Tieng Viet lovers club

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by ciongka

nice to meet up with u ydae jackbl

why jackbl always never want to jio me?

[jackbl]

Vietnam tunes in to skyscraper trend
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Property developers in Vietnam are apparently locked in a race to build skyscrapers as a stronger economy allows them to pursue expensive projects with modern construction technology, experts say.

Deputy Chairman of the Vietnam Construction Federation, Pham Sy Liem, said the trend of building skyscrapers that began in the US has swept across many countries around the world.

“Developers in each country try to build record-breaking skyscrapers,” he said, adding that these projects help make the country more famous.

For instance, Cambodia last week announced that it plans to construct Asia’s tallest building with a US$200 million skyscraper 555 meters high.

The project is expected top the Taipei 101 Tower, the Shanghai World Financial Centre and Kuala Lumpur’s Petronas Towers, which are also the world’s three tallest buildings after the 828-meter Burj Khalifa in Dubai.

Experts said the development of high rise buildings in Vietnam began around ten years ago, mainly in the country’s two largest cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

The new trend only came out in full bloom over the past couple of years.

Nguyen Lan, former Chief Architect in Hanoi, said limited construction skills had prevented the country from latching on to this trend sooner.

Now that the economy has expanded and new construction technology can be applied, it is easier for Vietnam to build skyscrapers with growing height, he said.

PetroVietnam Construction JSC, a subsidiary of state-owned Vietnam Oil and Gas Group, announced in July that it will build the country’s tallest tower in Hanoi with an investment of more than US$1 billion.

The 528-meter tower is expected to be completed by 2014.

If the plan goes ahead, the PVN Tower will surpass the 336-meter Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower, which has been holding the title of Vietnam’s highest building since its construction started in 2007. Hanoi Landmark Tower is scheduled for completion next year.

Meanwhile, Ho Chi Minh City is going to have its own tallest building when the 262.5-meter Bitexco Financial Tower opens in October.

Liem of the Construction Federation said Vietnam is getting closer to being among the countries with the highest buildings in the world.

Local developers are competing over height as they know that a new height record will be a really good hook for their marketing campaign, Liem said. “A height advantage means developers will find it easier to attract customers, especially buyers of apartments.”

Architect Lan however warned that while skyscrapers do not take over a large area of land, they can further strain public infrastructure.

Each city should consider all aspects carefully before licensing skyscraper projects, he said.

Reported by Quang Duan

[jackbl]

Mekong Delta looking forward to flood season
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VietNamNet Bridge – Farmers in the Mekong Delta are waiting for the flood season, which has been late for nearly two months. In the past, farmers caught shrimp and fish that were carried into paddy fields by floods.


Farmers in Mekong Delta provinces are facing a tough time caused by delayed floods. The flood season usually begins in early August and lasts around four months.

During this time last year, locals were busy after their fields were submerged in nearly two meters of floodwaters. The late arrival has also meant tools for catching shrimp and fish are not much in demand, with sales falling by more than half from normal years.

The flood season provides a living for 600,000-700,000 people in the province, who earn a cumulative 1.5 trillion dong (US$79 million).

If the floods do not appear, cultivation costs might increase during the upcoming winter-spring rice crop due to a lack of water for irrigation.

Le Van Banh, head of the Mekong Delta Rice Research Institute, says the floods deposit huge quantities of silt every year that fertilize 1.5 million hectares of paddies.

[jackbl]

People who want to open learning center or take up such courses in vn please take note.

Centre found training thousands of MBA’s illegally
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VietNamNet Bridge – There’s a joint training program that’s not appraised or authorized by Vietnam’s Ministry of Education and Training. Its method is to link with a distance learning institution in the US that does not have permission to operate in Vietnam. Notwithstanding these seemingly fatal handicaps, since 2002 this program has graduated about 2000 MBA’s,earning $18 million in tuition and fees.

The Vietnamese partner is the Centre for International Training Cooperation (CIEC), which was established under the umbrella of the prestigious, semi-official Vietnam Study Encouragement Society (Hội Khuyến Học). The American partner is ‘Columbia Southern University’ (CSU), a for-profit distance learning institution.



CSU – what is it?

Googling reveals that CSU was established in 1993 in the US to provide online training to people who want to earn degrees but cannot take time to study at schools. CSU claims to have a current enrollment of 23,000 students and to have developed “since 2004, Learning Partnerships with hundreds of companies, cities, and police and fire organizations around the world.” It also says that it is approved to provide training at US Department of Defense expense, and that about half of its students were previously in the American armed forces.

It appears that in contrast to some foreign training institutions exposed recently by the Vietnamese press, CSU is not a total fraud. However, according to College Board, a university entrance testing organization in the US, CSU has not been recognized by any prestigious accreditation organizations in the US. Only the ‘Distance Education and Training Council (DETC)’ recognizes CSU as a distance training establishment.

In principle, people who want to study in the US for a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree ought to score at least 600 points on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), have two years’ experience, get good scores on the GMAT (Graduated Management Admission Test), and have letters of recommendation from their undergraduate university professors.

CSU’s standards are considerably lower. Learners just need to have a TOEFL score of 530 or score 6.0 on the IELTS. The requirements for following the MBA training course at CSU are easier than the requirements set by an average traditional university in the US.

Although the study can help improve knowledge of learners, the degrees and certificates provided by such online training schools do not have much value. However, as will be seen, CSU had ideal conditions in Vietnam to develop its training programme.

CITC’s Role. Not revealing his identity, a Tien Phong reporter approached a representative of the Centre for International Training Cooperation (CITC), saying he wanted to register for the CSU master’s programme. Nguyen Ngoc Nha Truc of CITC told the reporter-learner that if learners cannot meet the English skills requirements, they can take a supplementary English class organized by CITC which would last three weeks and cost 1.5 million dong. After participating in that course, Truc said, the learners will be capable of joining the regular training programme.

The CSU training programme is not listed among the 121 foreign training programmes that the Ministry of Education and Training allows to operate in Vietnam.



The courses are lucrative as well as illegal

CITC says the legal basis that allows it to carry out the joint training programme is Dispatch No 8621 (September 27, 2002) of the Ministry of Education and Training.

However, Tien Phong learned that in the document, the Ministry only authorized the centre to “provide consultancy, introduce and provide information to Vietnamese learners about online training programmes of prestigious domestic and international training establishments.”

This time identifying themselves as reporters, Tien Phong staff contacted CITC’s southern office at 7 Nguyen Binh Khiem Street in HCM City. Nguyen Ba Dat, an official there, said the office only introduces training programmes and provides enrolment information to learners.

However, the incognito reporter who met Nguyen Ngoc Nha Truc, got quite different information from the centre. Learners have to enroll with CITC and pay tuition directly to the centre. Tuition for the MBA programme is $8230, which does not include the cost of textbooks, $600.

Tien Phong reports that since 2002, CITC has organized 20 training courses in both the north and south of the country for a total of 2000 learners, many of whom were staff of State agencies.



Source: Tien phong

[CuteBuns]

hmm, i need a little help on the overall meaning. I told the vb i like that i am going over HCM in late october. she replies:

"Ok anh lai goi cho em ang biet ko ngay 14.9. la ngay sinh nhut cua em ma em co mot minh ha buon qua di"

I guess " ok, you come give me a call and let me know..by 14 sep???......la day body......of mine......very sad....."

anyone can help fill in the blanks??

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by CuteBuns

"Ok anh lai goi cho em ang biet ko ngay 14.9. la ngay sinh nhut cua em ma em co mot minh ha buon qua di"

I guess " ok, you come give me a call and let me know..by 14 sep???......la day body......of mine......very sad....."

anyone can help fill in the blanks??

she said "did you know 14 sep her birthday alone very sad".

[CuteBuns]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

she said "did you know 14 sep her birthday alone very sad".

oh, thats birthday! ok, send appropriate KC message to her liao

Thanks hurricane!!

[SING_IN_HCMC]

Originally Posted by CuteBuns

oh, thats birthday! ok, send appropriate KC message to her liao

Thanks hurricane!!

Be careful hor, will be asking for "quà tặng ngày sinh" (birthday present)....you must arm yourself with reasons if you do not wish to be chopped...

[bangdoll1976]

Hi Bros,

Can you help to translate this msg to english? Recently, got to know a viet girl in Hanoi. But Her english is not so good.

"anh yeu oi dung suy nghi nhieu nua .co tinh yeu thoi la du roi .chung minh khong nen nghi qua nhieu ve cuoc song cu de moi dieu tu nhien nhu no von co minh hay song that tot ben nhau la duoc .co dong y tjhe khong anh.em khong muon vi suy nghi nhieu anh huong den suc khoe va cong viec cua anh .chung minh hay yeu va song ben nhau bang tam long va tinh yeu em chi can moi the xin anh dung suy nghi nhieu anh nhe."

Sorry to trouble bros who translate for me.. Thank you in advance.

[CuteBuns]

Originally Posted by SING_IN_HCMC

Be careful hor, will be asking for "quà tặng ngày sinh" (birthday present)....you must arm yourself with reasons if you do not wish to be chopped...

hahahaha, thanks for the warning. then again, I don't know her that well so its seems strange for her to try that on me. besides, I'm not going vietnam anytime soon. ehhhh, maybe she will ask for belated Birthday present!!

[CuteBuns]

Originally Posted by SING_IN_HCMC

Be careful hor, will be asking for "quà tặng ngày sinh" (birthday present)....you must arm yourself with reasons if you do not wish to be chopped...

think it came liao coz I saw the magic word "tien"....but does not seem to be asking for it leh based on the sentence.

Anh dang lam gi diem thoi cua em het tien roi ko goi cho anh duoc diem thoi cua em trai em anh di lam ve co met ko anh gi chua

"what you doing now...phone of mine to scream? money already....call give you duoc phone thoi of mine trai em..you come back from work? you eat already?

oops, think I decipher it liao in vdict. sounds like she changed phone number only...phew

[AdGuy]

Originally Posted by CuteBuns

think it came liao coz I saw the magic word "tien"....but does not seem to be asking for it leh based on the sentence.

Anh dang lam gi diem thoi cua em het tien roi ko goi cho anh duoc diem thoi cua em trai em anh di lam ve co met ko anh gi chua

"what you doing now...phone of mine to scream? money already....call give you duoc phone thoi of mine trai em..you come back from work? you eat already?

oops, think I decipher it liao in vdict. sounds like she changed phone number only...phew

Her phone's out of cash. This belongs to her bro. She asks if you are tired from work. The last part doesn't make sense but I suspect she's asking if u have eaten.

[CuteBuns]

Originally Posted by AdGuy

Her phone's out of cash. This belongs to her bro. She asks if you are tired from work. The last part doesn't make sense but I suspect she's asking if u have eaten.

Oh boy, I sent a mushy SMS over to her brother this morning!!!!

[AdGuy]

Originally Posted by CuteBuns

Oh boy, I sent a mushy SMS over to her brother this morning!!!!

Good luck! Hehe.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by CuteBuns

"Ok anh lai goi cho em ang biet ko ngay 14.9. la ngay sinh nhut cua em ma em co mot minh ha buon qua di"

I guess " ok, you come give me a call and let me know..by 14 sep???......la day body......of mine......very sad....."

Originally Posted by CuteBuns

Anh dang lam gi diem thoi cua em het tien roi ko goi cho anh duoc diem thoi cua em trai em anh di lam ve co met ko anh gi chua

alot of typo errors...also she dun write well...