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[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

I am soooo glad you find her lau chio means lesser competitors for me liao in the SSSSSSYT range

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

sori...I say only and not interested in her...I can get younger leh...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

OMG these arseholes are damn zek ark poor girl.....

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Was reading that there is definitely human trafficking happening in Vietnam, Laos,Cambodia and PRC....also in USA...I was serious..

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

This means what you know.......it means more illegal push cart businesses can sprout under those flyovers shelters liao kekeke

Cheerios........SS08 ^_^

hihi...nowadays pushcart or bicycle shops all can sprout out very fast...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Wah champion like that you also knows.......

Miss who??? H88 or Botar???

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

tio suan...but ok lah...you are SGM can suan...

[zizzy]

Any bros up for a meet up in HCM? I will be there from the 17th of October to the 30th. Looking to explore the nightlife

[Hurricane88]

Rising odor, air pollution terrorize Ho Chi Minh City residents

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 10/10/2016 16:03 GMT + 7

http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/37479/...city-residents

People in Ho Chi Minh City live in an increasingly polluted environment, exposing themselves to a variety of respiratory diseases and other health risks.

Odor and air pollution in the southern hub have worsened on a daily basis, threatening the lives and well-being of local residents.

ted a rising number of patients with respiratory illnesses arising from their regular exposure to contamination in the city.

N.C.T., 43, living in District 2, was diagnosed with edema and nasal mucosa congestion resulting from the negative effects of dust and vehicle exhaust.
According to the patient, the road in front of her house was under renovation about a month ago, creating a large volume of smoke and dust.

Another victim, 60-year-old Pham Thi Lan from Da Phuoc Commune, Binh Chanh District, said the stink released from the Da Phuoc Waste Treatment Complex, about 150 meters from her house, has given her chronic headaches.

Lan and her son have lived with the smell for years, at times less disturbing than at others, the woman stated, saying that they had to wear gauze masks even while sleeping at night.

A large number of residents in the southern region have also reported the negative impact of the stench on their lives.

According to doctors, those who live around such levels of pollution often experience insomnia and mental stress, followed by a series of illnesses.

People breathing in a considerable amount of unpleasant odor can also become dizzy and disoriented, Phan Quoc Bao, a Vietnamese doctor, said, adding that germs and viruses within the stench also pose potential health risks.

Dr. Bao considered psychological problems the most severe impact of odor pollution.

Professor Nguyen Duy Thinh added that other symptoms brought about by a regular intake of bad odor include nausea, breathing difficulties, and impacts on the mental and respiratory system.

According to Pham Kien Huu, head of the ENT Department at the University Medical Center, odor and air pollutants can be absorbed by the human body via breathing and through the skin.

A contaminated atmosphere can cause temporary and long-term effects on the patients, with elderly people more susceptible to more serious diseases.

The shorter-term impacts include allergic reactions, nasal and throat infections, pneumonia, headaches, nausea, and others, Dr. Huu elaborated.

Permanent consequences could include chronic respiratory diseases, lung cancer, heart disease, damage to the brain, nervous system and other internal organs, the doctor continued.

[ddrwcheong]

Heading to HCM next week
are most of the people there know English?
I read online that some cafe even got girl that will chit chat with you and ask for tips, is it true?
Which area got nice pub to hangout? Just wanna have a drink, nothing else.

[Hurricane88]

Northern Vietnam to cool; poor weather anticipated down south this week

http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/37477/...outh-this-week

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 10/10/2016 13:50 GMT + 7

Northern Vietnam can expect a cool week while sunny days are unlikely in central and southern regions.

Thanks to a series of intense cold air masses, towns and cities in the north, especially mountainous areas, are forecast to experience a drop in temperature overnight starting from Tuesday, Le Thi Xuan Lan, a Ho Chi Minh City-based weather pundit, has predicted.

In the second half of the week, large-scale rain is likely, mainly in northern deltas and coastal areas.

As a trough skirts the south-central region, towns and cities in there can anticipate cooler weather with drizzle in the evening in the first few days of the week.

Conditions are likely to worsen from midweek onwards as the trough heads north, combining with cold air masses there.

Under the influence of southwesterly winds and a trough weakened from the storm Aere, the Central Highlands and the southern region can anticipate a gloomy week with prolonged rain and overnight precipitation.

According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the tempest, which formed on Thursday, was downgraded to a depression on Monday morning, with winds between 50 and 60 kph.

Over the next 24 hours, the depression is likely to weaken to a trough while traveling west-southwestwards, the weather center forecast.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by ddrwcheong

Heading to HCM next week
are most of the people there know English?
I read online that some cafe even got girl that will chit chat with you and ask for tips, is it true?
Which area got nice pub to hangout? Just wanna have a drink, nothing else.

read slowly and carefully...then you will understand more...

if you stay in District 1 tourist area then yes most know some England...

cafe that have girl sit to chat with you are not in D1...most dun speak England...maybe 1% speak but passable...

[Hurricane88]

so many new clones...just saw one post still not approved asking question...

haizzz....a bit too obvious trailing...

[Honey Boon]

so when will be the best time to visit hcm?

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

suffer 6 months construction to alleviate the traffic problem...

[Bote2]

Originally Posted by Honey Boon

so when will be the best time to visit hcm?

Anytime is also a good time. The traffic is the same everyday.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by zizzy

Any bros up for a meet up in HCM? I will be there from the 17th of October to the 30th. Looking to explore the nightlife

what happened to your previous trip...

Originally Posted by zizzy

Hi Bro.

I will be in hcm on 25th to 31st. Can meet up if you are still game

Originally Posted by zizzy

Hi Bro I will be in HCM on the 25th to the 31st so if you want to meet up or need a wingman in the club. PM me

Originally Posted by zizzy

Bros I will be in HCM from 25th to 31st. Looking to hit the clubs and mutual wingman any bros. what are the clubs which have English speaking chicks?

[Hurricane88]

Away from home: More Vietnamese leaving for richer countries

By An Hong October 11, 2016 | 02:00 am GMT+7

http://e.vnexpress.net/news/travel-l...s-3481514.html

Scores of wealthy families, investors have moved overseas and the number is estimated to be nearly 100,000 people each year.
A foreign bank in Vietnam finds it increasingly difficult to hire local senior managers because there is a growing trend among highly-educated Vietnamese professionals to move their families abroad.

“More young and well-educated Vietnamese see the importance of raising their kids in a clean environment, good heathcare services and high-quality education,” said the bank’s country manager who now prefers recruiting committed employees for long terms.

According to the International Organization for Migration, nearly 100,000 Vietnamese people leave the country each year to live in a more developed nation.

The trend is apparent in the growing number of Vietnamese investors moving overseas and wealthy families deciding to emigrate, despite the higher costs of living, cultural differences, language barrier and complex visa requirements.

But for those with the means to move, all it takes is between $3 million and $7 million of investment to apply for permanent residency in the U.S., according to Chris Loc Dao, chief executive of U.S. Immigration Services company.

He said that over the past 10 years, the company has managed to advise more than 100 Vietnamese individuals on making investments worth a combined $1 billion in the U.S in exchange for green cards.

Unofficial statistics suggest that affluent Vietnamese may have invested between $10 billion and $20 billion a year through immigration programs like the U.S.’s EB5 Immigrant Investor Program.

The fast-growing number of Vietnamese people leaving the country is also believed to be closely linked to employment and education opportunities overseas.

The Ministry of Education and Training reported that 125,000 Vietnamese students went abroad in 2013 for studying, a 15 percent increase from 2012. Over 90 percent of international students of Vietnamese origin are self-funded and the total spending on overseas education amounted to roughly 1 percent of the country’s GDP in 2013.

The U.S., followed by Australia and the U.K., is by far the favorite destination for Vietnamese students. Vietnam now ranks sixth with 28,883 students studying at U.S. colleges and universities, spending nearly $1 billion, according the latest quarterly update published in December 2015 by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The World Bank said in its 2016 fact book on migration and remittances that Vietnam was among the top 10 emigration countries as of 2013, just behind China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar in the East Asian and Pacific region.

As many as 26 percent of total five million Vietnamese overseas, equal to 1.3 million people, are living in the U.S., according to the World Bank.

Migrant workers

While Vietnam is losing skilled workers to more developed countries, it is also exporting workers who are now responsible for a major source of overseas remittances.

According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalid and Social Affairs, Vietnam has sent about 500,000 Vietnamese to 40 countries and territories. On average, more than 90,000 Vietnamese workers leave the country each year, mainly for labor-intensive and low-skilled jobs overseas. Vietnam's total workforce is around 50 million.

Nguyen Van Hoang, 32, from the northern province of Thai Nguyen, has been working in South Korea for nine years.

“I can send about $1,000 back to my family in Vietnam every month," Hoang said. "In Vietnam, being a high school graduate, I wouldn't be able to earn that much.” He is helping a cousin, the seventh in his family, to fly to South Korea next spring to work. Vietnam's annual average income was around $2,100 last year, according to the World Bank.

Remittances from Vietnamese overseas remain a key source of funds for the country's economy, equivalent to about 8-10 percent of gross domestic product.

More than half of the money comes from the U.S. Vietnamese-Americans sent back home about $7 billion last year and are expected to remit $8 billion this year.

Vietnam recorded roughly $13 billion in overseas remittances last year, slightly up from $12 billion in 2014, according to the World Bank, which ranked Vietnam as the world’s 11th largest remittance recipient country and the third in the East Asian-Pacific region, after China and the Philippines.

[zizzy]

Hi Hurricane, I met agent007 and a couple of other Sammyboys. Would love to meet up with you. How do I get in touch with you?