Tieng Viet lovers club

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Originally Posted by Reaper

KangTuo...

SG may also mean Saigon.

Yes, it's Saigon.

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Hospitals treat 28,000 emergencies during Tet
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Emergency rooms in hospitals nationwide admitted nearly 28,000 patients over the first three days of the Lunar New Year this week, the Ministry of Health said Friday.


Nearly 15,400 of the emergency cases from Monday to Wednesday were caused by traffic accidents, the ministry said, compiling reports from 21 hospitals and 42 healthcare facilities nationwide.

The total number of people who died at hospitals in the three days exceeded 300, the ministry said, adding 125 of these were in traffic accidents, 17.8 percent less than the same period last year.

The ministry also noted that no more cases of bird flu had been reported over the first three days of the Year of the Buffalo from January 26-29.

Reported by Nam Son-Thuy Anh

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Education is the only way out of poverty!

Free school teaches hope
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A group of students sits in front of a school’s locked doors around 6 a.m. in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh District.

Busy doing his math homework with a notebook on his knees, 14-yearold Hung looks sleepy.

He says every night he walks over four kilometers from his boarding house to Binh Quoi Resort to work collecting balls at a tennis court.

“It’s always really late when I come back from work,” Hung says. “I have to go to school very early in the morning for extra tutoring from my classmates before school begins.”

Like Hung, the other 91 students at the Ward 25 Compulsory School of Love are studying and working at the same time.

The school’s 100 students receive all their books, notebooks and uniforms for free.

Each student has a unique story, teacher Pham Thi Ngoc Doan says.

Some are orphans, while others are without personal identification having recently-migrated from rural Khmer. Most of them are older than normal school children, according to Doan.

At 14, Tien should have been in the eighth grade, but he is now just learning to read the alphabet. Doan’s first-grade class has 22 students, only four of whom have parents. Three of them are aged 26 to 28, she says.

Twelve-year-old Hoang, a third-grade student, has been working as a lottery ticket seller for three years. Every afternoon he wanders District 2 streets after a morning at the school.

“I have to study because my mother is illiterate. She can’t find a job,” the boy says, adding that some of his classmates work the same job as him.

However, Doan says not all her students seem to understand the value of school like Hoang does.

She says it’s too easy for them to fall in with the wrong crowd on the streets.

Keeping kids off the streets is one of the reasons the school was established 10 years ago.

In 1999, Doan’s uncle, who was then a teacher, wanted to provide free schooling for local children as the district was home to a large number of immigrants who couldn’t afford an education, she says.

A group of Ward 25 citizens then sponsored the construction of the school. Doan, meanwhile, spent six months visiting students’ homes in wards 21 and 25 to convince them to go to school.

The first course was opened with 170 students, Doan says, adding that six of the first students are now in grade 12 and are set to take university entrance exams this year.

“We want to create an environment in which the students can play and be taught right from wrong in their life as well as their work,” the teacher says.

Keeping hope

Teacher Le Thi Ngoc Khanh, who is in charge of the school’s third-grade class, says one of her secrets to keeping students in school is to do what she promises them.

She says 11-year-old Thoa asked her single mother to buy a bicycle for her after seeing that the school gave a bicycle to a student who lived far away.

Thoa’s mother promised to buy it, but couldn’t afford to keep the promise. Thoa then quit studying.

But Khanh stepped in and gave Thoa her old bike.

Though Khanh cautions that mentors must be wary of overindulging the children, she says the promises of adults often sow hopes and dreams in the children’s minds and failing to keep those promises could lead children to lose hope.

Doan, meanwhile, says it is necessary to make school life enjoyable for the children.

“I often tell my students to invite their friends to play with us at school,” she says. “Once they enjoy it here, they’ll be more likely to register for school on their own.”

The school now has five classes ranging from the first grade to fifth grade with three teachers, including Doan.

With help from the Binh Thanh District Department of Training and Education, students who complete the fifth grade at Ward 25 Compulsory School of Love can go on to study at regular public schools.

Source: TN, TT

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Hope 1 day can visit these places .....

TRAVEL IN BRIEF 31/1
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Cruise ship passengers enjoy Ha Long visit during Tet

Three cruise ships carrying nearly 1,700 foreign guests docked at Ha Long Bay on the second and third days of the Lunar New Year (on Tuesday and Wednesday). The Azamara Quest brought with it 660 tourists from France, the US, the Netherlands and Canada. The ship anchored at Cai Lan Port while Costa Allegra and Minh Hoa Princess cruise ships took more than 1,000 passengers to the bay.

Before Ha Long Bay, these cruise ships docked at Tien Sa Port in Da Nang during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday. Saigontourist Travel Service Co. took these guests to world heritage sites at Hoi An, My Son Cham Tower complex and Hue. The Da Nang tourism authority said they received more than 4,500 foreign cruise ship tourists in January 2009.

Row your own sampan at Mekong Delta’s Gao Giong Park

One of the largest tourist sites in the Mekong Delta, the 1,700-ha Gao Giong Ecotourist Park is an area of natural beauty and tranquillity. The park offers visitors the chance to relax in hammocks under the shade of cajuput trees or to catch fish from nearby canals. Tourists can also take a quiet stroll through the woods or climb a watchtower standing 18m tall for a spectacular panoramic view of the area.

Boat trips are also available in a sampan, a type of rowboat. Guided sampan tours last around 45 minutes accompanied by a female guide wearing a traditional ao ba ba (a type of blouse). Tourists can try rowing the boat themselves.

Situated about 20km from Cao Lanh Town, Gao Giong becomes a "green oasis" from August until October every year when the Mekong River floods the region. People visiting the park at this time will experience this unique weather and have an opportunity to enjoy specialties such as ca linh (a species of freshwater fish).

Chinese visitors keep northern border gates busy on first day of lunar year

Some 700 Chinese tourists entered Viet Nam through a border gate in Lao Cai Province on the first day of the Lunar Year (on Monday). The Lao Cai-based Binh Minh Travel Agency said they organised tours for more than 3,000 Chinese tourists who entered Viet Nam through border gates in the north on the first four days of the Lunar New Year.

HCM City receives fewer visitors over Tet as tour prices rise

Visitors to HCM City during the Tet holidays dropped by 20 to 25 per cent this year compared with 2008. Meanwhile, tour prices increased by 20 per cent over other times of the year, according to figures from the Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper.

The Dam Sen Park in District 11 received some 250,000 visitors during the first three days of the Lunar New Years (from Monday to Wednesday). Suoi Tien Tourism Park in District 9 welcomed some 300,000 visitors, including Overseas Vietnamese from Thailand, Cambodia and India, over the same period. This equalled last year’s figures.

VietNamNet/VNS

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Festivals held nationwide
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VietNamNet Bridge - There are a variety of festivals that take place during the Tet holiday nationwide.

As usual, millions of residents in the northern mountainous provinces are eager to take part in a traditional festival “Xuong dong”, or, “Entering paddy field” - their biggest festival of the year.

The festival with different names takes place on the fourth day of January according to the lunar calendar. Ethnic minorities in northern villages such as Son La, Lai Chau, Yen Bai, Dien Bien, Lao Cai, Ha Giang, Tuyen Quang, Cao Bang, and Bac Kan, enjoy participating in traditional games like throwing balls, climbing pillars, hide-and-seek, see-saw, as well as dancing and singing. The festival lasts all the way to the fifteenth of the lunar month in some places.

In the northwest of the country, some villages in Lao Cai Province make sure to keep the traditional character of the festival. An iflux of tourists visited the popular haunt of Sa Pa Bac Ha Muong Khuong during the second and third day of the lunar year to take part in the festival, according to Lao Cai’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.

The buffalo fights that draw such huge crowds have been a long-standing tradition. Thousands of people across the country flock to Do Son village in northern Hai Phong Province to see the peaceable water buffalo transformed into a fearsome fighter on the ninth day of the eighth lunar month.

The small village of Hai Luu, which lies along the Lo River in Lap Thach commune in the northern province of Vinh Phuc, holds the fights before and after the Tet holiday.

On the 27th and 28th of December (of the lunar calendar), the qualifying rounds take place and the winners enter the next and the final round on the 16th and 17th of January.

The chosen buffalos are covered with red cloth and have red bands around their horns. They are taken to the fighting ring by 24 young men from two teams, also dressed in red. The young men dance and wave flags as the two teams take their positions in the arena.

A pair of buffalos is then led into the fighting circle, whereupon they lock horns as the audience beats drums and gongs and emit full-throated yells to spur the contestants on.

In the central province of Quang Tri, a unique festival is held on the third and fourth day to show gratitude to one's parents. The festival plays an important role in the life of residents there. The elderly and their descendants of 14 family names gather together to worship before the altar of the forefather.

In addition to the festival, a worship festival is held to seek good weather, a bountiful catch, prosperity and happiness for the whole community.

VietNamNet/SGGP

[ensign2000]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Posted by ensign2000 in th Understanding Vietnamese Life Partner thread

hi bros, mind helping in translation? I wanna learn Vietnamese.
hân hạnh được làm wen! chúc 1 ngày vui vẻ và may mắn
E ten huyen , o sg , neu ranh a goi cho e minh se noi chuyen nhiu hon nhe
vi e it len mang lam

Rat vui dc lam wen voi a


hân hạnh được làm wen = Honoured to know you.
chúc 1 ngày vui vẻ và may mắn = wish you everyday happy and lucky
E ten huyen , o sg , neu ranh a goi cho e = My name is Huyen, in sillypore, if free you call me
minh se noi chuyen nhiu hon nhe = I will talk more than now
vi e it len mang lam = because I seldom log in to internet.
Rat vui dc lam wen voi a = Very happy can know you

Thanks for the translation bro. BTW, do you teach the language?

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by ensign2000

Thanks for the translation bro. BTW, do you teach the language?

I am not up to the standard yet... give me 10 years also unable to teach
I learn my Tieng Viet in a cc for 2 months than I practice my Tieng Viet in JC and GL

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Dun be modest! At least u completed a full course.

I saw 1 gal in m51 area, looks 80% like ah xuan, did u saw?

Originally Posted by KangTuo

I am not up to the standard yet... give me 10 years also unable to teach
I learn my Tieng Viet in a cc for 2 months than I practice my Tieng Viet in JC and GL

[ensign2000]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

I am not up to the standard yet... give me 10 years also unable to teach
I learn my Tieng Viet in a cc for 2 months than I practice my Tieng Viet in JC and GL

Mind telling me which CC?

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U can go to People's Association website to find out whether they conduct vietnamese language course or not... If not u can consult bro Technofreak how to go about taking the course. He took at Spring Language School. Go to its website to find out more...

Spring Language School

Originally Posted by ensign2000

Mind telling me which CC?

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Dun be modest! At least u completed a full course.

I saw 1 gal in m51 area, looks 80% like ah xuan, did u saw?

yes.. saw her few times. 1st time see her back view, i tot she is my hm gal.
this gal sat with YS friend, Matxxxx before. He upped her at $80/shot.

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I sat with her once, her mandarin not bad. Seeing her look to similar to ah xuan make me felt a bit strange....

As for her working attitude, I wil not "RTF"... told me go out a while then I wait 1.5hr... I am wondering why these gals cant think of "customers service". She get the better of the 1st $20 but she will lost potential customer. If she did well in the 1st $20 then there will be many many $20 coming....

Originally Posted by KangTuo

yes.. saw her few times. 1st time see her back view, i tot she is my hm gal.
this gal sat with YS friend, Matxxxx before. He upped her at $80/shot.

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In bad times, support the local products to support the countrymen and keep their jobs....

Promoting goods made in Vietnam
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The progamme “Vietnamese people use Vietnamese goods” launched by the Ministry of Industry and Trade has attracted due attention from a large number of businesses and consumers.

This is an effective measure to help businesses restore production and promote consumption, especially those having goods in stock as their market share has declined.

Catering for consumer taste

To promote domestic consumption of products made in Vietnam, businesses and distributors have to supply high-quality products and good services. They should diversify the design of goods, increase quality, stabilise production costs and focus on after-sales service. Furthermore, it is important to have a good understanding of Vietnamese consumer taste and culture. Tran Quy Thanh, general director and chairman of administration board of the Tan Hiep Phat group, said that his company conducted surveys on consumer demand and set up a department for product research and development to meet local consumer demand. “We aim to cater for consumer taste that other competitive rivals cannot meet,” Mr Thanh added.

Meanwhile, Tran Quoc Viet, deputy executive director of the southern Kinh Do joint stock company, said that his company has a market research department which provide consultancy for the administrative board on both product design and distribution services, with the aim of supplying better products and services to consumers. For example, the company added some flavours such as lotus to their line of confections that were identified as popular in Vietnamese rural areas in order to serve the northern region. These products became popular among consumers in the region.

Apart from increasing the quality of products and renewing product patterns, expanding distribution and retail networks is also a key factor in the successful implementation of the “Vietnamese people use Vietnamese goods” progamme.

Focusing on the rural market

Vietnam now has a total population of more than 86 million, with over 70 percent of them are living in rural areas. Rural people’s income has increased in recent years, especially in areas which are urbanizing, thus increasing demand for goods. A survey of the rural market by the TNS market research company showed that 95 percent of rural households want to buy TV sets and 92 percent can afford to buy electric or gas cookers. About 33 percent of rural families can buy radio receivers and other music centres, 30 percent can buy refrigerators and 9 percent want to buy computers, according to the survey.

Nevertheless, rural market has not received due attention from local businesses. Most products in rural areas are of low quality or not labelled. No large promotion campaigns and advertisement programmes have been launched in these areas. According to Mr Viet, it’s time for businesses to explore the rural market. Previously, businesses concentrated on developing high-quality products or products having high added value to earn bigger profits. However, they are now changing business operation, which focuses on consumption volume.

In fact, no multi-national groups have entered Vietnam’s rural market for fear that rural consumers cannot afford their products. Therefore, local businesses should grasp this opportunity to expand their market share in such areas. At present, the Government is intensifying consumption promotion measures, and rural people are enjoying the benefit of this. Local businesses should purchase stock and promote goods consumption in order to ensure an adequate supply for the rural market. It is necessary to send promotion teams to villages to sell products in order to consolidate consumer trust.

Source: VOV

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by jackbl

I sat with her once, her mandarin not bad. Seeing her look to similar to ah xuan make me felt a bit strange....

As for her working attitude, I wil not "RTF"... told me go out a while then I wait 1.5hr... I am wondering why these gals cant think of "customers service". She get the better of the 1st $20 but she will lost potential customer. If she did well in the 1st $20 then there will be many many $20 coming....

She go out awhile... can earn more.
1.5 hrs... sure go lam tinh.
I think $20 is nothing as compare to $80/$100 for a shot.
she got the look and eyes to hook guys for ST
1 night go ST twice and a booking for LT is enuff liao.

Not my style to pay and fcuk... so she is out of my list as she don't seems an easy target for me.

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The best CC for learning and practical is still "little vietnam"

Originally Posted by ensign2000

Mind telling me which CC?