Vietnam - HCM

[residentmanager]

Hi all,

sorry but need to side track a bit..........

anyone knows how much is the average rental of a "local standard" house in D1?

one of my concubine wants to stay around there and according to her, the rental is about 2 million dong.....expensive or not?

[SingViet]

Originally Posted by residentmanager

Hi all,

sorry but need to side track a bit..........

anyone knows how much is the average rental of a "local standard" house in D1?

one of my concubine wants to stay around there and according to her, the rental is about 2 million dong.....expensive or not?

I think 2 million VND can only get her a `local standard' room in District 1. At the same time, it depends a lot on which part of district 1 she is going to stay at. Why she needs to stay at D1? Can always stay at other districts and travel to district 1 for work or play.

[SingViet]

This thread seems to be very quiet during the weekend. All off to Vung Tau to have fun? (Bro Euphoria knows Vung tau very well now) heheheh Bro Euphoria, got try the Vung Tau massage or not?

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from Bangkok Post dated Sunday 18 December 2005 :-

VIETNAM FLOOD TOLL RISES TO 43
Hanoi (dpa) - At least 43 people in central Vietnam have been killed in a week of floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains, provincial officials said Sunday.

Five other people are reported as missing and officials said they expected the toll to rise even as the floodwaters subsided over the weekend.

"The water level at local rivers has been falling since late Friday, but the reported number of people killed by floods is increasing," said Nguyen Quang Dung from the flood and storm control department of Khanh Hoa province.

This is because the authorities of local districts are slow or they are facing difficulties in counting deaths," Dung said. Khanh Hoa, 1,000 kilometres south of Hanoi, has been hardest hit with 22 people dead.

At least two new deaths in nearby Binh Dinh province, came from several cases of small children falling into water, according to Phan Thanh Tuan of the provincial flood and storm control department.

A week of heavy rain and flooding has caused some 9.2 million dollars in damages from homes lost to landslides and destroyed crops, national authorities say.

More than 5,000 homes have been flooded and 550 houses completely destroyed by the floodwaters, according to the report released Saturday by the Central Committee for Floods and Storms.

The storms also destroyed thousands of hectares of rice paddy and cash crops

[SingViet]

Bro KatoeyLover69,

So what are u trying to tell samsters? Don't come to Vietnam? In actual fact, those provinces hit are in CENTRAL VIETNAM and Ho Chi Minh City is in SOUTHERN VIETNAM. These two parts of Vietnam are far away from each other. This is just like Chiang Mai and BKK. So these floods do not affect Ho Chi Minh City.

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by SingViet

So what are u trying to tell samsters?

Aiyah, he just giving some info on the flood.... stay cool. HCMC dun think it will flood so easily, cos it is 1 of the city that generate millons of dollars.

[KatoeyLover69]

[ Quote = SingViet] Bro KatoeyLover69,

So what are u trying to tell samsters? Don't come to Vietnam? In actual fact, those provinces hit are in CENTRAL VIETNAM and Ho Chi Minh City is in SOUTHERN VIETNAM. These two parts of Vietnam are far away from each other. This is just like Chiang Mai and BKK. So these floods do not affect Ho Chi Minh City. [Quote]

Originally Posted by naemlo

Aiyah, he just giving some info on the flood.... stay cool. HCMC dun think it will flood so easily, cos it is 1 of the city that generate millons of dollars.

Bro SingViet,

Like what Bro Naemlo said, I am just giving some info on the floods in Vietnam - doesn't matter where it is but it is still in Vietnam

[SingViet]

Bro,

Thank You for the info. I think i should also start looking for some info to give to samsters on BKK

[naemlo]

Originally Posted by SingViet

Bro,

Thank You for the info. I think i should also start looking for some info to give to samsters on BKK

Dun worry abt BKK, it is fine. Same as HCMC making millions n millions of dollars. The flood only occurs in the south, maybe too much conflicts there, so some floods to stop all those silly shits.....

[KatoeyLover69]

Report from Bangkok Post on Monday 19 December 2005 :-

SHIPWRECKED PAIR SURVIVE 11 DAYS IN RAFT WITHOUT WATER

Hanoi - An Australian captain and his New Zealander first mate survived 11 terrifying days in a storm-battered life raft with no food or water before being picked up by Vietnamese fishermen, the sailors related today.

Mark Wesley Smith and Steven John Freeman clung desperately to their life raft as storms flipped it over and over for days on end.

They ate nothing for 11 days, licked rainwater off the raft and later were forced to drink their own urine after a wave swept away their carefully prepared emergency supplies within minutes of their yacht sinking.

"We were left with just a paddle and a sponge," said Smith, 49, of Hobart, Tazmania. "We battled for our lives with almost nothing. It was just sheer willpower that kept us alive."

"It's unreal. It's unbelievable," said Freeman, 30, of Nelson, New Zealand. "The Vietnamese have been so fantastic - they dragged us out of the water and everyone has been unbelievably wonderful to us."

Smith and Freeman spoke by telephone from Ly Son Island, off the central Vietnamese coast, where they are being treated after fishermen pulled them out of the water Saturday about five kilometers offshore.

The captain and his mate set off from Hong Kong on December 5 to deliver a 65-foot motor yacht to Australia for the owner. But within a day, one of the yacht's engines failed and the seas started to get rough.

Smith said he had turned the yacht around about 200 kilometers off of Hong Kong to try to make it back to port, but a "monster wave" crashed over the bow and bashed a hole in the hull.

"We sank in 60 seconds and the very next wave flipped the life raft just as we were zipping in," Smith said. "It was unbelievable bad luck. All our flares, radio, water and food - just gone."

The torrential rains of the storm allowed the men to at least drink fresh water - though they had to lick it off the sides of the raft because they had no container to catch it in. But after three days, the rains stopped, leaving only winds that Smith said never dropped below 35 knots.

"Every day, the raft was flipped and flipped again," Smith said. "We did all the horrible stuff like drink our own stuff. But the nights were the worst."

Both men's greatest fear, Smith said, was that the other would be swept away, leaving one man alone to face the sea. "It definitely helped to be with someone. We said if one of us went, that would be the worst thing."

Just before dawn on their 11th day at sea, the two saw the lights of Ly Son Island and tried to paddle towards it. But their raft was battered by the shallow reef that surrounds the island.

Vietnamese fishermen coming out to see for the first day after a week of storms spotted the life raft in trouble and rescued them.

Smith and Freeman are recovering in the small hospital on Ly Son Island, 25 kilometers offshore from Vietnam's central Quang Ngai province, 900 kilometers south of Hanoi.

The same late-season tropical storms that tormented the pair - and have killed more than 40 people in floods in central Vietnam - have made it impossible so far to take the survivors to the mainland, according to Mai Huu Hao, deputy directory of the island's hospital.

"They are being taken care of and are in good health except for some scratches," Hao said Monday by telephone.

Smith and Freeman say they're happy to wait, and happy just to be alive. They asked a reporter to contact their families to tell them they hope to be home by Christmas.

The first thing he wants to do in Australia "has a lot to do with food," Smith said. "A chocolate milkshake will do, just for starters."

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[CPTMiller]

Southern vietnam is not affected by the flood.

[CPTMiller]

Why post so many news?
Currently I am in Da Nang and it is a wet season

Originally Posted by KatoeyLover69

Report from Bangkok Post on Monday 19 December 2005 :-


Vietnamese fishermen coming out to see for the first day after a week of storms spotted the life raft in trouble and rescued them.
said. "A chocolate milkshake will do, just for starters."

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