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[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

You no need carry it yourself mah, you ask your kar kia to carry for you can liao

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

What i wished u said is true...

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

I always same same...

I always same same but different

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

What i wished u said is true...

Not to worry I see you very the up

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[Hurricane88]

Another chao ang moh cheapskate...

French man arrested for street robbery in Vietnam’s 'Little Paris'

By Staff reporters October 24, 2017 | 01:30 pm GMT+7

The young foreigner allegedly snatched gadgets and cash from a 73-year-old man in Da Lat.

Police in the Central Highlands resort town of Da Lat have detained a French man accused of robbing a local on the street last week.

Matthieu Simon , 21, was arrested on Friday night last week as he was attempting to flee the scene, Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper reported.

The victim was a 73-year-old Vietnamese man who had his smart phone, tablet and cash worth $27 snatched.

Simon said he had arrived in Vietnam from neighboring Cambodia.

Da Lat, the tourist center of Lam Dong Province, is one of the most popular destinations in Vietnam.

Standing 1,500 meters (4,921 feet) above sea level, Da Lat provides a cool respite from Vietnam’s year-round heat. The former colonial resort town has been given various nicknames such as the City of Eternal Spring, the City of Flowers, the City of Love and Little Paris.

Popular travel booking site TripAdvisor named it among the top 10 rising destinations in Asia for 2017.

The New York Times also recommended Da Lat among its 52 places to visit in 2016, describing it as “an agricultural El Dorado” with unique scenes of pine forests, locally grown avocados and artichoke tea.

Da Lat received more than 270,000 foreign visitors in 2016. Arrivals in the first six months of this year increased 44.3 percent on-year to more than 204,000.

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Vietnamese motorbike taxis disguising themselves as Grab, Uber drivers to con clients

By Vi Vu October 19, 2017 | 03:27 pm GMT+7



The tricksters are working in gangs and beat anyone who steps on their turf, according to one xe om driver.

Gangs of motorbike taxi drivers in Hanoi and Saigon have found a new way of surviving the rising competition from popular ride-hailing apps: disguising themselves as Uber or Grab employees.

The sneaky xe om drivers have been buying uniforms and accounts from drivers already fired by the app companies, and have been spotted working around Tan Son Nhat Airport in Saigon and My Dinh Bus Station in Hanoi.

And they're back up to their old tricks.

As well as fooling customers into thinking they work for supposedly reputable firms, some have been fixing fares by changing the destinations of their journeys by fiddling the apps, according to local media reports.

A week ago, a man leaving Tan Son Nhat was surrounded by around 10 men wearing the easily recognizable green Grab jackets. One of them asked where he was going and offered a fare without even opening his phone. “We’d have to share 20 percent of the money with the company,” he said as an excuse.

When the customer insisted on seeing the price, he was taken to another man wearing a green Grab helmet who opened the app on his phone to try and prove the point. The only problem was that the destination the driver had entered was six kilometers further from where the passenger wanted to go, Thanh Nien newspaper reported

The fare offered by the driver was VND60,000 ($2.64), compared to the VND25,000 shown on the app.

A video posted on Wednesday last week showed a foreigner traveling from Tan Son Nhat being charged VND100,000 for a motorbike ride that should have cost VND19,000.

Other drivers at the airport said the tricksters are working in gangs and beat anyone who steps on their turf, even fellow xe om drivers.

Fake Grab and Uber motorbike drivers are also operating outside My Dinh Bus Station, according to industry sources.

One driver said many people do not feel comfortable taking a xe om as there’s no clear pricing policy, so some drivers are deceiving customers with branded company jackets and helmets and charging a high price at the end of the ride.

But some traditional xe om drivers have defended themselves, saying it's a small few who overcharge and give the rest of them a bad name.

The disguise is just a trick to survive the increasingly harsh competition with the new services, they claimed.

Malaysia-based Grab entered Vietnam in February 2014 several months before its main rival Uber. Both operate car and motorbike taxi services.

Their market shares have not been disclosed, but other service providers, from taxi companies to xe om drivers, feel threatened.

VnExpress has interviewed xe om drivers who said they were being elbowed off their own turf by Uber and Grab.

Some even predicted that the newcomers would eventually put traditional drivers out of business.

The turf war has turned violent on multiple occasions, including an incident in June when police had to fire gun shots to break up a fight outside a major bus station in Saigon.

Several videos of drivers fighting with crash helmets have also been shared on social media.

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Another chao ang moh cheapskate...

French man arrested for street robbery in Vietnam’s 'Little Paris'

By Staff reporters October 24, 2017 | 01:30 pm GMT+7

The young foreigner allegedly snatched gadgets and cash from a 73-year-old man in Da Lat.

OMG this is the stupidest robber I have ever read about kanasai he stick out like a sore thumb and dun expect people to be able to recognise or remember him??????

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

OMG this is the stupidest robber I have ever read about kanasai he stick out like a sore thumb and dun expect people to be able to recognise or remember him??????

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

really sia shui...cannot afford to travel resort to robbing....nowadays ang moh really no more class...

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

really sia shui...cannot afford to travel resort to robbing....nowadays ang moh really no more class...

Since donkey years not nowadays.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by naemlo

Since donkey years not nowadays.

now resort to crime or begging to get money...what else these chao ang moh will not do...

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

now resort to crime or begging to get money...what else these chao ang moh will not do...

They started in old days where they sent their war ships to rob.... They always think they are the chee ber lie ppl Surprisingly, there was no chee ber lie person in my last trip to Nanning but a lot Vietnamese.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by naemlo

They started in old days where they sent their war ships to rob.... They always think they are the chee ber lie ppl Surprisingly, there was no chee ber lie person in my last trip to Nanning but a lot Vietnamese.

nowadays Viet are in every cities...

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Casino finds itself in royal mess at Vietnam’s top resort town

By Minh Son October 25, 2017 | 10:57 am GMT+7

The owners have reported multi-million dollar losses, blaming a drop in Chinese gamblers visiting Ha Long Bay.

The company running the only casino in Vietnam’s famous Ha Long Bay appears to have been dealt a bad hand.

The Royal International Corporation said in a new financial report that its losses in the third quarter had jumped 23 times from a year ago to more than VND69 billion ($3.04 million).

That added to a VND100 billion ($4.4 million) loss in the first nine months, a fourfold increase from 2016, the company said.

Most of the losses were incurred by its casino operation, but its villa business also played a small part, it said.

The casino was opened in 2003 but the business has bled red ink since 2013. The company reported a VND154 billion loss in 2014.

Managers said most gamblers come from Taiwan and mainland China, but fewer have been showing up of late.

Vietnam has six casinos that open exclusively to foreigners, and four of them are reporting losses.

Earlier this year the government lifted a long-time ban on Vietnamese nationals to allow them to gamble in two casinos - one on the southern resort island of Phu Quoc and the other at the Van Don Special Economic Zone in the northern province of Quang Ninh Province, close to the loss-making Ha Long casino.

Both casinos are under construction.

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nternational coffee brands quit Vietnam due to filtered down profits

By Ngan Anh October 22, 2017 | 11:38 am GMT+7



Some foreign coffee chains have been outmatched by local competition, forcing them to pull the plug on their Vietnamese ventures.

Le Quan is sitting at a table under a green parasol sipping a cappuccino, waiting for his friend to arrive. The sun is shining, and the seating area outside the western-style Highlands Coffee shop is full mostly of young and trendy people.

Only a few hundred meters away on the same street is a Starbucks store, but Quan and his friends rarely visit the American franchise, preferring to have their morning cups of coffee at Highlands.

Highlands' interior is comparably sophisticated and modern, but it offers a much cheaper cappuccino.

“The price offered by foreign coffee chains like Starbucks does not really suit my wallet,” Quan said.

The cost of a cappuccino at Starbucks is more than VND100,000 ($4.3), nearly double the price in local stores like Highlands and Trung Nguyen.

Quan, who is in his 30s, is among a growing number of Vietnamese consumers flocking to coffee shops and developing a taste for what’s viewed as a trendy Western beverage.

Many people now drink coffee as part of their daily routine, but foreign coffee chains have struggled to tap into this potentially lucrative market. Local coffee fans prefer domestic shops because of the affordable prices, so some international chains are pulling the plug and leaving the country due to losses.

Earlir this year, Australia’s Gloria Jean’s Coffee pulled out of Vietnam after 10 years of opening in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Nguyen Phi Van, the first franchisee of Gloria Jean’s in Vietnam, blamed its demise on a business model that had been developed in Australia for the local and regional markets.

Even after the chain allowed its franchise in Vietnam to adapt to the local market, business remained tough because domestic rivals including The Coffee House, Phuc Long, Trung Nguyen and Highlands had already established their dominance by offering affordable prices.

Last year, Singapore-based café and restaurant chain NYDC closed its last shop, shutting down its seven-year business in Vietnam. A statement from the chain said it had suffered from losses and stiff competition.

Other foreign coffee chains have also struggled to expand. California-based Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, as of late last year, had opened only 15 outlets in Vietnam after entering the market eight years before.

Coffee giant Starbucks has opened a modest 24 outlets in Vietnam in the past four years.

The international brands have been dwarfed by local firms such as Highlands, which has over 130 outlets, The Coffee House, which has opened 30 shops in just two years, and Trung Nguyen, which has opened more than a thousand shops in Vietnam since its start-up in 1996.



Factors behind the downfall

Talking about the reason for the failure of international brands in the domestic market, industry insiders said that high rents on premium land have raised the cost of retail prices, making their coffee less competitive than local ones.

According to a report by property firm CBRE Vietnam, the rents in Saigon's central business districts in the second quarter of 2017 rose 7 percent to nearly $140 per square meter.

The rate is one of the highest in Southeast Asia, which make the locations unfeasible for a profitable coffee outlet, Sean T Ngo, CEO of VF Franchise Consulting, said.

In addition, the high cost of importing coffee beans has made international brands less competitive.

He said Vietnam, a major exporter of Robusta coffee, imposes high import tariffs on coffee beans, and international coffee chains often use imported Arabica beans that raise costs significantly. Higher costs have driven many customers to domestic brands, he said.

The high density of coffee outlets in cities has also made the competition between foreign chains and local brands that have westernized their services, Ngo said.

“There are too many choices. I will remain loyal to local shops, which offer international products at reasonable prices”, Quan said.

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aigon's hotel named fourth best in the world

By Minh Nga October 23, 2017 | 03:12 pm GMT+7

It was the only hotel in Vietnam to make the list.

Leading travel guide Condé Nast Traveler has named The Reverie Saigon in downtown Ho Chi Minh City at number four on its list of the "50 Best Hotels in the World".

The results were compiled following a survey of more than 300,000 of the magazine’s readers. It was the only hotel in Vietnam to make the list.

“The Reverie Saigon brought in a level of luxury previously unseen in HCMC when it was opened in 2015,” the magazine said.

It noted the opulent Italian decor and furnishings, the three fine dining restaurants, and “a 157-foot bar that’s so long it stretches from Dong Khoi Street all the way to Nguyen Hue Boulevard two blocks over.”

The hotel's 13,000-square-foot spa and facilities that include two open-air jacuzzis and an Olympic-size swimming pool were also highlighted.

Conquering the list this year was La Réserve Paris - Hotel and Spa in France, followed by The Lodhi in New Delhi and the Gainsborough Bath Spa in the U.K.

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/travel-...d-3659724.html

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

now resort to crime or begging to get money...what else these chao ang moh will not do...

Have.....they haven start pimping themselves yet.......so I still waiting for those SSSYTS eng-mo to start offering themselves like that earlier pic you posted of the particular russian SSYT begging

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^