Tieng Viet lovers club

[jackbl]

Vietnam is the 2nd largest rain exporter after Thailand in SEA.... if there is shortage, it may also affect the selling price to SGP....

Floodwaters cause heavy damage to rice in Tien Giang, Dong Thap
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Nhan Dan – 120 hectares of the newly-planted winter-spring rice were submerged due to a prolonged heavy rain in the past few days in Lap Vo district, Dong Nai province. 10 – 30% of this total area has been damaged.

Pumping stations in the district are currently draining off the water in order to plant rice seeds.

1000 hectares of the newly – sown winter-spring rice were also damaged by a prolonged rain coupled with floodwaters in interior field slowly receding in Cai Be district, Tien Giang province.

At present, the farmers in these districts are lacking in rice seeds to sow in the second phase due to the higher price of rice seeds while a big volume of rice for sale remains in stock.

[jackbl]

Any kind soul who would be able to translate the below sentence for member bryanlewis??

"Thoi a ngu di dung lam e tuc gian. E ko biet gi ve no dau. Ma that ra a e minh doi xu voi nhau ntn moi la tot. E hieu ma."

Bryanlewis, are u able to tell us the sentence u sms her before she reply u?

[bryanlewis]

Thanks but no. This message came out of the blue.

[jackbl]

Oic, let's wait for bro sha_gua75, leeson, rjrj, vietnamlover, casanova03, technofreak, retsoor, etc... They possessed higher level of the language....


Thoi a ngu di dung lam e tuc gian=Anyway u go sleep, dun make me get angry.

Originally Posted by bryanlewis

Thanks but no. This message came out of the blue.

[jackbl]

Hi all and everyone,

I need your help to translate the below:

"Con viec kg on dinh ti nao"

I asked the gal "How's your work?" and the above is what she replied me..

I only know "My work is NOT stable .. "

May i know what is TI NAO?

Originally Posted by jackbl

Oic, let's wait for bro sha_gua75, leeson, KANGTUO, rjrj, vietnamlover, casanova03, technofreak, retsoor, etc... They possessed higher level of the language....

[the_e_ones]

Good news for Vietnam lovers... sourced from Thanh Nien Daily dated 07 Dec 08

Cheers and enjoy...

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Hotels wary of economic slowdown, don’t plan rate hikes

Vietnamese hotels are not planning to increase room tariffs by much next year as occupancy rates dip as a fallout of the global economic slowdown, the industry association said.

In fact, many have decided to keep them unchanged or even reduce them.

Tao Van Nghe, chairman of the 42-member Ho Chi Minh City Hotel Association and general director of the five-star Majestic Hotel, said his and many other hotels do not plan to hike rates.

A few may put up their prices, but only by 5-7 percent and not tens of percentage points as in the past.

Le Hoang Yen, chairwoman of Vina Media Corporation, said: “We used to find it hard to convince hotels to reduce tariffs, but some say now they will lower room rates next year.”

Vo Anh Tai, director of Saigontourist Company, said some hotels agreed to cut room rates after reviewing 2009 contracts with his firm.

Since the tourism industry is now in a tight spot, Tai said service providers should cooperate to lower prices.

Airlines flying to Vietnam should reconsider fares since global oil prices have plummeted, he said.

“I mentioned this to a Vietnam Airlines deputy general director and he agreed with me,” Tai said.

Bui Viet Thuy Tien, director of Asian Trails Company, said her firm has convinced four- and five-star hotels in HCMC and Hanoi to cut their 2009 rates by 5-10 percent but those in the central region have yet to announce their plans.

The tariff cut helped send tour prices down by 10 percent, she said, adding her company is now trying to persuade transport companies to follow suit so that tour prices could become even cheaper.

The number of tour bookings for winter 2008-spring 2009 has plunged by 25-40 percent, she said.

Her European partners expect the tourism industry to bounce back by 2010, she said.

In HCMC, five-star rooms cost more than VND2.6 million per night on average, or 35 percent up from the same period last year.

Four-star rooms cost VND1.84 million, or 68 percent up, and three-star rooms around VND910,000 (US$53), or 47 percent up.

Nghe said hotels could earn profits if occupancy levels top 65 percent.

Dietmar Kielnhofer, general manager of the Sheraton Hotel Saigon, expected the hotel industry to start slowly next year, but pick up by the third quarter when the economic situation stabilizes.

John Gardner, general manager of the Caravelle Hotel, said his hotel is preparing to cut costs next year since business is likely to be down, but he does not expect the situation to be disastrous.

[jackbl]

Yummy......

Food festival kicks off in City
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The annual food festival ‘Tastes of the World - 2008’ opened in Van Thanh Tourist Park, 48/10 Dien Bien Phu Street, Binh Thanh District, HCM City, yesterday, 5/12/2008.

21 hotels and restaurants from 16 countries joined together to take part in the festival with many local restaurants from eight cities and provinces nationwide.

The highlight of this year’s festival is the World Food Culture Center (WFCC) of South Korea, which will introduce royal dishes promoted in the well-known TV film ‘Dea Jang Gum’.

Aside from featuring traditional cuisine of participating countries, the event also showcases their traditional arts including folk music and games.

Today, a seminar on modern and traditional Korean – Vietnamese cuisines will be held by the Vietnam Cuisine Research Institute with the participation of 20 Korean chefs.

Jointly organized by the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Vietnam Tourism and Association and Saigontourist Holding Company, the festival continues until December 12.

By M. Hanh – Translated by Phuong Lan

[jackbl]

Bro Bird, can you update us on what actually happened???

Originally Posted by birdie8819

Oi !!!!! Bro wat time you left last night arh ...... you saw the raid bo around 10 plus ????

First time I see it in L42 ..... at first I tot wat happen ...... suddenly so many girls ran about ..... actually they should just get to know some customers at the coffeeshop and sit around ..... can see some ran to the condo behind BUT those officers followed them in the end also got caught and upz the van .

[jackbl]

Thats what our teens do a decade or 2 ago .......


Glue sniffing on rise amongst HCMC youth
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Glue sniffing appears to be an alarming new trend amongst many Ho Chi Minh City youth looking for a cheap high.

Teens report “ecstatic” feelings after inhaling the fumes from industrial-strength glue squeezed into plastic bags.

The glues are sold in stores around the city ranging from VND2,000-17,000 (US$0.12-1) depending on the tubes’ weight, according to S., a self-proclaimed addict in the city’s Tan Binh District.

S. said his glue-sniffing group had more than 100 members, most in their teens. He said one VND2,000 tube could be inhaled over 30 minutes while a tube costing around VND6,000-7,000 could be sniffed over an hour or more.

One morning early this week, reporters witnessed a group of six adolescents, including both males and females, sniffing glue out of bags in an Internet shop in Tan Phu District.

Outside the shop, tens of glue tubes were scattered on the ground.

Fifteen-year-old T. said they were just sniffing glue, not drugs.

Th., a girl in the group, said the cheap glue could produce feelings of euphoria and was less costly than other drugs.

T. said the group had been sniffing glue for months after being taught how to do it by older peers.

Local store owners said they regularly sold glue to many adolescents – sometimes tens of tubes at a time.

One store owner on Au Co Street, who wished to be unnamed, said that since 2006 he had discovered several teens purchasing glue to get high and had informed local police.

A vendor on Huynh Van Chinh Street said a group of about 10 youngsters gathers daily in a yard in font of the Huynh Van Chinh apartment block to sniff glue.

Many local residents had approached the group to warn them of the dangers, the vendor said, but received threats of attack from the group members.

A retired state worker living in the block said that in 2006, there were just a few glue sniffers in the area but now the number had risen to hundreds.

A police officer in the district said the local police department was aware of the dangers of glue sniffing. He said tests showed the glues contained harmful chemicals which affected the nervous system in similar ways to other street drugs.

But according to the officer, law enforcement is powerless to stop the practice as glue is not classified as an illegal “drug.”

Toxic effects

Reporters brought two types of glues – reportedly the most popular amongst teens – to the Hai Dang Joint-Stock Company which performs laboratory tests on substances to analyze their chemical make-up.

Test results showed that one of the glue brands contained at least three toxic substances including methylene choloride, ethyl acetate and toluene. The other brand contained the same substances as well as cyclohexane.

Professor Chu Pham Ngoc Son, technical consultant for the company, said each of the toxic chemicals were capable of producing euphoric feelings but that no research had been done on the effects of the combined substances.

Nguyen Huu Duc from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmaceuticals said glue sniffing can become highly addictive.

In addition to the short-term pleasurable feelings these chemicals induce, glue fumes can also cause drowsiness, fatigue, dizziness, depression, delusion, insanity, and even unconsciousness and death following a high level of exposure.

Duc added that Vietnam hasn’t got any statistics on glue sniffing yet.

Source: Tuoi Tre

[jackbl]

Scary case ....

Doctors didn’t steal kidney, says hospital
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A southern metro-based obstetrics hospital has denied a patient’s allegations that doctors took out her kidney during an ovarian tumor surgery, according to a press conference held on Wednesday.


“We confirm that with an ovarian tumor surgery, it is impossible to take a kidney,” representatives from Hung Vuong Obstetrics Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 said. There was “no mistake in the surgery,” the hospital said.

Ovaries and kidneys are located 25 to 30 centimeters apart, so surgeons could not remove the kidney through the incision made to operate on an ovarian tumor, the hospital’s director Tran Son Thach said.

“Moreover, the operation lasted 85 minutes for surgeons to remove the tumor, cut out the ovaries and other related parts, so it is not long enough to take the kidney,” he told the conference held in HCMC.

More importantly, obstetricians do not have expertise in removing kidneys, according to Thach.

Urinary Department Head Tran Ngoc Sinh from Cho Ray Hospital who was invited to the conference, said patient N.T.N.T was given spinal anesthesia during the surgery, while kidney surgery requires complete anesthesia.

In addition, for kidney surgery, surgeons have to make an incision in the patient’s back, Sinh said. For ovarian tumor surgery, the incision is made in the lower abdomen.

The medical waste from the operation has also been identified as an ovarian tumor, not a kidney, Sinh said.

T., 53, complained to news agencies on Monday that she underwent ovarian surgery on November 26 last year at Hung Vuong Obstetrics Hospital and was released in December.

On November 2 last year T. had her health checked at the HCMC’s Medic Diagnosis Center. The test results showed she had a large ovarian tumor, while she was not suffering from kidney stones.

However, when she had a check-up at the medical center in October this year, the results said she didn’t have a left kidney.

She thought the test results might be wrong so she got a second test at Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital last month, which confirmed that she only had one kidney, making her believe the surgeons at Hung Vuong Obstetrics Hospital had stolen her other one.

Some experts supposed that T. had been born with only one kidney, and the 20-centimeter ovarian tumor had concealed the missing kidney in the scans. The rate of people born with one kidney in the world is one in every 1,100, which is not that rare, according to Sinh.

Thach told the conference that they still needed to contact the patient to give her more details.

Reported by Thanh Tung

[rjrj]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Hi all and everyone,

I need your help to translate the below:

"Con viec kg on dinh ti nao"

I asked the gal "How's your work?" and the above is what she replied me..

I only know "My work is NOT stable .. "

May i know what is TI NAO?

"ti nao" or "chut nao" i think its like "at all"..so that sentence could be translated as "my work is not stable at all"

same as:

"em khong thich ti nao" = i don't like it at all



bro i think we havevn't met..i'm not an active member

[rjrj]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Any kind soul who would be able to translate the below sentence for member bryanlewis??

"Thoi a ngu di dung lam e tuc gian. E ko biet gi ve no dau. Ma that ra a e minh doi xu voi nhau ntn moi la tot. E hieu ma."

Bryanlewis, are u able to tell us the sentence u sms her before she reply u?

e ko biet gi ve no dau = i don't know anything about it

"Ma that ra a e minh doi xu voi nhau ntn moi la tot":

ma that ra = in fact
a e minh = we
doi xu voi nhau = treat each other
ntn = nhu the nay = like this
moi la = ?
tot = good

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by the_e_ones

Good news for Vietnam lovers... sourced from Thanh Nien Daily dated 07 Dec 08

Cheers and enjoy...

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Hotels wary of economic slowdown, don’t plan rate hikes

Vietnamese hotels are not planning to increase room tariffs by much next year as occupancy rates dip as a fallout of the global economic slowdown, the industry association said.

Great news -thank you for sharing...

[casannova03]

Originally Posted by rjrj

e ko biet gi ve no dau = i don't know anything about it

"Ma that ra a e minh doi xu voi nhau ntn moi la tot":

ma that ra = in fact
a e minh = we
doi xu voi nhau = treat each other
ntn = nhu the nay = like this
moi la = ?
tot = good

good work there bro!!

[VietnamLover]

Vietnamese: Sai đâu toi sửa đấy cơ mà
English: Which place is wrong, I fix that.

Vietnamese: Thoi a ngu di dung lam e tuc gian. E ko biet gi ve no dau. Ma that ra a e minh doi xu voi nhau ntn moi la tot. E hieu ma.
English: You go sleep. Don't make me upset. I don't know anything about it. In fact, how we treat each other is good. I understand.

Vietnamese: cong viec kg on dinh ti nao
English: The job is not stable at all.