Tieng Viet lovers club

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Originally Posted by deptrai4u

The girl name is MY

the message is :

Wah, like that also can ah!!??? Still got face to meet My meh?

wow u too pro

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Originally Posted by utd4ever59

Nhu the ma khieu dam ah? dung la ko co con mat tham my.
Can any sifu help to translate it to me. Thks

My firend's wife just translate for me:

Like that also not sexy, your eyes dun see so dun understand.

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Originally Posted by utd4ever59

Nhu the ma khieu dam ah? dung la ko co con mat tham my.

Let me join in the fun:

Like that also sexy huh? Exactly dun have eyes that can differentiate beauty.

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Originally Posted by KangTuo

that day asked you what special day is 6 June, you don't tell me
how come today also special day? sooooo many special days in vn huh?

When the day comes I will release the answer

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Originally Posted by utd4ever59

Can any sifu help to translate it to me. Thks

Tell your gal, her SMS has different version of translation. Please come out and verify

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Originally Posted by vagrant

It is your vietnam family day - Ngày gia đình Việt Nam

not only mine lah....its for everybody that has Vietnamese "family members"....kekeke....

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Originally Posted by utd4ever59

Nhu the ma khieu dam ah? dung la ko co con mat tham my.
Can any sifu help to translate it to me. Thks

My version

Like that also called sexy? Dung (name or 'don't' ) is don't have taste.

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Growing trend.........

Parents say one child is enough
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For older generations, the traditional nuclear family is all about married couples with at least two children living under the same roof.

For many young modern couples, however, two children are just too much.

"I'm done after one," says Nguyen Thu Huong, owner of a beauty salon in Hanoi and mother of a seven-year-old son when asked about her plans to have another child.

"Both of us (she and her husband) work full-time and we found the first years of parenthood quite hard. We sometimes worry our child won't have enough company, but we'd rather spend quality time focusing on one," she says.

Huong is not alone. A lot of young couples no longer put much store in the old saying ‘the more, the merrier'. Instead, parents of one child are likely to describe multiple-children families as ‘crowded', ‘overloaded', or ‘stressful'.

"You may not be aware of it, but having many children means you have to divide your love, time, attention and money among your beloved. I prefer focusing all my resources and parenting potential on just the one child," says Tran Minh Nam , who enjoys being the parent of a single daughter.

For Nam , the best way to raise his ten-year-old child is to give her the best he can. This includes sending her to an international standard school in the city, letting her go to summer camps in the UK every year and creating a fund for her to study abroad.

"I could hardly make ends meet if I had a second child. You may think that an only child always means a lonely child, but taking away privileges from this child is not an idea for me," he says.

Director of the Ministry of Health's General Office for Population Family Planning Duong Quoc Trong has said having just the one child is a growing trend in Vietnam 's big cities.

Figures from the 2009 Census of Population and Housing showed that the fertility rate, or the total number of births per women aged 15-49 years, averaged 1.8 in big cities and was as low as 1.45 in HCM City.

Meanwhile, the figure in rural areas remained relatively high at 2.15.

UNFPA Assistant Representative Tran Thi Van tells the online newspaper vnexpress.net that the double income one kid trend which had played out in many developed nations was now making headway in Vietnam.

Financial burdens and pressures, the result of modern life in big cities, are given as the cause for the move towards having just one child.

"Obviously, bringing up a child the best way possible makes young couples exhausted and hesitant to have more kids," she says.

Trong says his office has spent the last 50 years aiming for a rapid reduction in the nation's fertility rate. However, changes over new lifestyles and family sizes would require a more flexible policy in the future.

"Management of population growth rate is a little like control over monetary policies. You have to tighten and loosen as necessary. Several provinces need to lower their fertility rates, some are just fine, and in big cities it might be necessary to encourage people to give birth in the next five or ten years," he says.

Source: VietnamPlus

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Raising Vietnamese’s height: over-target?
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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a strategy to improve Vietnamese’s height by 2020. VietNamNet introduces an article by expert Nguyen Van Tuan about this strategy.

Tuan said that based on local and international medical history, this goal seems to be unfeasible.

According to the above strategy, the average height of Vietnamese youth will increase from 1.61m at present to 1.65m. In addition, average lifespan will rise from 73 to 75. The ratio of malnourished children of less than five will reduce from 17.5, to less than 5 percent.

The measures to achieve the goals are not clear while the goals are beyond ability. The scientific basis for the goals is still a question.


Low feasibility

Man’s height is a complicated anthropometric character because there are many aspects affecting height, including gene and nutrition.

According to some research works, genetic elements contribute up to 60-80 percent of the difference of height among individuals. Other research works reveal that around 20-40 percent of differences in height are caused by environmental factors, mainly nutrition.

The above research works show that increasing height by nutritious intervention is possible, but nutritious influence to a community is modest.

In general, man’s height increases with time. The later generation is often higher than the previous generation. Sons are often taller than their fathers and daughters are often taller than their mothers.

The increase of height seems to be a law of evolution, which happens in every community and every time (except for wartime). According to a recent survey of 364,538 people in 45 countries, the height rose by 0.13cm annually (1).



Below are the results of other research works in the world:

USA: A research work named Fels Study reveals that after 50 years, American’s height increased only 4.8cm (2).

The Netherlands: A research of women and men of 21 years old shows that men’s height increased from 182cm in 1980 to 184cm in 1997. For women, it rose from 168.3cm to 170.6cm the same time. Within 17 years, the height rose by 2cm for men and 2.3cm for women (3).

China: according to another research in China, in the last three decades, Chinese youth’s height increased by 5.3cm in cities and 5cm in the countryside or around 1.7cm in 10 years (4).

Japan: a research by Dr. Tim Cole shows that in 40 years (1950-1990), Japanese youth’s height rose by 4cm (5).

Vietnam: according to a survey by the National Institute for Nutrition, the height of men from 16-25 years old increased by 2.7cm each ten years during 1976-2006 (6). An unpublished research in HCM City shows that from 2004 to 2009, 18-year-old men’s height increased from 1.2 to 2.4cm and it didn’t increase for women (7).

The above research works show that Vietnamese’s height increased at the highest level in the world. It is difficult to explain why Vietnam’s data is so different from others but data quality may be a matter.

It is only nine years from now to 2020. In 9 years, Vietnam aims to increase its youth’s height by 4cm. When looking at the above research works, there is no country in the world that could achieve it in ten years.


Assumed numbers wrong?

According to the strategy, Vietnamese youth’s current height is 161cm. However, according to a research work on around 1,000 men and women aging from 18 to 30, who were selected randomly in Vietnam’s districts: the average height of men is 169cm and 156cm for women. Vietnam’s population at the age of 18-30 includes around 49.5 percent of men and 50.5 percent of women. As a result, the average height of Vietnamese youth is around 162cm, or 1cm higher than the assumption in the strategy.

The strategy also aims to raise the lifespan to 75 and said that the current lifespan is 73. This is a suspicious number, too.

In 2008, the Vietnam General Statistics Office announced that Vietnam’s lifespan was 72. In 2009, UNDP said that it was 74.3 years, ranking 54th in the world. The number was 74.6 in 2009, according to the World Bank. In 2010, a local source said that it was 72.8 years old. Briefly, Vietnam’s statistics of lifespan are lower than those by international experts. If our current lifespan is 74.6, we are approximately 75. The target of 75 years old for the next 9 years seems to be unrealistic.

The above analysis shows that Vietnam’s goal to increase its youth’s height by 4cm in the next nine years is unrealistic because so far no country in the world has achieved it.

In addition, it is needed to carefully consider the assumed height and lifespan, and to set more practical targets.

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Finally the song everyone's been waiting for:

Mùa Đông Không Lạnh by Akira Phan

There has been an encouraging number of Vietnamese who have contributed generously to our forum so that we too can learn their language.

For those who are serious about learning the language, the best way to repay them would be for us to stop lurking, and to participate actively so as to demonstrate our side of commitment.

Together, we can make this a robust community of Vietnamese learners

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Didnt know VN also ban smoking in public......

Smoking at public sites – trifle in capital city
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VietNamNet Bridge - Around 40,000 people in Vietnam die because of smoking annually, equivalent to the death cases caused by HIV/AIDS until March 2008. The figure will increase to 70,000 people a year by 2030. The risk has been warned but people still smoke, even at public sites, where smoking is banned.

According to the Ministry of Health’s Program against Harmful Impacts of Cigarettes, since Vietnam banned smoking at public sites (January 1, 2010), only the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai have fined ten violators, totaling VND1.5 million ($70).

More than 47 percent of men and 1.4 percent of women in Vietnam smoke. There are 33 million people who are negative smokers since they live and work in the smoking environment.

Vietnam has at least 20 million smokers who spend VND14 trillion (US$680 million) on tobacco products every year.



Research conducted by the Hanoi School of Public Health last year, showed that around 95 per cent of the tobacco merchants surveyed in 10 provinces and cities in the city had violated regulations that ban tobacco advertising and promotion as well as sponsorships. Most of the merchants and residents said they did not know about the regulations.

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Originally Posted by jackbl

When the day comes I will release the answer

Chuc cac ban Tet Doan Ngo Vui Ve! 端午节快乐!

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Originally Posted by jackbl

Growing trend.........

Parents say one child is enough
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Parents struggling to register summer classes for children
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VietNamNet Bridge – The “thirst for summer classes” has become more serious than ever. Parents have to queue up through the night to register summer classes for their children.

When new academic years begin, parents have to queue up through the night to apply for studying at grammar schools. And when summers come, they have to queue up through the night to scramble for seats at summer classes.


Summer classes overloaded

Clubs, education centers, sports centers and schools announced before that they would only accept registrations for summer classes in early June 2011. However, parents have to contact the education centers in late May in order to get forms of application. It would be not a surprise at all if someone sees parents jostling with each other in front of education centers.

On the first day of accepting registrations for sports classes at the October 10 children’s house, in Ba Dinh district in Hanoi, many parents were present in front of the house when it was dark, though the house only began working at 7.30 am.

The parents said that their children wished to learn swimming and some other kinds of sports and they needed to scramble for seats at the classes. Those, who turned up at the children’s house at 7.30 am were told that they did not get the opportunity to buy the application forms.

Pham Huy Quang, who lives in Thanh Cong residential quarter, said happily that he was lucky enough to register a seat for his daughter at a swimming class at the October 10 children’s house, which has been well known as a good address for sports practices. However, he sadly said that it took him too much time and exertion to do that.

“Queuing up for the right to go to sports classes is the thing which can be seen only in Hanoi,” he complained.

However, Quang was still luckier than many other parents. The managers of the October 10 Children’s House said that there is only one swimming pool large enough for 1200 children, while the demand is 10 times higher.

The same situation is also occurring at the Hanoi Children’s Palace. Parents have been told that they need to register summer classes on the days between May 15 and May 31. However, the seats at “golden hours” (9-11 am and 3-7 pm every day) ran out prior to May 31. Especially, the classes for “hot” subjects like drawing or music had been full since mid May.


Where to send children to in summer?

Standing in front of the notice board and seeing the schedules of summer classes, Pham Thi Ha, a parent in Hoan Kiem District asked the 7-year old son: “What do you want to go, a drawing or life skill class? Let me know immediately, so that I can arrange my time to meet and see you off”.

“I learned drawing at school already. I went to a life skill class last summer already. Now I have to go to the countryside,” the boy answered. “But no one can take care for you in the home village,” she replied.

Finally, Ha decided to send the child to a day-boarding class, where the boy can stay in the daytime.

Ha related that last year she sent the boy to a life skill training class. However, she was discouraged with what he was taught. The boy simply learned how to introduce about himself, his family and classes.

“He learned these things at schools already,” she said. However, she did not regret bringing the son to the live skill class, because she needed to keep the boy somewhere, while she still had to go to work.

Meanwhile, a psychologist, an advisor at the Hanoi Children’s Palace, said that parents should not put too high of hopes on summer classes, and they should not expect that their children can become other people just after the training courses in summer. Summer classes are just the places where children can go to play and entertain themselves.


Source: Tien phong

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Even their officials also XNN, let alone the normal ppl.....

Officials found to use counterfeit high school diplomas
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Fifty two government officials in An Phu District, An Giang Province have been recently found to use fake high school graduation diplomas.

They are all top officials at district and commune levels with some being members of the communist party.

The officials all admitted that the diplomas are counterfeited; and some confessed they had to resort to buying a diploma at several million dong after repeatedly failing the exam.

Those were all eliminated from the local election taking place late last month.

Local authorities will take severe disciplinary action against those people, said Nguyen Van Thanh, secretary of the An Phu party commission.

An Phu authorities are also conducting an investigation into a related case in which the chairman of a commune allegedly obtained his high school diploma by asking someone else to impersonate him in a high school graduation exam.

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Originally Posted by jackbl

Even their officials also XNN, let alone the normal ppl.....

Officials found to use counterfeit high school diplomas
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They no xnn, they xao pa co.