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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Orhhhh like that easy lah

I say first, good of course

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

hi hi so guai gaui boy...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Ermmm they have no PAP, no ban on chewing gums, no legal whorehouses.....& the list goes on.......

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

haha...legal dun hv...illegal plenty...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

You forgot the part where they always ask you to buy Coke or ciggie for them the moment u reached the room

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

hated girl smoke and also smoke in the room...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

You add-on a bit more to about total 450k to 500k, you can even do threesomes there

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

wow wow wee...but I dun prefer 3some leh...haha...

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13 killed in Hanoi karaoke bar fire

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 11/02/2016 09:46 GMT + 7

Thirteen deaths have been confirmed after a raging fire consumed four adjacent karaoke bars and restaurants in downtown Hanoi on Tuesday afternoon.

Here’s what we know so far.

Where and when it happened

The fire reportedly broke out at around 2:00 pm Tuesday afternoon in one of the karaoke bars on Tran Thai Tong Street in Hanoi’s Cau Giay District, quickly spread to the adjacent multi-storey buildings from number 68 to 74, according to witnesses.

The street is a popular entertainment precinct in Vietnam’s capital, with many buildings running karaoke bars, restaurants and stores, as were the four buildings consumed by Tuesday’s fire.

A thick column of smoke could be seen coming from the buildings, as employees and customers ran for their lives from the raging fire.

As fire reached the eighth floor, people trapped on the second and third floors tried to escape by jumping through the buildings’ windows.

“Explosions and screams for help from dozens still trapped by the fire could be heard. Locals were urging those on the second and third floor to jump for their lives, and those who did made it out alive,” an employee at one of the destroyed buildings said.

The fire was not controlled until 6 pm the same day, while rescue efforts continued into the night.

Continue read here http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/37810/...raoke-bar-fire

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Vietnam banker suspended for beating female petrol attendant

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 11/01/2016 15:02 GMT + 7



A banker in the north-central province of Nghe An has been suspended from work for 15 days after he was filmed beating a female pump attendant at a local gasoline station last week, his boss said on Monday.

During his suspension, Hoang Huu Duc, a credit man at the Nghe An branch of Vietnam’s Co-op Bank, will write a self-assessment report for his actions, branch director Dang Cong Linh said.

On October 24, Duc and three colleagues arrived at the Nghi Phu filling station in a four-seater car and asked for VND500,000 (US$22) worth of petrol.

After being served by the female attendant, N.T.Ng., the bankers left, but returned ten minutes later, according to a video filmed by the filling station’s surveillance camera.

Upon his return, Duc was seen shouting at Ng. and eventually used the pump to beat her in the head. The other three Co-op Bank employees remained in the car without interfering.

According to the video, Duc walked away after hitting the pump attendant, but came back when Ng. started bleeding from the head.

The banker then took her to a nearby clinic for a health check and treatment.

According to the police record of the case, Duc said he had returned to complain that Ng. had refilled his car less than the amount requested.

However, he later admitted that the fuel meter on his vehicle was out of order and that it was not the attendant’s fault.

The banker eventually apologized to Ng., who later went back to work and asked police not to take any further action against the banker.

According to the Nghe An Co-op Bank director, the three bankers who were with Duc at the time of the assault were also asked to write a self-assessment report for failing to either stop him from beating Ng. or report the incident to their bank superiors.

It was the second case in a week of a man beating a woman to be widely reported on in Vietnam’s media, following the high-profile incident in which two passengers attacked a female airport attendant in Hanoi on October 18.

One of the attackers was an inspector with the Hanoi transport department, and was eventually dismissed following the assault.

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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – November 2

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 11/02/2016 08:55 GMT + 7

Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, November 2

Politics

-- Vietnam’s lawmakers discussed Tuesday a five-year financial plan, orientations for the mobilization and use of capital as well as the management of public debt in 2016-2020, and the middle-term public investment plan for the next five years.

-- German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier attended the topping-out ceremony of the German House in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday, as part of his visit to Vietnam between October 30 and November 1.

Society

-- A raging fire engulfed a karaoke parlor in Hanoi on Tuesday afternoon and only began to die down in the evening, killing 13 people.

-- Customs in Ho Chi Minh City detected more than 700 kg of African elephant tusks hidden in wood blocks transported via the municipal Cat Lat port on Tuesday, the fourth detection in a month.

-- Four suspects of the fatal shooting of a motel receptionist in Hanoi on October 27 have been arrested for investigation, police said Tuesday.

-- The Zika virus is on a rampage in Ho Chi Minh City, with the number of locally-transmitted cases rising in the last four weeks, local healthy authorities have warned.

Business

-- The administration of the northern Vietnamese province of Lang Son has urged the Prime Minister to consider its proposal to open a new high-speed railway route, which will be connected to the nearby railway across the border with China.

-- The Duyen Hai 1 thermal power plant in the southern province of Tra Vinh has been found generating electricity over the last ten years even though it has yet to obtain a certificate for adequate environmental protection facilities.

Lifestyle

-- The 2016 edition of Indochine, a 1992 French film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, is scheduled to be on screen within the framework of the Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF, which kicked off on Tuesday night, as well as at Green Media cinemas.

Sports

-- The qualification for the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship of Group D, consisting of Vietnam, Iran and India, kicks off today in Hanoi. The winner will join those in the other three qualifying groups to qualify to the finals (eight teams in total).

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Vietnamese beauty stumbles during Q&A at Miss Earth pageant

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 10/31/2016 16:04 GMT + 7



Vietnam’s representative at the 2016 Miss Earth beauty pageant had a forgettable night on the weekend after the translation of her Q&A topic did not go according to plan.

Vietnamese beauty queen Nguyen Thi Le Nam Em, 20, advanced to the top eight of the beauty pageant during the competition’s coronation night on Saturday in Manila.

The Mekong Delta girl entered the interview round alongside representatives from Venezuela, Sweden, Russia, the U.S., Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador, where the contestants were asked to draw a topic presented in the form of a hashtag (#) as their interview question.

Nam Em took the stage with confidence, smiling brightly as she handed over her topic paper to the host, which contained the hashtag ‘#Empowered to make a change.’ The host read aloud the topic to the audience.

The hashtag is also the official slogan of the 2016 Miss Earth.

However, as the crowd awaited Nam Em’s answer, the beauty turned towards her Vietnamese interpreter who was sitting in the audience and signaled with her eyes that she needed help translating the topic.

The interpreter, seemingly dumbfounded by the surprise request, could not respond at first and had to ask for the topic to be repeated twice before coming up with a faltering translation.

Though Nam Em managed to pull off her answer to the question in Vietnamese, she did not make it to the final four of the competition. The crown was later handed to Ecuadorian contestant Katherine Espin.

In an interview with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper after the show’s conclusion, Nam Em said she was “sad and regretful” over the pageant’s outcome.

“The interpreter performed well in the mock session with the board of judges prior to the show, but he was nervous during the live performance so his translation of my answer was just plain wrong,” the Vietnamese beauty said.

When asked why she did not answer the question in English as the topic was not too complicated, Nam Em said she wanted to answer in Vietnamese so that the answer could be more in-depth and more people would hear the Vietnamese language.

“I could have answered in English, but I wanted my answer to be broader and more memorable to the audience, not just basic knowledge,” she claimed.

However, the Vietnamese public did not seem to buy her explanation, with many pointing out that it was due to the beauty’s incompetence in English that she needed help with the translation of the topic in the first place.

“Oh, please stop making excuses,” one Tuoi Tre reader commented. “Let’s face it. How can you communicate with international friends with [such] a lack of English proficiency?” another reader said.

While beauty pageants are criticized for their objectification of women and viewed more as an entertainment event, the Vietnamese media and public still hold them in high regard .

Vietnamese beauty queens are often praised for achieving highly in international beauty competitions and their performances are scrutinized by the local media, who view them as ambassadors, tasked with promoting their country’s image to international friends.

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Vietnam lags behind ASEAN peers in World Bank's Doing Business index

By VnExpress November 1, 2016 | 11:36 pm GMT+7

The country ranks below Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines.
According to the World Bank’s ease of doing business index, this year Vietnam ranks 82 out of 190 economies globally, up from 91 out of 189 countries last year.

The World Bank's annual Doing Business report tracks regulatory changes in 190 countries for businesses throughout their life cycle based on a set of 10 indicators, ranging from the ease of business start-up regulations to accessing services such as electricity.

Although Vietnam has climbed nine places this year, its remains below the average for ease of doing business among the ASEAN-4: Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines, the Saigon Times cited Nguyen Minh Thao, deputy head of the Business Environment and Competitiveness Department at the Central Institute for Economic Management, as saying.

She said Vietnam’s improvement was due to reforms across five of the 10 areas the bank uses to complete the index: protecting minority investors, obtaining access to electricity, paying taxes, cross-border trading and resolving insolvency.

The most significant improvement was made in protecting minority investors following government efforts to revise the 2014 Enterprise Law, Thao said.

Vietnam has simplified customs procedures to a degree, but while Singapore requires only four documents to import and export goods, Vietnam requires about 10. It takes 3-5 days to obtain regulatory approval to import and export in Singapore but 12-15 days in Vietnam. The cost of importing and exporting is $439-$456 per container in Singapore, but more than $600 in Vietnam.

Vietnam has improved more slowly than the only ASEAN-4 country ranked below it in the 2017 World Banks' report - the Philippines. Vietnam has gradually improved by 17 spots in the Doing Business report since 2012 when the country was ranked 99 out of 183 economies. In the meantime, the Philippines has gained 49 spots over the same period of time.

The World Bank pointed to starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting access to credit, registering property and enforcing contracts as areas where Vietnam needs to improve.

ASEAN countries ranked widely on the overall list from Singapore at 2 to Laos at 139. Thailand, Malaysia and Brunei were all ranked above Vietnam.

“I am concerned that Vietnam has failed to reach the ASEAN-4 average in most of the areas. Some member countries such as Indonesia and Brunei have undergone more reforms and changes than Vietnam,” said economist Minh Thao.

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Vietnam all set for long holidays in 2017

By VnExpress November 2, 2016 | 04:15 pm GMT+7

But it’s almost certain that a very long break for the Lunar New Year is out of the question.

Vietnamese will probably be denied a 10-day Lunar New Year break that they have been hoping for. But they can take consolation in the fact that there will be more long weekends than usual in 2017.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has issued a statement after reviewing proposals by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs last month regarding public holidays.

It agreed with the labor ministry’s suggestions to give the public three days off for the New Year holiday from December 31, 2016 to January 2, 2017; four days for Reunification Day and Labor Day from April 29 to May 2; and three days for Independence Day from September 2-4.

For the Hung Kings’ Festival, which commemorates the kings considered to be the founding fathers of Vietnam, the home affairs ministry favored the longer option of a four-day break that starts on Thursday, April 6 and will run through the weekend. Workers will have to make up for the Friday off on the Saturday of the week before or after. The other option was a single day on April 6, or the 10th day of the third lunar month.

But for the country’s most important holiday on the Lunar New Year, or Tet, the home affairs ministry went for a shorter option of seven days instead of the proposed 10.

The labor ministry proposed the 10-day option last month and a survey by VnExpress found that 81 percent of the 16,500 respondents favored a long break. The seven-day break may be too short for many, especially after the nine-day holidays the country has enjoyed for Tet over the past five years.

The Prime Minister has the final decision. If he agrees with the home affairs ministry, which will likely be the case, Vietnam will have a total of 21 holidays in 2017, compared to 22 this year.

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Chinese man caught stealing from luggage on flight to Ho Chi Minh City: media

November 2, 2016 | 04:42 pm GMT+7

Vietnam deported the man to Hong Kong on Wednesday.

A Chinese passenger was allegedly caught trying to steal from the luggage of another passenger on a flight to Ho Chi Minh City from Hong Kong on Tuesday, local media reported.

The 36-year-old man was on board flight VN595, which departed from Hong Kong and arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday.

The man is accused of taking another passenger's luggage from an overhead compartment and rummaging through it.

He was caught by flight attendants before he could steal anything. The flight crew then notified security forces at Tan Son Nhat.

He was arrested by police upon landing and deported to Hong Kong on Wednesday afternoon.

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Originally Posted by Hurricane88

wen u sad better dun cum near me...stay far away ok...

Haiz......now even H88 also siam me........huhuhu.........

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

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

never say never...

Oh yeah..............................retire there?????

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

haha...legal dun hv...illegal plenty...

Illegal PAP in Wetnam?????? all wear white but black underwear

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

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Haiz......now even H88 also siam me........huhuhu.........

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

U wan hug me sure ask you siam far...pass you sssyt to hug...