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17-12-2009, 09:26 AM
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 Dun intend to intro anymore unless she ask for more...of course sure will ask her why...btw, I dun intend to divulge who is the bro unless he wants to tell himself...
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#3693
17-12-2009, 12:53 PM
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Wow now vn so rich liao huh? Even school children also owned handphones....
Schools ponder policy on mobile phones ================================================== ==== VietNamNet Bridge – Some educators believe that in the digital era, it is impossible to ban mobile phones from schools, while others say mobile phones distract students from their lessons. A lot of schools have banned the use of mobile phones at school. They argue that constant phone calls make students unfocused and cause troubles at schools. Not surprisingly, students are strongly opposed. They haven’t hesitated to criticize the bans on online education forums. Some parents point out that if schools prohibit kids from packing phones, they won’t be able to call home in case there’s an accident. There’s been no official survey on impact of mobile phones on the study results of students, reports Saigon Tiep thi, and no central guidance. Perhaps, suggests the newspaper, it’s time for schools to agree on a common solution. Resisting the tidal wave . . . Early this school year, during an impromptu walkabout at Thu Duc Senior High School (HCM City), Principal Nguyen Huu Dieu discovered seven students using mobile phones during class hours. They were listening to music and sending SMS messages. The principal asked the students to write a confession of their mistakes and planned to meet their parents to talk about their children’s behaviour. While the students were writing reports, their mobile phones continued vibrating as more messages arrived. Principal Dieu is persuaded that the use of mobile phones at wrong places and wrong moments interferes with teaching and learning, and therefore mobile phones have been banned at Thu Duc High. Many other schools have also banned mobile phones from the classroom. At least three HCMC senior highs, Nguyen Thi Minh Khai in District 3, Le Minh Xuan in Binh Chanh District and Sao Viet in District 7 have been ‘no phone zones’ for the last several years. Their students here have been told that their mobile phones will be seized and returned only to their parents. Repeat offenders get a bad conduct demerit. These schools are holding out against a tidal wave. The mobile phone has become so popular that even 5th graders pack their own. Not just the kids, but their parents have come to consider the mobile phone an ‘indispensable part of life’. Meanwhile, teachers complain that ringing phones interrupt their lessons. “I know they don’t like our rule, but if students are busy with ‘playing with mobile phones’ during study hours, they will not have time to get knowledge,” stressed teacher Le Viet Cang from Le Minh Xuan High School. . . . or accomodating to it? In contrast, many other schools allow students to carry and use mobile phones at school, provided that they turn them off while they are in class. While many schools insist on the need of prohibit mobile phones at schools, others believe that no need to do that in the digital era. Lam Van Trieu, a deputy principal at Le Hong Phong High School, said that 80 percent of the students at this ‘gifted and talented’ school in HCM City have mobile phones. “The phones are a device that allows individuals to stay in touch with family and friends. While we are teaching the kids to use new technologies, there’s no reason to forbid them to carry phones.” However, Trieu insisted, any students caught using their phone during class hours will be required to write a ‘self-criticism’ and their parents will be informed. Repeat violators can lose a full mark in their ‘behavior’ grade – as a few kids found out during the last school year. Nguyen Thi Phi, Principal of Duc Tri Junior High, says it is left entirely up to the schools to decide whether or not to ban phones – there’s been no guidance from the Ministry of Education. “There are pros and cons. What’s important is to observe how the kids are using the phones, and then discuss appropriate procedures with parents in a timely way.” It’s OK for students to use the phones to communicate with friends and family, Phi thinks, but essential to discourage “chat,” watching video clips or accessing the Internet, and there must be no tolerance for youngsters who load debauched photos and film on their phones to show each other.
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17-12-2009, 12:57 PM
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TRAVEL : Smooth sailing
========================== VietNamNet Bridge - My Tho Town offers a welcome respite from the rough and tumble of Ho Chi Minh City. After five days of shop-tillyou-drop in Ho Chi Minh City, a splendid place for such activity, we were sorely in need of another short holiday to recover from this one. “Why don’t you travel to My Tho this weekend?” a Saigon friend of mine, suggested. She described the perfect antidote to our days in HCMC: “It’s a peaceful, riverside town hidden in lush orchards.” A day trip to Tien Giang Province sounded like a great idea to us – me, this northern girl, and two friends of mine from Los Angeles. On the road to this town, there was a curious sense of homecoming for me as my father used to work here as an engineer during the subsidy period. My Tho is around 72 kilometers south of HCMC. Since the 17th century, the fertile land in the north of the Tien River has been reclaimed and developed by generations of inhabitants into an area lush and green with rice fields and orchards, and trade has thrived for centuries along its river banks. As the road became broader and many small canals, green rice fields and orchards came into view, I knew we would be in My Tho before long. In the town, we started to stroll aimlessly through peaceful lanes with no names, inhaling the fragrances of garden fruits carried by the breeze. Then we entered a small lane leading to one of the tributaries of the legendary Mekong River. It was noon and we could see the sun shining brightly and proudly on the magnificent river with many colorful boats sailing up and down. Both banks of the river were bordered by water coconut groves and orchards. It was so peaceful it seemed that it was only yesterday I was walking with my father on the green banks of the river to the wooden wharf looking at pretty goby fishes swimming by. “It’s so beautiful! I have seen this river in a film on old Indochina and I hope one day we can travel along this river up to Cambodia,” said my friend Robert Sheen. Accepting our tour guide’s suggestion, we took a boat on the Mekong River and later moved to one steered by a woman in a conical leaf hat, through the red canals were shaded by water coconut trees. It was not difficult to blend into the surroundings with our silence broken only by the slapping sounds the boat made as it moved through the water. “The water here is red because of the alluvial soil which creates fertile islands like Thoi Son, which we are going to visit now,” said Muoi, our tour guide. On the island, sitting in the shade of the orchard, tasting its fruits plucked fresh off the trees, listening to don ca tai tu (amateur southern Vietnamese Opera) – it was exactly the experience we wanted. Then we walked around some gardens, listening to the crunch of dry leaves under our feet and watching, but not envying, the hard working tiny bees flying from one tree to another to make honey and pollinate flowers. As the sky got darker, we had to travel back to HCMC. I was a bit jealous as I saw other relaxed tourists coming into the town. But I knew I would come back to My Tho to discover the place afresh, every time. Tours to Thoi Son Island – My Tho can be booked at: PEACE TOUR CO. 60 Vo Van Tan St., Dist. 3, HCMC Tel: (08) 3 930 3909 Fax: (08) 3 930 4416 Email: [email protected] www.peacetourco.com THESINHTOURIST 246-248 De Tham St., Dist.1, HCMC Tel: (08) 3 838 9593 Fax: (08) 3 836 9322 Email: [email protected] TheSinhTourist | Travel in VietNam | SinhCafe | Sinh Tourist HOAN HAO TOURIST CO. 230 De Tham St., Dist. 1, HCMC Tel: (08) 3 837 7764 Fax: (08) 3 838 0462 Email: [email protected] www.saigongreentravel.com VietNamNet/Thanh Nien
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#3695
17-12-2009, 01:05 PM
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With respect to their salary rate, I wonder how they can afford...
Luxury smart phones sell well ========================================== VietNamNet Bridge – Even though they face low-priced competitors and imitations, brand name smart phones still sell well thanks to discounts, nice designs, modern technologies and the arrival of 3G in Vietnam. Recent studies by GfK Retail and Technology showed that the smart phone revenues have been on the rise, accounting for 13.4 percent of the market in Vietnam. Meanwhile, GfK Market Insight Asia reported that such revenues are up 142 percent for 2009. The most popular brands of smart phones in Vietnam are Nokia, Samsung, iPhone and HTC. Favorite models include iPhone, Nokia E71, N97, Samsung Omnia HD, Sony U10i, U1, LG KP500, HTC HD2, Snap and Hero. Trinh Hoa Giang, General Director of FPT Retail, commented that the launch of modern models like iPhone 3G and Nokia N97 created “fever” in the local market. FPT’s turnover of smart phones increased by 35-40 percent for 2009 and in the future the company plants to focus on sales of HTC, Nokia, Samsung and iPhone brands. Online markets like chodientu.vn also reported doubled sales of luxury smart phones early this year. Nokia N97 has been the top choice, followed by Apple iPhone 3GS and BlackBerry Storm. The website’s prices for smart phones have lowered by 10-20 percent, so sales have risen. The site reports, for example, a drop from 13 million to 11 million dong for a Nokia N97 and from 12 million to 9 million dong for Samsum Omnia 2. Most smart phones purchased on eBay.vn are high-end products, not officially available in Vietnam. The revenue for these phones account for over 70 percent of the total value. Blackberry models have become the top choice of Vietnamese clients on ebay recently. The most popular models are Blackberry Storm, Blackberry Curve, Blackberry 8830, Blackberry Bold and Blackberry 8700. Vietnamese consumers also buy Blackberrys from the US to save from 500,000 up to 1 million dong. A Telecom A Company representative stated that promotions explain why the smart phone market is so busy at the year’s end. Product revenues have also risen since 3G services were introduced. Nokia holds up to 80 percent of the market for smart phones in Vietnam. Nguyen Hong Chau, representative of HTC Vietnam, said that his firm has a growth rate of over 500 percent for 2009 and holds around 15 percent of the mobile phone market in Vietnam. Analysts maintain that the market in Vietnam for smart phones would continue growing in the future. VietNamNet/VNE Quote:
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17-12-2009, 01:49 PM
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UV tattoos – hot trend or dangerous fad?
================================================== === VietNamNet Bridge – Luminescent tattoos or UV tattoos have recently become the “fashion” among young Hanoians. It differs from normal tattoo only in that the normal ink is replaced by imported luminescent or UV ink. This kind of ink, best known as a way for gamblers to mark cards, can only be seen under ultraviolet light or when one wears special glasses. The people with UV tattoos like going to discotheques and clubs to show off their tattoos because under ultraviolet lights, their tattoos shine. A VNExpress reporter met several young people at a tattoo shop in Hanoi. They had paid a deposit to book the tattoos they liked. “It is hard to find a tattoo shop like this where we can get UV tattoos, explained a girl named Lan Anh. The shop owner learned in France and his equipment is clean. Many people like tattoos, but they don’t dare use UV ink.” A girl named Hoa acknowledged that “Tattoos are art so there is no specific price.” She pulled up her sleeve to show a new tattoo featuring a 10cm pattern and bragged, “This costs me 900,000 dong. So cheap! It would usually be 1.5 million dong!” Linh had five tattoos already, but he wanted another UV tattoo to be “different from the others.” He admitted that he felt burning pains around the tattooed area and sometimes had to take anti-allergic medicines. Many stylish youths have paid for UV tattoos. Dung, a hair designer, said when this kind of tattoo arrivedin Vietnam, he liked it very much. After he was tattooed, however, his skin burned and he had to go to a hospital. Tu, a university student in Hanoi, didn’t feel pain during the first week after she got her UV tattoo, but on the eighth day itchy vesicles grew around the tattoo, which then broke out and swelled. Tran Chi Hieu, chief of the Tattoo Club, finds that many young people come to his club for UV tattoos, but he doesn’t encourage them. “We brought UV ink to test at the Central Dermatology and Venerology Hospital and the results showed that this ink contains some elements that can cause cancers,” Hieu explained. Doctor Nguyen Thanh from the Central Dermatology and Venerology Hospital also recommends avoiding this ink because it can cause allergies and even cancers. VietNamNet/VNE
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17-12-2009, 02:04 PM
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Vietnam offers cozy life for expats
============================================== Vietnam is one of the leading countries offering expats a comfortable life and it’s also a good place to make friends with other expats, a survey has found. A report by HSBC Holdings Plc. lists Vietnam as the second easiest country in the world for expats to make friends with other expats in 2009. Asia emerged as the place to go for making friends in general, with Thailand ranking the easiest country overall, followed by Vietnam, Hong Kong and Malaysia, according to the Expat Experience report produced by the HSBC. The survey covered 26 countries and territories across four continents - Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific and the Americas. For the overall quality of life for expats, Vietnam was ranked seventh among 10 Asia Pacific countries as well as among 13 emerging markets; and 19th worldwide. It is also valued as a country that offers luxuries to expat life. “If you’re lucky enough to be an expat in Vietnam, the chances are you’ll have staff – some 91 percent of expats in Vietnam have household staff at hand,” the report said. Friendly Radhanath Varadan, a 45-year-old journalist who’s lived in Vietnam for 8 years, said it was easy to meet expat friends at restaurants and while playing sports. “I don’t go much to bars and nightclubs, but it’s still fairly easy,” he said. He also said his Vietnamese friends were always friendly and helpful. Patricia Norland, Cultural Attaché of the US Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City told Thanh Nien Weekly that while Vietnamese people were friendly, it wasn’t always easy to cultivate a deep relationship across cultures. “I think it depends on how you define ‘make friends.’ If we mean ‘easy to meet someone and chat,’ then yes [it’s easy to make friends with Vietnamese].” But she added that if making a friend is building trust and knowing someone well, then differences across cultures means that may well take longer. “After my brief experience of two and a half years, I am still learning a lot about cultural interactions among foreigners and Vietnamese, as well as among Vietnamese.” Meanwhile, Thai midfielder Isawa Sittong of Dong Tam Long An football club said he couldn’t count how many Vietnamese friends he had. “I have so many Vietnamese friends here and dozens of them are close ones,” said the footballer who has lived here for seven years. “I have never faced any difficulties living here. I love football, Vietnamese rice and friendly locals,” he said. Anthony Barnes from the US also said the Vietnamese people he met were “friendly in general.” He is a student of Vietnamese Studies Faculty at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Social Sciences and Humanity (USSH). South Korean Kim Hyo Sung, another student at USSH, said he had more than 50 Vietnamese friends after more than a year living in HCMC. “Vietnamese are very kind, easygoing and humorous. It’s easy to make friend with them, especially since I can speak a little Vietnamese,” he said. The 24-year-old student said he also enjoyed cheaper daily expenses in HCMC than in South Korea. “I rent a room on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street for US$200 a month. A similar room in my hometown would be at least $1,000.” In another country Besides the good aspects, foreigners interviewed by Thanh Nien Weekly also point out some disadvantages in Vietnam such as poor infrastructure, taxi cheats and cultural misunderstandings. Patricia of the US Consulate said, “Everyone seems to agree on the urgent need to take action on the poor public transportation system, the pervasive road work that causes traffic jams, and the air and water pollution.” Anthony of the USSH said there might be a cultural gap when trying to make friends with local women. “I can’t really have a real female friend. Everybody would think you are couple,” he said, adding that he has a local girlfriend and no Vietnamese female friends after a year and a half year in Vietnam. Sung said getting around wasn’t easy in Vietnam. He complained that taxi drivers often take detours to charge foreigners higher prices. He also said many claimed to have no small bills or coins in order to keep the change. But Varadan from India said “there’s nothing I can think of, really,” when asked what could improve expat life in Vietnam. In the report, major difficulties expressed by the expats included learning the local language, organizing schools for their children, finding accommodation and organizing their finances. The Expat Explorer survey, commissioned by HSBC Bank International and conducted by third party research company FreshMinds, is the largest global survey of expats. More than 3,100 expats were asked between February and April 2009 to describe the opportunities and challenges they experience living away from home. Reported by Thanh Nien staff
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#3698
17-12-2009, 10:31 PM
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sorry another sentence needs translation...
THanks to bros who had helped me.. really com on VietNam thua rui huhu...khong biet bao gio moi gianh duoc huy chuong vang?! thoi danh hen lai 2 nam sau
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17-12-2009, 11:14 PM
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let me guess the meaning. Vietnam loss already. huhu. don't know when then can lift the cup (gold). Must wait another 2years.
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18-12-2009, 12:07 AM
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Cam On Bro KT...
how to translate to Vietnamese for the below >? As long as you do not leave me , i am willing to sacrifice ( or do) anything.
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18-12-2009, 12:27 AM
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sacrifice = hy sinh Gia ma em khong bo anh, anh se hy sinh cho em i will put it in a simpler way.... if you do not leave me, you want me to do whatever also can. "neu em khong bo anh, em muon anh lam gi cung duoc" whao... this is for real of what? So big gamble ha? Do not make such big promises to vn gals. If one day you can meet their request, they will say you xao nhieu nhieu.
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18-12-2009, 12:45 AM
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mmm this is my last ditch effort ... my gal is not a wl ..
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18-12-2009, 12:47 AM
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18-12-2009, 12:51 AM
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wl or not wl, also a gal. If you give such big promise to a gal but later cannot fulfill, everything comes to square one... she will still say you xao nhieu nhieu last ditch effort = desperate measure = no good end. I don't think it is a good way to hold back a gal.... sorry if i 'splash you cold water'
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18-12-2009, 12:58 AM
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i have not say to her(thinking)...cos ask her to meet she dun want ..say she will meet me if she can but not now.. i tink i had put in too much heart into her.. i think i dun really handle vn gals well hehe
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