Tieng Viet lovers club

[jackbl]

Got such rules meh??????

$144 fine proposed for liquor drinkers in karaoke rooms
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Under a new draft decree by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, people who drink liquor in karaoke rooms will be fined VND3 million (US$144), 2-6 times higher than the current amount.

Presently, according to Decree 75/2010 by the Government, the act of drinking liquor in a karaoke room is subject to a fine ranging between VND500,000 and VND1.5 million.

The Ministry also wants the fine for selling liquor at karaoke parlors to increase from the current rate of VND1-3 million to VND3-5 million.

The draft decree also stipulates that allowing drunk people to enter dance halls, public dance areas or karaoke rooms will be fined VND1-3 million. Currently, the fine for this act is only VND500,000 to VND1 million, and violators can even be given a warning instead of a fine.

If approved by the Government, the decree, which stipulates penalties for administrative violations in the fields of culture, sports and tourism, will take effect on July 1, 2013.

The ministry is now collecting opinions from other agencies and the public about the decree before submitting it to the Government for approval.

[Honey Boon]

you go there to drink meh?

Originally Posted by jackbl

Got such rules meh??????

$144 fine proposed for liquor drinkers in karaoke rooms
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about the decree before submitting it to the Government for approval.

[jackbl]

Where workers fear New Year holiday
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VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City has more than 250,000 workers in the industrial and export-processing zones (IZs – EPZs.) Up to 70 percent of the workers come from other provinces. Everyone wants the family reunion during the lunar New Year (Tet holiday), but many workers "do not dare" to return home, because of their very low income.

The Trade Unions of IZs and EPZs in HCM City have mobilized various resources to have 6,000 bus tickets for workers this Tet. But so far only 4,200 workers have applied for the free tickets. The rest dare not to receive the tickets because their whole-year savings are not enough to cover the Tet. Workers at dissolved or production-narrowed companies are more afraid of the Tet.



Tet bonus reduced, workers don’t dare to go home

The Nissey Vietnam Co. Ltd in Tan Thuan EPZ, HCM City, used around 2,600 workers. On January 8, workers heard from the HR Department that the company was just fined VND20 billion ($1 million) for the use of pirated Microsoft software, so workers had to share the burden with the company.

For that reason, this Tet festival the bonus would be reduced by a half compared to last year (VND2-2.5 million or $100-120). The workers did not accept the above explanation, saying that if their Tet bonus is reduced due to economic difficulties by the consequences of the recession, they are willing to share. If the company was fined because of software piracy, the firm could not force their workers to share. This year the Nissey Vietnam did not participate in the program to present free bus tickets for workers.

Thanh, a worker of Nissey Vietnam, said: "We work very hard for the whole year but our savings is only inconsiderable. We just hope to have Tet bonus as last year (VND4-5 million – $200-250) to go home with gifts for our family. This year the Tet bonus is reduced by half. We do not think of going home this Tet."

The Sae Hwa Vina Co., Ltd (wholly owned by Korean), according to the Cu Chi District Labor Federation, owning to loss-making, this firm has announced suspension of operations from September 2012. The company still owes more than VND2.3 billion ($200,000) of the July and August wages. Previously, the company did not pay social insurance, health insurance and unemployment insurance for its workers, totaling VND6.4 billion ($300,000). Facing the fierce reaction by workers, the firm had to pay VND500,000 for each worker and still owes them VND2-2.5 million each.

Chanh, a female worker of Sae Hwa Vina, from Nghe An province, said: "I'm lucky to get a job at a carpark so my income is more stable than my husband. He has to go to construction sites to seek a job, but that job is only for a week or two and he has to look for work elsewhere. Anyhow he is still paid fresh money."

Chanh’s husband, named Tien, said: "Fortunately, my wife’s work is okay so we can hold on. So, this year my wife and I do not have money to visit home."

In particular, at 12:40 on January 9, at the Theodro Alexander Co. (a wholly American owned firm, specializing in wood processing in Linh Trung II EPZ, Binh Chieu Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City) fires occurred, burning down 15.000m2 of warehouse with wooden materials, chemicals, finished and semi-finished products; making 3,567 workers to lose their jobs. Although the company promised to pay enough salary and bonus but thousands of workers, especially workers from other provinces would lose their Tet because they do not have job. Many workers lost their assets in the fire.



Many workers fear the Tet holiday!

The Minh Viet Long Co. Ltd (No. 168/9 Le Dinh Can, Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City) is working moderately. Nearly 700m2 factory fully equipped with machinery have to close. The firm’s director said that they did not have money to present Tet bonus to workers. Since production has been ceased, more than 100 workers have to wait for job. At present, the company has only 25 workers.

Mr. Dan, one of the remaining 25 employees, said: "The work here is only in moderation. There was a time that the company pays salary on the day. If this situation goes on, we will have to look for a job elsewhere to make a living."

When being asked: "How about this upcoming Tet?" Dan said: "We cannot earn enough for daily meals. Just thinking of the New Year, I and my wife feel... terrible!"

The Dai Thang Loi Import-Export Company in HCM City owed its workers the wage in November and December 2012, totaling nearly VND100 million ($5,000). The director paid only VND47 million, then ran away.

Visiting the company’s workers at their inns in Thoi Tay 2 hamlet, Thoi Tam Thon commune, Hoc Mon district, workers were still resentful. They said nobody paid them the wage for November and 20 days of December 2012 while they had to work very hard to earn some money for the Tet. At present, over 40 workers have lost their jobs and their wages when the Tet is coming.

Similarly, when the director of the Long Dai Phat Company in District 12, HCM City fled, nearly 40 workers also lost their wage and their job. The biggest difficulty for the people whose companies are dissolved, is that they cannot seek a new job near Tet because even the labor-intensive enterprises--such as textile and footwear also do not have demand for labor. Meanwhile most of the construction works are at a standstill.

Ms. Mai, from Nghe An province, whose has lost job, said: "Although we are very tired, but we have to try to do extra work to earn some more money to go home at Tet. Yet we have been pushed into this situation. Tet is our nightmare now!"

The Chair of the Trade Union of HCM City IPs and EPZs (HEPZA) - Vuong Phuoc Thien - said: "Together with the HEPZA Trade Union’s provision of 6,000 free bus tickets to the workers, this year HEPZA will continue the program to visit and present gifts for 1,500 workers who cannot go home for the Tet because their companies are dissolved or their bosses run away or themselves or their spouses themselves are sick.”

Lao Dong

[vietboy]

Originally Posted by whatever897

hi. guys.. need some help on translation.
what is "Trong luc cho doi tu suong vai kieu...." in english ?
totally cannot translate using translator..
please help..
cam on rat nhieu

I try: "While waiting, self pleasure a few pattern/ways liao."

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by vietboy

I try: "While waiting, self pleasure a few pattern/ways liao."

Also make sense.... wow now your TV so good liao huh..... I dun understand till another person and u translate it....

[jackbl]

Only students from rich families can study at economics schools
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VietNamNet Bridge – The students, who follow economics related majors, would have to pay 100 percent of tuitions, if a project being considered by the Ministry of Education & Training and Finance comes true.


Budget allocation plan sees big changes

The project has raised controversy among students and educators. The State would not give subsidy to the students studying economics and economic related majors. This means that only the students from well off families would be able to follow the training branches, because they would have to pay 100 percent of tuitions.

The Ministry of Education and Training has approved the budget plan for 2013, under which money would be allocated to three groups of schools. The first one comprises of the schools which have to cover 100 percent of their expenses. The second one includes the schools which follows the partial financial self-sufficient mechanism. Meanwhile, the third one would receive the 100 percent funding from the State.

Agriculture, forestry and fisheries schools would receive the 30-50 percent subsidy, while technology schools 20-40 percent. Meanwhile, friendship schools, and the schools in mountainous areas would be 100 percent funded by the state budget.

According to Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bui Van Ga, the State would support the training majors which are very useful for the country, such as pedagogical, technology, forestry, agriculture, fisheries and arts.

Meanwhile, the State would gradually reduce the funding for the law, economics, finance and banking training branches. The schools would be given the right to define the tuitions for the training branches.

Explaining this, Dr. Nguyen Truong Giang from the Ministry of Finance said Vietnam now has excessive economics majoring graduates already, and the education ministry does not intend to increase the number of students to be enrolled in the majors. However, students still have been flocking into economics schools.

“Therefore, it is necessary to force the number of economics students down by raising the tuitions,” Giang said.

Once economics students have to pay 100 percent of tuitions to follow the training majors, the State would have more money to support the training in forestry, agriculture and fisheries.

Poor students have no chance for economics school

Nguyen Tien Manh, an 11th grader of Nguyen Viet Xuan High School in Vinh Phuc province, complained that he may have to give up the dream of studying at the Banking Academy so as to help my family escape from poverty.

“I have heard that the tuitions would be very high, which is unaffordable to my family,” he said.

Nguyen Hoang Sa, a teacher from Einstein School in Hanoi, also said that the high tuitions would force many students, including the ones in big cities, to rethink their plan.

“Raising tuitions for some training branches would lead to the appearance of the “majors for the rich,” while there would be the majors to be reserved only for the poor,” the teacher said.

President of the Tay Nguyen University Nguyen Tan Vui has expressed his worry that if the tuitions increase too sharply, it would be difficult for the schools to enroll students, even though the schools themselves plan to cut down the number of students to enroll.

Ngo Huong, President of the HCM City Banking University, has warned that if the tuitions are raised, the poor students would have to consider their study plan, while rich students would rather go studying abroad.

Van Chung

[jackbl]

Working from home a growing tendency in 2013
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VietNamNet Bridge – Instead of seeking long term personnel, businesses nowadays tend to hire short term workers for seasonal production in an effort to cut down expenses.

Analysts believe that the main characteristic of the labor market in 2013 is the rise of part time jobs and the working from home. In the digital era, working from home has become possible and more convenient. Meanwhile, the model can both satisfy workers and employers.

Freelancers work from home through Internet, while they do not have to spend time coming to the office. Meanwhile, the employers don’t have to arrange seats, working facilities and other conditions for more workers, thus allowing them to cut down expenses, while they still can be sure that the works still go smoothly.

With so many big advantages, it is foreseeable that working from home would be a growing tendency in 2012, according to the HCM City Job Center.

The conclusion was made after a survey conducted on 27,247 enterprises and the interviews with 2090 companies about their employment plan in 2013.

In fact, according to Deputy Director Tran Anh Tuan, the model of working from home appeared some years ago already, but it would see a boom in 2013. In the economic downturn, businesses have to undergo the restructuring, scaling down their production and restrict recruitment.

In this case, seeking part time employees proves to be the best solution for businesses, because they don’t have to sign labor contracts with the employees, which means that they don’t have to pay social insurance fee and follow the provisions of the labor code, which costs them a lot of money.

Tuan said that the jobs relating to information technology, event organization, housemaid, accountancy are the most popular jobs.

Working from home allows workers to optimize their income, because the working schedules are flexible. Capable workers can take on many different jobs to earn more money. Outsourcing is also really a good solution for businesses, which need to have best results for their works at the lowest possible costs.

A representative of an employment website said that the number of workers seeking jobs under the mode was 10,000 people in 2012, an increase of 27.2 percent in comparison with the previous year. Meanwhile, the number of businesses which have the demand for part time workers or collaborators has increased by 34.2 percent.

Another website said that in December 2012, the number of enterprises which sought part time workers increased by 12 percent. The manager of the website has revealed that the number of people registering part time jobs or has reached 46,934, up by 17 percent.

Hoang Vu Quynh Ha, Director of Somotsoft, a software firm, confirmed that the firm has been employing collaborators for the firm’s big projects. She said those who take the jobs in the security field or programmers can work at home.

“With the workers, we just have to pay money for their works, while we don’t have to pay allowances and other insurance policies to them,” she said.

Thanh Hai in district 7 of HCM City, who has been working for the projects invested by foreign companies over the last five years, said he has been satisfactory with the jobs.

“Since I can arrange my schedule, I can take more than one job at the same time. Now I can earn 20 million dong a month, a satisfactory income level,” Hai said.

VNE

[jackbl]

Buying fresh food online gaining popularity among housewives
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VietNamNet Bridge – Like many other housewives in the capital, Hoang My Linh has largely switched to buying vegetables online.

Hundreds of websites and forums selling food have cropped up in recent years. Busy housewives flock to these online markets, including Linh.

You can even find a wide variety of seafood including live goby, climbing perch and pre-cleaned shrimp on websites such as muare.vn, vatgia.com and muachung.com. Other websites offer well-known branded goods such as Tuyen Quang oranges, Bien Hoa dried bamboo, Hoa Loc mangoes and Hoa Binh salt pork.

Since the early days of winter, online shops have promoted their supplies for the Lunar New Year. They put up eye-catching banners advertising "genuine food from the countryside for the New Year," "home-made rice wine," "country chicken" and "clean meats."

Le Lan Chi, a customer who regularly buys meat and vegetables on muare.vn, said that she often orders black pork (heo moi) and vegetables farmed by ethnic people in the mountainous provinces of Ha Giang and Lao Cai. Before ordering the products for the first time, she worried about their cleanliness, even though the website guaranteed the products' safety. However, after eating them, she felt satisfied.

Chi advised that people should seek out reliable sites – and when in doubt, ask where the goods come from and how they are preserved.

"I always buy food for Tet online. I have a lot of experiences buying food online, so I'm not worried about food hygiene and safety," said Nguyen Minh Anh, who lives in Ha Noi's Thanh Nhan District.

Most business owners on the forum confirmed that their food sources are secure because everybody knew each other. If one person complained about a poor-quality food, the information would spread quickly and the shop would quickly be ostracised.

Tran Thi Xuan Thuy, a resident in Lao Cai, sells special food from the northern mountainous region in Ha Noi via online forums. She confirmed that many people in Ha Noi often ordered meat online and called before the meat was shipped to ensure that the food was completely safe.

From 2013, food will be controlled in a strict supply chain, so any hygiene violations can be quickly detected.

With online shopping, the most important thing is to choose sites of reputable companies and buy vegetables with safety certifications.

As online food shopping becomes more popular, it becomes more complicated for officials to monitor the quality and safety of the food offered, so being aware is the best thing consumers can do to protect themselves, said Nguyen Thi Hoa, Head of the Sub-Department of Plant Protection.

She also added that the press should relate any information about food safety problems in the vegetable business to Department inspectors, although the department is not currently responsible for inspecting online food vendors.

Source: VNS

[KangTuo]

Today, a TV teacher ask me to translate ...I translated by he say incorrect.

Benh roi, uong sua chac mai mot lang lun wa


anyone know what the hack is it?

[forgotoldnick]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Today, a TV teacher ask me to translate ...I translated by he say incorrect.

Benh roi, uong sua chac mai mot lang lun wa


anyone know what the hack is it?

What did u translate???

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by forgotoldnick

What did u translate???

What's your interpretation?

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by forgotoldnick

What did u translate???

i translated lang as calm

[forgotoldnick]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

i translated lang as calm

I would guess Lang in your statement as *neigbouring**nearby**side by side*

[zaito]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Today, a TV teacher ask me to translate ...I translated by he say incorrect.

Benh roi, uong sua chac mai mot lang lun wa


anyone know what the hack is it?

I think its mean "im sick, if drink milk will get worst in the future." or "im sick, if drink milk will make me more sick.
"lang. luon qua" = going down forever. (sick forever if he drink milk )

[jackbl]

Another Vietnamese bride commits suicide in Korea
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VietNamNet Bridge – According to the Vietnamese Embassy in South Korea, a Vietnamese woman named Nguyen Thi Diem Trinh, from Co Do district, the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho was determined to commit suicide in the city of Gumi, South Korea on January 16.

According to the victims' family, Trinh was discovered to commit suicide by a belt. Trinh, 23, married a Korean man in 2008 and lived on Jeju Island with her husband’s family.

The couple had a nearly 4-year-old son. Recently, having conflict with her husband’s family, Trinh left the home to live in an inn in Gumi.

According to a relative of the victim, Trinh’s father divorced her mother, Mrs. Pham Thi Tuyet Hai, just because she could not give birth to a boy. Hai then lived with another man and raised three daughters.

Because of poverty, Trinh and her sister, named Thien, went to HCM City in 2008 to participate in “wife selections” of foreign men. Trinh then married a Korean man who is 20 years old older than her and followed him to live on Jeju Island, South Korea.

The couple lived in their own house until Trinh gave birth to a boy. Since then they lived with the husband’s family. Unfortunately, her son, named Bin, did not develop normally. At present, at the age of four, the boy cannot speak or walk.

Meanwhile, the mother-in-law forced Trinh to have another child. Trinh did not accept because of difficult economic conditions and she wanted to focus all resources on treatment for her son. Therefore, the Vietnamese wife was insulted by her husband’s family.

More than one month ago, Trinh’s husband bought air ticket for her wife and asked her to go home for relieving her stress. But Trinh did not go home. She rent a room near her younger sister’s home in Gumi, who also marries a Korean man.

Recently, Trinh’s mother suddenly received a phone call from Trinh’s husband: "Come to the airport to pick up Bin and your son-in-law."

Trinh’s husband saw his mother-in-law at the airport and assigned his son to her. The man promised to come back to Vietnam after several months to take his mother-in-law to Korea.

On January 16, Hai’s family was informed of her daughter’s suicide. The mother went to Korea to receive the body of her daughter but she was informed that her son-in-law also committed suicide.

The man left a suicide note, in which he wished to be buried next to his wife on Jeju Island.

Quoc Huy - Chau Vu