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[VietnamLover]

Today, I spent some time trying to understand the actual meanings of some words of the resident address in Vietnam. Wonder how many of you will bother to know the meanings.

A few examples and the translation of the words below:

Ấp Phước Lợi,
Xã Phước Tỉnh,
Thị xã Huyện Long Điền,
Tỉnh Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu,
Việt Nam.

Dương Thị Trấn, Huyện Hoa Thanh,
Tỉnh Tay Ninh,
Việt Nam.

Đường Âu Cơ,
Phường 14, Quận Tân Bình,
Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh,
Việt Nam.

Dương - Street
Phường - Ward
Quận - District (Inner)
Huyện - District (Outer)
Ấp - Hamlet
Xã - Commune
Thị xã - Township
Tỉnh - Province

Translation in English:

Phuoc Loi Hamlet,
Phuoc Tinh Commune,
Huyen Long Dien Township,
Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province,
Vietnam.

Thi Tran Street, Hoa Thanh District,
Tay Ninh Province,
Vietnam.

Au Co Street,
Ward 14, Tan Binh District,
Ho Chi Minh City,
Vietnam.

[honky168]

Hi can some bro help me to translate below phrase, thanks.

thank you very murch ,i can sent duong hong .happi 8,3 vi toi ko biet tieng anh lam ,nen ban hay thong cam cho toi nha ! toi se goi tin nhan cua ban den duong hong nha ! chuc ban hanh phuc cung gd nhan ngay 8,3 nha ! luon vui ve nha !

[jackbl]

Super-luxurious cars in Saigon
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VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has nearly all models of the most expensive cars in the world. Super-luxurious cars like Audi R8, Aston Martin, Bentley, Ferrari, Mclaren, Lamborghini, Hummer, Porsche, Rolls Royce are not abundant, but also not rare in the country’s largest city.


Super-expensive cars on streets

Imports of super-luxurious cars have not been so noisily announced lately, perhaps because rich people don’t want to boast about their wealth in a time of economic slowdown, or because of the growing popularity of such cars in the city.

To date, car fans in HCM City have counted six Rolls Royce of the latest model, around 15 Bentley, 5 Hummer Limousine, 6 Ferrari F430, 8 Lamborghini, tens of Audi R8, Aston Martin, McLaren, Porsche and others.

These cars attract the eyes of all passers-by and the attention of the public because they are not only rare, look strange, but also their prices. The cheapest of these models is around VND3 billion ($176,500) and the most expensive is VND25 billion ($1.47 million).

After the appearance of a green Rolls Royce worth more than VND25 billion, which helped polish the name of its owner in 2007, a real estate businesswoman in HCM City, also a lady, imported a white Rolls Royce priced nearly VND30 billion ($1.76 million) in early 2008.

Though there is no information about imports of super-luxurious cars recently, Saigonese are seeing more Rolls Royce, Bentley, etc on the street, especially in front of up-scale hotels. On a weekend night, if one sits at a street café near luxurious buildings in the city’s hub, he will see tens of cars of these kinds.

These cars can also be found on Dien Bien Phu road, Binh Thanh district or in the Phu My Hung new residential area in District 7. The Phu Gia villa area may have the highest “density” of super-cars. Phu Gia is home to some of the leading “players” of cars in HCM City – famous businesspeople.

Thao Dien villa area in District 2 is famous for a young real estate businessman who owns a collection of five super-expensive cars, totalling around $2.5 million. The manager of a big salon auto in the city said if the real estate market hadn’t shrunk, this businessman would have bought a Bugatti Veyron, which costs nearly VND40 billion ($2.35 million).

Super-luxurious cars are not rare in HCM City anymore. Even one who owns a cheap motorbike can ride in a super-car. The Minh Tam Company is ready to lease its three Hummer Limos at a price of $150-250 per hour. Other models like Lamborghini, Audi R8, Ferrari, etc. are also available for lease at similar prices. However, Rolls Royce and Bentley are not.

Saigonese car fans guess that the race to import super-cars will be quiet in early 2009; as too many super-cars are available in the city, some rich people may import unique models like Bugatti Veyron to show-off.



Who are the owners of super-cars?

The young real estate businessman is the most famous among car “players” in HCM City. Not yet 30 years old, this man now holds five super-expensive cars at the same time, the cheapest of which is $300,000. So far, he has bought tens of luxurious models, all at least $100,000.

His close friend, 24, the boss of a plastics company, also has five super-cars: a Lamborghini Murielago LP 640, a red Ferrari F430 coupe, a white Rolls Royce, a BMW X5 4.8, and a Mercedes S550.

The owner of a series of luxurious restaurants is remembered as the first to buy a Rolls Royce worth more than VND10 billion ($588,000). A businesswoman, who runs famous cosmetics shops and beauty salons, is famous for having the only red Bentley in Vietnam. She also owns several BMW and Mercedes.

A real estate businesswoman, who bought the VND25 billion green Rolls Royce, has 5-7 other super-cars and each of them is worth at least VND1.5 billion ($88,000). The man who imported a wholly new Rolls Royce several days before the green Rolls Royce arrived is general director of a real estate company. He owned at least four super-cars before buying the Rolls.

Most of the owners of super-cars are under 40 years old. The boss of a famous auto salon in HCM City said children of super-rich people are also willing to pay for super-cars.

“They are supported by their parents so they are ready to pay hundreds of thousands of USD to change cars. They are young so they quickly tire of cars. Such people change super-cars as often as their shirts,” he quipped.

A young man is said to have lost $500,000 in just a few months from changing three super-cars.

In a country where the per capita income has just exceeded $1,000/person/year, the public may question rather than admire the owners of super-cars priced from several hundreds of thousands to a million USD.

Ha Phan

[jackbl]

Luxurious cafés: lucrative businesses
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VietNamNet Bridge – Luxurious cafés have been mushrooming in Vietnam in the last few years as a result of increased foreign investment, more foreigners in Vietnam and higher income per capita in the country.


Luxurious cafés mushrooming

A Vietnamese Australian, who has spent much time wandering Saigon’s streets, said surprisingly that the cafés in the city seemed to be even more luxurious than in Australia. He said that it was hard to find a luxurious café in Australia, while there were many big ones in HCM City.

In fact, the so called ‘luxurious café’ has just appeared in HCM City in the last few years. At first, the city had small cafés only. However, competition between investors has led to the establishment of bigger and bigger cafés.

The luxurious café must be located in advantageous positions, which attract clients with their specific styles. According to investors, it costs at least VND5-6bil ($0.375mil) to set up a café. The figure is sometimes higher than the said capital sum. Zenta Café in district 1, for example, which appeared in the city in early 2006, astonished everyone with its vast capital sum of VND16bil ($1mil), not including the land leasing fee.

A lot of luxurious cafés have appeared in the city recently, including Planet, K&K, Ritar, and Yesterday. These cafés have their separate market segments. For example, Highlands targets officers, while Sao (MTV) tries to attract playboys, and Yesterday, entrepreneurs.



Who are the clients?

‘Windows’ is considered to have been the first luxurious café in HCM City. In the early 2000s, when there was only the café for popular people or the middle class like Trung Nguyen, Windows café seemed to be ‘like a fish out of water’ with its unique decoration, advantageous position and high-grade services. The establishment of Windows at that time triggered the establishment of a series of luxurious cafés afterwards.

More and more investors began thinking of opening luxurious cafés, and tried to attract clients with unique styles and good services, which, of course, require vast sums of investment capital.

Mr Tam, a businessman, who always comes to the café, said that every café has its specific style and its specific ways to lure visitors. Some cafés, especially the ones in the Tortoise Lake area, attract visitors with their beautiful supermodels, singers and artists. The stars come to the café every afternoon, chatting, drinking coffee and…receive wages.

The cafés, of course, do not only sell coffee, they also provide additional services. The clients, coming to drink coffee, can use Internet wireless service, photocopiers and fax machines as well.



The competitor from the US

A reliable source told VietNamNet that the US’ Starbucks, which owns nearly 3,000 cafés in 37 countries worldwide, is planning to penetrate Vietnam’s market. This is a café chain operating in the same way as Mc Donald’s, which has been operating for 35 years.

Though not having supermodels to attract clients as Vietnamese-owned cafés have, it is believed that Starbucks will be able to attract Vietnamese clients with its good-quality coffee and professional services.

In China, the Starbucks chain has been developing very rapidly: it already has 200 cafés in the country, just two years after the Government of China allowed 100% foreign owned retailers to enter the market.

Starbucks has been expanding its business by buying back a business in Hong Kong, which had 60 cafés. In Seattle, the US, Starbucks has purchased High Grown Investment Group Ltd and snapped up H&Q Asia Pacific.

Analysts are saying that the appearance of Starbucks in Vietnam will make the market more bustling, while causing headaches for existing Vietnamese café owners.

Nguyen Sa

[FireShark]

Dear all

I believe this forum are being monitor by the SPF. Recently went to some joints that the manager review nowadays got some newcustomers come into the KTV or Pubs as customers. Furthermore, this customers smoke outside the KTV and Pubs whereby you can see some customers are smoking inside the KTV and Pubs. Are they from the spies from the SPF. They ask so many questions like:

a) What type of girls working here?
b) The girls here got go out with any customers?
c) Price and other small small questions.

Will SPF send spies to monitor all these places??/??

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by FireShark

Dear all

I believe this forum are being monitor by the SPF.

spf will not have time to monitor such forum lah.
they can get info easily by sending out their 'ma ta kia' to cheong at a certain budget.

they are more well informed than by monitoring this forum.

It is just a matter of they want or don't want to clean up ktv/pubs thoroughly.

[SureScore]

Originally Posted by FireShark

Dear all

I believe this forum are being monitor by the SPF. Recently went to some joints that the manager review nowadays got some newcustomers come into the KTV or Pubs as customers. Furthermore, this customers smoke outside the KTV and Pubs whereby you can see some customers are smoking inside the KTV and Pubs. Are they from the spies from the SPF. They ask so many questions like:

a) What type of girls working here?
b) The girls here got go out with any customers?
c) Price and other small small questions.

Will SPF send spies to monitor all these places??/??

Seriously not sure if you are right? Can tell some of them are members in this forum. Heard Gahmen wanted to block this site but so far unsuccessful.

[AdGuy]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

they are more well informed than by monitoring this forum.

True... I suspect KT is an undercover.

How else do you explain him cheonging almost every night?

[jackbl]

The pay is so low, who want to study so hard and become a teacher???

Graduate teachers to get pay increase
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VietNamNet Bridge – The minimum salary for teachers graduating from universities will be raised to VND2.3 million ($121), according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Where are the teachers of Vietnam’s future?

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thien Nhan said that the pay rise had been designed to give teachers the finances necessary to live on their own salary.

Allowances, which will be based on the length of the teacher's career, will also be added to their monthly salary.

However, experts and teachers are worried about the plan.


The minimum salary for teachers graduating from universities will be raised to VND2.3 million.
Professor Nguyen Lan Dung said that the plan did not distinguish whether the salaries for urban and rural teachers would be equal. The plan also failed to explicitly state whether there would be different salaries for educators teaching at higher levels.

Trinh Thang Manh, head of the ministry's Social Policy Unit, said that teachers in different localities were subject to different standards of living. Teachers in kindergartens, which make up 56 per cent of teachers in the country, earn between VND500,000-1.3 million per month.

Manh said that this salary was too low and it was difficult of for the teachers to support themselves with this pay.

Do Duy Truyen, deputy rector of Ha Noi University said that to live on their own salary, university teachers should be paid 2-2.5 times more than their current salaries.

Nguyen Thi Thanh, a secondary school teacher in Dak Lak Province, said that her monthly salary used to be VND120,000, when she was signed to temporary contracts. Now, she makes VND3 million with the salary and assorted subsidies.

Tran Kim Than, a high school teacher in Ha Noi, said that with the current salary, teachers were unable to live in big cities. Most teachers in turn taught private lessons in order to earn more money.

Nguyen Van Ngu, head of the ministry's Finance and Planning Department, said that this plan was jointly drafted by the ministries of Education and Training and Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News

[Renji]

This thread is educating, thanks for the contribution!

[Thom07]

1) vi e phai qua sing di lam nua ma. kg le co 200 e xao a lam gi.

2) e chua thay tien mang lai nua.


Cac shifu oi ! Meanings of the highlighted words?

[AdGuy]

Originally Posted by Thom07

1) vi e phai qua sing di lam nua ma. kg le co 200 e xao a lam gi.

2) e chua thay tien mang lai nua.


Cac shifu oi ! Meanings of the highlighted words?

Guessing...

kg le co => dun think there's such a meaning. Looks more like kg co le => cannot be

mang = bring

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by Thom07

1) vi e phai qua sing di lam nua ma. kg le co 200 e xao a lam gi.

2) e chua thay tien mang lai nua.

My guessing:
1. Have u heard "co le"? "Kg le" is the opposite of "co le".
2. I thot i sms u before? U still ask here? U doubt me? next time dun reply ur sms liao

[lovesprout]

Originally Posted by Thom07

1) vi e phai qua sing di lam nua ma. kg le co 200 e xao a lam gi.


Cac shifu oi ! Meanings of the highlighted words?

I think..
le = reason
kg le = no reason

Because I have to come singapore to work more, there is no reason I have 200 dollar. I lied for what?

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by Renji

This thread is educating, thanks for the contribution!

Thanks. I thot ppl will say I TCSS here. Any comment to improve this thread?