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[Honey Boon]

you also a Master teacher to many here .....

Originally Posted by jackbl

A Big Thank You to all my Teachers here in teaching me vietnamese language!

Chúc mừng ngày Nhà Giáo Việt Nam!

[vietboy]

Originally Posted by Honey Boon

you also a Master teacher to many here .....

No no he is the grand master.

[jackbl]

First graders taught to tell lies
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VietNamNet Bridge – “Once a liar always a liar” – Vietnamese teachers understand the saying well, but they still teach their students to tell lies.

A fourth grader of a primary school in Dong Da district in Hanoi said that she always burns incense to pray for luck every time when she attends examinations.

“My teacher always reminds us to be cautious when copying at the exams. We would be heavily punished if someone sees us cribbing,” she said.

Surprisingly, the girl does not pray for staying lucid during the examinations so that she can make right decisions, but she simply wants her behaviors of cheating at the exams to go smoothly.

The girl also said that the teacher always called her students for extra classes before the exam days. At the classes, the students can do the exercises which are exactly the same with the questions to be raised at the exams.

The teacher repeatedly says she wants to help students pass the exams. If someone does not know how to solve the questions, he can copy the answers given before by the teacher at the extra classes.

The small girl, who is just a fourth grader, commented that her teacher did very well to help her students. Almost the students in her class get the titles of “Excellent” or “good students” when the academic years finish.

The story about a third grader boy complaining about his rude teacher has become a hot topic on education forums.

The boy said his teacher is not as nice as other teachers, because she always scolds students. The teacher usually tears the students’ notebooks if she discovers mistakes. She asks students to keep books in good conditions, in anticipation of the inspection tours to be taken by education officials.

The boy also said he cannot understand why the teacher sometimes tells lies. “Yesterday, she scolded H, saying that H was a bad student. However, when meeting H’s mother, who came to school to see the child off, the teacher said H was very good at school,” the boy said.

“I think the teacher has to tell lies because H is from a rich family and H’s mother usually gives presents to the teacher,” he commented.

The boy seems to be an excellent student of the teacher – liar. The next day, when he was asked to write an essay and express his feelings about the teacher, he wrote the essay with flowery words to flatter the teacher.

When the father asked why he still praised the teacher, though he does not like her, the boy said he needed to be “friendly” with the teacher, or she would give bad marks to him.

The parent, when sharing the story with the colleagues, said she feels worried when an eight year old boy can master the “art of telling lies.”

A parent, whose child is a third grader of a primary school in Thanh Tri district in Hanoi, also said students nowadays are taught to tell lies right at school.

His child’s teacher runs a private tutoring class and asks all the members of the class to go to the class to “improve knowledge.” However, the students have been asked to deny the private tutoring if someone asks them about the teaching.

The problem is that the Ministry of Education and Training is tightening its control over the private tutoring of school teachers, threatening to heavily discipline the teachers violating the regulations. As a result, the extra classes have been running in quietness, while students have been asked to keep secret about their classes.

Compiled by Thu Uyen

[jackbl]

One of the Famous gangster in Vn.........

Former police officers arrested for involvement in Nam Cam criminal ring
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VietNamNet Bridge – On November 20, the Criminal Investigation Department of the People’s Supreme Procuracy served the decision to prosecute and arrest Mr. Nguyen Tuyen Dung, former Colonel, former deputy head of the Investigation Police Agency of Tien Giang Province for "abuse of power on duty."

The same day, the agency made an additional prosecution against Mr. Nguyen Van Nen, former Lieutenant Colonel, former deputy chief of the Office of Tien Giang Investigation Police Agency for the same charge.

Earlier, in early June 2011, the Criminal Investigation Department of the People’s Supreme Procuracy prosecuted and granted bail to Nen and Mr. Ngo Thanh Phong, former Colonel, former chief of the Office of the Tien Giang Investigation Police Agency. The agency also prosecuted and arrested Mr. Nguyen Van Ut, former Major, former captain of the general staff of the Office of Tien Giang Investigation Police Agency.

These police officers of Tien Giang province are determined to have made violations during the process of investigating the Nam Cam criminal ring and a gasoline smuggling ring led by Pham Hung.

The Criminal Investigation Department of the People’s Supreme Procuracy is continuing to expand the investigation and clarification of the role of other individuals in these cases.

Nam Cam (1948 – June 3, 2004) was a notorious gangster. He involved himself in criminal activity, amassing substantial wealth for himself. In 1994, he was arrested and convicted for his criminal dealings, but was released early in May 1995. Charges laid against him included murder, assault, gambling, organising gambling, organising bribery, abetting criminals, and organising illegal emigration.

The conviction that lead, perhaps indirectly, to his execution was due to his role in the assassination of underworld rival Dung Ha. Dung Ha, a reputed female gangster from Haiphong, moved south to Ho Chi Minh City, to join forces with Nam Cam, who hoped to get her to serve as his emissary in expanding his casinos in the north. However, Dung Ha had other plans to create her own gang, which angered Nam Cam. Dung Ha wanted to embarrass Nam Cam and arranged for a gift box containing rats to be delivered to one of Nam Cam's restaurants in Ho Chi Minh City. Humiliated and enraged, Nam Cam ordered a hit on Dung Ha, which was carried out on October 2, 2000. Two men, traveling on motorbike, came up and parked near where she was sitting. One of them got off the bike, walked up to her, pulled out a 9mm revolver and shot her in the head at point-blank range. The assassins escaped. On June 4, 2003, Nam Cam was convicted for ordering the assassination of Dung Ha, and bribing state officials to protect his criminal network.

On May 7, 2004, President Tran Duc Luong rejected Nam Cam's appeal of execution. On June 3, 2004, Nam Cam was executed by firing squad at the district 9 rifle range in Ho Chi Minh city, along with his four gang members Pham Van Minh, Nguyen Huu Thinh, Chau Phat Lai Em and Nguyen Viet Hung, the last being the one who shot Dung Ha.

Dam Tu Duy

[jackbl]

Tourists still flock to Delta
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VietNamNet Bridge – The ongoing economic crisis has not hit the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta's tourism sector too hard, Sai Gon Giai Phong (Sai Gon Liberation) newspaper has reported.

The paper attributed this mainly to the "Four Countries-One Destination" tourism co-operation programme between Viet Nam and its three Indo-China neighbours to foster the Mekong Economic Corridor.

According to the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Tourism Association, the region has welcomed 12.8 million visitors this year, a 6 per cent rise year-on-year. Revenues from tourism topped VND2.6 trillion (US$124 million), a whopping 25 per cent rise.

Kim Trang, a marketing executive at the Ha Noi Tourism Company office in HCM City, said: "The company serves five to six groups of around 30 tourists every month.

"They want to go to Can Tho to listen to don ca tai tu (a genre of folk music) on a boat, to visit fruit orchards, the Mac Cuu imperial tomb, and Ha Tien Beach."

"The delta has a unique position," an executive of the US-based Fantasy Tours said.

"For foreigners the Mekong River is very important because it runs through six countries and Viet Nam is the last. Tourists love to travel by boat, especially on the Can Tho -Phnom Penh route."

Fantasy Tours is among seven travel companies from the US and China who were on a familiarisation trip along with the China Eastern Airlines to Can Tho to consider starting a tour that will take in North America, Shanghai, HCM City, and the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta.

Earlier this year the carrier arranged a tour of Shanghai and Viet Nam for overseas Vietnamese in the US and North America.

It is considering adding Phnom Penh to the tour next year.

Another fam trip took travel companies from the delta, HCM City, and Ha Noi to the Bokor highlands in Cambodia.

Bokor is situated 60km from the Viet Nam border and at a height of 1,080m. It takes tourists around an hour by car to reach the top from where they can see the Gulf of Thailand and Phu Quoc island.

"Though infrastructure is yet to be completed in Bokor, it welcomes around 17,000 tourists every month," Beurich Gerd, general manager of the Thansur Bokor Highland Resort said.

Nguyen Dai Ho, director of the Kien Giang-based Phuong Nam Travel Company, said the trend of going to Cambodia after visiting the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta has risen sharply.

The company is co-operating with Hon Gai Travel Company to exploit the new Ha Noi-HCM City-Tay Ninh-Ha Tien-Phu Quoc-Ha Noi tour.

Nguyen Duc Tho, a tour guide working for Le Phong Tourist Company in HCM City, said: "Forty per cent of tourists to the region are Japanese. A tour of Xa Xia Border Gate-Ha Tien-Cambodia is feasible. It will also enable Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta residents to travel to Cambodia."

Marketing efforts

Dien Quan Media Company based in HCM City recently got celebrity chef Martin Yan to go around the delta to shoot Kham pha Viet Nam cung Martin Yan (Discover Viet Nam with Martin Yan) for television to popularise the country's image globally.

The company has opened a representative office in Can Tho.

Le Van Hien, chairman of Cuu Long Tourism Company, said the delta has done well, especially in upgrading the quality of services.

Local tourism associations and the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Tourism Association have also shook hands to train waiters and tour guides, revive traditional festivals of the local ethnic groups, market tourism, and open quality resorts and amusement spots.

"Tourism in the delta has improved much in recent times, but it needs much more to be done," said Hai Dang, director of Vietravel Tourism Company.

Pham Phuoc Nhu, chairman of the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta Tourism Association, the 4+ model linking Can Tho, An Giang, Kien Giang, Ca Mau and Bac Lieu would be expanded to the whole region.

The co-operation is expected to create specific associations for beach and island tourism in Kien Giang, spiritual and cultural tourism in An Giang, forest and beach tourism in Ca Mau, and ethnic cultural tourism in Soc Trang and Tra Vinh.

The co-operation involving 13 provinces and Can Tho City is expected to help the region fully promote its tourism strengths, attracting 3 million international visitors and 4 million local tourists by 2020.

VietNamNet/VNS

[jackbl]

Hoi An: walking in the footsteps of history
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VietNamNet Bridge – Hoi An has been trading with the outside world since almost the 15th century. Once one of the busiest ports in all of South East Asia, the docksides of this relatively small central Vietnamese town were once awash with the sound of Chinese, Japanese, American, European and Indonesian traders, all bringing their wares to Vietnam’s doorstep. Warehouses strained under the weight of the orient’s finest silks and spices. Everything, from elephant tusks to beeswax, from paper to porcelain, was brought here and from here to the world.

Hoi An still maintains a brisk trade with all its old business partners. However, it’s now Hoi An’s cash tills rather than its docks that ring to the sound of international commerce. Hoi An, with its traditional housing and narrow streets, all unspoilt by the passage of time, is a tourist mecca. Apart from the faces, little has changed in Hoi An since its commercial hey day. The nations of the globe still flock here, now to wander its ancient streets and marvel at a piece of Vietnam’s living history.

Hoi An’s close relation to the rest of the world has worked to define the very bones of the town. Chinese and Japanese traders, particularly, extended their long stays in port to establish permanent agencies here from which to manage their trade. From these beginnings, sprang the first permanent Chinese settlement in Southern Vietnam, whose congregational assembly halls still draw both the descendants of those early Chinese traders and tourists alike.

It was the links between Hoi An’s native Chinese and Japanese communities that was to give the town its most famous icon; the Japanese Covered Bridge. Built in the 1590s by the Japanese to connect them to their Chinese neighbours on the far side of the rivulet, The Japanese Covered Bridge has been drawing visitors ever since. Within its narrow walls, around halfway across, stands the temple of the northern God Tran Vo Bac De, critically for sailors, the God of weather. One legend about the bridge is that it as built to subdue the enormous ‘mamazu’ dragon monster, whose global reach stretched from its head in India to its tail in Japan, the movement of which was supposed to cause earthquakes. Vietnam, and principally Hoi An, was thought to sit across its back, so building the bridge at this spot would pin the Mamazu down and protect those the traders and settlers had left behind.

However, Hoi An, and its surrounds, date back further than the international trade which later came to define the town. Around 55km outside of Hoi An’s centre can be found the ruins of My Son, once the political and religious centre of the Champa Kingdom. The Cham, who still exist within Vietnam today, once ruled the central provinces of modern Vietnam before being absorbed by the Vietnamese in around the 17th Century. My Son, the most significant and extensive Champa sites in Vietnam, dates back to the 4th -10th Century and its Indian influenced ruins are an easy motorbike ride away.

Though it may seem suffocated by the sheer number of tourists who make their way here, Hoi An’ beauty - unspoilt by either time or war - still offers visitors a unique glimpse into Vietnam’s historic past. To walk Hoi An’s historic streets is to walk in the footsteps of those traders and merchants who built so much of this town and, in their own way, helped to shape the Vietnam of today.

VietNamNet/SGT

[yummyymym]

Guys can anyone help explain the usage of nhu the nao and do these two words?

[FireShark]

..Vietnamese inflation picked up to the fastest pace in six months in November, according to official data, adding to the economic challenges facing the country's Communist rulers.

Consumer prices gained an estimated 7.08 percent this month from a year earlier, following a 7.0-percent rise in October, according to the General Statistics Office. It was the sharpest increase since May.

Month-on-month, prices edged up 0.47 percent in November.

"The government is really struggling to curb inflation while pushing economic growth," said a senior manager at one of Vietnam's major private banks who did not want to be named.

Vietnam struggled with double-digit price rises for years but after a string of interest rate hikes by the central bank to prevent the economy from overheating, annual inflation dropped to a three-year low of around 5.0 percent in August, well off a peak of 23 percent seen a year earlier.

The authorities have since changed tack in response to slowing economic growth, cutting interest rates five times since the start of 2012.

The communist country expects economic growth of just 5.2 percent for 2012 -- the slowest rate in 13 years.

Vietnam is also grappling with falling foreign direct investment and rising fears about toxic debts in the fragile banking system.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung admitted last month that his government had made mistakes in its stewardship of the troubled economy and had "learned our lesson".

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[mengxindi]

Originally Posted by Honey Boon

you also a Master teacher to many here .....

I like your signature, bro.

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by yummyymym

Guys can anyone help explain the usage of nhu the nao and do these two words?

I guess, nhu the nao = how

[jackbl]

Under the table fees burden businesses
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VietNamNet Bridge – Sixty three percent of enterprises said they always have to pay under the table fee to state officials in order to expedite their administrative procedures.

The government inspectors and the World Bank have held a press conference releasing the result of the social survey on embezzlement. The survey has found out that most businesses have to pave their way with underground fees and gifts to state officials.

The survey was conducted in February – April of 2012 on 2601 people, 1058 enterprises in 10 provinces and cities, including Hanoi and HCM City, and 1901 officials from five ministries.

Envelops and gifts make businesses’ success

Money and gifts have become the popular means for enterprises and people to expedite their works when they have to deal with state officials.

The polled enterprises and people said that state officials always put difficulties for them, which force them to give bribery in order to have the works done more quickly.

Businessmen not only have to pay underground fees on the spot, but they also have to maintain long term relations with state officials by giving gifts regularly on special occasions.

Inspectors have found out that 63 percent of businesses said state officials deliberately drag out works, while 29 percent of people said they give briberies because if they don’t, their works cannot go smoothly.

Among the polled state officials, 22 percent of officials said they once saw their colleagues deliberately putting big difficulties for businessmen and people to clamor for underground fees.

37 percent of people said they would give money immediately if they get troubles at state agencies, while 59 percent of businesses said they would only give briberies if they do not have other choices to have their works fulfilled.

Paying unofficial fees to expedite works has become a popular unwritten rule in the Vietnamese community. 63 percent of enterprises and 53 percent of people have confirmed this.

Giving briberies make business worse

It seems that underground fee and presents to state officials can help lubricate the governments, thus helping speed up the process of dealing with paper procedures.

A lot of people said they gave briberies on their own initiative before the state officials claimed for “fees.” When asked why they did this, they said that they simply did the thing that everyone does every day. In many cases, giving money was considered just the thanksgiving behavior.

Especially, some people paid underground money even if it was not really necessary. They said that they would rather spend money than spending time waiting and following complicated procedures.

Most businesses also said they would be ready to pay money, if this is necessary for their works.

However, ironically, briberies do not help improve business result. Enterprises wrongly think that the money they spend to expedite works would be offset by the better business results.

The surveyors have found that if businesses do not give briberies for one year, their business would be improved by 0.13 percent, but if they give briberies, the business result would be better by 0.03 only. In other words, businesses would have better business performance if they say “no” to briberies.

The finding has raised a hope that businesses and people can obtain their goals by other ways than giving briberies. In other words, they can find alternative methods to have better business results, while no need to waste money on briberies.

Press agencies have been playing a very important role in the fight against corruption. More than 80 percent of businesses and state officials said in many cases, newspapers, not competent agencies, discovered embezzlement cases first.

Pham Huyen

[yummyymym]

Originally Posted by jackbl

I guess, nhu the nao = how

Thanks Brother.

[intoxicated316]

lau roi toi khong di den day hoc tiengviet roi

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by intoxicated316

lau roi toi khong di den day hoc tiengviet roi

Tai ban da biet nhieu tieng viet roi. K can den day. Neu den day, la day tieng viet thoi. Hjhj

[intoxicated316]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Tai ban da biet nhieu tieng viet roi. K can den day. Neu den day, la day tieng viet thoi. Hjhj

Haha.. Ban ko noi nhu vay ha.. Toi thich den day doc tin.. Tin day hay lam waa nhung dao nay ko ranh den day doc doc.. toi cung hy vong toi co the hoc nhieu o day~~ ok.. Bay gio toi phai di lam roi.. Chuc cac ban chao buoi sang va 1 ngay tot lanh nhe ) Tambiet!!