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[jackbl]

Ho Quang hieu - Em la Hanh phuc trong Anh

[Wendella]

Here is another of those super abbreviated SMS messages:

Me: Em khoe khong? 8.30 sang o day. Anh dang uong ca phe o nha me cua anh.

Her: E cung bt a ah

I guess bt means biet (know) but overall I don't know what she means here.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by Wendella

Here is another of those super abbreviated SMS messages:

Me: Em khoe khong? 8.30 sang o day. Anh dang uong ca phe o nha me cua anh.

Her: E cung bt a ah

I guess bt means biet (know) but overall I don't know what she means here.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

bt = bình thường = normal

[jackbl]

Singaporean sets example of good deeds to young Vietnamese via charity trip

A Singaporean has organized a charity trip to an orphanage in southern Vietnam in the hope of bringing love to the children as well as encouraging young people to do good things.

Gabriel Kang visited the Thien Binh orphanage in Dong Nai Province on Sunday together with 30 young Vietnamese volunteers.
“I’m trying to encourage more young Vietnamese to do good things, so I invited them here with me on this trip. After I leave, hopefully I’ve created a ripple effect,” Kang told Tuoi Tre News.
“I hope the volunteers like what they do and enjoy playing with the children,” he added. “I also hope that some of them, maybe 10 or 20 percent, will come back without me and continue to do good things for the people here.”
Many members of the group said they had never met Kang before and just heard about his story, then deciding to join the trip.
Kang raised money to help Vietnamese tourist Pham Van Thoai who got duped in Singapore in November last year, when he purchased an iPhone 6 in Sim Lim Square.
Thoai, who decided to pay S$950 (US$678) to buy an iPhone 6 at the store of Mobile Air Pte Ltd in Sim Lim, was asked to sign some worded invoice in English, a language he barely understood.
He was then forced to pay an additional S$1,500 ($1,071) for a one-year warranty before he could receive the phone.
The Vietnamese tourist then declined to pay the additional money, down on his knees, begging the store to return him the cash he had paid but then only got back S$400 ($285) and no iPhone.
At the end of November this year, Mobile Air boss Jover Chew Chiew Loon was sentenced to 33 months in jail for cheating 26 victims into agreeing to buy mobile devices worth $16,599 from January to October 2014.
After Thoai’s scandal, Kang called on Singaporeans to chip in to buy a brand new iPhone 6 to send to him with the initial raising target of $1,350 (S$1,804); however, he then received $12,431 (S$16,615).
Kang told Tuoi Tre News that the Sunday trip’s budget of around S$3,000 ($2,147) was from his own pocket and part of the amount he had pooled in the iPhone scam.
Some other donors also contributed food and clothes.
Gwen Ooi, who flew from Singapore on Friday night after knowing about the trip via Facebook, said she joined the charity trip to see what the children at the orphanage needed.
Ooi said that she and Kang were doing charity work at the personal level so that it could be long-term.
“I may look for more support from Singapore,” she added.
The volunteer group brought ingredients from Ho Chi Minh City to the orphanage to cook nearly 200 meals for the kids there, besides buying them ice cream for dessert.
In addition to the meals, Kang also gave away 20 drones produced by his company costing $60 each to the kids.
This was not the first time Kang had visited the orphanage.
Early this year, he brought S$2,000 ($1,496) from the auction of the iPhone he had intended to give Thoai, but the Vietnamese man refused to receive it, to visit the Thien Binh orphanage and bought a freezer, toys, and medicines for it.
The Singaporean man once helped a Vietnamese, as he bought a flight ticket for a young woman who had to work in a karaoke restaurant in Malaysia to return home.
Kang said the woman had kept asking for his help in every post on his Facebook.
As he has received thousands of messages asking for help after the iPhone fundraising and he cannot provide help in all cases, Kang is planning to launch a project called One Last Thing, in which people can share their problems and others could help after verifying all the information.

[Wendella]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

bt = bình thường = normal

Em cung binh thuong (I'm also normal)... then what does the "a ah" mean? I assume one of those means 'anh' ('you' in this case).

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by Wendella

Em cung binh thuong (I'm also normal)... then what does the "a ah" mean? I assume one of those means 'anh' ('you' in this case).

A ah=honey/brother ahhhh. The ahhhh is just an expression word. Not very meaningful. U can ignore it.

[Rudolph]

Interesting can learn another language here.

[jackbl]

Ho Quang hieu - Em chua tung biet

[smallplayer]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Singaporean sets example of good deeds to young Vietnamese via charity trip

A Singaporean has organized a charity trip to an orphanage in southern Vietnam in the hope of bringing love to the children as well as encouraging young people to do good things.

Gabriel Kang visited the Thien Binh orphanage in Dong Nai Province on Sunday together with 30 young Vietnamese volunteers.
“I’m trying to encourage more young Vietnamese to do good things, so I invited them here with me on this trip. After I leave, hopefully I’ve created a ripple effect,” Kang told Tuoi Tre News.
“I hope the volunteers like what they do and enjoy playing with the children,” he added. “I also hope that some of them, maybe 10 or 20 percent, will come back without me and continue to do good things for the people here.”
Many members of the group said they had never met Kang before and just heard about his story, then deciding to join the trip.
Kang raised money to help Vietnamese tourist Pham Van Thoai who got duped in Singapore in November last year, when he purchased an iPhone 6 in Sim Lim Square.
Thoai, who decided to pay S$950 (US$678) to buy an iPhone 6 at the store of Mobile Air Pte Ltd in Sim Lim, was asked to sign some worded invoice in English, a language he barely understood.
He was then forced to pay an additional S$1,500 ($1,071) for a one-year warranty before he could receive the phone.
The Vietnamese tourist then declined to pay the additional money, down on his knees, begging the store to return him the cash he had paid but then only got back S$400 ($285) and no iPhone.
At the end of November this year, Mobile Air boss Jover Chew Chiew Loon was sentenced to 33 months in jail for cheating 26 victims into agreeing to buy mobile devices worth $16,599 from January to October 2014.
After Thoai’s scandal, Kang called on Singaporeans to chip in to buy a brand new iPhone 6 to send to him with the initial raising target of $1,350 (S$1,804); however, he then received $12,431 (S$16,615).
Kang told Tuoi Tre News that the Sunday trip’s budget of around S$3,000 ($2,147) was from his own pocket and part of the amount he had pooled in the iPhone scam.
Some other donors also contributed food and
........
Kang said the woman had kept asking for his help in every post on his Facebook.
As he has received thousands of messages asking for help after the iPhone fundraising and he cannot provide help in all cases, Kang is planning to launch a project called One Last Thing, in which people can share their problems and others could help after verifying all the information.

He is my friend and he didn't tell me about the trip..grr.
Certainly can help do charity as I travel to vn sometimes....
Thanks for the info Bro! !!

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by smallplayer

He is my friend and he didn't tell me about the trip..grr.
Certainly can help do charity as I travel to vn sometimes....
Thanks for the info Bro! !!

Later some guys will come here to say do charities are bad...better dun share too much...

I keep to myself now...

[smallplayer]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Later some guys will come here to say do charities are bad...better dun share too much...

I keep to myself now...

Totally understand Bro.
This one the lead is Gabriel kang.
People know him well enough.
I just want to help as I am a little familiar with Vietnam and can certainly help.
I sms him already and he is more than happy.
His tentative date seems to be OK for me too.
Doing charity and karma...we don't do for other people to see...that's why I believe what I believe.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by smallplayer

Totally understand Bro.
This one the lead is Gabriel kang.
People know him well enough.
I just want to help as I am a little familiar with Vietnam and can certainly help.
I sms him already and he is more than happy.
His tentative date seems to be OK for me too.
Doing charity and karma...we don't do for other people to see...that's why I believe what I believe.

So long you happy with what you like to do...

I dun think your friend Gabriel is experience enough in Vietnam...anyway time will tell...

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by blur185

good to see you still updating vn news! Cheers Bro!

Anything you can contribute on learning vietnamese?

[jackbl]

13 arrested for reportedly stealing from foreigners in hotels in V

Thirteen Vietnamese have been captured for allegedly robbing foreigners after tricking them into hotels in Ho Chi Minh City, officials announced on Saturday.
The thirteen suspects, including sex workers, masseuses and thugs, were nabbed after police had tracked them for 20 days, said Colonel Nguyen Van Quy, head of the police department in the outlying district of Binh Chanh in Ho Chi Minh City.
They were divided into four groups led by Tran Thi My Linh, 41, Duong Thi Thu Hien, 45, Nguyen Thi Tuyet Nhung, 42, and Nguyen Thi Than Tuyen, 27.
The gangs committed the crime by stealing the tourists’ property after the sex workers and masseuses had successfully convinced them to come to several hotels in Binh Chanh District and District 8 to buy their services.
The suspects usually targeted foreigners from Asian countries as they do not commonly report theft to authorities for fear of embarrassment and further trouble.
They successfully carried out the crime five times, appropriating hundreds of millions of dong (VND100 million = US$4,440), according to police officers.
On the night of December 17, police spotted Linh’s group after they had managed to persuade three foreigners in District 1 to follow them into a hotel in Binh Chanh.
The gang was caught red handed the moment they stepped out of the hotel and related exhibits were also confiscated by police officers for investigation.

[jackbl]

Singaporean committed to easing Agent Orange victims’ sufferings in Vietnam

A Singaporean septuagenarian has given his all, including huge financial support, to help mitigate the lingering effects of Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin on Vietnamese victims.
Harold Chan, 73, has been in the central city of Da Nang since late November visiting AO-affected families.
Late last month he donated a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanner worth US$1.5 million to Da Nang Hospital in order to facilitate diagnosis and improve the health of victims of the toxic chemical.
The equipment has been put into operation at the hospital to benefit Agent Orange/dioxin victims as well as poor people in the city.
Chan has also decided to sponsor an annual fund worth VND720 million (US$32,000) in support of the victims.
The sums are taken from the elderly man’s lifelong savings.
He has also worked with the hospital’s doctors regarding how to operate the scanner and provide treatment for the first batch of patients.
Obsession
Chan revealed that six months ago, he happened to see stark images of Vietnamese AO sufferers on television against the hustle and bustle of their modern-day country.
“I’ve been to many countries, including the U.S. and European nations. Never have I witnessed such appalling images. I was unspeakably shocked,” he said.
The distorted faces and serious disabilities of AO children lingered in his mind for days and spurred him to travel to the S-shaped country.
Chan carried out his own search for information and immediately decided to come to Da Nang, one of the Vietnamese localities where AO abnormalities remain pervasive.
He visited the Da Nang Association of Victims of Agent Orange in April, introducing himself as a tourist.
He was then introduced to Nguyen Thi Hien, the society’s chair, who initially did not expect the haggard-looking, small-built man to be such a generous philanthropist.

Chan took pains to visit more than 10 affected families in Hoa Vang and Cam Le Districts as well as AO victim centers in remote places to witness their suffering with his own eyes.
The elderly man drooped at the sight of a woman who had lost her husband to dioxin and is caring for their two afflicted children, and elderly couples who are tending to their grandchildren paralyzed by the toxin.
“What impressed me most is that they all refuse to give up though they’re well aware that the condition is incurable. I could only keep my head low and called them ‘heroes,” he added.
Chan also listened attentively to what Hien, the chairwoman of the Da Nang Association of Victims of Agent Orange, had to say regarding how the society has raised 150 AO kids mostly on its own and without financial assistance.
The old man even canceled his flight home to make it to a live television show featuring AO kids in Da Nang in early June.
During the show, Chan offered to sponsor an annual fund worth VND720 million dedicated to the victims.
Only then did it dawn on Hien what the purpose of his field trips were.
Such trips also indicated that despite providing devoted care, local hospitals are in dire need of cutting-edge medical equipment, which has seriously hampered the efficiency of their diagnosis and treatment.
The sight of patients waiting in long lines for an MRI scan prompted Chan to gift the costly scanner to Da Nang Hospital.
Hien further divulged that Chan has also sponsored the construction of a 100-square-meter in-patient care center in the city.
The facility, worth approximately VND1.3 billion ($56,868), is slated to be operational soon.
Chan kept refusing to disclose information about his personal life and family.
He merely revealed he had worked for International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) before founding his own company in Singapore.
He did not admit he is wealthy, but stressed he is fortunate to have a healthy wife and daughter.
“I really hope businesses in Vietnam will join hands to relieve local AO victims’ anguish. The whole world should also be willing to help,” Chan said.