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Originally Posted by Hurricane88

World Bank report on Vietnam’s pork safety sparks concern, doubt

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UPDATED : 04/03/2017 16:28 GMT + 7

Just wondering why the World Bank is interested in conducting such reports instead of the World Health Organisation.......

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

They are just special guest stars that pop in once in a while liao

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All are guest stars appearance...so hv to pay guest fees ha...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Aiyah you go 1 big round I also forget what was the original question liao........

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haha...so what is the question again....

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

You have no fetish unlike me??? Means you have fetishes like me???

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I mean I have no fetish...kkk...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

You say one mah, spontaneity is most important whether is related to topic or not also dun care......

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yup...spontaneous answer...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Kanasai none of them wants to compete with Jetstar for the PP direct route....... consumers like us always suffer their stiff pricing when they are the only budget airline flying there.......

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PP not enough frequent flyers...and poor yield...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Oh yes thank you very much for your praise oh Mighty Transcended One !!!

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SGM jiu si SGM...no horse run...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

More than 10 years ago when I first visited Phu Quoc the beaches is already filled with litter and the sea is the same polluted colour as Sinkie beaches leh.....now then they discover this fact ...

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eh...I think good time to skip this place after rip-off...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Just wondering why the World Bank is interested in conducting such reports instead of the World Health Organisation.......

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

World bank loan them money mah...WHO dun give money...

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Transgender Vietnamese turn to black market hormones

By AFP/Jenny Vaughan April 6, 2017 | 08:42 am GMT+7

They face serious health risks in a country where hormone therapy and sex-reassignment surgery are not available.

Every week, Huynh Nha An faces the same dilemma: spend her paltry salary on food, or buy the blackmarket hormones she needs to keep her facial hair from growing back.

Born male but desperate to change sex, the timid 21-year-old self-prescribes and injects drugs bootlegged from Thailand, when she can afford them.

"When I don't use hormones regularly I turn back into a boy, I'm no longer smooth like a girl," explains the street food seller and part-time singer.

Nha An is one of thousands facing the same problem in Vietnam, where hormone therapy and sex-reassignment surgery are not legally available to transgender people.

That forces many to self-medicate despite the serious health risks.

The transgender community endures discrimination in many parts of Vietnam, a country where conservative social mores dominate.

But in a rare act of social progression, the government is writing a law that will allow people to officially change their gender.

That could result in better access to healthcare for Vietnam's 300,000-strong transgender community, but it will not become law until 2019 at the earliest.

Until then Nha An will have to get along without specialist medical help, relying on friends for advice on the dosage and frequency of her hormone injections.

Some months she spends nearly half her $100 income on the drugs, or borrows from friends -- her family stopped giving her money after she ran away from home.

"My parents still see me as a diseased person, they don't accept me as a girl," she said.


Huynh Nha An (C), 21, Jessica Nguyen (R), 31, and an unidentified trans person relaxing in Jessica's room in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo by AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam.


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How Vietnam's street vendors are getting round the sidewalk cleanup

By Tran Quang April 3, 2017 | 12:00 am GMT+7

Vendors have been forced to improvise now their sidewalk spots have been taken away.

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Can Tho tops Vietnam’s public admin index as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City lag

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UPDATED : 04/05/2017 15:04 GMT + 7


Locals and tourists take a stride on a pedestrian bridge in Can Tho City.
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The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho delivered the most satisfactory public service in Vietnam in 2016, the latest Public Administration Performance Index Report shows.

PAPI, or Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index, assesses citizens' experience with national and local administrations governance, public administration and public service delivery.

The findings of the 2016 PAPI Report, which were calculated based on survey responses from over 14,000 randomly selected citizens from all 63 provinces and cities across Vietnam, were announced at a conference in Hanoi on Tuesday.

PAPI measures an administrations’ performance across six criteria: citizens’ participation at local level, openness and transparency, vertical accountability, public sector corruption, public administrative procedure and public service delivery.

A province's performance is rated on a scale from 6 to 60 points.

According to this year’s report, Can Tho topped all other localities with a score of 39.57, closely followed by Ha Tinh (39.32), Da Nang (38.58), Phu Tho (38.53), Quang Binh (38.41), and Ben Tre (38.37).

The northern Quang Ninh Province and three southern provinces Binh Duong, Kien Giang and Bac Lieu were the poorest performers in the report in terms of satisfaction with their local public service.

Hanoi found itself among the lowest scoring administrations, performing most badly on the two criteria of vertical accountability and transparency.
Meanwhile, Ho Chi Minh City was among the lower middle group, scoring 34.91 points overall.

Those interviewed found the southern metropolis’ control of corruption and the participation of its local citizens in the most dire need of improvement.


Vietnam’s provincial performance in governance and public administration by quartiles in 2016 (click to enlarge). Photo: PAPI 2016

PAPI reports are a collaboration between the Centre for Community Support and Development Studies (CECODES), the Centre for Research and Training of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF-CRT) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

“On the one hand, there has been steady improvement in the performance of public service delivery over the past six years,” said Kamal Malhotra, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative in Vietnam at Tuesday’s event.

“However, most provinces can do more to improve the competence and attitude of civil servants and public employees and enhance the transparency, responsiveness, and accountability of their institutions.”

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Don't get excited about summer because Saigon is bracing for the worst weather

By Phu My April 6, 2017 | 11:21 am GMT+7


A road in Ho Chi Minh City's Thu Duc District is heavily inundated following a downpour on April 1, 2017. Photo by VnExpress/A.X.

Thunderstorms soaking the city the past week were just the beginning of a cloudy and stormy season, weather forecasters say.


It's true the world ain't all sunshine and rainbows.

Over the past week Ho Chi Minh City and its neighbors have been hit with several downpours, forcing locals to face a summer dilemma when it's still supposed to be spring: either put on that raincoat and still get wet, or just stay in.

Now forecasters say bad weather is here to stay.

The Southern Hydrometeorological Center said this April will be an "extreme" month, with some of the year's hottest days and worst thunderstorms on the horizon.

The city will be soaking wet and terribly hot, on and off, through the month. The average temperature may reach 39 degrees Celsius, or 102.2 degrees Fahrenheit – heat that would be unbearable when coupled with traffic jams.


A flooded road in Ho Chi Minh City during the April 1 downpour. Photo by VnExpress/A.X


Le Dinh Quyet, a meteorologist from the center, said April is usually the transition period between the dry and the rainy season, which means the first couple of weeks should still be quite mild in the tropical city.

But unseasonal downpours will make the transition very tough this year, he said.

The downpour last Saturday, which flooded many parts of the city including Tan Son Nhat airport, was measured at up to 163 mm at different spots, among the highest levels ever for early summer. More rain came Monday and worsened late-afternoon traffic.

Quyet blamed the unusual weather conditions on climate change, warning of even more severe events caused by El Nino, which brought a historic bout of drought to southern Vietnam last year.

The U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization said in February that El Nino could return later this year, while the U.S. National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center said in early March that El Nino could arrive as soon as this spring.

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Ben Thanh bus station to be relocated next week

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UPDATED : 04/07/2017 10:31 GMT + 7


Passengers board buses at Ben Thanh station in Ho Chi Minh City.
Tuoi Tre

If you travel by bus in Ho Chi Minh City this weekend it will be your last chance to hop off at the main station fronting Ben Thanh Market in District 1.

The Ben Thanh bus terminal is scheduled for relocation to nearby Ham Nghi Street this Monday to free-up space for the construction of the city’s first metro line.

Currently, 36 different bus routes operating 4,700 daily trips pass through Ben Thanh station, accounting for 30 percent of the city’s total bus traffic, according to the terminal’s management center.

The relocation, however, is not expected to affect bus operations, considering the new terminal is only 200 meters away.


The old (yellow) and new bus station (red)

Ham Nghi is a wide two-way avenue with three car lanes in each direction, running from the Saigon River to Quach Thi Trang Square.

The new bus station will be built on two of the car lanes and feature six bus stops and a public restroom. Temporary installments will be placed on the site to meet the April 10 deadline before official amenities are constructed in June.

The Ben Thanh bus station was built in 1956 and has since remained one of Ho Chi Minh City’s most important, and iconic, transportation hubs.

The terminal management center has tasked bus drivers and attendants with informing passengers of the relocation.

A subway terminal and 515 meter underground tunnel is zoned for construction underneath the area where Ben Thanh market and the bus station currently sit.

The concrete Quach Thi Trang roundabout was removed earlier this year to serve the subway project.

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Foreign tourist hurt by ‘sidewalk traps’ in Ho Chi Minh City to receive apology

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UPDATED : 04/08/2017 11:31 GMT + 7



A foreign visitor who was hurt after stumbling on a street in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City after her foot caught a U-shaped iron hook buried onto the sidewalk earlier this week will receive apology and compensate from the company responsible for those ‘traps.’

Doan Ngoc Hai, District 1 deputy chairman and leader of a campaign to clear the district-wide sidewalks, made the order on Friday, after learning of the Tuesday’s incident of the female foreigner.

On Tuesday, Nguyen Tuyet An, a local journalist, posted on her Facebook several photos showing a woman with bleeding nose, saying she had fallen after getting stuck in the iron hooks on the sidewalk near the Nam Ky Khoi Nghia – Le Loi intersection.

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