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[smallplayer]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

So the only part of your body doing any real exercise is your hands nia nia or dun tell me this one also dun have cos you lie there like a star fish

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

sometimes being a starfish is good also.
haha...
then sometimes just exercise hands...right?

[Thom07]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Correction - even those not moving one KT also will eat

Wah thuong you deep deep lah for the last statement

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Not because of the 1st sentence.
Been a long time since got "uncle oi".

[Thom07]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

KT nowadays where will waste time & $$$ to go this kind of place leh, he rather go those legal wetnam houses liao machiam like a panda - straightaway eat shoots & leaves

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

Panda don't need to pay leh.

[Thom07]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

This place still around... closed for very long then they renovated and changed name only. Heard that they will not last long again as only few points left to deduct.

long long time then go sing song a short while lah
few months ago went V6, then last week went this place.



also sibei long time no go liao. These days I go for massage only

Wow. Still so on.

[Hurricane88]

Saigon-Vung Tau hydrofoil firms seek service extension as deadline nears

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 12/14/2016 12:30 GMT + 7

Two operators of the hydrofoil route connecting Ho Chi Minh City and the coastal city of Vung Tau are seeking permission to maintain service for another four years, a fortnight before they are forced to cease operations.

Vina Express and Quang Hung Trans Co. are the only two operational companies on the Ho Chi Minh City-Vung Tau route, each having two hydrofoils in their fleet.

The hydrofoil service departs from the Nha Rong Wharf in District 4, Ho Chi Minh City, and arrives at the hydrofoil station in Vung Tau, a popular beach city in Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province.

However, both operators have been asked to cease service by the end of this year, as their hydrofoils surpass the service life threshold of 20 years as stipulated by the government.

The companies have recently lodged a competition to local authorities, seeking permission to continue service until the end of 2020.

Quang Hung Trans Co. said it will be a waste of resources if the company has to cease its hydrofoil service by the December 31 deadline.

In January 2014, a hydrofoil carrying 85 passengers, including 37 foreigners, caught fire on the Saigon River, prompting the Ho Chi Minh City administration to suspend all hydrofoil operations. The companies were only allowed to resume service in December that year, with the fleet cut from 14 boats to four and the number of operators declined from three to two.

Quang Hung Trans Co. said it had invested heavily on upgrading the hydrofoils to resume service in 2014, and the investment will be wasted if the service has to cease by this year’s end.


Authorities back proposal

Upon receiving the petition from the hydrofoil operators, the Ba Ria-Vung Tau administration and Ho Chi Minh City transport department have called on the Ministry of Transport to consider seeking government approval for the companies to continue operating by the end of 2020.

According to the Ba Ria-Vung Tau administration, many foreign tourists are traveling to Vung Tau by hydrofoil so ending the service will affect the tourist arrivals of the coastal city.

In the meantime, the Ho Chi Minh City transport department said the hydrofoil service helps reduce pressure for road traffic and contributes to boost the city’s river tourism development.

The Ho Chi Minh City-Vung Tau hydrofoil service has been in operation for over two decades since its February 1996 inauguration. During its heyday, as many as 21 boats serviced the route’s 500,000 annual passengers.

The service, however, is facing tough competition posed by passenger buses running the same route.

While a roundtrip hydrofoil ticket costs VND200,000-250,000 ($8.9-11) for an adult with a travel time of 1 hour and 20 minutes, it costs no more than VND90,000 ($4) to go by bus.

The passenger bus has emerged as a more attractive choice for tourists after the opening of the Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay expressway in February 2015 cut travel time from 2 hours and 30 minutes to only 1 hour and 45 minutes.

[Hurricane88]

Vietnam flight’s passengers panicked over multiple failed landing attempts

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 12/14/2016 11:30 GMT + 7

Passengers on a Vietnam Airlines flight bound for the south-central Vietnamese province of Khanh Hoa were frightened as the aircraft
repeatedly had failed landing attempts due to foul weather on Tuesday.

The Vietnam Airlines flight VN1344 eventually had to return to Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport as the pilot was unable to land in the Khanh Hoa’s Cam Ranh International Airport amid foggy weather.

The aircraft had been flying above the Cam Ranh airfield for about 15 to 20 minutes before the pilot failed in multiple landing attempts, according to Q.T., one of the passengers aboard the flight.

After about half an hour, the captain informed his passengers that the aircraft would return to Tan Son Nhat as the weather condition was not favorable.

While passengers were requested to stay inside the plane upon its landing at Tan Son Nhat, waiting until it could return to Cam Ranh as planned, many decided to abandon their journey due to fear and exhaustion.

The flight was originally scheduled to leave Ho Chi Minh City at 5:30 am and arrive at 6:35 am.

However, due to the failed landing attempts plus the temporary return trip to Ho Chi Minh City, the flight could only reach Cam Ranh at 10:40 am.

[Hurricane88]

Severe flood wreaks havoc on Nha Trang

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 12/14/2016 09:37 GMT + 7

Nha Trang, a famous beach city in the south-central Vietnamese province of Khanh Hoa, has been devastated by a destructive flood, which damaged many streets and houses and caused landslide at multiple locations.

The flooding struck the resort city on Tuesday morning, causing an estimated damage of about VND100 billion (US$4.4 million), with competent authorities still struggling to deal with the disaster by 5:00 pm the same day.

At the Hon Xen residential area in Vinh Hoa Ward, which suffered the heaviest damage, rocks washed down from the mountain covered various streets and destroyed at least three houses while damaging some ten others.

Nguyen Quang Hung, a 36-year-old resident whose house has been brought down, said his family were sleeping on Monday night when flood water submerged their house.

A large number of rocks hit the residence about ten minutes later, piercing through one of its wall and burying furniture, Hung recalled, estimating damages of up to hundreds of millions of dong (VND100 million = $4,438).

“We were unable to get out of the house as water had reached our loft at the time,” the man stated.

According to Tran Van Dong, chairman of the Vinh Hoa administration, the serious flooding and landslide were brought about by the rupture of a canal, accompanied by rapid torrent from local streams.

Two people have lost their lives during the flood, including a 14-year-old boy, who was washed away by flood water, and a 22-year-old man, who was electrocuted while tidying his house after floodwater subsided.


Traffic effected

Mudslide brought about by the flood has blocked a section of the National Highway 1 in Khanh Hoa.

Massive rocks have also buried a part of the north-to-south railway, causing several trains to halt their journeys.

Traffic resumed on the evening of the same day as the rocks and mud had been removed.

The torrential rain has inundated many streets in Nha Trang, including Nguyen Khuyen, Dien Bien Phu, and others, which were submerged under 0.5 to 0.8 meter high floodwater.

A large amount of rocks were washed down on the campus of the Nha Tran University and a section of Pham Van Dong Street, blocking traffic and causing congestion in the morning.

[Hurricane88]

Welcome to the US, Vietnamese students

By Ha Phuong December 14, 2016 | 02:50 pm GMT+7

The number of Vietnamese students in American schools has risen steadily over the years, topping 30,000 in November.

As of November, Vietnam had sent over 30,000 students to the U.S., ranking sixth among countries with the most students at American educational institutions, according to the latest U.S. Student and Exchange Visitor Program report.

To put things in perspective, Vietnam has outshined Japan in total enrollment and comes close to Canada; the current number of Vietnamese students in the U.S. has almost doubled that in 2009, when the country first made it to the top ten with some 16,000 students.

Vietnam continued to distance itself from other Southeast Asian peers to be the top source of students in the region for the U.S.

http://e.vnexpress.net/news/business...s-3513338.html

[Hurricane88]

Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City rank low in 'livable' index

By Nhung Nguyen December 13, 2016 | 06:31 pm GMT+7

Both cities 'have very inadequate road networks and transport systems.'

Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been ranked 119th and 122nd respectively out of 140 cities in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s 2016 global ranking of living conditions.

“Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh rank very poorly in terms of infrastructure,” said Miguel Chanco, ASEAN lead analyst at the EIU in an exclusive interview with VnExpress International on Tuesday. “In our survey data, they have very inadequate road networks and transport systems, which have dragged the course of the cities down quite considerably.”

http://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/han...x-3512956.html

[Hurricane88]

American surgeon helps poor Vietnamese patients face the world

By Thuy Vi December 13, 2016 | 11:19 am GMT+7

Dr. McKay McKinnon has removed facial tumors for dozens of Vietnamese.
Nguyen Van Thuan, 27, can now talk normally for the first time in years. Within months, he will have a very high chance of getting his face back.

Chicago-based surgeon McKay McKinnon, who earned global headlines after successfully removing a 90-kilogram leg tumor from a Vietnamese man in 2012, has worked his magic again on Thuan and around 20 other patients with tumors in Vietnam this month.

He spent around a week at Vinmec and Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi and another week at the University Medical Center in Ho Chi Minh City, performing surgeries for free, including one to remove 60 percent of Thuan’s tumor. He is expected to return in April next year for a follow-up surgery.

The man was diagnosed with a facial tumor at six years old. Six years later, he received a surgery at a leading public hospital in Hanoi.

But it kept growing after that, taking over the right side of his face and affecting his eyes, nose and mouth. The family was too poor to ever send him to hospital again.

Thuan spent years selling toothpicks around the streets in northern provinces, the only job he could probably find with his appearance, to take care of his 4-year-old daughter.

His wife, whom he knew through a matchmaker, left when the girl was eight months old.

Local media reports brought Dr. McKinnon to him.

McKinnon said he came to Vietnam first in late 2011 to check on Nguyen Duy Hai, a man with “very gigantic, very complex” tumor on his leg. Canada-based Virtual Medical Miracle Network connected him to Vietnam on request of the U.S.’s Tree of Life International.

He came back in January 2012, and with colleagues at FV Hospital in HCMC, performed a 10-hour procedure to remove the 90-kilogram tumor from Hai’s leg, a case that made headlines worldwide.

Hai had lived with the tumor since the age of four. Two years after the successful surgery, he died at 33 due to unrelated respiratory failure.

Another important case is Le Trung Tuan, an 18-year-old boy whom he first examined in 2013 and performed the fourth surgery on early this month.

Tuan's facial tumor has destroyed a part of his skull, compressed optic nerves, and started to affect his pituitary gland, which influences growth of bones, sexual maturity and general metabolism.

Dr. McKinnon and doctors in Hanoi, who also contributed free work, managed to remove the tumor without affecting his eyes and brain.

He said as patients like Tuan need more than one surgery, he has come back to Vietnam every year.

This month marked his eighth mission in Vietnam, treating patients with neurofibromatosis who mostly are in their 20s and 30s. One patient in HCMC is only four.

“There are patients all over the world with these problems. But Vietnam is a very welcoming place, the hospitals are high standard for surgeries that are complicated. It’s not the kind of thing that I can easily do in a small town in central America, for example,” he said, sitting in an examination room at the University Medical Center last Friday afternoon.

He let Vietnamese doctors take part in all the surgeries, had some of them filmed as materials and also held lectures.

“There are many skilled surgeons in Vietnam. And yet part of my responsibility I feel is to show them how to take care of patients they are not familiar with, particularly big tumor, difficult tumor of the face, and head, and craniofacial conditions,” he said.

Dr. Nguyen Anh Tuan, head of the Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery Department at the University Medical Center, who participated in many surgeries, said McKinnon is a highly skilled person to learn from.

“We have tried our best so that doctors in Vietnam can learn from Dr. McKinnon through his lectures and practice,” he said.

But high skills and good medical equipment are not the only factors that have made up the successful story.

There has been a lot of work to raise funds for the patients.

Dr. Tuan said his hospital has taken measures to minimize the cost of the surgeries, but the medical fees for each patient still range around $500. The cost for some patients in Hanoi reached several thousand dollars.

Thuan, with the big face tumor, could only go through a $6,500-procedure at Vinmec hospital after receiving donations thanks to local media’s efforts.

Dr. McKinnon, whose visits were arranged and sponsored by several organizations, paid for some of the surgeries.

He started a foundation called Surgery SOS this year, which has received support from people and foundations in Australia, Canada and the U.S., and currently treats Vietnam’s patients as the primary beneficiaries.

“Raising funds is not something I’m accustomed to, but we have to do that,” McKinnon said.

“Like everywhere in the world, it’s difficult for poor people, and even people who are not poor to get major surgical medical care, as it is here.”

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

$50 means u call chicken...$125 means u call whore massage plus special...

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

$50 is when you kena a masseus the face machiam langga lorry and the body like the Michellin Tyre logo

$125 is when you kena a masseus that fits your criteria

Tio bo???

so clever but half right half not right.
Not all ML in MP provide HJ. Most MP got FB page to view ML pic before make appointment.
$50 = 1 hour massage
$75 = 1.5 hour massage
HJ = $30 or $50

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by Thom07

Wow. Still so on.

long long time go once for around 3 hours, yet go home early. like that also call "so on"?

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Mattress still shaking...toilet no door...hihi...

Maybe the room is like those prison rooms where the toilet is right in the room itself

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Your fetish...not mine...i fine without it...

Thats becos you have your own round tummy to rub

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

I tot thom went yo nbsd...what has killer-c to do...

Killer-C is the one that fired his boss few posts some time back on this

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^