Tieng Viet lovers club

[jackbl]

Since u have touch on this sentence, i would like to add more on this:

cang ngay cang xinh/dep = 越来越美。

When u say above to gals u have not seen for long, she will be happy to hear even it is a lie

Another cang xxx cang xxx usage is as below:
cang som cang tot = 越早越好。

Originally Posted by KangTuo

nobody help huh?
have you find out?

cang...cang... = the more ... the more...
iu = yeu

translation:
yes, the more day the more pretty. love alot.
like this photo alot. man alot.

[jackbl]

Da Lat’s festival of flowers closes
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VietNamNet Bridge – The Third Da Lat Flower Festival will wind up tonight, January 4, farewelling thousands of visitors who have filled the tree-lined streets of the mountain resort city.

For latecomers to the festival, events still open today including Da Lat Open Golf Tournament, Lang Biang Mountain Climbing Competition and Wine Gala.

Organisers said they could not measure visitor numbers to the annual event despite all hotel rooms being occupied as many holidaymakers were forced to share rooms at private houses.

The three-day 'Da Lat - the city of thousands kinds of flowers' festival which started on Saturday, is also one of the lead-up events to celebrate the Thang Long - Ha Noi 1,000th anniversary.

Though the festival officially opened on Saturday, visitors to Da Lat and locals have been enjoying the festive vibe since Thursday.

"This flower festival is not only to introduce a city that is world renowned for its flowers but to promote the country's landscape and the people's unique cultural identities," President Nguyen Minh Triet told the opening ceremony.



The President said the festival had aided Da Lat City's socio-economic development by attracting investors and boosted tourism with visitor numbers exceeding expectations.

The festival was a reminder that flowers were not the only symbol of the highland city with horse-drawn carriages, old cars and carts parading for the opening ceremony on Saturday evening.

Beautiful lighting arrangements in the shape of peach flowers in the stage, as colorful fireworks burst above the romantic Xuan Huong Lake. Hundreds of girls dressed in traditional costumes of 54 ethnic groups around the country marched on stage with flower lanterns in hand. Giant video images from around Da Lat followed.

Girls balanced bamboo poles on their shoulders with flower baskets at either end on the way to market. Horse drawn carriages with flowers clip-clopped beside old beetle Volkswagens and Porches. Couples in sweaters and scarves, holding umbrellas walked side by side in the chill of winter.

Provincial People's Committee Chairman Huynh Duc Hoa said that the Prime Minister's recognition of Da Lat as 'the city of flowers' in December was an impetus for socio-economic development making this flower festival a milestone.

The events started on Friday with a huge flower market and exhibition at the city's Flower Garden.

An interesting part of the exhibition was a painting contest with entries from 700 students in grade 1 to 9 from 45 schools in the city. A lot of the entries were paintings of the city's symbols, including Cock Church, Xuan Huong Lake and the city's Flower Garden.

"I was proud and excited this morning about coming here to draw the city's Flower Garden," said Do Doan Thao Nhi, an eighth grader at Phan Chu Trinh School.

All the paintings will stay on exhibit in the garden till the festival ends.

On Saturday morning, 200 tandem-bicycles decorated with flowers were pedaled around Xuan Huong Lake by teenage boys and girls.

"My team decorated our four tandem bikes with flowers in the shape of a dragon because we wanted to celebrate the Flower Festival 2010 and the Thang Long - Ha Noi 1000th anniversary together," said Tran Van Hung, a member of Phu Dong High School's Youth Union.

The festival's message to flower growers is to join hand and cooperate to make flowers the major driving force behind the city's development.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News

[jackbl]

Took me more than 1 hr to ride from Hoc Mon to District 1....

Bus drivers quit, can’t stand road conditions
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A bus bogged down by a street barrier in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1.

VietNamNet Bridge - Bus drivers in Ho Chi Minh City are quitting in droves as street barriers lengthen their trips and decrease their pay.

Drivers said their income depended on the number of trips a day and they complained that they now drove far fewer trips each day as traffic jams around construction barriers holds them up.

“It used to take me one and half hours to drive my route, but now it takes me three hours,” said Luu Minh Hai, who drives to and from District 8 to Vietnam National University-HCMC everyday.

According to Hai, the route is now full of street barriers that trap busses during traffic jams.

“Passengers complain that we go too slowly and drivers are exhausted and stressed out,” said Ho Minh Trong, a driver on the Cho Lon Bus Station-Tan Van Junction route. “Not to mention that it burns more gas.”

Many bus cooperatives have decided to cut down on the number of trips due to worsening traffic jams, meaning that drivers’ pay has been cut as well, said Doan Minh Tam, vice director of Saigon Coach Company.

A bus driver now earns between VND3-5 million (US$162.5-270.8) a month, although they still work from early in the morning until late at night without proper breaks between trips.

“Recently many people driving my route have quit because they couldn’t stand the pressure,” Trong said.

Phung Dang Hai, director general of HCMC Bus Cooperatives Alliance, said his organization recently put nearly 100 of 1,000 buses out of service due to the lack of drivers.

He said more bus company drivers will continue to quit and it will be hard to recruit new ones due to stricter licensing requirements compared to drivers for tourism companies.

He added that many passengers no longer used busses, which they blamed for often making them late for school or work during traffic jams.

Municipal authorities should speed up construction projects to remove the hundreds of street barriers worsening traffic jams, said Hai, suggesting that bus companies may have to close their businesses if things don’t change.

Losses

Bus cooperatives said the shortage of drivers had added insult to injury as many were already suffering heavy losses.

Le Van Loc, head of Bus Cooperative No. 11, said: “Our members bought buses on an installment plan at the price of VND600-700 million ($32,493- 37,909) last year, but now we are willing to sell them for VND200 million ($10,831) because we can’t stand [the losses] anymore.”

According to Loc, the government’s huge bus subsidies weren’t effective as the money is distributed based on number of passengers. He said strong companies received little support because the funds were gobbled up by inefficient ones.

Loc also said that new subsidies, 8-9 percent higher than the old ones, had yet to be applied, although they should have taken effect on January 1, 2009, as approved by city authorities.

Total funding given to each cooperative has in the meantime been cut, thrusting even heavier losses on bus companies, according to Loc.

In a glimmer of hope, the HCMC Department of Transport has recently proposed increased funding for bus cooperatives from VND650 billion ($35.2 million) in 2009 to VND820 billion ($44.4 million) in 2010.

VietNamNet/Thanh Nien

[jackbl]

Has past by this area not less than 20times. The city's officers ready need to look into this

HCM City pollution ‘alarming’
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Waste water flows into the 1,700-metre Ba Bo Canal which crosses five industrial zones in HCM City.

VietNamNet Bridge - Pollution caused by dust, exhaust fumes and noise in HCM City has not declined and is reaching alarming levels, according to a recent survey on the city’s air quality.

The report, released by the HCM City Environmental Protection Agency (HEPA) last month, showed that 89 per cent of examined air samples from six observation stations exceeded the acceptable maximum levels and were even bordering on the dangerous.

They are the latest results based on five parameters that evaluate air pollution, including dust, lead, noise, carbon oxide and nitrogen oxide.

The most serious air pollution is mainly in areas of An Suong intersection in District 12, Tan Binh Industrial Zone, and export-processing zones of Tan Thuan and Linh Trung.

Lead, benzene

The lead and benzene concentration has increased significantly this year, ranging between 0.22 and 0.38g per cubic metre, and increase by 2.2 times over last year, said the agency. The carbon oxide content in the air is also above the acceptable level.

The pollution caused by dust and noise has continued to rise, according to the agency. Dust from construction sites has also contributed greatly to worsening air pollution in the city which is home to more than 7 million people.

The leading factor in air pollution is exhaust fumes released by the increasing number of vehicles plying the city’s roads and the discharge of untreated smoke from production units.

The exhaust fumes-borne air pollution at An Suong cross-roads exceeds the acceptable maximum level by 4.8 times at 1.44g per cubic metre. The noise worsened most in the last three years, especially at An Suong cross-roads. One hundred per cent of the evidence gathered at the cross-roads exceeded the acceptable maximum level.

Under a five-year plan ending in 2010, the city has set several targets in order to reduce air pollution, including lowering the number of individual vehicles and controlling exhaust fumes released by production units.

However, the number of vehicles has continued to increase in recent years.

By the end of last year, the city had more than 4 million motorbikes and 300,000 automobiles of various kinds, according to official figures.

Nearly 60 per cent of motorbikes did not meet emission standards, the agency said. Viet Nam is among the countries which have the highest number of people dying of diseases caused by out-door air pollution, with up to 230 deaths per million people a year. There are between 16,000 and 20,000 people suffering from diseases related to out-door air pollution each year in Viet Nam.

The country has the second highest rate of people dying of in-door air pollution in the world with up to 400 deaths per million people a year.

The number of people suffering from pollution-related diseases is between 24,600 and 32,800 a year.

School-aged children living near the traffic intersections have more symptoms of diseases related to air-pollution.

Statistics from last year show the number of people, especially children, suffering from respiratory and lung diseases has increased remarkably compared to previous years. The ten-year statistics at the city’s Nhi Dong (Children’s) Hospital 1 said the number of children hospitalised for respiratory diseases, ear infections, asthma and congenital malformation has increased by large numbers each year.

"The major factor for the increased number of asthma patients is the serious environmental pollution," said head of HCM City Respiration Association Le Thi Tuyet Lan, who added that only 1 per cent of asthma patients were successfully treated in Viet Nam.

Doctors from the city’s Pham Ngoc Thach Tuberculosis and Lung Hospital have warned that people are on high risk of getting respiratory and lung diseases as the environment is being seriously polluted.

Health experts and environmentalists are sounding the alert on the dust and carbon oxide concentration in the air, which has exceeded the acceptable maximum level.

VietNamNet/VNS

[jackbl]

Mobile phone registration deadline extended
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VietNamNet Bridge - Cell phone service providers VinaPhone, MobiFone, and Viettel have extended the December 31 deadline for registration by prepaid users after they failed to complete the procedures on that day for the huge crowds that thronged their offices.

MobiFone will continue the registration until January 5 and VinaPhone until December 6 while Viettel said it would continue to receive subscribers’ information without specifying a deadline.

A representative from Viettel, a military-run company, said more registration counters would be on January 2 and 3.

The Ministry of Information and Communication announced a few months ago that all prepaid subscribers have to register their details by December 31, 2009, failing which they cannot use their phones any longer.

But with many people waiting too long to register, the operators were overwhelmed and, despite working until 11 pm on December 31, could not complete the task.

MobiFone had opened 15,000 counters across the country, registering 20 million subscribers. That leaves around one million unregistered yet.

The ministry has ordered the companies to submit the registration data on January 10.

It said many SIM card sellers have applied to establish businesses and registered many cards since businesses do not have the three-card limit that individuals do.

Deputy Director of the ministry’s information department, Nguyen Xuan Tru, said there are around 100 million mobile subscribers in the country, 90 per cent of them using pre-paid cards.

Viettel, one of the largest mobile networks in Viet Nam, has at least 20 million customers with more than three numbers each. The figures are also high for MobiFone and VinaPhone.

VietNamNet/SGGP/VNE

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Bro KT, u good man and good heart... have the patience to do that Hope u have many FOC bonks but dun hurt the heart of the gals.

usually its the gal who hurt my heart.
never did i want to dump any of them since there areFOC bonk.
it is usually they dump me.

[AdGuy]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

never did i want to dump any of them since there are FOC bonk.

Wah poor you.

In olden times, they would just drag guys like you out to get gang raped by ah qua with big boobs.

Oh... olden times no ah qua ha?

Aiyah... just go with the story la.

[slk_angelz]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Thats why to avoid confusion, please provide info of your conversation with the gal to ppl u requested to help u on translation. That will be easier.... but this request has fallen to deaf ears.

Paiseh ah .. Not that the request fallen to deaf ears .. Just that I am unable to come online for these 2 days, so I did not see the request .. Sorry if any bros are pissed with me ..
translation:
yes, the more day the more pretty. love alot.
like this photo alot. man alot.
Think the man is just a english word .. Maybe Bro Jackbl is right .. This phrase was seen on a facebook photo which my gf comment on her ex-bf's photo .. The guy was a Vietnamese .. Just curious about what they are talking ..

Anyway, thanks Bro KT for your help .. I posted for so long, finally someone helped me with the translation ..

[jackbl]

When u post the translation request, u shd already added in the description/background of the sentences.... Without it, not many ppl know wat the real sentence means and may translate wrongly.... Only Bro KT has such ability to "decode".....

Originally Posted by slk_angelz

Anyway, thanks Bro KT for your help .. I posted for so long, finally someone helped me with the translation ..

[jackbl]

For those who have lots of US$ and SING$ there, dun change it all at 1 time first.... rate may peak at close to New Year.

Vietnam money: short-term dong, dollar rates rise
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Lending rates for both the Vietnamese dong and the US dollar edged higher on Monday on Vietnam’s interbank market as businesses resumed operation after the New Year holiday.


The overnight dong lending rate rose to 10.29 percent from 10.20 percent on the last trading day of the year, Dec. 31, and the one-week rate edged up to 10.89 percent from 10.84 percent, while rates on longer terms eased, Reuters data showed.

The adjustments were in line with market expectations that corporate year-end demand for funds that started growing in the past month would continue to buoy short-term interest rates before the Lunar New Year holidays starts on Feb. 14.

Nguyen Xuan Son, chief executive of partly private Ocean Bank, said the residual effects of the downturn, the end of the government’s short-term lending rate subsidy program and pressure on the Vietnamese dong were weighing on the market.

“All of these factors have raised the input costs of enterprises, affecting their ability to repay corporate credit and surely affecting banks,” Son was quoted in the Monday edition of the official Securities Investment magazine as saying.

The central bank plans to tighten bank lending and reduce credit growth this year to around 25 percent from 38 percent in 2009 as the government seeks to prevent hyperinflation.

The State Bank of Vietnam raised the benchmark base rate on dong loans to 8 percent from Dec 1 and said it would keep it unchanged in January. The rate had been 7 percent since February 2009.

On the dollar front, greenback lending rates for periods of of up to six months edged higher on the interbank market against closing levels on Dec. 31, with the overnight rate jumping to 0.52 percent from 0.46 percent.

Last week the Industry and Trade Ministry projected Vietnam’s annual trade deficit this year could widen to US$14.5 billion from a deficit of $12.25 billion last year.

But the foreign exchange market could stabilize this year after the government ordered the country’s nearly 20 gold trading floors to close by March 30.

Source: Reuters

[jackbl]

So popular until lidat huh....

Da Lat flower festival patrons left homeless
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Thousands of visitors to the Da Lat Flower Festival were left out in the cold this weekend as the city’s 40,000 hotel rooms were no match for the 100,000 tourists who had come to marvel in the horticultural splendor.


The central highlands resort town’s biennial flower festival is one of Vietnam’s largest celebrations and never fails to attract large crowds to Da Lat, the crown jewel and de facto capital of the “tonkinese alps.”

However, only 50 percent of the festival’s visitors were able to stay overnight this year, with hundreds, settling into local parks at night and thousands others simply leaving.

As first of ten events celebrating Hanoi’s 1,000th anniversary this year, the four-day festival drew record crowds as early as Friday, though the event did not officially open until Saturday

Some 12,000 people attended the opening ceremony alone.

Da Lat’s third biennial flower festival featured flower and ornamental plant exhibitions, a flower-product trade show and a flower fair.

Source: Tuoi Tre

[jackbl]

Someone passed me names on pieces of paper, and the papers seems to be used for Dairy....saw some proverbs:

NGHEO MA DAY DU BAN BE THAN THICH CON HON GIAN CO MA CO DOC
Society in poverty is better than solitude in wealth

BAN MA GIA DOI CON TE HON KE THU CONG KHAI
False friends are worse than open enemies

TINH BAN DI DAU, TIEP SAU YEU DAU
First make friend, then make love

[tomcat007]

Can bros help to translate the red words please:

1. em muon bao anh la anh cu xem em la ban mot nguoi ban khi buon co the tam su voi nhau co the hon

Ok, I was trying to turn this girl away but she keeps coming back. I roughly know that she says she want to tell me something like when I "???" or when she sad "????" with together, can?

I can't find "cu xem" or "tam su" in vdict.com. I know this is a bit messy, but if can help, thank you very much.

2. co the nhung anh phai hen em truoc nha

I was asking her if I can look for her if I need to "perform some action", and this is her reply.



The above messages are from the same girl. Been wanting to turn her away as my Hanoi girl is more than enough for me to handle, but she's like a boomerang... always flying back. Even visit her workplace and call her friend to sit, but not her also no use.

Thanks for reading...

[jackbl]

Pay of lecturer worse than waiter/waitress, who want to work and have so much mental stress????

Training hit by lecturer shortage
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VietNamNet Bridge – Economics universities are complaining that they cannot recruit enough lecturers and it is badly affecting the quality of training provided.

“We need 80 lecturers, but we have recruited only 12. It is very difficult to recruit lecturers for popular study branches such as finance and banking, and business administration,” said Ho Dieu, deputy president of the HCM City Banking University.

Dieu said that in 2009, the university had 800 graduates, but only two applied to be lecturers at the university. Among several hundred other applications, only a few had high ranking degrees, while most graduated universities at only ‘average’ levels.

However, even with low requirements, the university still could find only 12 lecturers, mostly in mathematics, foreign languages and informatics lecturers. Meanwhile, the university has recruited only three lecturers for the university’s main study branches of finance and banking, and business administration.

Dieu said his university is now lacking some 200 lecturers compared to the standards set by the Ministry of Education and Training.

The same situation is faced by the HCM City Economics University which needs to recruit 64 new lecturers for the 2009-2010 school year, but could recruit 32 only. It needed nine lecturers for trade, tourism and marketing, but there were only four applicants. The university could recruit only four lecturers for accountancy and auditing, while it needed seven

Dinh Trung Chanh, Head of the Personnel division of the HCM City Agriculture and Forestry University, said that there are very few applications for the post of lecturers of popular study options such as information technology, biology and environment technology. Chanh said his university is lacking some 80 lecturers.

Cao Cong Minh from the HCM City Polytechnique and Technology University also said his university has organized an exam to select lecturers. It got only 200 applications and recruited 50 lecturers, not enough for all study branches such as business administration, finance and accountancy, environment and biology technology.

Minh said his university will have to enroll 300 new lecturers in the next five years to meet the requirements set by the Ministry of Education and Training that there must be one lecturer for every 18-20 students.

Dieu said economics graduates can easily find good jobs with good salaries at companies and banks and they do not want to become university lecturers to get the pay which is 60-70 percent lower.

Dieu said that new lecturers will have a modest income of 1.8-2 million dong a month and have to experience a 12-month probation period. Therefore, becoming a lecturer is not a good choice in the eyes of economics graduates.

“Since we are lacking lecturers, the existing lecturers have to have more teaching hours, so they do not have time for scientific research any more,” Dieu complained.

VietNamNet/NLD

[jackbl]

Another site for learning basic vietnamese taught in mandarin :

《轻松学越南语》 ??????????? - ??????