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[SING_IN_HCMC]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Have you got the latest version?
I am running on version 51.678.81

Mine is the Sgn version.

Your version is Sin version ba? Quite power huh. I will upgrade my Sin version also to J51.BL.M51. Just hope that it is stable and does not clash.

[SING_IN_HCMC]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Have you got the latest version?
I am running on version 51.678.81

Mine is the Sgn version.

Your version is Sin version ba? Quite power huh. I will install my Sin version also to J51.BL.M51. Harddisk space limited. Just hope that it is stable and does not clash.

[jackbl]

TRAVEL : Dalat flower “banquet”
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VietNamNet Bridge – On the morning of December 31, one day before the Dalat Flower Festival, Dalat was very busy with flower-related activities, such as flower arrangement competitions and street decorating.

Giant flower Buddha stands above Da Lat flower festival

Vice-Chair Tran Dinh Van stated that the flower fair will open on January 1, 2010. On the same day, a special show will take place in the evening to open the six-day flower festival.

Many other cultural and sports activities will be held on this occasion, such as “Dalat – The Venue of Love,” a dual cycling competition, a mountaineering contest to Lang Biang, a music gala and a closing ceremony entitled “Flower Road and Wine,” with around 5,500 liters of free wine on offer.

[zhu star]

Originally Posted by SING_IN_HCMC

Mine is the Sgn version.

Your version is Sin version ba? Quite power huh. I will install my Sin version also to J51.BL.M51. Harddisk space limited. Just hope that it is stable and does not clash.

Can I have a copy also?

[SING_IN_HCMC]

Originally Posted by zhu star

Can I have a copy also?

sure, we can install together J51.BL.M51

[jackbl]

I also hope to install this new version, this year, maybe i need your advice on installation portion . I hv your contact liao. Once of these day, i will jio u out

Originally Posted by SING_IN_HCMC

sure, we can install together J51.BL.M51

[jackbl]

Please help to protect their environment by not eating extinct species

Wild water birds dined and poached
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VietNamNet Bridge - A large number of adult and young wild birds in the Mekong Delta’s Bac Lieu Province are ending up on dinner tables and uncontrolled poaching is pushing several rare species to extinction, experts warn.

“The owners of groves that are bird habitats are catching young birds to sell for food during the breeding season while others trap adults all year round,” said park ranger Mai Thanh Truong.

Tran Quoc Hung, vice head of the Phuoc Long District Agriculture and Rural Development Division, said an average of 400 wild birds are openly sold every day in the district.

Bac Lieu has seven large groves that are home to wild birds, the leading number of such habitats in the Mekong Delta. These groves attract a variety of tropical water birds including egrets, storks, cormorants and other species.

Although it is illegal to hunt and trade in protected bird species in Vietnam, many bird grove owners have long depended on selling the birds to earn a living, which has made it difficult for local agencies to enforce the ban.

Nguyen Van Thiet, owner of a grove in Phuoc Long District, admitted he has been selling around 200 wild birds a day to restaurants and traders recently, including young birds he caught from nests in his grove.

A young bird fetched between VND10,000 (US$0.54) and VND22,000 ($1.2) depending on the species, he added.

Thiet said his family’s main source of income was selling birds from his six-hectare grove, at around VND100 million ($5,400) a year, and that he has seen no ban enforced by local authorities.

Phan Duy Tuyen, director of the Bac Lieu Department of Science and Technology, said the department has prepared a plan to survey and protect birds in the province.

However, there has been no plan so far to invest in private groves that are bird habitats and to create other income-generating opportunities for their owners in a bid to end their illegal poaching, Tuyen admitted.

VietNamNet/Thanh Nien

[SING_IN_HCMC]

Originally Posted by jackbl

I also hope to install this new version, this year, maybe i need your advice on installation portion . I hv your contact liao. Once of these day, i will jio u out

Installation very easy one...my status:

J51 - installed liao. Got some "free wares" but recently kena "KoCoTien" virus and J51 had requested for anti-virus subscription. I am not keen though. Currently down on maintenance mode and back to factory. Shd be up in mid Jan.

BL - installed liao. Am taking this copy with me to Sgn then Hanoi in late Jan. Hope no probl with custom cos it is a pirated copy. Original copy in Sgn.

M51 - still doing on-site acceptance trial. A few versions, pending final evaluation.

If you are ok, let me know.

[jackbl]

Highest Tet bonus in Hanoi? $18,700
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VietNamNet Bridge – According to over 100 companies’ salary and bonus reports for Tet to the Hanoi Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs, the highest bonus is 337 million dong ($18,700) and the lowest is just 100,000 dong ($5.5)/person.


The highest Tet bonus is given by a foreign-invested company. The highest salary paid in the foreign-owned sector is 140 million dong/month and the lowest is 1.1 million dong/month.

On average, Tet bonuses in the foreign-invested sector are 3.36 million dong/person, up 6 percent over 2008. At state-owned enterprises, the highest Tet bonus is 25 million dong and the lowest 1.1 million dong, or 1.86 million on average.

The average income of workers at state-owned enterprises in 2009 is 2.8 million dong per month, up 11.3 percent over 2008. The income gap between state-owned enterprises is not large, with the highest salary around 3.7 times the lowest.

The state-owned enterprises that pay the highest average salary are service firms, with 6 million dong/worker/month, while textile and paper companies pay the lowest salaries, 1.6 million dong/month on average.

For businesses operating under the Enterprise Law, the highest Tet bonus is 50 million dong and the lowest is 200,000 dong, averaging 1.825 million dong/person.

Hanoi has more than 40,000 companies of all kinds, but just over 100 of them sent salary and bonus reports to their local Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs. The Department requested that enterprises send the report several times, but the small rate of compliance has led to limited information on Hanoians’ incomes.

Vu Diep

[jackbl]

Four jailed for sale of young ’brides’
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VietNamNet Bridge – The People's Court in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh yesterday, December 30, sentenced four people to imprisonments ranging from two to 12 years for trafficking more than 400 young women to Malaysia, South Korea, and Taiwan to be sold as brides.

Nguyen Thi Ngoc Yen, 53, and Nguyen The Phong, 31, the main go betweens, got 12 and seven years respectively.

Nguyen Thi Khuan, 61, got four years and Pham Thi Phi, two years.

The People's Court also ordered them to pay compensation to the victims.

Five others, including Chin Bang, Nam Dung, Tu Tron, are still under investigation.

From mid-2007 to November 2008, Yen and Phong sold more than 400 young women from Tay Ninh and other Mekong Delta provinces.

In 2006, Yen rented a house in HCM City to select good-looking young women as "mail-order" brides for South Korean and Taiwanese men. A year later, she colluded with a woman whose husband was a Malaysian called Mm Ly. Soon she and Min Ly began to traffic women, with the latter paying her US$1,000 for each girl. Yen was reportedly supplied girls by others like Nguyen Thi Khuan, Tu Tron, Chin Bang, Nam Dung whom she paid VNI2 million for each victim. Yen helped the victims learn foreign languages before they were sent to a foreign country.

At the trial, Yen, Khuan, and Phi pleaded guilty but Phong denied trafficking women, saying all he did was "helping", for the women and demanded proof of his guilt.



VietNamNet/Viet Nam News

[jackbl]

Smoking ban and capital crimes among new 2010 regulations in Vietnam
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VietNamNet Bridge – A smoking ban on public sites and the abolition of the death penalty for eight crimes are among new regulations that will take effect as of January 1, 2010.

Other legislation includes raising the minimum salary, collecting personal income tax from securities traders and issuing new health insurance cards.

According to the amended penal code, eight crimes will no longer be potential capital crimes - rape, swindling to appropriate assets of others, counterfeiting cash, false bonds, using drugs, hijacking aircrafts and ships, bribery and damaging weapons and military equipment.

In the health sector, many changes will be brought in from January 1, 2010. Current health insurance cards will be replaced by new design ones. During the time taken to change the cards, patients can still use the old ones.

Smoking at public sites will be banned as of the same day. However, many are already saying this ban is unfeasible because there are not enough staff available to supervise public site. According to new regulations, smokers at public sites will have to pay a fine of between 50,000 and100,000 dong.

The increase in minimum salary in the New Year is good news for workers. The new minimum salary will be divided into four regions. The region 1 (local enterprises) will receive 980,000 dong per month, region 2 880,000 per month, region 3 810,000 per month and region 3 730,000 dong per month. Thus, workers will earn an additional increase of between 80,000 and 180,000 dong per month.

As of January 1, 2010, securities investors will have to pay personal income tax at the rate of 0.1 percent of the total value of transaction.


VietNamNet/Tien Phong

[jackbl]

HCM City in the top ten expensive Asian cities
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VietNamNet Bridge – According to the Forbes, HCM City ranks the tenth among Asian cities for expensiveness, based on the house leasing prices and the real estate market.

According to Forbes, HCM City people have to pay $1800 to hire an apartment with two luxurious bedrooms for a month. Meanwhile, the per capita income of the local residents is $2800/year.

The real estate market in HCM City, the biggest city and an economic centre in Vietnam, is quite stable in the economic crisis. In the third quarter of 2009, over ten new housing projects were kicked off. The demand for housing is still growing, despite economic slowdown.

In the global financial crisis, the estate prices continue escalating in Asia. The pay for hiring houses and offices in the biggest cities in this continent doesn’t reduce or highly rises compared to per capita income. It is even more expensive to buy house than the pre-crisis period. This October, an apartment in Hong Kong was sold for $56 milion.

Japan’s Tokyo is still the most expensive city. The average price for hiring a luxurious apartment with two bedrooms is $4737. The four cities in the top five are Hong Kong, Beijing, Mumbai and Shanghai.

To make this list, Forbes used data of the Mercer, which has researched of the growth in Asia compared to the rest of the world in the last two decades.



VietNamNet/Forbes/VNE

[zhu star]

Originally Posted by SING_IN_HCMC

sure, we can install together J51.BL.M51

Aiya, just name your location and time lah. Btw how come you no come join us for countdown. You doing your own private countdown?

[zhu star]

Originally Posted by jackbl

I also hope to install this new version, this year, maybe i need your advice on installation portion . I hv your contact liao. Once of these day, i will jio u out

Don't forget to count me in when you jio SInging HCMC. We can always go look at ah Hwa together

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by SING_IN_HCMC

If you are ok, let me know.

Originally Posted by zhu star

Don't forget to count me in when you jio SInging HCMC. We can always go look at ah Hwa together

Sir ZhuStar, ur contact is xxxx5998 right?

The pub that i go to JC often is Bunker, would u guys mind? I go there to find "teachers" to teach me vietnamese language.