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Vietnam’s mobile usage higher than China, India
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Tuoi Tre

The rate of cell phones usage in Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi has eclipsed the rapidly developing Chinese and Indian domestic markets, according to a survey by global information and media company Nielsen.

The survey, released on March 20, found 74 percent of people in Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi own a mobile phone. In comparison, 30 percent of India’s population and 46 percent of China’s population owns a mobile phone.

Most Vietnamese people use their mobiles for work purposes, with each person spending an average of VND200,000 (US$11.40) or less per month on prepaid cards, the survey found.

The company conducted the survey on 5,000 people aged 15 to 54 years old in towns and cities in Vietnam in November last year.

“Mobile phone usage in Vietnam is big and getting bigger,” the company said in a statement. “From pre-teens to over-60s, it seems everyone in Vietnam has a mobile phone, or even two.”

Nielsen Vietnam General Director Aaron Cross said it was no surprise that high-tech products were popular in Vietnam, given 54 percent of Vietnamese population was aged under 25.

Personal and household incomes in Vietnam had increased significantly in recent years, leading to much higher consumption of products and services, including mobile phones, according to Nielsen.

A separate Nielsen report, “Boom or Doom in Vietnam in 2009”, found consumers expected to decrease their spending on phone bills, general utilities, electricity and fuel over the next six months.

[KangTuo]

Just a simple sms from me to the gal telling her that I am a playboy and got too many gals. I ask her to forget me and work hard to earn money.

This spark off chain of sms from the gal.

1) Ok kg can xloi e. E kg can dau de danh xloi nguoi nao thuong a do. e kg phai e quan noi a biet e biet kg tot va e cung kg biet buon. Tai thay a vui e ton trong a thoi. E biet qua day la phai kiem tien chuyen khac ko quan trong dau

2) A biet sao e di lam tinh voi a kg? Kg phai thuong a ma mang on a nen muon tra. dung roi quen nhieu nguoi la thu vuicua a. E nhin thay dc va biet het. Gio e nghi kg biet a kg quen a dc chua. Cam on a da nghi tot cho e

Morning....

3) A lam zay e thay thich a them e va xxx dang o ks 81 2 dua lac e muon om. e doc tn cua a, e muon cuoi. toi e sin co nt gi qua xloi nha. e cung la nguoi xau lam do kg phai 1minh a dau. Buoi sang tot lanh nha.


After she lac...

4) E sin roi ok lun, dang choi ne len thuoc doc nt a e thay a co thuonge. kg muon e buon a lam zay e thich a them. e cung la nguoi lam do nah a coi chung bi e gap do. Sao hom qua dc co lam tinh con gai khac chua? noi e nghe coi nguoi xua thay get qua di.

5) Darlling dung la rat xau. ma e con xua hon nua. gio e noi co thich a do dc kg? ni ne nt kiss e di.

6) E la nguoi con gai song rat co quy tat rat tot. tai sao hom nay e thay doi an choi cai gi e cung biet e muon cho ba me e biet. neu ba me kg biet, si nghi li di tai ba me lon roi. e se nhu zayhoai. a biet e pha rat nhieu tien cua ba me va e gai de cho moi nguoi neu kg co 1gia dinh. deu e muon 1gia dinh quy tat vui ve. e buon lam me e khoc. gi e hoai.

7) me e khoc song voi ba may chuc nam me rat chieu choi. Muon gi noi me 1 tieg la ok. zay macuoi cung ba e cung dau me e 1chuyen co congai khac bang tuoi e. ni ne e get ba.


After her mind awake...

8) Troi gio e moi thay hoi tinh ne. nay e noi gi voi a quen het luon. ge qua doi 1ti nua tinh e di taxi ve. ni ne hom qua a di lam tinh. enho dc 1ti ni ne.

9) E doc het tn roi. Troi kg biet tai sao e nt noi a nhieu. e bi khung roi sao ki zay nhuc dau qua ah.

10) E cung noi thiet e xau lam do va e cung co 1 con sin giup do e nhieu ma chanh lam hua ve cho e 2ngan. E dang si nghi sao con trai ki ha muon co them chu kg muon mat.

11) E rat thich con trai chanh kho chinh phuc. de thuong a cung gan giong zay. E thich theo toi cung 1thu gi do kg phai la cua e. Noi truoc dc la e bo lien e kg thich rang buoc, e va a ai cung la nguoi xau.


I really need to improve my tieng viet... damn hard time decoding the individual words..

[KangTuo]

Cat: con meo
Catch (ball): bat
Catch (of fish): danh ca
Catch (on door, window): then cua
Catch (on box): cai moc
Catch (get on): don
Catch (not miss): len kip
Catch (hear): nghe ro
Catch (illness): bi
Catch on (understand): nam duoc
Catch up: duoi kip
Catch up on: bu lai
Cater for (meet the needs): phuc vu
Cater for (provide food for): cung cap thuc an
Caterer: nguoi cung cap thuc an
Caterpillar: sau buom
Cathedral: nah tho lon
Catholic: Thien chua giao
Catholicism: Thien chua
Catsup (Tomato sauce): xot ca chua
Cattle: con bo
Cauliflower: sup lo
Caution (carefulness): than trong
Caution (warn): bao truoc
Cautious: can than
Cave: hang dong
Cavity: lo hong

[KangTuo]

Cease: cham dut, ngung
Ceiling: tran nha
Celebrate: an mung, ky niem
Celebration: le ky niem
Cement: xi mang
Cement (bricks): gan bang xi mang
Cemetery: nghia trang
Censor: kiem duyet
Censorship: viec kiem duyet
Cent: dong xu
Centennial: ky niem 100nam
Center (of room, table): giua
Center (of building, city): trung tam
Centimeter: xentimet, phan
Central: trung tam
Central (main): chinh
Century: the ky
CEO, Chief Executive Officer: tong giam doc
Cereal: ngu coc
Ceremony (event): nghi le
Ceremony (ritual): nghi thuc
Certain (sure): chac chan
Certain (particular): nao do
Certainly (definitely): dut khoat
Certainly (of course): tat nhien
Certainty (confidence): tin chac
Certainty (inevitability): dieu chac chan
Certificate (qualification): bang
Certificate (official paper): giay chung nhan
Certify: chung nhan
Cessation: ngung lai

[KangTuo]

Chain (for animal): day xich
Chain (jewelry): day chuyen
Chain (hotels): mang luoi
Chain smoker: nguoi hut thuoc lien tuc
Chain store: chi nhanh cua hang
Chair: ghe
Chairman: chu tich
Chairwoman: nu chu tich
Challenge (difficulty): thach thuc
Challenge (in competition): thach dau
Challenge (defy): thach
Challenger: nguoi thach dau
Challenging: tinh kich thich
Champagne: ruou sam banh
Champion: nha vo dich
Chance (possibility): kha nang
Chance (opportunity): co hoi
Chance (risk): mao hiem
Chance (luck): tinh co

Take a chance
Danh lieu

I am not taking any chances
Toi khong lieu linh chut nao

Change (replace): thay
Change (alteration to plan, idea): thay doi
Change (in climate, condition): bien chuyen
Change (small coins): tien le
Change (from purchase): thien thua tra lai

For a change
Khac voi ngay thuong

A change of clothes
Thay quan ao

Channel (on TV, radio): dai kenh
Channel (waterway): luong
Chant: bai hat
Chant (sing): hat
Chaotic: hon loan
Chapel: nha nguyen
Character (nature): ca tinh
Character (person): tinh cach
Character (personality): dac sac
Character (in writing): chu viet
Characteristic: dac diem, tieu bieu
Characterize (be typical of): tieu bieu cho
Characterize (describe): mieu ta tinh cach
Charcoal (for BBQ): than cui
Charge (fee): so tien phai tra
Charge (attack): xong len tan cong
Charge (law): su buoc toi

Free of charge
Khong phai tra tien

Will there be cash or charge?
Cai do se tra tien hay ghi so?

Be in charge
Phu trach

Take charge
Chiu trach nhiem dieu hanh

Charge card: the tin dung
Charisma: tai loi cuon quan chung
Charitable (institution): tu thien
Charitable (person): nhan duc
Charity (organization): to chuc tu thien
Charity (assistance): viec lam tu thien
Charm (appealing quality): duyen dang, lam hai long
Charming: lam say me
Charred (wood): bi chay xem
Charter flight: chuyen bay bang may bay thue
Chase: truy na, duoi theo
Chase away: duoi di
Chat: noi chuyen phiem
Chatterbox: nguoi thich noi chuyen
Chauffeur: tai xe

[KangTuo]

Cheap (inexpensive): re
Cheap (nasty): hen ha
Cheap (mean): bun xin
Cheat (person): nguoi gian lan
Cheat: lua gat

Cheat on one’s wife
Lua doi vo minh

Check (to verify): cuoc kiem tra, xem xet
Check (restrain): kiem che
Check (stop): dung dot ngot
Check-in (at airport): lam thu tuc
Check-in (at hotel): ghi ten thue phong
Check out (at hotel): thanh toan de roi khach san
Check out (look into): dieu tra
Check out (club, restaurant) thu xem
Check up on: dieu tra
Check up (medical): cuoc kiem tra suc khoe
Check up (dental): kham rang
Check with (of person): hoi xem
Check-in counter: ban ghi ten di may bay
Check-in-time: gio ghi ten di may bay
Checklist: ban ke cac khoan
Checkout (in supermarket): noi tra tien mua hang
Checkout time (from hotel): thoi gian thanh toan de roi khach san
Check point (military, polie): tram kien soat
Cheek: ma
Cheekbone: xuong go ma
Cheer: tieng reo mung
Cheer on: reo ho co vu
Cheer up: vui len di, lam cho vui len
Cheerful (person, mood, smile): vui ve
Cheering: tieng hoan ho
Cheerleader: nguoi dan dau hoan ho
Cheese: pho mat
Cheeseburger: pho mat boc thit bam
Cheesecake: banh pho mat
Chef: bep truong
Cherish (memory): ap u trong long
Cherish (hope, illusion): nuoi
Cherry (fruit): qua anh dao
Cherry blossom: hoa anh dao
Chess: mon danh co
Chessboard: ban co
Chest (of person): nguc
Chestnut: hat de
Chew: nhai
Chew out: mang nhiec
Chewing gum: keo cao su

[jackbl]

After reading these sentences i think i need to further improve, learn, study, hide in mountain to know this language well.... some sentences dun know what she is talking about ...

Originally Posted by KangTuo

I really need to improve my tieng viet... damn hard time decoding the individual words..

[jackbl]

Why deny pure Vietnamese beauty?
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By Oliver Kolasch , Student

One of the biggest differences about Vietnam I've noticed and puzzled over is that some Vietnamese youth deny their pure Vietnamese beauty!
I came to Vietnam for two months to conduct research into oriental youth culture. Before Vietnam, I was in Thailand, Japan, Korea, Cambodia and other countries so I partially understand some of the differences and similarities of Asian countries.

In Japan and Cambodia when someone is praised for their beauty, the admirer says something like: "he/she is so beautiful" or "that child is wonderful." But in Vietnam, I usually hear: "she's as beautiful as a Korean movie star," "that boy looks exactly like a Westerner" or "this beauty queen is as beautiful as a French person."

Perhaps, to many young Vietnamese, this way of praising others is normal and they probably feel extremely happy about these flattering words. But for me, I find myself choked when thinking about Vietnam with its wonderful landscapes and friendly people - who are physically as beautiful as anyone in the world - and wonder why some of its citizens do not realize and appreciate this.

Walking along the streets in the center of Ho Chi Minh City, I saw groups of teenagers with straightened hair wearing short skirts, ties and multicolored glasses.

I asked my translator about the teens. He said they were dressed in "popular Korean and Japanese trends" that people who craved attention wore. He also emphasized proudly that young people in Vietnam kept themselves abreast of foreign fashion trends, often adopting them right behind the country of origin.

As I was watching teen TV channels, I was assaulted with a barrage of Korean teen colors. The only thing that's left is that the language in use is Vietnamese.

Much to my regret, the ao dai (Vietnamese traditional long shirt) and natural hair styles are rare in Ho Chi Minh City now. Perhaps, those are the most beautiful pictures from your country.

I still remember a joke from a Cambodian little girl that I met: "we have a unique dark and ugly skin." These words made a listener like me both amused and happy. Because at the very least I know that a Cambodian girl is proud of what she has and does not yearn for things that will never belong to her.

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Their new pride!

Local software beats Bitdefender AV in virus killing test
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Vietnamese antivirus software has come second in the country’s first test of commonly used threat detectors and exterminators, the Vietnam Information Security Laboratory (VISL) said early this week.


CMC Internet Security is able to identify and destroy 97.86 percent of 60,548 verified viruses and vandals, while better known programs like Bitdefender AV and AVG can only kill 80 to 93 percent of them, said VISL’s Nguyen Khac Viet.

G-Data AV tops the winners list with an ability to identify and remove 98.52 percent of threats. Another foreign program, Avira AV, is third with a rate of 96.48 percent.

The five programs were set up in identical testing environments, meaning they were run on computers with the same configuration and tested with the same viruses and malicious codes.

In preparation, VISL’s software engineers identified and detected more than 60,000 viruses and vandals, Viet said.

It was Vietnam’s first independent assessment of commonly used antivirus software. Further tests will take place in June, September and December.

The test results will motivate antivirus software producers to improve their products’ quality and effectiveness, Viet said.

Some 60 million computers in Vietnam were infected in one way or another last year, at an estimated cost of US$ 1.7 billion, the General Department of Technology under the Ministry of Public Security reported on Tuesday.

It is estimated that 1,000 websites in Vietnam had security holes and 461 websites were known to have been hacked.

Around 33,000 new viruses were detected in Vietnam, including 36 home-grown, last year.

VISL is a newly established government agency for testing and assessing the quality of information technology and security products.

Source: VNA, Agencies

[S3x4u29]

hope this site helps brudders who are into Tieng Viet
Dunno any bro had put this before..
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Vietnamese to English Translation

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

1) Ok kg can xloi e. E kg can dau de danh xloi nguoi nao thuong a do. e kg phai e quan noi a biet e biet kg tot va e cung kg biet buon. Tai thay a vui e ton trong a thoi. E biet qua day la phai kiem tien chuyen khac ko quan trong dau

2) A biet sao e di lam tinh voi a kg? Kg phai thuong a ma mang on a nen muon tra. dung roi quen nhieu nguoi la thu vuicua a. E nhin thay dc va biet het. Gio e nghi kg biet a kg quen a dc chua. Cam on a da nghi tot cho e

Morning....

3) A lam zay e thay thich a them e va xxx dang o ks 81 2 dua lac e muon om. e doc tn cua a, e muon cuoi. toi e sin co nt gi qua xloi nha. e cung la nguoi xau lam do kg phai 1minh a dau. Buoi sang tot lanh nha.

My fren translated the first 3 then busy liao....

1) ok, no need say sorry me. I dun need to sorry to the one who love you. You know I am not good and i also dun know how to be sad, Because see you happy, i respect you, I know this to earn money, other not important

2) You know why i go to make love with you? Not love you, just return your kindness, But fool around is your fun, i can see and know all. Now i not sure can forget you or not. Thanks for your good thinking abt me

3) you behave like that i more like you and waiting you at Hotel 81, i read ur sms, i want to laugh, Last night i drunk, if got sent sms to u, sorry, I also bad one, just only you, Have a good morning

hahaha...it sounded like KT is a very bad boy and enjoying himself...the gal is actually doing her KC trap...

Others may want to try translate the rest...can't wait to read the rest...my tieng viet oso not good enough to transalte fully...

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

hahaha...it sounded like KT is a very bad boy and enjoying himself...the gal is actually doing her KC trap...

I am a very good boy who treat the gals well (before lam tinh).
Actually this gal is good and treat me well. She never bothers me about money or other things. Once awhile we will sms and meet up for dinner and hanky panky. Whenever I need to release, she is always available for me. She never send me so many sms before...

she will be wasiting time to do her KC trap now... I am moving on to new target

[jackbl]

Let's see whether they can do that or not :P

Vietnam to climb out of recession soon
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Based on the country’s economic performance in the first quarter, the General Statistics Office of Vietnam (GSO) on March 27 released its economic forecast for 2009.

Vietnam’s GDP may grow by 4.8-5.6 percent, with industrial output to expand 4.6-6.1 percent; agricultural production to rise 2.5-4.5 percent, and retail sales and service revenue to surge 15-18 percent.

The country’s export turnover this year may reach $56-58 billion while imports are likely to be much higher, at $63-65 billion.

Unemployment, and under-employment, will be around 7.7 percent and the rate of poor households will be 12.2-12.4 percent.

If all the forecasts come true, Vietnam will become one of the first economies to climb out of the global economic recession, the GSO said.

By Anh Phuong – Translated by Truc Thinh

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Domestic tour discounts draw more tourists
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Compiled by Hong Nguyen
A group of 20 travel companies who joined forces to offer discount package tours say the promotion has tripled customer numbers.

The travel companies, who are participating in the government’s “Impressive Vietnam” tourism stimulus campaign, have offered discounts of up to 40 percent on package tours since February 20, Young Generation Travel Company Deputy Director Tran The Dung said on Sunday.

The travel companies involved in the campaign include Young Generation, the Saigontourist Travel Service Company, Tan Dinh Trade and Travel Service Company and the Saigon Petroleum Service Corporation.

The companies were able to offer the discount tour packages after flag carrier Vietnam Airlines offered certain travel agencies discounts on airfares of up to 60 percent.

Budget airline Jetstar Pacific has also released 50,000 cheap tickets while Indochina Airlines has offered discounts of up to 40 percent to tour operators.

But the number of domestic tourist traveling by road and rail has hardly changed since the Impressive Vietnam campaign was launched, with road and rail tours only discounted by 10 to 15 percent.

Dung said the 20 companies in the campaign were negotiating with 200 hotels, resorts, food and transport service providers for discounts of 20 to 30 percent for the remainder of this year.

The discount package tours are available until May 31, except for the long weekend that includes the April 30 and May 1 public holidays.

More information is available at Impressive Vietnam!

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Anniversary of Son My massacre honored
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Minh Thu
Hundreds of locals and international visitors on Monday honored the Son My villagers brutally murdered 41 years ago by U.S. forces during the Vietnam War

On March 16, 1968, U.S. soldiers killed 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians in Son My Village’s My Lai and My Khe hamlets after being ordered to search for and destroy communist fighters in the village.

The victims included women, children and old people. Many were beaten, tortured, maimed and sexually abused before being killed. Some of the villagers’ bodies were found mutilated after the massacre.

To mark the anniversary, tourists from the United States, England and Japan and local people laid flowers and wreaths and burnt incense at the foot of the monument in the Son My Remnant Area in central Quang Ngai Province.

U.S. war veteran Mike Boehm, who featured in the 1998 documentary “The Sound of the Violin in My Lai,” played the violin in memory of the victims. Over the past 10 years he has attended many anniversary ceremonies at the village.

As he has done for the past 12 years, U.S. war veteran Bill Kelly sent a postcard and 504 roses to be placed at the foot of the Son My monument in memory of the victims.

After the ceremony, a bell tower worth VND100 million (US$5,714) was dedicated. It will be rung 504 times at 6 a.m. every day for the souls of the 504 Vietnamese victims of the mass murder.

Boehm also announced a VND1.3 billion ($74,560) upgrade of the Son My primary school, financed by money raised by U.S. veterans through Madison Quakers Inc.