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[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by zizzy

Hi Hurricane, I met agent007 and a couple of other Sammyboys. Would love to meet up with you. How do I get in touch with you?

Since you met 007 and others....just continue to meet lor....

I am not meeting anyone I don't know...remember to enjoy yourself...and write forum ok...

[Hurricane88]

News
- Prostitution in Saigon: sex trade finds a new face

By Duy Tran, Van Pham July 16, 2016 | 04:01 pm GMT+7

http://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/pro...e-3437019.html


More cafes go "decaf". More barbers offer the no-cut. Risks bubble.

Illegal in Vietnam, prostitution can still be found all over the country's biggest cities, with those controlling it coming up with countless ways to dodge the law and authorities seemingly helpless to stop its unchecked development.

There are shops in Saigon with “cafe” signs above them, but they won't take a drinks order. After some exchanges, girls show up grinding, sitting on and rubbing clients’ thighs. That was the insight given by an anti-prostitution official in Ho Chi Minh City.

At a recent conference to evaluate the city's efforts to curb what the authorities call "social evil" over the last six months, Tran Van Ngoi, a social affairs official in District 12, said that the number of so-called cafes offering girls had surpassed what inspectors are capable of checking. Along just a few kilometers of highway in his district, there are some 40 cafes that offer prostitution services, marked by two coconuts and a colored light at the front.

He said the cafes don’t do drinks, and there also barber shops full of girls but void of scissors and clippers, where female staff only offer massage sessions.

In central HCMC, prostitution has abandoned the streets and moved indoors, rendering most inspection efforts useless, said Le Thi Phuong Cham, another social affairs official in District 1. As it goes underground, prostitution is spreading across the whole city, said a representative of Cu Chi District’s social affairs agency.

According to Nguyen Thanh Huyen from HCMC’s Police Department, prostitution rings have gone online and are using social networks like Facebook and Zalo to woo clients. Sex tourism is also showing signs of returning.

HCMC has 17,545 businesses offering services likely to attract prostitutes such as clubs, bars, beer clubs and cafes.

As prostitution continues to grow, authorities are struggling to get a handle on it because as soon as they close down one brothel, others are alerted and shut down. A license revoked here will become another license issued there.

In the first half of 2016, inspectors checked 2,767 businesses and found more than half of them had violated regulations, fining them nearly VND11 billion ($500,000).

In 2013, Vietnam abolished compulsory rehabilitation for sex workers, slapping fines of $25 to $100 on them instead. The reason for the increase seems to be prostitutes returning to the streets after being encouraged to abandon their jobs and being given VND5 million ($240) for vocational training. The range of jobs available from this is narrow, and most of them pay a lot less than prostitution, according to a representative from HCMC’s Women's Union.

Concluding the conference, Huynh Thanh Khiet, vice director of the city's Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said that the increase in prostitution was due to legal policies that do not give officials authority to punish prostitutes who don't pay their fines.

The city looks to compel all businesses offering services that could be linked to prostitution to sign an agreement not to do so and hang it on their shop fronts.

Vietnam's abolition of compulsory rehabilitation for sex workers in 2013 has since sparked fierce debates among researchers, officials and lawmakers on whether the country should legalize sex work.

Proponents of legalizing prostitution in Vietnam say the move is critical because it could significantly reduce the transmission of HIV among sex workers, citing studies that indicate that in places where prostitution is illegal, sex workers are more susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases.

They also say even though Vietnam has declared its “war on prostitution”, it has continued to thrive anyway. The intent is not to stem prostitution, but to better manage it.

But those in the opposing camp are adamant that prostitution is an emblem of moral decadence and is strongly associated with organized crimes such as drug trafficking, human smuggling and money laundering.

Prostitution has been regulated by law in about 70 countries, including regional neighbor Singapore. The United Nations Development Program said in a report that sex is legally tradable in several countries in ASEAN, while all other activities such as soliciting prostitution or organized prostitution are not allowed.

Vietnam admits the presence of 33,000 sex workers, 2.6 percent of whom are HIV positive, according to official figures. Unofficial figures say there are 200,000 sex workers in Vietnam, 40 percent of whom are said to be HIV positive.

Of the estimated 250,000 Vietnamese suffering from HIV/AIDS, female sex workers are among the three most vulnerable groups, along with drug users and homosexual men.

[Hurricane88]

Away from home: More Vietnamese leaving for richer countries

By An Hong October 11, 2016 | 02:00 am GMT+7

http://e.vnexpress.net/news/travel-l...s-3481514.html

Scores of wealthy families, investors have moved overseas.
A foreign bank in Vietnam finds it increasingly difficult to hire local senior managers because there is a growing trend among highly-educated Vietnamese professionals to move their families abroad.

“More young and well-educated Vietnamese see the importance of raising their kids in a clean environment, good heathcare services and high-quality education,” said the bank’s country manager who now prefers recruiting committed employees for long terms.

According to the International Organization for Migration, nearly 100,000 Vietnamese people leave the country each year to live in a more developed nation.

The trend is apparent in the growing number of Vietnamese investors moving overseas and wealthy families deciding to emigrate, despite the higher costs of living, cultural differences, language barrier and complex visa requirements.

But for those with the means to move, all it takes is between $3 million and $7 million of investment to apply for permanent residency in the U.S., according to Chris Loc Dao, chief executive of U.S. Immigration Services company.

He said that over the past 10 years, the company has managed to advise more than 100 Vietnamese individuals on making investments worth a combined $1 billion in the U.S in exchange for green cards.

Unofficial statistics suggest that affluent Vietnamese may have invested between $10 billion and $20 billion a year through immigration programs like the U.S.’s EB5 Immigrant Investor Program.

The fast-growing number of Vietnamese people leaving the country is also believed to be closely linked to employment and education opportunities overseas.

The Ministry of Education and Training reported that 125,000 Vietnamese students went abroad in 2013 for studying, a 15 percent increase from 2012. Over 90 percent of international students of Vietnamese origin are self-funded and the total spending on overseas education amounted to roughly 1 percent of the country’s GDP in 2013.

The U.S., followed by Australia and the U.K., is by far the favorite destination for Vietnamese students. Vietnam now ranks sixth with 28,883 students studying at U.S. colleges and universities, spending nearly $1 billion, according the latest quarterly update published in December 2015 by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The World Bank said in its 2016 fact book on migration and remittances that Vietnam was among the top 10 emigration countries as of 2013, just behind China, the Philippines, Indonesia and Myanmar in the East Asian and Pacific region.

As many as 26 percent of total five million Vietnamese overseas, equal to 1.3 million people, are living in the U.S., according to the World Bank.

Migrant workers

While Vietnam is losing skilled workers to more developed countries, it is also exporting workers who are now responsible for a major source of overseas remittances.

According to the Ministry of Labor, Invalid and Social Affairs, Vietnam has sent about 500,000 Vietnamese to 40 countries and territories. On average, more than 90,000 Vietnamese workers leave the country each year, mainly for labor-intensive and low-skilled jobs overseas. Vietnam's total workforce is around 50 million.

Nguyen Van Hoang, 32, from the northern province of Thai Nguyen, has been working in South Korea for nine years.

“I can send about $1,000 back to my family in Vietnam every month," Hoang said. "In Vietnam, being a high school graduate, I wouldn't be able to earn that much.” He is helping a cousin, the seventh in his family, to fly to South Korea next spring to work. Vietnam's annual average income was around $2,100 last year, according to the World Bank.

Remittances from Vietnamese overseas remain a key source of funds for the country's economy, equivalent to about 8-10 percent of gross domestic product.

More than half of the money comes from the U.S. Vietnamese-Americans sent back home about $7 billion last year and are expected to remit $8 billion this year.

Vietnam recorded roughly $13 billion in overseas remittances last year, slightly up from $12 billion in 2014, according to the World Bank, which ranked Vietnam as the world’s 11th largest remittance recipient country and the third in the East Asian-Pacific region, after China and the Philippines.

[zizzy]

Ok Hurricane. What is a good app or website that translates English to Thieng viet so that I can get around?

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by zizzy

Ok Hurricane. What is a good app or website that translates English to Thieng viet so that I can get around?

my best app or dictionary is "longhair"...can only found in Vn...

[Hurricane88]

Heavy Rains, High Tide Expected to Flood Saigon This Weekend, Early Next Week

Published on Wednesday, 12 October 2016 10:48 Written by Saigoneer.

http://saigoneer.com/saigon-news/824...arly-next-week

Heavy rains combined with this year’s highest tides could mean Saigoneers are in for more flooding this weekend and early next week, according to the southern region’s Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting.

As evidenced by yesterday’s downpour, the rainy season is not yet over for Saigon. From now until October 20, Zing reports, the highest tides of the year are expected to swell the Saigon River and the waterways of the Mekong Delta region, leaving southern Vietnam more susceptible to flooding.

Beginning around October 15, a tropical depression will pass by Saigon, the news outlet reports, bringing with it rain, strong winds and thunderstorms.

There are varying predictions as to when the combined effects of the storm and high tides will reach their peak – Zing says October 16-17, while Thanh Nien reports October 17-18 – however what is certain is that water levels along the Saigon River are expected to rise as high as 1.67 meters in some places, making flash floods a possibility.

Over the past month, Saigoneers have dealt with their fair share of flood water. During the stormaggedon which took place on September 26, Tan Son Nhat was forced to divert 12 flights to neighboring airports due to flooding on its runways.

In an effort to regulate future flooding at the airport, the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed the construction of a nearby reservoir, reports Zing.

If approved, the five- to seven-meter-deep reservoir would cover 1.2 hectares and alleviate flooding on 20 hectares of the airfield. Its suggested location is on military land. Officials have already submitted the proposal to the Ministry of Transport, which will seek comments on the plan from the Ministry of Defense.

[Honey Boon]

that version cost a bomb ....

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

my best app or dictionary is "longhair"...can only found in Vn...

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

clever lah...you are right...

here one news...

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapor...gets-jail-fine

Alamak I thought you will post the whole article here........ now this is what I will called a clear-cut OKT cause he deals directly with the prostitutes and charges them a commission for each deal or client he procures

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

think you "ko hieu" what I written...

Hieu of cos but just cannot resist to add more salt & pepper........

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

sgm sgm sgm...

Sandshrew Golem Machoke x 3

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

open what store up to you...hang goat head but behind sell dog meat also nobody care...

Cannot lah how to sell dog meat if you give me 5 penises per day??? or dont tell me you are giving me DOG's penises????????

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

still not yet competitive...still prefer a bit more matured than yours...

Wah swee swee bo zhao chwee....... this one i Sarpork Sarpork!!!!!

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

tio suan again...haizzzz....

Not happy I get my POWDERFUL DBKTB backer to deal with you......

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Remittances from Vietnamese overseas remain a key source of funds for the country's economy, equivalent to about 8-10 percent of gross domestic product.

They never add this one,

Remittances from foreigners in love with Vietnamese Babes remain a key source of funds for the country's economy, equivalent to about 20-50 percent of gross domestic product

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Honey Boon

that version cost a bomb ....

Yah but use already damn SHIOK!!!!!!

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^