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[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Value of Vietnam's 'bikini airline' overtakes national carrier

REUTERS
UPDATED : 03/07/2017 08:46 GMT + 7

It has become known in Vietnam as the "bikini airline" and female crew do still wear them, but only on some flights.

Huh, sure or not????? wear them on promo launch or new routes launch I can understand, but on daily normal flights????

Maybe they should have added " wear under their Vietjet Hostess uniform"

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Modified sleeper buses present increased fire hazard in Vietnam

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 03/06/2017 16:15 GMT + 7



“Some transport businesses import their coaches from South Korea or Japan but equip them with Chinese-made electrical devices to save money,” he said..

Always wanting to make more $$$ at the cost of others regardless of safety or health, so what is new about this particular cuntry.....

Cheerios.........SS08 ^_^

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Huh, say myself is full of shit also xnn???? wah this means I am not????

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

yes full of shit means you xnn.com...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Jialat, nowadays you seemed to have not read all replies then ask the same questions again when its already been replied

Already replied "only you can, only you can"...... put in red & bold so you can see properly....

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

So I assssk....anyhow can meh..."p

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Like that huh, means you really have more than 2 ding dongs below..... impressive, next time if anybody ever called you "bo ji" or "no balls" please show them all your ding dongs below

Cheerios.......SS08 ^_^

haha...biggest xnn.com...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Huh, sure or not????? wear them on promo launch or new routes launch I can understand, but on daily normal flights????:confused

Maybe they should have added " wear under their Vietjet Hostess uniform"

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

dun believe them lah...not allowed to wear bikini...tio fine lah...

like you...Vietjet xnn.com...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Always wanting to make more $$$ at the cost of others regardless of safety or health, so what is new about this particular cuntry.....

Cheerios.........SS08 ^_^

haha...like you lah...this cuntry only big xnn.com...

[Hurricane88]

Make Vietnam traffic great again: Be more thoughtful with your lights, horns

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 03/07/2017 18:28 GMT + 7



A seasoned driver and a driving teacher joined Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper’s “Make Vietnam traffic great again” forum with complaints that most Vietnamese drivers tend to use their headlights and horns in a thoughtless and inconsiderate way.

Read their stories below and please leave a comment or write to [email protected] to join in the discussion.


Daily horning and lighting

(Tran Kiem Ha, driver)

Today there are still a considerable number of drivers who use their headlights or horns without consideration. At crossroads, where they are supposed to reduce their speed, drivers try to run red lights and repeatedly honk their horns. Other drivers will repeatedly honk when there is still three seconds left on the red light.

Even when traveling on urban roads, drivers continue to use air horns freely, startling other people, especially motorbike drivers. And yet, they simply laugh when seeing other drivers surprised by their sudden, loud honking.

In rural areas, there are cases when people have been startled and fallen off their motorbikes due to the ear-piercing sound of the air horns. There are also cases when cars carelessly use their high beams, dazzling motorbike drivers traveling in the opposite direction and causing them to crash into power poles or even fall into the sewage.

In most cases, inconsiderate drivers are not held responsible or made to pay any price. The sound of their horns or the flashing of their headlights leaves no evidence.

Some drivers have installed a special switch, allowing them to shift from air horns to electric horns in a second, so law enforcement officers can’t catch them in the act.


An air horn secretly installed on a truck

Lights and horns are tools for drivers to inform others of their presence to avoid accidents. But some drivers just do not seem to know how to use them properly. Of course there are drivers who blow their horn in a considerate manner, and those who avoid flashing their high beams into the faces of other drivers.

However, there are still many rude drivers who do the opposite.

Vietnam’s traffic law stipulates that cars should use horns to signal during the daytime, and headlights at night. The law also bans air horns and high beams in crowded areas and urban streets, so as not to shock other people, or cause accidents. There are also rules stating clearly where drivers should not use their horns.

All of these rules seem to be invisible in the eyes of rude drivers.


Using horns only when really necessary
(Truong Nhat Vuong, driving teacher)

One of my students told me one day that only after attending a driving course did he know that proper honking is part of traffic culture.

In reality, many drivers tend to thoughtlessly blow their horn, even though in driving class, we teachers always carefully show them how to use it appropriately with clear, easy-to-understand examples.



For instance, we teach them that when driving on Christmas Eve past a church crowded by many, honking their horn attracts eyebrows from the crowd. The right thing to do here is to slow down and let people step aside.

We also teach drivers that horns should only be used when necessary.

When you see a man carrying his wife on a motorbike, with their little baby sleeping peacefully in her arms, will you blow your air horn? Sadly, many will, scaring the happy family away.

There are hundreds of excuses one can make for hurriedly traveling on the street and using horns inconsiderately. The biggest excuse: you cannot travel in Vietnam without honking!

Still, careless honking is simply an indicator that this driver lacks both experience and patience. That’s it.

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Vietnamese brands find footing in US, EU food markets

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 03/07/2017 17:45 GMT + 7



Instead of selling raw materials to foreign food producers, more and more Vietnamese food businesses are exporting quality branded products to strict markets like the U.S. or European Union (EU) for higher values.

“It’s exciting to see American families knowing about and using Vietnamese fish sauce in cooking,” remarked Dan Thanh, a Vietnamese American living in New York.

It came as a pleasant surprise to Thanh that an American friend of hers had introduced her to Red Boat, a Vietnamese brand of fish sauce that was being sold at Whole Foods, a popular American supermarket chain exclusively featuring foods without artificial preservatives, sweeteners, hydrogenated fats, and other additives.

Cuong Pham, general director of Red Boat’s parent company Quoc Huong, said his journey to get the brand into U.S. supermarkets began as early as 2006.

After visiting fish sauce-making facilities on Phu Quoc Island, off southern Vietnam, Cuong decided to buy a small one to produce his own version of the iconic condiment, as no manufacturers at the time could guarantee to meet the standards he needed for export.

Cuong wanted no flavor enhancer in his fish sauce, whereas all the firms insisted that the condiment would not taste as good without such an additive.
To market his product to U.S. customers, the general director took to decorated American chefs, who are by themselves always in search of new ingredients to renovate their menus.

From good reviews and recommendations by the chefs, Cuong’s Red Boat brand began gaining traction in the U.S. market and was being featured in prestigious newspapers such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.

After two years, the Vietnamese brand had made its way into a network of over 450 Whole Foods markets across the U.S., Canada and the UK.
Red Boat was shifting the cooking habits of American families who had been used to the taste of diluted fish sauce, Cuong said.

“Even Caucasian Americans are now beginning to add fish sauce directly to their dishes,” Cuong said.

His fish sauce is now sold at even more supermarkets in the EU countries, Australia, and Singapore.


Vietnamese rice

While unbranded Vietnam-grown rice is being exported in large quantities at no more than US$400 per metric ton, some local companies have taken the initiative to ship quality rice under their own brand at between $2,000 and $3,000 per metric ton.

Following the success of other pioneers, Ho Chi Minh City-based rice exporter Ecotiger has recently introduced their rice brand Ecorice to Canadian, U.S. and EU markets.

In order for their rice to meet strict standards set out by such markets, the company has had to cooperate with farmers in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh to grow organic rice using farming methods approved by the U.S., the EU and Japan.

Such rice farms employ a model known as rice-shrimp farming, in which naturally abundant shrimp postlarvae are used as natural compost for the rice instead of synthetic fertilizers.

When the paddy fields suffer from an infestation, famers would fill them with water for up to two hours to get rid of the insects rather than use toxic pesticides.

With such an organic method of farming, Ecorice products have been certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and equivalent authorities in European countries and Japan.

“We are taking steps to introduce the organic products to the domestic market as well, and our vision is to expand our rice farms to 450 hectares in the near future,” said Nguyen Van Hung, general director of Ecotiger.

[Hurricane88]

Now Viet also similar to PRC...

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Vietnamese passenger fined for opening aircraft emergency exit door

March 8, 201713


The act deployed the evacuation slide, which can cost thousands of dollars to fold back.

Vietnam’s aviation authorities have fined a man VND15 million ($660) for opening the exit door of an aircraft and deploying its evacuation slide while it was rolling dơwn the runway on Monday.

The Vietnamese passenger was flying with Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO) from Con Dao Island to Ho Chi Minh City.

When it landed and was taxiing to its final stop, he opened the exit door near his seat, which released the evacuation slide.

A source from VASCO said it costs thousands of dollars to fold an evacuation slide back, and sometimes it needs to be sent for repairs overseas. These incidents can affect the flight schedule, the representative said.

Under Vietnam’s aviation rules, a fine of between VND10 to 20 million ($474-948) can be imposed for unnecessarily opening an emergency exit on an aircraft.

Incidents of passengers attempting to open and opening emergency exit doors are reported quite frequently in Vietnam. Some people mistake them for the restroom.

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Vietnam's high demand for IT professionals shoots up salaries

By VnExpress March 8, 2017 | 01:00 am GMT+7

The country could become one of the next outsourcing hubs for software development, industry players said.

Vietnam's growing information technology (IT) is seen driving recruitment demand and boost salaries for tech jobs, a recent survey found.

As many as 81 percent of IT companies said they planned an annual payroll rise of between 6 percent and 20 percent this year, professional recruitment firm VietnamWorks said in the survey conducted late last year with thousands of IT professionals, specialists and companies.

The industry’s job demand is higher than ever, and the trend will continue over the next years, the survey said.

The number of tech jobs has doubled over the last three years, VietnamWorks data showed, adding that Vietnam currently has around 250,000 engineers, but will need more than 400,000 by the end of 2018.

Experienced software developers and managers continue to be in high demand, said the survey.

Salaries have increased significantly in recent years and many companies have even offered generous bonuses to attract and retain employees.

Up to 80 percent of the jobs that requires IT professionals with at least two years experience would pay a maximum $1,160 per month, said the survey.

Vietnam first began offering software development services 15 years ago as global companies started to look outside India for a low-cost technology outsourcing opportunities.

NeoIT estimated Vietnam's IT labor costs are 40 percent less expensive than in China and India. A.T. Kearney’s Global Services Location Index and KPMG Advisory forecast Vietnam will be one of the next outsourcing hubs for software development.

Local technology companies, however, are increasingly diversifying into other services, said the survey, adding this will drive recruitment for specialists in other fields such as business intelligence and information security.

Currently, software engineers with at least two years of experience are still in highest demand, according to VietnamWorks.

In terms of high tech development, Ho Chi Minh City is to Hanoi what Silicon Valley is to Seattle. But Hanoi tech scene is growing amid more intense competition in the southern hub.

Ho Chi Minh City still remains the country’s IT hub with 53 percent of the country’s recruitment demand. Hanoi accounted for 43 percent and the central city of Da Nang took up 4 percent, according to the survey.

Experts forecast a growing demand for specialist in cloud computing, big data, business intelligence and information security.

The IT industry’s significant trends in 2017 will drive recruitments for professionals in big data, VietnamPlus cited Vinh Nguyen, an executive from PYCO Group, as saying.

The survey revealed that 44 percent of the respondents said they would consider changing jobs with a better salary and benefits on offer.

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Vietnam’s internet environment ranked 32nd in the world

By VnExpress March 7, 2017 | 07:35 pm GMT+7



The country is number one in the world for local content, but scores poorly on internet education.

A new index that measures a country's internet for its availability, affordability, relevance of content and public access has found that Vietnam is doing better than more than half of the world.

The 2017 Inclusive Internet index compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit assessed 75 markets on how they enable the adoption and beneficial use of the internet.

Vietnam stands in 32nd place overall for internet availability, affordability, relevance and readiness.

The country stands above its Southeast Asian neighbors Indonesia and the Philippines, but far behind Malaysia, Thailand and the number 1 position holder Singapore.

It performs “relatively strongly” in terms of relevance, with a global ranking of 18th out of 75, supported by a top score in local content.

Many non-English-speaking markets have made considerable progress in ensuring that domestic internet users have content available to them in their country’s primary language, said the Economist.

Vietnam is among 13 markets tied for first place in the local content category, along with China, Japan and Russia.

But the country scores low in terms of internet readiness due to limited support for digital literacy and web accessibility, based on the index. Vietnam’s education and preparedness for internet use ranks 63rd worldwide.

Availability ranks 40th worldwide with a high score for quality, but network infrastructure is poorly developed.

Its affordability ranks 32nd with a top score for fixed-line monthly broadband costs.

More than 49 million Vietnamese people, or more than half of the country’s population, are online.

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Chinese doctor flees following Hanoi patient’s brain death

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 03/08/2017 10:20 GMT +



A Chinese doctor at a private clinic in Hanoi has disappeared after a pregnant Vietnamese woman suffered brain death following treatment for a gynaecological condition.

Inspectors from the municipal Department of Health convened a working session with the 168 Hanoi Polyclinic, located in Thanh Tri District on Tuesday morning to clarify the case in which Tran Thi Thu T. suffered brain death after being treated at the facility.

T., a 29-year-old pregnant woman from the northern province of Quang Ninh, was admitted to Bach Mai Hospital while in a deep coma, with doctors diagnosing her with cerebral edema and brain death.

According to T.’s family members, she is mother to another young child and was 21-weeks pregnant.

The family had earlier filed a letter of complaint to the police station in Thanh Tri District, before an investigation was carried out by officers.

The health inspectorate has temporarily ceased all operations of the clinic until the investigation is finished.

According to Phuong Van Soan, a representative of the polyclinic, T. came to the facility at around 4:00 pm on Sunday last week.

A female Chinese doctor diagnosed T. with vaginitis and suggested the condition be treated with vibration therapy, Soan stated.

Three minutes into the treatment however, the patient showed symptoms of seizure and had difficulty breathing, before the Chinese clinician directed her nurse to inject sedatives behind her left ear and on her buttock.

T. was then transferred to the emergency facility of the Bach Mai Hospital on the same day, the representative said.

Clinic remained open despite repeated violations

Inspectors from the health department have since been unable to contact the Chinese doctor who treated T. and she is now nowhere to be found.

Authorities have recorded several violations at the 168 Hanoi Polyclinic over the past three years, including importing medicine and medical equipment of unknown origin and operating healthcare machines without license, among others.

However, the facility has been able to continue operations until this incident occurred.

In a previous case, all the Chinese doctors of Maria, a Chinese-owned polyclinic in Hanoi, also left the facility after one of their patients died of complications following treatment.

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

yes full of shit means you xnn.com...

No leh I meant I am always full of shit as in my digestive system works very well so my bowels are always full of shit so how is it related to xnn leh????

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

So I assssk....anyhow can meh..."p

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Jialat, nowadays you seemed to have not read all replies then ask the same questions again when its already been replied

Already replied "only you can, only you can"...... put in red & bold so you can see properly....

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Proven my font too small so I enlarge it further....

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^