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Learn Vietnamese with Video - Have Your Vietnamese Skills Been Declared a Natural Disaster?!

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Learn Vietnamese with Video - Did You Know Learning Vietnamese is Considered a Sport...Sometimes?

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did anyone here went to watch the performance at MBS?

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Originally Posted by jackbl

Local music, paintings to be showcased in Singapore
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A music show featuring Vietnamese singers Bang Kieu, Hong Nhung, Le Hieu and Phuong Vy will take place at the famous Marina Bay Sands resort in Singapore on January 11.

Originally Posted by volcano

did anyone here went to watch the performance at MBS?

Do you meant this??? Not for me

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Five famous places on Vietnam’s banknotes
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VietNamNet Bridge – Have you ever noticed the back of the Vietnamese banknotes and learned about the special places printed on them?


Hoi An Bridge Pagoda on the VND20,000 banknote

Hoi An - the World Cultural Heritage - with the iconic image of Pagoda Bridge has been known worldwide. The time of construction of the ancient bridge in Hoi An has not been clearly defined. In old documents of Vietnam, the name of the bridge was Nhat Ban Kieu or Japanese Bridge and that name was founding 1617, meaning that the bridge might be built before that year.

According to legend, in the ocean there was a sea monster called Mamazu by the Japanese. Its head was in Japan, in body was in India and its tail stretched through Hoi An. Every time the monster wriggled its body, earthquake occurred in Japan and Hoi An was not peaceful.

To control the Mamazu, Japanese people worshiped Monkey and the Dog deities on the two heads of the bridge. The Chinese also built a small temple adjacent to the bridge to worship Bac De Chan Vo for the purpose of controlling earthquakes.

The bridge is considered as a sword stabbing into the monster’s back, to hinder it from wriggling its tail to cause earthquakes. In 1653, a pagoda was built on the bridge and since then it has been called Chua Cau or Bridge Pagoda.


Nghenh Luong Dinh, Phu Van Lau on the VND50,000 banknotes

Located on the bank of the Perfume River in Hue City, Nghinh Luong Dinh (Nghinh Luong Pavillion) is a place where the kings of the Nguyen Dynasty took the air and enjoyed the view of the river.

Not far away, Phu Van Lau was built in 1819 under the reign of King Gia Long. It was used as a place for listing the important edicts of the king and the court or the results of the examinations held by the court.

Phu Van Lau is a two-story house, facing south. Under the reign of King Minh Mang, two stone steles carving four words "khuynh cai ha ma”, meaning that anyone who passes this house must take off his hat and get off the horse. King Thieu Tri considered Phu Van Lau and the Perfume River as one of the 20 scenic places in Hue.


Khue Van Cac on the VND100,000 banknotes

As the representative image for the entire Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam, Khue Van Cac (Constellation of Literature Pavilion) was built in 1805. It is built on four white-washed stone stilts. At the top is a red-colored pavilion with two circular windows and an elaborate roof. Inside, a bronze bell hangs from the ceiling to be rung on auspicious occasions.

Van Mieu-Quoc Tu Giam or The Temple of Literature is a temple of Confucius in Hanoi. The temple hosts the "Imperial Academy," Vietnam's first national university. The temple was built in 1070 at the time of King Ly Nhan Tong. It is one of several temples in Vietnam which are dedicated to Confucius, sages and scholars. It is one of 23 special national monuments.


Ha Long Bay on the VND200,000 banknotes

Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh province has been repeatedly recognized by the UNESCO as a natural heritage of the world with thousands of islands made up by the creation. Ha Long Bay has magnificent landscapes and it is a very attractive tourist destination of Vietnam.

Ha Long Bay is a unique heritage because this area contains important traces in the formation and development of the Earth's history. It is also the cradle of the ancient Vietnamese people.

The Bay is also the great artwork of the nature, with thousands of islands and many caves, making a vivid and mysterious world.

Ha Long Bay is also home to thousands of animal and plant species. It is also associated with the country’s cultural-historical values.


The cottage of President Ho Chi Minh’s family in Sen Village on the VND500,000 banknotes

Anyone recognizes the simple house of President Ho Chi Minh’s childhood on the VND500,000 banknotes.

The cottage is located in Sen village of Kim Lien commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An province, about 15km from Vinh City.

The entire monument consists of four main groups: President Ho Chi Minh’s mother’s village (Hoang Tru village), his father’s village (Sen village), Chung Mount (Kim Lien) and his mother’s tomb - Mrs. Hoang Thi Loan in Nam Giang commune.

Pha Le

[Seletar]

Originally Posted by volcano

did anyone here went to watch the performance at MBS?

I rather spend my time in jc/gl

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Originally Posted by Seletar

I rather spend my time in jc/gl

To self perform?

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Originally Posted by jackbl

To self perform?

see pole dancing

[volcano]

Originally Posted by Seletar

I rather spend my time in jc/gl

i will go if i am in Sinkie...

ever watch Vietnamese musical concert twice in Sinkie...one in Esplanade and the other at NUS..

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Originally Posted by volcano

ever watch Vietnamese musical concert twice in Sinkie...one in Esplanade and the other at NUS..

U so supportive of Vietnamese culture Even in sgp u also go to their concert .....

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Learn Vietnamese with Video - It's Not Whether You Win or Lose, it's How Your Vietnamese Helped!

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Originally Posted by jackbl

U so supportive of Vietnamese culture Even in sgp u also go to their concert .....

i ever go all the way to Los Angeles to watch Paris By Night...

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Originally Posted by volcano

i ever go all the way to Los Angeles to watch Paris By Night...

You're the No.1 fan of the Vietnamese

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How much do teachers get for Tet bonuses?
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VietNamNet Bridge – State owned school teachers may feel affected with the modest Tet bonuses of several hundreds of thousands of dong, while their colleagues at international schools can get up to thousands of dollars.

The highest Tet bonus in Hanoi, VND2.4 million, is expected to be given to the teachers of a secondary school in Thanh Xuan district.

Meanwhile, Le Thi Oanh, Headmaster of the Hanoi – Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, the most reputable school in Hanoi, said every teacher of the school would receive VND500,000 and a bunch of flowers.

Oanh said unlike private schools, state owned schools, which follow the bookkeeping mechanism set by the Ministry of Finance, do not have the funds to reward teachers. The school’s teachers do not expect too much on Tet bonuses, because they know the bonuses would be no more than VND300,000-500,000.

Nguyen Thi Thanh from the Bich Hoa Secondary School in Thanh Oai district confirmed that she would get VND500,000 like in the previous years. Those, who got excellent achievements in 2013, would get an additional sum of VND50,000 or VND100,000.

Thanh went on to say that the teachers of the schools dare not expect any gifts from the students’ parents like the other “schools of the rich”. Bich Hoa is located in a suburb area, where the intellectual standards of people remain low and the economic conditions are very poor. The local people live from hand to mouth, let alone the saving money for buying gifts for teachers.

Nguyen Thi Thuy from the Ta Thanh Oai Primary School in Thanh Tri district said she expects VND500,000 and a small gift.

“You should not expect more,” Thuy said, adding that she receives the same thing over the last 10 years since she began working there.

However, Thuy said she feels happy about it, because she is luckier than many other colleagues in rural and remote areas.

However, Thuy said teachers all still feel sad when comparing with the workers in other sectors. Like other civil servants and workers in enterprises, teachers have been devoting themselves to the social development.

Teaching has been praised as the noble career because it prepares the next generations for the country. However, the modest income proves to be undeserved to the noble career.

State owned schools’ teachers may feel jealous of their colleagues at private and international schools, who have much higher bonuses.

Huynh Lan Anh from North America School said the lowest bonus level would be VND5 million, while the highest would be tens of millions of dong. Teachers would get as they devoted in 2013.

A teacher from ACG Vietnam International School in district 2 revealed that she receives bonuses for both New Year and Lunar New Year (Tet) every year, which is a “relatively big sum of money.”

At Asia International School, the highest bonus level one can expect is VND12 million.

Some state owned schools in HCM City have promised “satisfactory” Tet bonuses for their staff. The money would be extracted from the schools’ saving funds, the bonuses and the donations from agencies and businessmen.

Compiled by C. V