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[Hurricane88]

LAst protest and rally against the SEZ..all involved are boat ppl no foreigners...

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Vietnam jails two American subversives for 14 years

By Lan Ngoc August 22, 2018 | 09:40 pm GMT+7

A court has found two Vietnamese Americans and 10 Vietnamese citizens guilty of trying to "overthrow the people’s administration."

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Wednesday sentenced Nguyen James Han, a 49-year-old man with dual American-Vietnamese citizenship, and Phan Angel, a 62-year-old American national of Vietnamese origin, to 14 years in prison followed by immediate deportation.


Phan Angel, a 62-year-old American national of Vietnamese origin. Photo by Huu Khoa


The court also sentenced the duo's 10 Vietnamese accomplices to 5-11 years in prison and 2-3 years of probation on the same charges.

The indictment said the defendants were members of the "Provisional National Government of Vietnam," an organization founded by Dao Minh Quan in the U.S., which aims to overthrow the Vietnamese government through violence and acts of terrorism.

Due to limited education, lack of legal knowledge and being exposed to bad information, the defendants had formed one-sided views and had blind faith in the organization's promises of titles and other recognitions, the court heard.

They distorted the Party and the State's policies, brought the organization's members to Vietnam and recruited locals to carry out activities aimed at overthrowing the people's administration, the indictment said.

It said that in February 2017, Phan and Nguyen returned to Vietnam with plans to sabotage the country's celebration of its Reunification Day on April 30 and the International Workers' Day on May 1.


Nguyen James Han, a 49-year-old man with dual American-Vietnamese citizenship. Photo by Huu Khoa

Phan was found to have contacted a number of the organization's members in Vietnam to carry out disruptive protests, preparing spray paints and 4,000 pamphlets for these events.

The group also allegedly planned to break into broadcasting stations to broadcast propaganda for Quan.

However, Vietnamese authorities successfully neutralized all of the organization's plans and arrested the 12 defendants between April 19 and May 17 2017.

In total, the group only managed to gather about 100 signatures in support of Quan, investigators said.

At the trial on Wednesday, 11 of the 12 defendants admitted to their crimes and asked for leniency, while Phan denied the charges.

The court concluded that the defendants' crimes were "especially serious" as they violated Vietnam's national security, political security, social order and safety and went against the country's national interests, meriting strict punishment.

Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security in January classified the "Provisional National Government of Vietnam" as a terrorist organization. It has been accused of being behind a petrol bomb attack that burnt 320 motorbikes at a police warehouse in Dong Nai Province in April 2017, as well as a failed terror attack on Tan Son Nhat Airport later that month.

The HCMC court had last December sentenced 15 Vietnamese to 5-16 years in prison for the two terror attacks.

Vietnamese authorities have also issued international arrest warrants against Quan and six others, all of whom are living in the U.S. or Canada.

[Hurricane88]

Haha...then I treat it like taxi leh...although recently I did ordered GrabFod..>

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Don’t treat ride-hailing firms as taxis, Vietnam government advised

By Nguyen Hoai, Minh Huong August 22, 2018 | 08:37 am GMT+7



Forcing ride-hailing cars to work like traditional taxis is a serious mistake revealing a non-innovative mindset, a leading economist says.

Nguyen Dinh Cung, director of the Central Institute of Economic Management (CIEM), criticized state agencies for a “managing mindset” that “is not yet innovated”.

Cung was referring to the latest draft decree on transportation management, which asks ride-hailing firms like Grab, Fastgo and Vietgo to comply with many conditions that are applied to normal transportation businesses like taxi companies.

He said firms that primarily used software cannot be called a transportation business and said the new move was not consistent with the country’s stated aim of removing at least 50 percent of current business conditions.

Cung told VnExpress that the state managers must also think in terms of the market from the perspective of facilitating new technologies and business models instead of using administrative procedures to intervene in their business.

While the latest draft has cut many conditions for the ride-hailing business, such as logos, paint colors, board signs, an operating center, communication equipment and uniforms for drivers, Cung said there were still several negative conditions.

For instance, the draft decree requires ride-hailing firms to send their transport contract information to the Transport Department before providing their service.

It also requires that ride-hailing firms have a team to manage and monitor traffic safety issues.

Cung said such conditions were meant to give authorities more room to intervene in the operations of the ride-hailing firms.

He has recommended to the Government Office that the draft is not approved and instead, the state tries to encourage new investment forms or business models with an open and fair environment in keeping with Industry 4.0 trends.

Even if they don’t want to encourage the new technology-based business yet, the laws should not do away with such business models with irrelevant, old conditions, he told VnExpress.

Prepared by the Ministry of Transport to replace the Decree 86/2014 on managing automobile transportation businesses, the fifth edition of the draft has been released for public feedback.

The tussle between ride-hailing cars and traditional taxis has not cooled after the exit of Uber from the Southeast Asian market in March. Taxi firms have continued to complain about the unfair competition they are facing.

They have also joined hands to fight the market onslaught of ride-hailing firms.

The ride-hailing market has seen new entrants after Uber’s departure, including Aber, Fastgo and GoViet, which is an affiliate of Indonesia’s Gojek.

Current market dominator Grab has expanded its service to include GrabFood and GrabCar Business, the latter targeting the corporate sector. These moves pose further challenges for long-standing taxi firms like Mai Linh, Taxi Group and Vinasun.

[Hurricane88]

‘Culture shocks’ jolt students returning to Vietnam

By Dat Nguyen August 22, 2018 | 08:05 am GMT+7

Many Vietnamese students are finding that their foreign degrees do not give them an automatic head start back home.

After four years of studying marketing at a university in the U.K., Pham Thi Thanh Huyen was looking forward, eagerly, to getting a dream job.

She’d worked hard to get an overseas degree and was ready to deploy her new knowledge and skills and reap its benefits.

However, the dream job has remained just that – a dream.

It took a year after returning for Huyen to eventually find a job at a bank, which pays her around VND10 million ($430) a month, just enough to cover basic living costs in the busy city of Hanoi, making the same money as peers who studied in the country.

“I find it hard to enjoy work as I’m only making enough to survive,” the 24-year-old said.

Huyen’s plight, and that of many others returning with foreign degrees, does not end with lower than expected pay packages.

They find that they there are other factors to finding jobs that they’d not considered before.

Many returnees find that the labor market in Vietnam doesn’t welcome them with special positions in companies. They come back to find that their foreign study has not added value to their resume.

“Most Vietnamese businesses don’t particularly prioritize recruiting returnees,” said Ngo Thi Ngoc Lan, regional director of Navigos Search, a leading provider of executive search services in Vietnam.

Applicants are recruited based on how well they suited the company, and not their studies abroad, Lan told VnExpress International.

For middle level management jobs, employers care more about how an individual solves a practical problem in the business than an overseas university degree she or he possesses, she added.

At Navigos, although many employees have studied in Europe, the U.S. and other Asian countries, “there is no special case when an employee was paid higher just because he or she studied abroad,” Lan said.

One of the reasons returnees struggle to find a suitable job in their own country is because they see themselves at a higher place than their local peers, Lan said.

In fact, an overseas degree can even become a disadvantage.

Some Vietnamese businesses don’t regard returnees highly because they usually demand a higher salary than they are worth, Lan added.

An applicant with a hospitality degree from Switzerland expects a salary from $600-$1,000 a month in Vietnam, but local hotels only employ them as waiters with a paycheck of $200-$300, she added.

Echoing Lan, Phan Truong Son, deputy director of a local technical company, said that his employees are paid according to their performance, not degrees.

Son rejected an applicant who came back from the U.S. a few months ago, because he asked for $1,000 a month while his capability was “not worth that much.”

A student who’s just graduated needs to start small with basic skills like writing an email, but many returnees are looking to jump right into strategic positions in the company and do bigger things, Son said.

“Their expectations are just too high,” he added.


Most Vietnamese businesses don’t particularly prioritize recruiting returnees,” according to Ngo Thi Ngoc Lan, regional director of Navigos Search. Photo by Reuters

A development gap

Another difficulty that returnees face in finding a right job is the underdevelopment of some industries in Vietnam compared to other parts of the world.

Foreign degree holders might see that things are done differently in Vietnam from what they learned overseas, said Kew Pham, a project manager at BMI, a U.K.-based organizer of international student fairs.

As their colleagues might be out of date with the latest inventions and trends, it can be a challenging work environment for talented returnees, she added.

For instance, derivatives, an investment tool that goes beyond simple stocks and bonds, “is a particular financial area that not many Vietnamese companies have stepped into,” said Nguyen Tri Hieu, an economist with over 30 years of banking experience in the U.S. and Vietnam.

For this reason, students who have majored in this area in other countries might find it very difficult to find a suitable job upon returning to the country, Hieu said.

However, the number of Vietnamese students going abroad has been increasing every year. Over 22,000 Vietnamese students attended colleges and universities in the U.S. last year, an increase for the 16th year in a row, according to the U.S.-based Institute of International Education.

In Japan, Vietnam was ranked second in the number of foreign students, which was over 61,000 last year, over thirteen times higher than 2011, according to the Japan Student Services Organization.

Vietnam sent over 130,000 students abroad in 2016, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

There’s hope, too

But not all returnees find coming back to Vietnam a disappointing experience, said La Linh Nga, director of the Psycho-Pedagogy Research and Application Center in Hanoi (PPRAC).

Those who have set clear targets when studying abroad can find the transitioning process easy and even rewarding, said Nga, who often counsels these returnees.

Minh Giang, who returned to Vietnam from the U.K. two years ago, still finds the country “fun and exciting.”

He plans to open his own business soon, which was the plan even before he went abroad to study. In fact, it was the reason he went abroad in the first place.

Giang has not applied for a conventional job to climb up the corporate ladder, as he knew the work environment would not meet his expectations. But he remained upbeat.

“There are still a lot of opportunities in Vietnam, and with a positive attitude, returnees can find them.”

[iicycold]

ao ba ba beauty....lol...

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can buy em off the streets in wetnam...lol...hopefully nt expensive...lol

[iicycold]

Posting a fun video 2 share share 4 fun...watch 0.45s....lol



enjoy ya...lol

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by iicycold

Posting a fun video 2 share share 4 fun...watch 0.45s....lol



enjoy ya...lol

alo abang...lidat you shiok ha...I ever seen whole strip lah...very common...

[iicycold]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

alo abang...lidat you shiok ha...I ever seen whole strip lah...very common...

can see a bit,cannot see bit...like tat more shiok ma...lol...at least i knw these gers i cn't see em fully naked online ma...lol...it's like abalone aso got mani kind,not every kind u eat b4...rite?

fully naked u see one time aldy u probably wn't see agn aso...mayb see 2 times aldy might totally feel sian 2....lol,tis kind a bit abit see....will long 4 more de....lol

[sohbuckkong]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

LAst protest and rally against the SEZ..all involved are boat ppl no foreigners...

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Vietnam jails two American subversives for 14 years

By Lan Ngoc August 22, 2018 | 09:40 pm GMT+7

A court has found two Vietnamese Americans and 10 Vietnamese citizens guilty of trying to "overthrow the people’s administration."

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Wednesday sentenced Nguyen James Han, a 49-year-old man with dual American-Vietnamese citizenship, and Phan Angel, a 62-year-old American national of Vietnamese origin, to 14 years in prison followed by immediate deportation.


Phan Angel, a 62-year-old American national of Vietnamese origin. Photo by Huu Khoa


The court also sentenced the duo's 10 Vietnamese accomplices to 5-11 years in prison and 2-3 years of probation on the same charges.

The indictment said the defendants were members of the planned to break into broadcasting stations to broadcast propaganda for Quan.

Hn .

Whilst it is true that it's quite scary when we think of the communists, the Americans n it's western allies are not angelic communities too.

It's time d world remove the curtains off the face of the Americans to reveal the truth of who they are and what's their intention in their quest to hold the whole world hostage in the name of world peace and the wars that would end all wars.

It would be a fool for any nation to believe that the americans could possess weapons n chemicals of mass destructions but we could not so as to hv world peace and order.

Let it be known that the Americans refused to sign a treaty amongst all nations to ban all types of weapons of mass destruction.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by iicycold

fully naked u see one time aldy u probably wn't see agn aso...mayb see 2 times aldy might totally feel sian 2....lol,tis kind a bit abit see....will long 4 more de....lol

Agreed that....

Sharing is caring...

[sohbuckkong]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Agreed that....

Sharing is caring...

[sam.....

Wow, this one is really solid.

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

So Long I make money for boss no care about me...

Wah Ah Long boss ah????

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[Justin Bieber]

Originally Posted by iicycold

Posting a fun video 2 share share 4 fun...watch 0.45s....lol



enjoy ya...lol

Is this the latest trend for young Vietnamese girls to post such kinds of videos?

Sorry I am new to Vietnam so just curious

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Wah Ah Long boss ah????

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

I almost making a police report in each country to file a missing person...luckily you posted and I stopped...

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by v.killers

You are the boss of the company why can’t? 🤔

Haiz.......so many days never log in to post cum today then know kena suan by the super rich Mr 212.......so pai say........

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by Justin Bieber

Is this the latest trend for young Vietnamese girls to post such kinds of videos?

Sorry I am new to Vietnam so just curious

nope...this has started way back when FB and smartphone hit Vietnam...I seen more sexy strips...anyway there is no free lunch...all these are trying to seduce you to call her to chat and you pay for their services to chat...the gal in video may not be the person you chatting...dun be surprised you are chatting with pede...

Other videos are to sell sex and to find clients...but most of these had been flushed away by the FB admin...

Now many are selling apparels or wares on video in FB...