Tieng Viet lovers club

[lovesprout]

Originally Posted by jackbl

IMHO, i think the word sao below should be sau.

If i hv sth, then i will call u later.

You make a good point here. But when I checked my sms, the girls did use "sao" instead of "sau". Let me check with some native speakers again and get back to this forum later. These long-hair teachers can also make mistakes.

Here are the original sms from two different girls:

1. "em dang di dat ve may bay. Em se nhan tin lai cho anh sao nha" (I am going to book airticket. I will sms you again later, OK?)

2. "ngay mai gap lai anh sao nha" (Tomorrow I will see you again, OK?)

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by lovesprout

No wonder your tieng viet is so good! Because whenever you take your tieng viet lesson, you never harass the female teacher or ask her to do something else. You just go everyday and take your lesson with the teacher with good manners and respect. You are such a good student!

No wonder my tieng viet never improve.
Not a good student.
Always harassing for something else

[jackbl]

Twenty children die a day due to accidents
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VietNamNet Bridge – There were nearly 76,000 accidental injuries among children in 2008, with the worst statistics coming from the Red River Delta, Southeastern and the Mekong Delta regions, reported the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) at a seminar on December 3.

Reports at the national seminar on prevention of accidental injuries in children, held by the MoLISA, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), showed that in 2005-2006, the number of children dying from drowning accounted for more than 51 percent of all deaths from accidents. Elsewhere traffic accidents deaths were at 23 percent with others including burning, electric shocks and explosions.

Experts said that accidental injuries among children constitutes a social issue, and requires a strong determination from relevant ministries and organizations to get to the root of the problem.

Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Dam Huu Dac said a number of programmes to prevent accidental injuries among children have been implemented in recent years. In 2001, the Prime Minister approved a national policy on prevention of accidental injuries among children for the 2002-2010 period.

According to Dac, over the past eight years of implementing the policy, 43 provinces and cities have established steering boards and over 50 provincial Departments of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs have developed action plans to prevent accidental injuries among children.

PV

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by lovesprout

No wonder your tieng viet is so good! Because whenever you take your tieng viet lesson, you never harass the female teacher or ask her to do something else. You just go everyday and take your lesson with the teacher with good manners and respect. You are such a good student!

Originally Posted by KangTuo

No wonder my tieng viet never improve.
Not a good student.
Always harassing for something else

Impress the teacher, then she will be the one to harass u, make her move, rubba u, then when she cant tahan, she jio u go out After that i will be a BAD student liao

[jackbl]

Biz opp for IT :

Hackers besiege HCM City business
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VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City firms are failing to adequately protect themselves from hackers, according to the municipal Information and Communications Department.

Ngo Vi Dong, chairman of the Viet Nam Information Security Association (VNISA)'s southern branch, said security systems at the majority of 200 businesses inspected in the south were failing to invest enough in anti-hacker software.

"Up to 34 per cent of businesses had their sites hacked in the first six months of this year. Around 38 per cent of them were not aware that they had even been hacked. The figures last year were 28 and 26 per cent respectively," Dong said.

Dong said hackers tended to attack not only information systems and databases of private firms but those of State agencies as well.

He said they used a variety of mean to bypass security measures, such as spyware, adware, software, Trojan horses and key loggers.

"However, half of the businesses inspected had no policies or budgets for information security," he said.

He added that only 10 per cent of inspected firms that had been hacked had reported the matter because they were afraid it would detrimentally affect their image.

Recently, the department in co-ordination with the Ministry of Public Security's Economic Crime Police Bureau, took action against Fibo company for hacking into the Queen Bee company's main server using the so-called distributed denial-of-service (DDOS), which makes a company's data unavailable to intended users, and botnet, which is a hidden programme.

An investigation showed that Fibo had been attacking the company over a long period of time.

Nguyen Duong Vu, the company's director, admitted the offence.

According to Tran Anh Minh, general secretary of the association, high-tech crime fell into two categories.

The first involved sending viruses to computer databases or networks in an attempt to steal, attack information system and DDOS.


VietNamNet/Viet Nam News

Originally Posted by jackbl

ok noted. Below 1 article for business venture opportunity :

Vietnamese players prefer online games: survey
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[jackbl]

IMHO, the translation for below could be:

I have go work, very busy therefore until now then can sms for u, why u no sleep?

Originally Posted by Thom07

2) e co di lam, ban wa cho nen toi gio moi nhan tin cho a ne a ko ngu sao

[casannova03]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Corruption is everywhere in VN!!!

Health sector afflicted by corruption malaise
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I have had 1st hand experience with regards to this man!!!

$$ really makes them work.

My daughter was brought to the hospital for a severe bout of diarrhea and vommiting and this resulted in the infection of the nervous system and caused fits!! Can u imagine how worried I was in their A & E? But the docs just sat round reading magazines and eating fruits and told me to wait!!??

Then when money was paid, suddenly my daughter became the most important patient in th whole A & E!!

Its a very sad but true fact!!!

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by casannova03

I have had 1st hand experience with regards to this man!!!

$$ really makes them work.

My daughter was brought to the hospital for a severe bout of diarrhea and vommiting and this resulted in the infection of the nervous system and caused fits!! Can u imagine how worried I was in their A & E? But the docs just sat round reading magazines and eating fruits and told me to wait!!??

Then when money was paid, suddenly my daughter became the most important patient in th whole A & E!!

Its a very sad but true fact!!!

Hope your daughter is fine now...how much do you have to bribe them...

[jackbl]

Government signs on students, teachers for corruption fight
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The Prime Minister has approved the introduction of anti-corruption studies at several kinds of educational institutions to increase the awareness and responsibility of officials, teachers, and students in fighting graft.

The syllabuses for schools, colleges, and universities as well as schools of administration and professional management for Party, Government, and social and political workers, and military academies are expected to be changed by 2011.

It is expected to highlight the harmful effects of corruption and shape the attitude of students towards it.

The Government plans to improve the capacity of teachers to serve the anti-corruption efforts.

By L.Nguyen – Translated by Kim Khanh

Originally Posted by casannova03

I have had 1st hand experience with regards to this man!!!

$$ really makes them work.

Its a very sad but true fact!!!

[CuteBuns]

"Anh dug dan em nha em xin loi anh nha"

anyone can make any sense of above sentence? I checked vdict but there is no "dug" word. "Dan" has so many meanings. "Xn loi" is sorry rite, but what the meaning of "I am sorry your home"???

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by CuteBuns

"Anh dug dan em nha em xin loi anh nha"

anyone can make any sense of above sentence? I checked vdict but there is no "dug" word. "Dan" has so many meanings. "Xn loi" is sorry rite, but what the meaning of "I am sorry your home"???

dug = dung = don't
dan = gian = angry

you don't angry me, I sorry you.

[CuteBuns]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

dug = dung = don't
dan = gian = angry

you don't angry me, I sorry you.

so thats what it means! Thanks KangTuo

[jackbl]

Losing currency
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A plan to boost the economy with low-denomination coins has been less than successful.

In daily transactions, most people don’t want to use coins because they are so cheap and easily become rusty

Vietnam’s coin currency has failed to jingle with people preferring not to own cheap and rusty coins.

At the ongoing National Assembly session, a deputy questioned the State Bank of Vietnam governor Nguyen Van Giau over the absence of coins from local transactions.

The question recalled for me an event five years ago when Le Duc Thuy, the then governor of the central bank, introduced a handful of new low-denomination coins, guaranteeing that they help the economy a lot, especially with vending machines.

The former governor’s enthusiasm and optimism seems to have been misplaced. Coins have not become a widely used currency so far. In fact they seem to have disappeared silently.

Some experts say people have lost their interest in the metal currency because of its low-quality material and low denominations.

Tran Du Lich, deputy head of the Ho Chi Minh City legislature delegation, said no one can feel happy keeping a coin cheap and rusty.

Lich said the currency value of the coins is low, so their construction quality has to be low.

However, the central bank in 1958 was very successful issuing coins worth 2 xu* and 5 xu. They were shining and beautiful.

People in Hanoi these days are decorating their bicycles with those coins, which until now still clearly read “National Bank of Vietnam 1958” as though they were minted yesterday.

Governor Giau’s response, telecast live, that the bank will revoke rusty coins and continue to have others circulated, is not satisfactory.

Vietnam’s currency is part of the country’s prestige. Vietnamese people have the right to use beautiful and valuable money that they can be proud of.

By Luu Quang Pho

*xu to dong in Vietnam currency is like cent to dollar in the US.

[jackbl]

Dong slump pushes consumer prices up
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The fall of the dong has consumers beginning to feel the pinch as importers and producers raise prices, passing on dollar hike costs to end-users.

A survey by Thanh Nien found that since the one-off devaluation of the dong last week, prices have surged at least 5 percent among heavily imported consumer goods including confectionery, beverages, dairy products and electronics items.

Vu Thi Hau, general deputy director of Nhat Nam Company, which owns the Fivimart supermarket chain, said many suppliers had informed her company of possible price hikes of between 10 and 20 percent. Prices of domestic products made with imported materials are also expected to rise, she said.

Cars and construction materials are affected by a stronger dollar as well. Prices of Toyota cars, for instance, have gone up by VND84.6 million (US$4,600) per unit. A ton of construction steel costs an additional VND300,000 ($16.4) since November 30.

The central bank last week devalued the dong by more than 5 percent against the dollar. The move saw the local currency weaken to 18,500 immediately.

As of Thursday morning the exchange rate of the dong was 18,478 per dollar, according to Bloomberg data. This compares with an unofficial rate of about 19,460 per dollar at forex traders, according to telephone information service 1080. A month ago, the dollar was around VND19,000 ($1.04) on the black market.

Huynh Van Thi, director of Petrosetco, a computer and mobile phone distributor, said although import prices in the US dollar remained unchanged, a higher exchange rate left his company no choice but to set retail prices higher.

Fearing sales will be hurt, many other companies say they are trying everything possible to keep prices stable. However, they are not certain for how long they can manage to do so.

Cold feet

Local consumers are well accustomed to price hikes nearing Tet, the Lunar New Year. But with the next Tet still more than two months away, many people say they have been caught off guard by the rapid increase in prices.

A Tuoi Tre report said electronic sales are hit the hardest as consumers decide to put off purchases, unwilling to pay more for a product which was much cheaper just days earlier.

A consumer in Ho Chi Minh City, who wanted to be identified as Hong, told Thanh Nien she already planned to tighten her belt until Tet as she did not want to use her family’s savings.

Economist Nguyen Van Thuan, head of the finance and banking department at the Open University in HCMC, said price hikes are inevitable outcomes of a weakening dong against the US dollar.

“The important thing is local consumers will react to the hikes by cutting back on spending, which can hurt economic growth,” Thuan said.

Le Tham Duong, a professor at the HCMC Banking University, said price increases are “side effects” of the recent changes in monetary policies.

The rise in borrowing costs and US dollars would increase production costs and hence consumer prices, Duong said.

Last week the State Bank of Vietnam also increased the benchmark rate to 8 percent from 7 percent, amid concerns about quickening inflation. Consumer prices gained 4.4 percent in November from a year earlier, the biggest increase since May.

“Without good business plans, local producers will face a lot of difficulties when sales are down and their stockpiles grow,” Duong said.

Positive move

The dong devaluation last week is a positive move helping to narrow the gap between the official and black-market exchange rates for the Vietnamese currency, experts say.

The move is a response to reality and it should have been introduced earlier to ease pressure on the currency market, said Hoang Huu Phuoc, chairman of Mya Business Corporation.

Duong said the local market was facing a tough situation in which the supply and demand for dollars were not in line, causing the dollar hike in the black market.

The government adjustment in the exchange rate would help ease the situation, giving local businesses a better chance to approach dollar supplies, he said.

The central bank’s decision was supported by other measures, including asking state corporations to sell dollars to the bank and forcing commercial banks to strictly follow official exchange rates. The central bank also said it would sell US dollars to commercial banks that have a foreign-currency deficit of more than 5 percent to help stabilize the market.

[jackbl]

Vietnam says inflation may accelerate to February
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Vietnam’s inflation will likely accelerate until February, the country’s Finance Ministry said, citing stronger consumer and industrial demand.


The country’s year-on-year inflation rate reached 4.35 percent in November, the third straight increase and the highest figure since May. The figure is likely to rise to “double digits” by next year, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.

“The consumer price index’s sharp rise comes from three reasons: first, increased domestic demand; second, a price increase for materials and fuels for production; and third, high credit growth,” the Finance Ministry said in a note distributed at a conference in Hanoi.

Until February 2010, “consumption demand and the demand for construction materials in the dry season will continue to scale up, putting pressure on the consumer price index,” the Finance Ministry said.

The consumer price index will also be driven up by the “delayed impact” of monetary and fiscal policies, the Finance Ministry said. Vietnam’s central bank lowered its benchmark lending rate from 14 percent in October 2008 to 7 percent in February 2009 and held the rate there until announcing an increase last week to 8 percent.

Vietnam’s trade deficit is also a “concern,” the Finance Ministry said, citing a trend toward stronger imports of consumer goods.

Source: Bloomberg