Singaporean has organized a charity trip to an orphanage in southern Vietnam in the hope of bringing love to the children as well as encouraging young people to do good things.

Gabriel Kang visited the Thien Binh orphanage in Dong Nai Province on Sunday together with 30 young Vietnamese volunteers.
“I’m trying to encourage more young Vietnamese to do good things, so I invited them here with me on this trip. After I leave, hopefully I’ve created a ripple effect,” Kang told Tuoi Tre News.
“I hope the volunteers like what they do and enjoy playing with the children,” he added. “I also hope that some of them, maybe 10 or 20 percent, will come back without me and continue to do good things for the people here.”
Many members of the group said they had never met Kang before and just heard about his story, then deciding to join the trip.
Kang raised money to help Vietnamese tourist Pham Van Thoai who got duped in Singapore in November last year, when he purchased an iPhone 6 in Sim Lim Square.
Thoai, who decided to pay S$950 (US$678) to buy an iPhone 6 at the store of Mobile Air Pte Ltd in Sim Lim, was asked to sign some worded invoice in English, a language he barely understood.
He was then forced to pay an additional S$1,500 ($1,071) for a one-year warranty before he could receive the phone.
The Vietnamese tourist then declined to pay the additional money, down on his knees, begging the store to return him the cash he had paid but then only got back S$400 ($285) and no iPhone.
At the end of November this year, Mobile Air boss Jover Chew Chiew Loon was sentenced to 33 months in jail for cheating 26 victims into agreeing to buy mobile devices worth $16,599 from January to October 2014.
After Thoai’s scandal, Kang called on Singaporeans to chip in to buy a brand new iPhone 6 to send to him with the initial raising target of $1,350 (S$1,804); however, he then received $12,431 (S$16,615).
Kang told Tuoi Tre News that the Sunday trip’s budget of around S$3,000 ($2,147) was from his own pocket and part of the amount he had pooled in the iPhone scam.
Some other donors also contributed food and clothes.
Gwen Ooi, who flew from Singapore on Friday night after knowing about the trip via Facebook, said she joined the charity trip to see what the children at the orphanage needed.
Ooi said that she and Kang were doing charity work at the personal level so that it could be long-term.
“I may look for more support from Singapore,” she added.
The volunteer group brought ingredients from Ho Chi Minh City to the orphanage to cook nearly 200 meals for the kids there, besides buying them ice cream for dessert.
In addition to the meals, Kang also gave away 20 drones produced by his company costing $60 each to the kids.
This was not the first time Kang had visited the orphanage.
Early this year, he brought S$2,000 ($1,496) from the auction of the iPhone he had intended to give Thoai, but the Vietnamese man refused to receive it, to visit the Thien Binh orphanage and bought a freezer, toys, and medicines for it.
The Singaporean man once helped a Vietnamese, as he bought a flight ticket for a young woman who had to work in a karaoke restaurant in Malaysia to return home.
Kang said the woman had kept asking for his help in every post on his Facebook.
As he has received thousands of messages asking for help after the iPhone fundraising and he cannot provide help in all cases, Kang is planning to launch a project called One Last Thing, in which people can share their problems and others could help after verifying all the information.

Wendella
19-12-2015, 01:56 AM
bt = bình thường = normal

Em cung binh thuong (I'm also normal)... then what does the "a ah" mean? I assume one of those means 'anh' ('you' in this case).

jackbl
19-12-2015, 11:14 AM
Em cung binh thuong (I'm also normal)... then what does the "a ah" mean? I assume one of those means 'anh' ('you' in this case).

A ah=honey/brother ahhhh. The ahhhh is just an expression word. Not very meaningful. U can ignore it.

Rudolph
19-12-2015, 11:14 AM
Interesting can learn another language here.

jackbl
20-12-2015, 09:21 AM
Ho Quang hieu - Em chua tung biet

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HdYVVABytys

smallplayer
20-12-2015, 11:32 AM
Singaporean sets example of good deeds to young Vietnamese via charity trip

A Singaporean has organized a charity trip to an orphanage in southern Vietnam in the hope of bringing love to the children as well as encouraging young people to do good things.

Gabriel Kang visited the Thien Binh orphanage in Dong Nai Province on Sunday together with 30 young Vietnamese volunteers.
“I’m trying to encourage more young Vietnamese to do good things, so I invited them here with me on this trip. After I leave, hopefully I’ve created a ripple effect,” Kang told Tuoi Tre News.
“I hope the volunteers like what they do and enjoy playing with the children,” he added. “I also hope that some of them, maybe 10 or 20 percent, will come back without me and continue to do good things for the people here.”
Many members of the group said they had never met Kang before and just heard about his story, then deciding to join the trip.
Kang raised money to help Vietnamese tourist Pham Van Thoai who got duped in Singapore in November last year, when he purchased an iPhone 6 in Sim Lim Square.
Thoai, who decided to pay S$950 (US$678) to buy an iPhone 6 at the store of Mobile Air Pte Ltd in Sim Lim, was asked to sign some worded invoice in English, a language he barely understood.
He was then forced to pay an additional S$1,500 ($1,071) for a one-year warranty before he could receive the phone.
The Vietnamese tourist then declined to pay the additional money, down on his knees, begging the store to return him the cash he had paid but then only got back S$400 ($285) and no iPhone.
At the end of November this year, Mobile Air boss Jover Chew Chiew Loon was sentenced to 33 months in jail for cheating 26 victims into agreeing to buy mobile devices worth $16,599 from January to October 2014.
After Thoai’s scandal, Kang called on Singaporeans to chip in to buy a brand new iPhone 6 to send to him with the initial raising target of $1,350 (S$1,804); however, he then received $12,431 (S$16,615).
Kang told Tuoi Tre News that the Sunday trip’s budget of around S$3,000 ($2,147) was from his own pocket and part of the amount he had pooled in the iPhone scam.
Some other donors also contributed food and
........
Kang said the woman had kept asking for his help in every post on his Facebook.
As he has received thousands of messages asking for help after the iPhone fundraising and he cannot provide help in all cases, Kang is planning to launch a project called One Last Thing, in which people can share their problems and others could help after verifying all the information.

He is my friend and he didn't tell me about the trip..grr.
Certainly can help do charity as I travel to vn sometimes....
Thanks for the info Bro! !!

Hurricane88
20-12-2015, 11:40 AM
He is my friend and he didn't tell me about the trip..grr.
Certainly can help do charity as I travel to vn sometimes....
Thanks for the info Bro! !!

Later some guys will come here to say do charities are bad...better dun share too much...:)

I keep to myself now...:)

smallplayer
20-12-2015, 11:54 AM
Later some guys will come here to say do charities are bad...better dun share too much...:)

I keep to myself now...:)

Totally understand Bro.
This one the lead is Gabriel kang.
People know him well enough.
I just want to help as I am a little familiar with Vietnam and can certainly help.
I sms him already and he is more than happy.
His tentative date seems to be OK for me too.
Doing charity and karma...we don't do for other people to see...that's why I believe what I believe.

Hurricane88
20-12-2015, 12:11 PM
Totally understand Bro.
This one the lead is Gabriel kang.
People know him well enough.
I just want to help as I am a little familiar with Vietnam and can certainly help.
I sms him already and he is more than happy.
His tentative date seems to be OK for me too.
Doing charity and karma...we don't do for other people to see...that's why I believe what I believe.

So long you happy with what you like to do...:)

I dun think your friend Gabriel is experience enough in Vietnam...anyway time will tell...:)

jackbl
20-12-2015, 04:28 PM
good to see you still updating vn news! Cheers Bro!:)

Anything you can contribute on learning vietnamese? :)

jackbl
20-12-2015, 11:11 PM
13 arrested for reportedly stealing from foreigners in hotels in V

Thirteen Vietnamese have been captured for allegedly robbing foreigners after tricking them into hotels in Ho Chi Minh City, officials announced on Saturday.
The thirteen suspects, including sex workers, masseuses and thugs, were nabbed after police had tracked them for 20 days, said Colonel Nguyen Van Quy, head of the police department in the outlying district of Binh Chanh in Ho Chi Minh City.
They were divided into four groups led by Tran Thi My Linh, 41, Duong Thi Thu Hien, 45, Nguyen Thi Tuyet Nhung, 42, and Nguyen Thi Than Tuyen, 27.
The gangs committed the crime by stealing the tourists’ property after the sex workers and masseuses had successfully convinced them to come to several hotels in Binh Chanh District and District 8 to buy their services.
The suspects usually targeted foreigners from Asian countries as they do not commonly report theft to authorities for fear of embarrassment and further trouble.
They successfully carried out the crime five times, appropriating hundreds of millions of dong (VND100 million = US$4,440), according to police officers.
On the night of December 17, police spotted Linh’s group after they had managed to persuade three foreigners in District 1 to follow them into a hotel in Binh Chanh.
The gang was caught red handed the moment they stepped out of the hotel and related exhibits were also confiscated by police officers for investigation.

jackbl
21-12-2015, 10:28 AM
Singaporean committed to easing Agent Orange victims’ sufferings in Vietnam

A Singaporean septuagenarian has given his all, including huge financial support, to help mitigate the lingering effects of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin on Vietnamese victims.
Harold Chan, 73, has been in the central city of Da Nang since late November visiting AO-affected families.
Late last month he donated a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner worth US$1.5 million to Da Nang Hospital in order to facilitate diagnosis and improve the health of victims of the toxic chemical.
The equipment has been put into operation at the hospital to benefit Agent Orange/dioxin victims as well as poor people in the city.
Chan has also decided to sponsor an annual fund worth VND720 million (US$32,000) in support of the victims.
The sums are taken from the elderly man’s lifelong savings.
He has also worked with the hospital’s doctors regarding how to operate the scanner and provide treatment for the first batch of patients.
Obsession
Chan revealed that six months ago, he happened to see stark images of Vietnamese AO sufferers on television against the hustle and bustle of their modern-day country.
“I’ve been to many countries, including the U.S. and European nations. Never have I witnessed such appalling images. I was unspeakably shocked,” he said.
The distorted faces and serious disabilities of AO children lingered in his mind for days and spurred him to travel to the S-shaped country.
Chan carried out his own search for information and immediately decided to come to Da Nang, one of the Vietnamese localities where AO abnormalities remain pervasive.
He visited the Da Nang Association of Victims of Agent Orange in April, introducing himself as a tourist.
He was then introduced to Nguyen Thi Hien, the society’s chair, who initially did not expect the haggard-looking, small-built man to be such a generous philanthropist.

Chan took pains to visit more than 10 affected families in Hoa Vang and Cam Le Districts as well as AO victim centers in remote places to witness their suffering with his own eyes.
The elderly man drooped at the sight of a woman who had lost her husband to dioxin and is caring for their two afflicted children, and elderly couples who are tending to their grandchildren paralyzed by the toxin.
“What impressed me most is that they all refuse to give up though they’re well aware that the condition is incurable. I could only keep my head low and called them ‘heroes,” he added.
Chan also listened attentively to what Hien, the chairwoman of the Da Nang Association of Victims of Agent Orange, had to say regarding how the society has raised 150 AO kids mostly on its own and without financial assistance.
The old man even canceled his flight home to make it to a live television show featuring AO kids in Da Nang in early June.
During the show, Chan offered to sponsor an annual fund worth VND720 million dedicated to the victims.
Only then did it dawn on Hien what the purpose of his field trips were.
Such trips also indicated that despite providing devoted care, local hospitals are in dire need of cutting-edge medical equipment, which has seriously hampered the efficiency of their diagnosis and treatment.
The sight of patients waiting in long lines for an MRI scan prompted Chan to gift the costly scanner to Da Nang Hospital.
Hien further divulged that Chan has also sponsored the construction of a 100-square-meter in-patient care center in the city.
The facility, worth approximately VND1.3 billion ($56,868), is slated to be operational soon.
Chan kept refusing to disclose information about his personal life and family.
He merely revealed he had worked for International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) before founding his own company in Singapore.
He did not admit he is wealthy, but stressed he is fortunate to have a healthy wife and daughter.
“I really hope businesses in Vietnam will join hands to relieve local AO victims’ anguish. The whole world should also be willing to help,” Chan said.

jackbl
22-12-2015, 04:10 AM
Ho Quang hieu - Con lai gi sau con mua

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=def6ruxHBB4

smallplayer
22-12-2015, 10:57 AM
Support support!

Ho Quang hieu - CHỈ LÀ ANH ĐANG MƠ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awFsLZWl6YM[/QUOTE]

jackbl
22-12-2015, 12:01 PM
Support support!


Post songs that got English subtitle so that when listening to the vietnamese verse can some how translate to English for easier understanding :)

smallplayer
22-12-2015, 12:20 PM
Post songs that got English subtitle so that when listening to the vietnamese verse can some how translate to English for easier understanding :)

ah!!
okok...I thought nice tieng viet songs ok liao.
noted on the guideline

jackbl
22-12-2015, 10:07 PM
Ho Quang hieu - Con buom xuan

https://vimeo.com/83822268

jackbl
23-12-2015, 03:28 PM
Scams a real problem for Vietnam: readers

Editor’s note: One of Tuoi Tre News readers caused a small controversy last week with an op-ed piece explaining why he believes Vietnam is good for foreigners to live in, but not necessarily to invest in.
Readers divided into two groups, for and against Keith’s account of Vietnam. Read some opinions supporting the Australian reader below, and if you have something to add write to us via [email protected].
Jim K.:
I would agree with Keith’s article about scams in Vietnam. My first visit was in 1965 and my last was in 2015. I have been back five times since 1965. I have been married for 45 years to a Vietnamese girl. She speaks perfect Vietnamese, but we still get ripped off. Vietnam would be better if it could break from those old habits.
Steve:
Pretty well sums up things here in Vietnam.
The Ministry of Tourism was told ten years ago if they continued down the same path it was going to end up bad, which it did last year. The biggest problem for Vietnam is they don’t listen. The locals and the government have this "we know all mentality," but alas they actually know nothing.
PS: I say the same thing about my home country when I see problems; so it’s not just Vietnam.
Paul:
Keith is mostly correct.
My wife and I have visited many times over the past seven or eight years and were considering retiring from work in Australia to take up a 'semi-retired' life near Da Nang, where we had an opportunity to work for an approved NGO providing education services in and around the city.
We could get along with the foreign residency issues, but one major stumbling block was the complete lack of any sort of enforceable property / real-estate / leasing regulations.
It's not only 'foreigners' that are scammed. Many Vietnamese are routinely ripped off by property owners, regularly losing their deposits and rental paid in advance. It is an endemic problem that seems to have no solution.
We were prepared to get 'ripped off' by taxi-drivers, street vendors, retail stores, etc: we expect that as a consequence of living in Southeast Asia; but without secure and enforceable (and fair) property / leasing / rental laws, the whole proposal was ultimately untenable.
Manuel M.:
Thanks to Keith for this shining paragon of truth.
Out of all the mainland Southeast Asian countries I’ve visited during my travels so far, Vietnam has been my favorite.
Why? I loved the nature, food, the incredible diversity, the country's history, the rural areas, the friendly people in the countryside, the wonderful limestone formations in the north, driving over misty mountain pass roads and so much more...
Furthermore the country has seen huge economic development in recent years, making it potentially one of the biggest players in the region. Massive projects and investments are in progress, especially in the south.
But so much potential gets lost because of the habits, scams and corruption explained by Keith above.
I have already read and heard so many stories from former expats who have had extremely negative experiences with the locals and authorities.
Many of these expats have decided to return to their country after only a couple of months. This is not to mention the regular stories from normal first-time travelers.
For exactly the reasons Keith outlines, I wouldn't live in Vietnam in the short term.
I love the country from a cultural and travel perspective, but I wouldn't bother to live there – not yet.
From a long-term perspective I think that things will get better eventually.
For instance I've had extremely positive experiences with the younger and open-minded generation in Vietnam who in all honesty are ashamed of the "bad apples" in their country.
They also well aware of the typical problems and they intend to change things for the better.
I'm looking forward to seeing how things will go.

jackbl
23-12-2015, 09:50 PM
‘Bad apples’ are everywhere, not just in Vietnam

Editor’s note: While Keith, an Australian reader of Tuoi Tre News’, is backed by many on his opinion that Vietnam is good for foreigners to live in but not necessarily invest in, mainly due to the rampant amount of scamming that goes on, others have argued that the country has more positive things going for it and should not be completely tarnished because of just a few ‘bad apples.’
Read their stories below, and if you have something to add write to us via [email protected].
Michael Andrade
I just bought an air ticket for my second trip to Vietnam.
Although I read many warnings, I had absolutely no negative experiences on my first trip.
People were friendly, the food was fabulous, the scenery was gorgeous and the cities were fascinating.
As for the question, "How many places allow beggars in restaurants to stand beside your table selling gum, pencils and maps while you are trying to eat?", I can only assume that the author of the article doesn't travel very much because this is a common experience in many parts of the world.
David Lyonz
He keeps saying "scam scam scam scam scam" over and over but then insists that he's never been scammed. Well, how does he know there are scams then? Just because people are asking to borrow money doesn't mean it's a scam.
The entire story is about a whinging Aussie's experience in Pham Ngu Lao, which is not "Vietnam.”
Leave this tiny percentage of Vietnam and there are no beggars, shoe-shine kids (frankly I miss them - I can't find anyone to shine my shoes in Da Nang!), and street vendors. He talks about the mountains being unvisited but I wonder if he's ever been there.
Keith wants to suggest that Thailand, a country so dangerous that the Australian government warns against visiting it, is a better place than Vietnam, which is not subject to political unrest, bombings, terrorism, kidnappings or anything else.
Thank God Vietnam is safe and clean and no one's trying to kill me, kidnap me or hold me to ransom!
"The game is almost over for Vietnam"? Don't make me laugh. Vietnam is an idyllic paradise... just stop pretending that Bui Vien is Vietnam.
Herby Neubacher
I hear these stories from expats every day. I have been living in Vietnam for some 15 years and I’ve had my share of scams too, but one moves on.
Many expats ask for it, actually. They pass out money to people – mostly women – who they’ve never seen before in their lives, and most do not even try to understand the language. They would never do this in their home countries but in Vietnam they play the big spender and become victims.
OK – there are 'bad apples' – but are they not everywhere? Right – the system should be tougher on crime. But expats should not flash fat wallets and expensive iPhones around – showing can cost, everywhere, not only in Vietnam – try that in the right corners of the USA for example.
Vietnam is a wonderful country and my home. The benefits, the good conditions and the many friendly people you meet more than make up for the 'bad apples.' In any case, must every country really join in the ‘race’ to be the top tourist and business place?
If Vietnam is 'left behind' be it so – it is still generally a good, humane, safe and friendly place to be – whatever the rest of the world might think about it.

jackbl
24-12-2015, 07:56 AM
Que huong viet nam

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WiofX-nhFOs

jackbl
24-12-2015, 03:13 PM
Bau Troi am nhau

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GkILMl2Bpz0

jackbl
25-12-2015, 10:27 AM
Lam chan khang- A muon noi voi ca the gioi
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VyaTlVsFZeU

ml1138
26-12-2015, 07:19 PM
miss this site alot, now start camping for more info on V...:p

ml1138
26-12-2015, 07:53 PM
Lam chan khang- A muon noi voi ca the gioi
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VyaTlVsFZeU

sorry bro, just try to up you but found already upped you before..:p

jackbl
27-12-2015, 12:22 AM
sorry bro, just try to up you but found already upped you before..:p

Thanks. Welcome here for more info or come to share info. :)

jackbl
27-12-2015, 12:47 AM
Vietnam may be marred by scams, but safety's its major asset: Australian reader

Editor’s note: While Australian Brian M. doesn’t deny that scams exist in Vietnam, he also believes the country remains charming to foreigners, and hails peace and safety as its major asset.
I am writing in response to Keith’s article on the falling numbers of return tourists to Vietnam.
Over the last six years, I have spent quite a bit of time in Vietnam on both business and holiday trips.
I have noticed some alarming changes for the worse as well as a few improvements, especially recently, to try to address the issue.
Personally I have become used to the scams and know most of those targeting tourists by now, so they really don’t affect me.
Just as in the case of Keith – he knows what to buy and for what price, purchasing clothing and other goods is not a priority for me as I know I can get original items for a better price elsewhere.
Overall, the reason I return to Vietnam is the people, who despite life's hardships show resilience and have a tendency to sum up a person's character quickly.
If you come across as a warm, polite, happy individual you will go a long way to gain the respect of the average person and life will become a lot easier.
On the negative side: a lot of taxi drivers, merchants, tour guides, and restaurant staff know when a person is "fresh into the country" and will often take advantage of them to earn a few extra dollars.
Most of these scams are, however, harmless and represent a few dollars here and there.
Nevertheless, once tourists know they have been scammed, it does leave a bad impression, and they will not relax and subsequently refuse to give any tips. In a lot of cases if service is good, I tip. When I know I have been scammed, there will be no tip.
I have also noticed a few measures that have been introduced to assist holidaymakers and change perceptions.
Speed limits have come down on motorways, rubbish collection has improved and reduced tourist visa restrictions all help.
Vietnam is still a safe place to visit and that is also a major asset. There is the view that Vietnam is a safe country to visit as a tourist and I agree with that, especially compared to some neighboring countries.
I have spoken to friends who recently returned from Vietnam and they said they were alarmed at the quality of the taxis.
In the end they ordered most of their taxis through the hotel, as they could not trust the well-established companies who have for many years done a good job.
This is alarming and needs to be addressed quickly.
I have also read some of the recent articles about taxi scams and most have been tried on me over the years. The major taxi companies are getting a very bad reputation abroad.
Overall this country has a lot to offer especially to the Westerner as it is so different to most established countries and that is a part of its charm.
I hope the government here will not allow an increase in the number of scams to prevent tourists from spending valuable dollars in your country.

jackbl
27-12-2015, 05:22 PM
Tan Son Nhat opens new taxi zone in major improvement bid

Passengers can now flag down a cab in a new taxi zone inaugurated Thursday at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, among several other changes introduced at the country’s busiest terminal.
The new taxi zone is located in front of the domestic hall, serving passengers of both arrival and departure flights, an airport representative said on Thursday.
The new facility helps double the taxi-hailing capacity of the airport to embrace Vietnam’s upcoming Lunar New Year, or Tet in Vietnamese, when demand for air travel peaks, according to the source.
The management of Tan Son Nhat is making multiple changes to improve service quality to be well prepared for Tet, it said in a plan announced in mid-December.
The holiday this year falls on February 8, but demand for air travel normally soars a week before and after the holiday, during which Tan Son Nhat executives have promised to serve passengers with much improved service.
Along with the new taxi zone, the Ho Chi Minh City airport has put an additional free Wi-Fi system into use, with 164 hotspots, ensuring stable and strong connection for passengers.
The security check at Hall B, where low-cost carrier Vietjet places its check-in counters, has also been rearranged to become more spacious, according to the airport representative.
The queuing zone of the security area has been expanded to 250 square meters from 150 square meters, creating more space for passengers to complete their procedures.
A simplified baggage scanning process, which combines the procedures carried out by customs officers and airport security guards into one, has also helped travelers save more time when leaving or entering Vietnam since it was implemented in mid-November.
“All of the changes in taxi zones, check-in and security procedures, and Wi-Fi systems have been made simultaneously to improve service quality, save time for flyers, and reduce overloading in the coming Tet,” airport director Dang Tuan Tu told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Thursday.
The airport is also developing a five-story parking house in front of the domestic terminal to be able to accommodate more vehicles.
The new facility, spanning 68,000 square meters compared to the 14,350 square meter existing one, is slated for completion in March 2016.
The new parking space, including a taxi zone, will be connected to the arrival hall of the domestic terminal through an underground pathway, so that passengers will not have to cross the street overground to get to their vehicles or hail a cab, according to the airport.
The changes at Tan Son Nhat, which has already exceeded its design capacity of 25 million passengers a year, have been introduced to follow an order by the Ministry of Transport, in the wake of a quality assessment report that pinpointed myriad shortcomings at the airport earlier this month.