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[Thom07]

Originally Posted by AdGuy

It's time for me to start offering tea to all the grandmasters

Huh ? You want to offer tea to yourself?

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by Thom07

Huh ? You want to offer tea to yourself?

offer to you...
the REAL Tieng Viet expert + ssssssyt killer

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by carmeo88

now late already, honey go sleep...

Saluate to another VN expert! So many good grandmaster here. I think i better go into mountain to learn more skill than can come out

[VietnamLover]

Hotel licensee pleads guilty to permitting sex workers to use hotel rooms for vice


SINGAPORE: The licensee of a budget hotel has pleaded guilty to permitting sex workers to use his hotel rooms for sexual services.

In what was described as a landmark case, 52-year-old Siah Chen Long who owns Shing Hotel at Kitchener Road in Little India had allowed the sex workers to ply their trade in his property.

The court heard that a police officer was on the lookout for vice activities around Kitchener Road on February 10 this year when he noticed a few women loitering around Shing Hotel.

They were seen approaching and talking to male passers-by.

The women then checked into the hotel with some of the men.

The authorities conducted a check on the premises and a hotel receptionist told officers that three of the rooms were occupied by guests.

They checked the rooms and arrested three women.

Investigations revealed that two of them earned between 50 and 100 dollars by providing sexual services to men inside the hotel.

The women were identified as Nguyen Thi Ngoc Bich who's a Vietnamese and Nihar Sarmila Banu who came from Sri Lanka.

The authorities also found out that the latter had paid 15 dollars to rent a room there for an hour and also bought two condoms for four dollars from the receptionist.

Prosecution told District Judge Shaiffudin Saruwan that the receptionist knew the women were sex workers and he had seen them at the hotel with different men on separate occasions.

Prosecution also asked for three weeks' adjournment to apply to court so that Siah's license could be revoked.

The case has been adjourned to 12 May.

A hotel licensee who knowingly allows sex workers to frequent his premises breaches the Hotels Licensing Regulations.

If convicted, Siah could be fined up to 1,000 dollars.

For a second or subsequent conviction, the licensee could be fined a maximum of 2,000 dollars.

The court may cancel or suspend any of the hotel's certificate of registration.

It may also cancel any license granted to the hotel. - CNA

[lovesprout]

Since there are so many grandmaster here recently, it is my time to ask a question:

"em ta biet rang co quen la se nho nen dan long co nho de ma quen" What does this mean? Thanks.

[AdGuy]

Originally Posted by Thom07

Huh ? You want to offer tea to yourself?

I'm hardly even 2% there

[jackbl]

Prostitution: Should Vietnam fight it or recognize it as ‘honest work’?
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VietNamNet Bridge - The Government has countless regulations and programs against prostitution, society condemns it, but the oldest profession just continues to adapt to the environment. Is it time to choose a more effective management model? That’s the question posed by Phap Luat HCM City, a newspaper sponsored by the Department of Justice in the southern metropolis, as it began a series of investigative reports.

After the annual Tet holiday, the press reported a police raid on the “love market” on Hanoi’s Nguyen Chi Thanh street that rounded up 17 prostitutes. Though the event was widely reported, in fact it was just another roundup, no different from nightly police actions in many provinces and cities


Who are the “guests” of prostitutes?

HHL’s wife has suffered from cervical cancer for three years. This man has taken good care of his family, especially his wife. He loves her very much. However, there is one thing that his wife doesn’t know: he sometimes sleeps with prostitutes. “I just pick up a girl and and pay her off – I’ve no particular girl,” he says. “I can’t live without sex. But my wife and my family are still my top priority.”

LNT, 46, has been widowed for seven years. He has a child, a high-school student, but no interest in remarriage. Sometimes he goes to a karaoke bar to have sex with a prostitute. Most people see him as an exemplary father.

The stories above show that besides playboys, there are men who see prostitutes to satisfy their natural needs.

Le Truong Giang, deputy director of HCM City Department of Health, has a friend who is a widowed man like Mr. LNT. This man’s friends all know that he sometimes sees a prostitute but they don’t blame him.

“Prostitution is related to real needs in life. There are many people who don’t marry or are widowed but they have the need for sex,” Giang said. “If we fight prostitution, we can only inhibit it, but not stamp it out.”


Prostitutes have plenty of worries

Several months ago, Bui Thu Le, who often seeks clients on HCM City’s Thi Nghe bridge, had a scary experience. A regular client phoned her and she agreed to stay overnight with him at a hotel. When she entered the room, however, there were five other men there. She suspected one of them to be an HIV carrier because he was a drug addict. Panic-stricken, Le tried to escape. She said: “Please wait a moment! I will call two other girls to join us” and ran from the room. An argument followed; questioned about her quarrel with the men, she was unveiled by the local authorities to be a prostitute and sent to a rehabilitation centre.

Another prostitute named Nguyen Thi Thu had similar experiences. “I’m always worried I’ll be beaten by other prostitutes, be bilked by clients or be infected with HIV,” she said.

“Many clients have odd requests. I always have condoms but many men refuse to use them. I’m ill now, but I don’t dare to go to hospital because I’m worried that I may find I’m infected with HIV. If that’s true, perhaps I’ve transmitted that disease to dozens of men,” Thu said.

A survey of over 200 prostitutes by the Agency for Prevention of Social Evils in 2009 showed that the major reasons they entered the trade were unemployment and poverty.



Authorities admit they can’t stamp out prostitution

During a workshop held in early 2010, a report pointed out that HCM City has nearly sixty streetcorner locations were men can pick up prostitutes. Of the estimated 5000 streetwalkers, the local authorities have dossiers on about 800.

Le Van Quy, vice chief of the HCM City Police Social Evil Prevention Bureau, said that prostitutes are less likely to ‘clump’ than in the past. It is most difficult to control prostitutes who pose as employees of massage centres and karaoke bars. “Whatever they’re up to, if we raid a building, by the time we get upstairs they’ve got their clothes back on” said Quy.

At a seminar to design new plans and methods to control prostitution, a representative of the Agency for Crimes against Social Order judged that though prostitution is controlled to a certain extent across the nation, it still complicated. Some national or transnational call-girl rings have been set up in collusion with tour guides. Police have detected cases in which singers, models and actresses went to Eastern European countries allegedly to perform but actually to work as prostitutes.

The only rehabilitation centre for prostitutes in HCM City is the Phu Nghia Centre. Centre Director Nguyen Thi My said that fewer girls are sent to the centre in recent years but that doesn’t mean that there are fewer prostitutes – it’s just that the authorities can’t round them up.

When even the authorities admit that they can’t control prostitution, many ask why Vietnam doesn’t instead set aside “red light areas” for prostitutes”

Source: Phap Luat TPHCM

[jackbl]

Stiffer fines, laws needed to combat prostitution
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VietNamNet Bridge – The Government should invest more capital for prostitution prevention activities and impose stiff fines on men who pay for the service, ministry officials have said.

Tran Van Quang of the Crime Investigation Police Department (PC14) under the Ministry of Public Security said a new law should impose fines on men who seek services from prostitutes.

Higher fines should be imposed on serial violators, added Quang, who spoke recently at a conference on preventing prostitution held in HCM City.

He urged authorities to disseminate information about prevention activities and the consequences of prostitution on women, particularly in rural areas where there is little awareness of laws protecting women.

To encourage government staff to attend prevention programmes, more incentives, such as salary allowances and other benefits, should be given, an official with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said.

Tran Thi Hong of the Viet Nam Women’s Union told the conference that prostitutes sent to rehabilitation centres should receive health services and loans as well as jobs. Treatment at rehab centres was not effective, with most prostitutes resuming their trade, she said.

Quang said the fight against prostitution was becoming more difficult, partly because many prostitutes no longer need a mediator to find customers.

Many of them use the internet and cellphones to call customers and work day jobs in massage parlours, hairdresser shops or fake cafes to disguise their real jobs. Others work in discos, karaoke bars and hotels.

Authorities estimate that there are a total of 40,000 prostitutes nationwide, with most of them working in Ha Noi, HCM City and neighbouring provinces.

According to PC14, last year 866 prostitution cases were uncovered in 54 out of Viet Nam’s 64 provinces. More than 4,000 people were apprehended and taken to rehabilitation centres.

The wards and district departments had not co-operated closely on prevention activities, Do Thi Ninh Xuan of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs said.

Trafficking women to other countries to work as prostitutes was another serious problem that needs more attention from the Government, authorities at the conference said.

Volunteers aid police, gov’t in fighting prostitution, drug abuse

Le Duc Hien, deputy head of the Social Evils Department of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, proposed that the Government provide more capital to teams of community volunteers who assist in drugs and prostitution prevention.

"The teams of volunteers are the link between authorities and people," said Le Duc Hien. From 2004-2008, more than 1,000 teams of volunteers, with a total of 8,000 members, were operating in 28 out of 63 provinces and cities, according to a report from the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Local authorities have offered the teams preferential policies, including monthly allowances, insurance and health services, as well as training courses and workshops.

Hien said the local departments of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs should co-operate further with agencies to create favourable conditions for voluntary teams to operate, including simplifying administrative procedures.

Veterans, the retired, women and youth are the typical team members.

They work with agencies on disseminating information and providing consulting services on HIV/AIDS transmission, drug abuse, and prostitution.

Volunteers also try to help former drug abusers to re-integrate into society after they have concluded their stays in rehabilitation centres.

Since the programme began five years ago, the rate of former drug abusers who have relapsed has fallen 86 per cent, the ministry said.

VietNamNet/Viet Nam News

[jackbl]

Workers refuse low-paying factory jobs
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VietNamNet Bridge - As a rule, the factories lose thousands of manual workers after the traditional New Year holiday but rehires new staff by end in the early second quarter. However, the rule seems to be broken this year. Many companies say they can’t recruit enough workers and laborers refuse to work due to the low salary.

In Hanoi, many foreign-invested companies like Yamaha, Cannon, Panasonic, Denso, Toho, Sumitomo, Hoya and many joint venture and joint stock companies have released urgent recruitment advertisements. But a Tien Phong reporter saw only a few workers at the information board by the gate of Hanoi’s Nam Thang Long industrial zone.

Nguyen Thi Ha from Hai Duong province said she dropped in to see inquire about the salary but was disappointed. Ha said it is better to return home to do farm work because she it is not worth hassle associated with accommodations, travel and food.

Some employers have raised salary by several hundreds of thousands dong a month to attract workers but the average pay is still only 1.5 to 2 million dong a month ($80-100). They say they currently need workers aged 18-30, with high-school certificate.

Though some companies now supply tenement houses and traveling stipends, they still find they can only recruit a dozen new workers though they need anywhere from 300-1000.

The Japanese-invested Sumitomo company, which manufactures phones and computers, announced its desire to recruit 150 female workers but after one hour, just over 20 people dropped in to get information. This time last year there would have been hundreds of applicants.

The situation is similar in southern provinces. Dong Nai, generally a big labour market, now needs more than 50,000 manual workers. Meanwhile, many workers quit job in industrial zones to search for new work or start their own businesses, said Pham Minh Thanh, deputy director of Dong Nai Province Social Insurance Agency.

Last year over 100,000 workers in Dong Nai quit their jobs but employers could only recruit around 90,000 to replace them, Thanh said.

Nguyen Thanh Thuan, from the central province of Ha Tinh, said that he and his wife worked for a factory in the Bien Hoa 2 Industrial Zone in Dong Nai. After the Tet holiday, he decided to quit job to open his own hairdresser’s shop. Though his wife still works in the industrial zone.

He said he and his wife were able to live with their salary but since they have a child, their combined monthly income of 4 million is not enough. Now that he works as a hairdresser, Thuan can earn around 100,000 dong a day; which is double his previous salary.

Nguyen Han, from the central province of Quang Ngai, said he quit his job at a company in Dong Nai to work as a builder, earning 160,000 dong a day, plus three meals, much higher than his previous salary.

Dao Thi Van Anh, an official in charge of labour in Long Bien district, Hanoi, where hosts some industrial zones, said that after crisis, companies need more workers to resume production but the pay they offer is too low.

PV

[jackbl]

Should Vietnam experiment with “red light streets”?
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VietNamNet Bridge – Establishing limited areas where prostitution is allowed, under strict rules that protect prostitutes and everyone else, is an idea supported by many officials and experts.


A reporter from Phap Luat HCMC found that three of the five prostitutes he interviewed at the Phu Nghia Rehabilitation Centre in HCM City supported the idea of legalized “red light districts.”

Phan Thi C.Y. said that “I suppose that if I work in such a zone, I will have to wear an ID card and everybody will know what I do, but I think it is better than the current situation when we live in fear of getting infectious diseases and being beaten or cheated.”

“I don’t know what I will do after I leave this centre, because I don’t even have a primary school diploma,” C.Y. added. “Perhaps I will go back to the business (prostitution) because I have to take care of my mother and my younger brother.”

Last year the Agency for Social Evil Prevention (Ministry of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs) polled over 4000 officials in five provinces and cities where there are high numbers of prostitutes, asking about the concept and methodology of prostitution control. The agency was surprised to learn that fully half of the officials in Haiphong and HCM City favored gathering prostitutes into designated red light zones. In the other three localities, 20 to 30 percent of the officials supported this idea.

Twenty-nine of the fifty officials polled by the HCM City Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs were in favor. More recently, the National Institute for Administration’s HCMC branch surveyed nearly 500 officials and found that 26 percent consider Vietnam’s current methods of combatting prostitution to have failed.

Those who favored establishing red light streets said that a part of the population is always going to experience outside-of-marriage sexual desire and this initiative can satisfy it. It can protect prostitutes from diseases and violence. Also, it will make it easier for the authorities to deal with prostitution outside the “red light districts”.

Those who opposed this idea expressed concern that setting up red light streets would be an offence to Vietnamese custom and habits, with bad consequences – open sale of ‘sex’ and offence to women’s dignity.

[jackbl]

Longest cable-stayed bridge inaugurated in Mekong Delta city
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VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam on Saturday inaugurated the Can Tho Bridge, Southeast Asia’s longest cable-stayed bridge, after five and a half years of construction and expects it to boost socio-economic development, trade and tourism in the Mekong Delta region.

The project has a total investment capital of US$342.6 million sourced from Japan’s official development assistance and the Vietnamese State budget.

Crossing the Hau River, the bridge is 2.75 kilometers long in total and 23 meters wide, with a main span of 550 meters. It has four lanes for automobiles and two lanes for motorcycles, linking Vinh Long and Can Tho provinces, about three km from downstream the Can Tho Ferry.

The bridge has a vertical clearance of 39 meters for ships of up to 10,000 tons to navigate under it.

It was built by domestic and foreign contractors, including Taisei, Kajima and Nippon Steel of Japan.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong, Transport Minister Ho Nghia Dung and other leaders, Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam Mitsuo Sakaba, and representatives of the contractors attended the inauguration ceremony together with local officials and residents.

PM Dung expressed thanks from Vietnam to the government and people of Japan for assisting Vietnam build this important bridge.

Masayyuki Karasawa, director of the Japan Bank of International Cooperation (JBIC), said the Can Tho Bridge is comparable to one of the five largest bridges in Japan and one of the 10 longest bridges in the world.

The bridge helps facilitate traffic flow between Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong provinces, replaces the Can Tho Ferry and eases traffic congestion on National Highway 1A.

The Ministry of Transport is to make a decision on the ferry service.

Over the past years, 13 ferries have been used every day to carry people and vehicles between the two banks of the Hau River.

The bridge project was originally set for completion by the end of 2008 but the collapse of two spans in September 2007 led to a suspension of construction. Construction resumed in March 2008.

In October 2009, the last segment was put in place, marking the completion of the bridge. This March the contractors handed over the finished bridge to the project owner, which is the My Thuan Project Management Unit.

Source: SGGP

[VietnamLover]

Originally Posted by lovesprout

"em ta biet rang co quen la se nho nen dan long co nho de ma quen".

She knows that forget to remmember, then reminds herself to remember to forget.

[shysaint]

wa ... chim leh .. hhhahahahha

[peirong82]

i juz tell a vietnam gal not to ask me for money..
heres wat she reply..Bros pls translate..tks!!



Chi nhan dum e linda cung thich may nhung trog luc e gap kho khan ma may kg jiup do thj dung noi thuong nho j nua

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by peirong82

i juz tell a vietnam gal not to ask me for money..
heres wat she reply..Bros pls translate..tks!!



Chi nhan dum e linda cung thich may nhung trog luc e gap kho khan ma may kg jiup do thj dung noi thuong nho j nua

basically is telling you "no money, no honey"


Chi nhan dum e linda also like you but now she got difficulty but you cannot help her then don't say love dearly what...