Understanding Vietnamese Life Partner

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by FireShark

In VN if you are cash rich, you are a King. My frd who is working under a syndicate told me that. All cong an and minister only want $$$. If you can provide the amount you want, they don't really care what you do.

yes...but you constantly being hassled by them for $$$...son or daughter gets married come to you...have new grandchild born come to you...then the lower rank officers also starts come to you...endless and bottomless pits...doesn't mean you can flout the law openly...

[hoian]

Pros & cons. If she knows Eng/Chi, she won't need u around anymore.

Originally Posted by KangTuo

If anyone want a viet wife, make sure she also learn chinese, english and singlish.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by hoian

Pros & cons. If she knows Eng/Chi, she won't need u around anymore.

aiyo...you dun understand KT and his beloved wifey...read his love story in this thread lah...let him show off lor...

[FireShark]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

yes...but you constantly being hassled by them for $$$...son or daughter gets married come to you...have new grandchild born come to you...then the lower rank officers also starts come to you...endless and bottomless pits...doesn't mean you can flout the law openly...

No wor, low rank officers dun dare to come to my friend cos he only entertain the top people only.

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by hoian

Pros & cons. If she knows Eng/Chi, she won't need u around anymore.

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

aiyo...you dun understand KT and his beloved wifey...read his love story in this thread lah...let him show off lor...

Knowing eng/chi is for the long term good to stay in sillypore. Be it comunicating with family members or public.
Just sharing my experience now for knowing and communicating too much in vnese.

If worry bx run road then dont get a bx.

[ruiguan]

Hi there

I have a Vn gf for almost 2 yrs, and occasionally i will think of our kids' future, like how will they be like growing up in sg with a foreign mother.

has anyone come across any kids that can speak chinese, tieng viet and english?

I am just wondering if its possible or alot of effort have to put in to achieve this?

[ruiguan]

Where can i find KT story?

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

I also recieve the pm leh... you see no cheating, but I see that she is cheating

Did u help him to translate? I got the pm twice leh....

U can understand in depth .....

[damong777]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Yes if you help a person without any relationship then yes you did good deeds accumulate good karma...

Hungry Ghost Festival will be the next charity....no details on where we doing yet but similar to last year donate any amount up to individual unlike TET whereby we fixed all equal shares...

let me know know when and i would transfer over.

[damong777]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

If anyone want a viet wife, make sure she also learn chinese, english and singlish.

Any sequence of priority to learn which one first?

[damong777]

Originally Posted by ruiguan

Hi there

I have a Vn gf for almost 2 yrs, and occasionally i will think of our kids' future, like how will they be like growing up in sg with a foreign mother.

has anyone come across any kids that can speak chinese, tieng viet and english?

I am just wondering if its possible or alot of effort have to put in to achieve this?

I believe it is possible. however a lot of effort is needed. Do read what Bro Singviet written on teaching his kids and the effort needed. Technically onus would be on you to drive it as vb have different take on education.

[stillgottheblue]

Originally Posted by ruiguan

Hi there

I have a Vn gf for almost 2 yrs, and occasionally i will think of our kids' future, like how will they be like growing up in sg with a foreign mother.

has anyone come across any kids that can speak chinese, tieng viet and english?

I am just wondering if its possible or alot of effort have to put in to achieve this?

Forget about learning Vietnamese. English and Chinese will be the main language in the foreseeable future.

[milfmilf]

kept wondering how viet workers survive with their few million dongs pay
this article shed some light ... though is few years back


Vietnam:Regulation on minimum wage torments workers
VietNamNet Bridge, 13 February 2012 - A paradox has been existing that the salaries of workers in foreign invested enterprises (FIEs) are even lower than that of workers in state owned enterprises. It is because of the unreasonable regulation on the minimum wage.

Low salaries

In Hanoi, the communes of Kim Chung and Van Noi in Dong Anh district are well known as the place which gathers immigrant workers. People, who live here, are the workers of the FIEs in the Thang Long Industrial Zone.

The workers, when asked about their income, all said that though the basic wage has increased to two million dong a month, it is still not enough for them to make ends met.

Luong Thi Hong from Phu Tho province, who works for Panasonic, said she gets 4.3 million dong a month, which includes basic wage and allowances. Hong works in accordance with production shifts, each shift lasts from 6 am to 6 pm.

She has to spend one million dong on the room rent, and about 1.5 million dong for meals. She also spends money on healthcare, petrol for motorbike and other expenses.

“No money is left. The salary is just enough to cover my basic needs, while I cannot save money to send to my parents,” Hong complained. “I am getting old, while I am leading an unstable life. I do not know when I can get married.”

Ha Thi Thuong from Phu Tho province is a worker of Daiwa. Besides the basic salary of 2.5 million dong a month, she gets the allowance of 500,000 dong. The total income of 3 million dong, Thuong said, is just enough to “feed her mouth.”

“Despite the low salary, I still have to stay in Hanoi. I would not be able to find a job, if I return to my home village,” Thuong said. “Getting married and having a stable life seems to be just a dream.”

Both Hong and Thuong said that FIEs all pay their workers higher than the basic wage levels stipulated by the State.

“We feel worried sick every time when hearing about the plan to raise the basic wage. In fact, we do not get higher salaries, because the actual salaries we receive are higher than the levels set up by the State,” Hong explained.

“Meanwhile, when hearing about the salary increases, food suppliers immediately raise the sale prices, while the landlords raise the room rent,” she added.

The regulation that has become out of date

According to Pham Van Thanh from the Hanoi Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs MOLISA, the average salaries FIEs pay to workers are even lower than that paid by domestic enterprises. In 2011, domestic businesses paid 4.65 million dong on average, while FIEs paid 4.03 million dong only.

However, Thanh said that the salary levels reported by FIEs may be untrue, and that it is really difficult to check the actual salaries at FIEs. The stipulated minimum wage levels are too low, while most FIEs consider the minimum wage to define the salaries for workers.

Also according to Thanh, there are 117,000 operational businesses, including 97,000 domestic businesses. After the decision to raise the minimum wage to 2 million dong took effect in October 2011, the strikes occurred at two FIEs, because the owners of the enterprises raised the basic wages, but reduced allowances.

When asked why the average salary of FIEs is lower than that of domestic enterprises, Tong Thi Minh from MOLISA said there are too many FIEs which have reported losses. In 2011, up to 60 percent of FIEs reported loss.

A survey of the Vietnam Labor Confederation shows that 35.6 percent of workers said their income is not enough to cover basic needs, while 44.7 percent said they have to practice thrift to cover their needs.

[milfmilf]

looks like this is a bit more updated
S$500+ ... that seems a bit more realistic to survive in HCMC.


HCMC’s per capita income reaches over $5,100 as GDP growth edges up
tuoi tre news
Updated : 12/29/2014 16:40 GMT + 7

The per capita income of Ho Chi Minh City this year rises around 12.9 percent year on year to over $5,100, with gross domestic product (GDP) growth reaching 9.6 percent, up 3.22 percent over last year, according to a recent conference in HCMC.

Both the economic growth and budget revenue targets of HCMC have been achieved and exceeded, showing signs that the local economy is gradually stabilizing, said a senior official of HCMC People’s Committee at the conference held on Saturday last week to review the socioeconomic situation of the southern city.

Le Hoang Quan, Chairman of HCMC People’s Committee said the more important factors for economic growth in 2014 is that the quality of growth is more stable with increasing efficiencies in many fields.

"Earlier, we estimated GDP growth rate in 2014 to reach 9.5 percent, but the actual results we achieved exceed by 0.1 percent to 9.6 percent. Not only that, looking back over the GDP growth rate for each quarter and comparing to the same period in 2013, we see it showed gradual and stable growth," Quan said.

HCMC People’s Committee also identified that there was a shift in economic structures in the right direction in 2014, in which services accounted for 59.6 percent share of GDP, and industry and construction accounted for 39.4 percent.

Especially, per capita income has increased significantly. Per capita income in 2013 reached $4,545, but in 2014, that number increased to $5,131, up by 12.89 percent year on year.

Thai Van Re, director of the Department of Planning and Investment, said that given the recently obtained results, the per capita income has surpassed the target of $5,000 of per capita income set by the 9th HCMC Party Congress in 2010.

Report on the status of budget revenues, Ms. Dao Thi Huong Lan, director of the HCMC Department of Finance, said there is a good sign: the city's total revenue in 2014 reached VND249.87 trillion ($11.75 billion), exceeding VND23.56 trillion ($1.1 billion) over the plan set at the beginning of this year.

According to the HCMC People's Committee, though the economic recovery will be underway in 2015, there will be also potential problems and so, it proposed 14 groups of solutions to be conducted to promote continued stable economic growth next year.

Those solutions will focus on resources for implementing the restructuring the economy, especially to raise their efficiencies for state-owned enterprises.

Meanwhile, the solutions will help improve the investment and business climate, simplify administrative procedures, and enhance the application of information technology and administrative reform in order to create more favorable conditions for businesses.

[hoian]

If I have a kid with a VB, I would insist that my kid learn mother tongue ie VN... while learning English and Chinese in school.

Originally Posted by ruiguan

...has anyone come across any kids that can speak chinese, tieng viet and english?...