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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

now then you realised.....is not toooo late to knew...



Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

Like i always say...hua hee jiu hor...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

if you put this way then hua hee jiu hor...how you think is bor pian...



Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Lu hua hee bor...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

No need to be a proper registered biz or shops in order to be taxed, thats the wonders of the taxman, as long as you are living in that cuntry and earning an income thru whatever legal ways you are subject to taxes liao

Many of those non-registered online blogs selling many different kind of wares already kena from the Sinkie taxman number of years back liao, if you can remember many of them came out to voice their concerns & unhappiness but in the end also lan lan

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Simi sai in sinkie...they track your pang sai...

In vn still easi to hide...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Wah 5 litres bottle ah???? I buy the 1.5 litres already hiam it is too heavy liao.....

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Anyway carry once nia...heavy is small thing...

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

If you had changed S$1K you only lugi about S$12 nia nia so still not too bad.....

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

To me that alot diff...or almost 200k which can feed 2 families per day...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by smallplayer

too bad la.
I bo lui to change so much..1k

Nowadays common to change a few hundred million...haha...

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Vietnam to collect tax arrears from online hotel booking services

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 02/23/2017 15:09 GMT + 7

Foreign-based online accommodation booking services will be the next to be targeted by Vietnamese tax authorities in an effort to improve fair competition for local businesses.

At the end of 2016, Vntrip.vn – a Vietnamese online hotel booking site – publicly accused its rival Agoda.com of having avoided performing its tax duties in Vietnam despite having expanded its operations to the Southeast Asian country.

Agoda.com, a Singapore-based company, has run its Vietnamese version since 2010 and currently cooperates with over 9,200 local hotels and vacation rentals.

According to Le Dac Lam, CEO of Vntrip.vn, the Singaporean booking service pockets as much as 20 percent of the room prices paid by customers to its partner hotels, while not being taxed at all on the income.

The executive estimated that the total revenue of Vietnam’s hotel industry would be around US$21 billion in 2020, 50 percent of which will be coming from online hotel booking services, equivalent to $10.5 billion.

At the commission rate of 20 percent, such foreign-based booking sites as Booking.com or Agoda.com would be bagging billions of untaxed dollars that could have gone to Vietnam’s government budget, Lam said.

Responding to Vntrip’s denunciation, the Vietnamese Ministry of Finance last month issued a dispatch demanding that provincial and municipal tax bureaus impose tax policies on online accommodation booking services provided by foreign companies in Vietnam.

Sites such as Agoda, Traveloka, Booking and Expedia are subject to both value-added tax (VAT) of five percent and a corporate income duty of five percent based on their revenue, the dispatch reads.

The Vietnam-based partners of these companies are responsible for the declaration and payment of tax on their behalf, and the State Bank of Vietnam is to work closely with tax authorities in monitoring the revenue of the firms based on their customers’ transactions, according to the ministry.

In an interview with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, Nguyen Nam Binh, deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Tax Bureau, said foreign entities and individuals who do business in or receive income from Vietnam are subject to foreign contractor tax (FCT), which is basically comprised of VAT and corporate income tax, even if they are not legally represented in the country.

“The dispatch by the Ministry of Finance is just a clarification of this law rather than the introduction of a new one,” Binh explained.

He said Ho Chi Minh City would continue to carry out inspections on local hotels to check their tax compliance and collect tax arrears from all payments made by these hotels to foreign online booking sites.

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Now they say is explosives....who bring them on the bus...
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Sleeper bus blast in northern Vietnam caused by explosives: police

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 02/23/2017 12:00 GMT + 7



http://tuoitrenews.vn/society/39705/...losives-police

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Talk is cheap...haha...
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Ho Chi Minh City to better Singapore in medical services: health chief

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 02/22/2017 15:28 GMT + 7



Ho Chi Minh City has the potential to outdo Singapore in terms of medical services by as early as 2020 if medical facilities are adequately invested in, the municipal health director said Tuesday.

Speaking at a meeting with the city's leaders, Nguyen Tan Binh, director of the municipal health department, asserted that with sufficient investment and favorable policies, he can promise that the city residents "will no longer have to travel to Singapore or any other country for medical treatment."

According to Binh, with a population of over ten million, Ho Chi Minh City possesses an invaluable depth of medical talent who only require further training to become skilled doctors.

One of the key facilities that Binh looked forward to finishing to further realize his vision is a hi-tech medical complex which is under construction in Tan Kien Commune, Binh Chanh District.

The complex will be able to handle up to 2,600 resident patients, offering hi-tech medical procedures in different specializations including blood
transfusion and hematology, dento-maxillofacial science and dermatology.

In January, a massive children’s hospital, considered Vietnam’s most modern, went into partial operation in Binh Chanh, with its remaining wards scheduled to be inaugurated in the second quarter of this year.

The second campus of Ho Chi Minh City’s Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, which is also under construction in Binh Chanh, is expected to become the facility responsible for training highly skilled medical personnel.

“After 2020, there will be doctors trained to European standards [in the city],” Binh said. “We do not lack human resources; what we do lack is proper investment.”

Binh added that hospitals in the city needed more relaxed policies to allow the adaptation of the public-private partnership (PPP) cooperative arrangement, in which private investors can develop modern medical facilities for those who can afford the service.

“Our Hospital of Oncology won’t be inferior to Singapore’s, while our obstetric and pediatric hospitals have already surpassed theirs [in terms of facility and personnel],” Binh claimed.

Binh said Ho Chi Minh City would soon become the pride of Vietnamese medicine, with the ability to provide medical services on par with those offered in Europe and the U.S.

“And there should be no reason for our citizens to seek medical treatment elsewhere,” he concluded.

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Hoi An – Vietnam’s new food capital

UPDATED : 02/23/2017 08:50 GMT + 7

Along with the world’s famous markets in Japan and the UK, Hoi An Market in Hoi An Ancient Town, Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam, is known as a “food paradise” for both local and foreign tourists, according to Lonely Planet.

This vibrant town is also international chefs’ favorite destination, a place where they can easily find their own essence from a variety of flavors.

Recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1999, Hoi An is seen as a cuisine convergence for thousands of Vietnamese kinds of food.

In 2016, the first Hoi An International Food Festival (HAIFF) was held with the participation of 12 international chefs from World Association of Chefs.

They specially prepared their countries food at Hoi An's best restaurants by recreating their signature dishes with Vietnamese ingredients.

The festival attracted thousands of tourists from Vietnam and around the world.
This year, HAIFF 2017 will again transform this little town into a truly international culinary destination. The list of 12 cordon bleu chefs includes many influence ones such as chef Viktor Belyaev (Russia) who worked for a total of 30 years in the Kremlin, cooking for leaders and high-profile politicians from various countries, chef Gert Klötzke (Sweden), Committee member for the Nobel Prize Banquet and chef Dr. T Publis Silva (Sri Lanka), who entered the Guinness Book of records by cooking the largest and longest Kiribath and launched The Royal Meals of the Last King of Sri Lanka, the world's smallest cookbook.

Furthermore, at the opening ceremony of HAIFF on March 22, 2017, Mr. Thomas Andeas Gugler, festival founder and president of the World Association of Chefs Societies (WACS) officially awards certificate of honors to Hoi An as one of Vietnam food capitals. This event marks a significant milestone for Hoi An’s cuisine and tourism promotion to the world.

Taking place from March 22 to 26, 2017 at An Hoi Sculpture Garden, Hoi An International Food Festival 2017 welcomes all tourists, local residence and food lovers from all walks of life.

Facebook: Hoi An International Food Festival

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Up to 90% of Vietnamese to have Internet access: IT official

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 02/23/2017 10:10 GMT + 7

Vietnam is looking to raise its Internet accessibility from just over 50 percent to between 80 and 90 percent of the population, an IT official said Wednesday.

Nearly 50 million Vietnamese, most of whom are young people, currently have access to the Internet, accounting for 53 percent of the country’s population.

Seventy-eight percent of these people use the Internet on a daily basis, according to Nguyen Thanh Hai, director of the Information Security Department under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

At a seminar held on Wednesday in Hanoi on ‘Digital Citizens and Internet Safety,’ Hai said Vietnam’s Internet accessibility is already higher than the world’s average, with 46.64 percent of the world population currently being connected to the Internet.

Vietnam ranks 16th among Asian countries with the most Internet users, according to experts at the seminar.

The country is set to raise its number of Internet users to between 80 and 90 percent of the population in the upcoming years, comparable to the proportion observed in developed countries, Hai said.

“Improving Internet accessibility is the prerequisite of a remarkable growth rate in e-commerce and other socio-economic fields,” said Vu Hoang Lien, chairman of the Vietnam Internet Association.

Such a goal is being challenged by underdeveloped information technology infrastructure, a lack of human resources, information security, and Internet safety and security, Lien added.

Hai warned of existent and varied threats on the Internet that may have a negative impact on the digital environment of Vietnam, such as piracy, intellectual property infringement, and fabricated information.

In 2016, Vietnam saw a number of cyber attacks that demonstrated the vulnerability of its Internet security, Hai said, citing the hacking into announcement screen systems at major Vietnamese airports last July.

“The Ministry of Information and Communications will continue to develop and perfect the legal system and other codes regulating Internet activities,” Hai said. “Vietnam is ready to participate in the construction of legal systems on Internet safety and employ international resources in cyber rescue missions when necessar

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Originally Posted by snipeshot08

If you had changed S$1K you only lugi about S$12 nia nia so still not too bad.....

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

2 bowl pho already. Me cheapo ma.

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In downtown Saigon, officials mount ‘sidewalk reclamation’ campaign against state cars

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 02/23/2017 16:36 GMT + 7



Authorities in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City have proved that in their ‘sidewalk reclamation’ campaign, which has seen numerous car owners fined for parking their vehicles on the sidewalk, no one stands above the law.

The District 1 administration has sent forces to ensure district-wide sidewalks are not occupied by any construction, street food stall or wrongly-parked car since last week.

The crackdown on Wednesday found several ‘special’ violators – leaders of different regulatory bodies who gathered for a meeting with the municipal administration at the City Hall fronting the Nguyen Hue promenade, where parking is prohibited.

When the leaders were attending the meeting, their drivers would wait outside as usual, not knowing that they would be ‘visited’ by members of the ‘sidewalk reclamation’ team, led by District 1’s deputy chairman Doan Ngoc Hai.

At around 11:00 am, the team came to the Union Square building on Nguyen Hue, where some cars wearing blue license plates, indicating they are state-owned, were parked, with their drivers either sleeping inside or chatting with one another in the shady areas nearby.

All drivers were astonished to see officials coming to inform them of the wrong parking, before starting to make excuses, including one that they were waiting for leaders of city-level bodies.

One driver said he was waiting for the leader of the city's Steering Center of the Urban Flood Control Program, which however did not help him get away from a ticket.



Another chauffeur said he did not mean to park his car in the wrong place, but was told to do so by the guards in front of the City Hall, as the allowable parking space there had been full.

The driver was pleading with the District 1 officials for a break when his boss, deputy chairman of the District 9 administration, showed up.

The District 9 leader then talked to his District 1 counterpart asking not to be fined for that “first-time violation.”

However, Hai, the District 1 deputy chairman, insisted that the case be booked as per the law.



As observed by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporters, Hai and his team managed to book four cars carrying blue license plates for wrong parking in the 30-minute crackdown.

A traffic police officer from the inspection team revealed that the wrong-parking violation is subject to fines between VND600,000 (US$26) and VND800,000 ($35), regardless of the violators being public servants or citizens.

The inspectors also towed away one car that was parked in the wrong place, in the absence of its driver.

The team then came to Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street and booked nine cases of wrong parking, compared to six violators they caught the whole day before.
Deputy chairman Hai has publicly vowed to step down if this ‘sidewalk reclamation’ campaign fails.

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Originally Posted by smallplayer

too bad la.
I bo lui to change so much..1k

Thats becos you pay in USD mah............

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

anything interesting i just post lol...

Tell him you are not a "new reporter" but an "old news reporter"

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^