Understanding Vietnamese Life Partner

[SureScore]

Originally Posted by A+++

hahaha!! this is so true!! both my fren & I noticed that within 6 hrs when we 1st stepped foot in hcmc few yrs back

really?? damn mine was waxed clean!!

Good that you bother to read the past posts and forums. Keep it up.

[jackbl]

It may be 1 reason why ur bx/gf say family member sick, need more $$$ for treatment

Weak pharmacy, unreasonable bidding procedures cause skyrocketing medication prices
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Skyrocketing prices of drugs caused public concerns and drove poor patients to the depths of despair. Dang Nhu Loi, Deputy Head of the Vietnam National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs, pointed out the problem lies behind the weaknesses of the drug sector and unreasonable bidding procedures in a talk with Sai Gon Giai Phong.

Currently, domestically-made medications only satisfied half of the demand but even if, Vietnam has imported 90 percent of materials from foreign countries. Therefore, the country has been much dependent on oversea markets.

In addition, the importers were given a green light to decide prices which based on imported material. However, the problem is that drug prices would be higher that they are really if importers colluded with each other to raise prices meanwhile no relevant agencies has worked out effective measures to prevent it.

Furthermore, some patients complained medications in hospital pharmacies are sold higher than these outside. Just because bidding procedures are irrational. Social insurance which pays over VND4 trillion on medicines should have been present at bidding awarding meeting.

The Vietnam National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs has proposed the Ministry of Health to hold a pilot massive bidding in big cities like in Hanoi and Ho Ch Minh City; afterwards, hospitals in the country could base on the pilot bidding to decide the prices.


By Anh Thu - Translated by Ngoc Anh

[SingViet]

Due to the recent large depreciation of the vietnamese dong, imported products or any product consisting of imported ingredients saw a great increase in price. Normal Vietnamese will find it difficult to buy imported goods of any kind. Importers of foreign goods also find themselves facing problems of rising prices and falling sales. But if you sending a fixed amount of sing dollars to yr spouse's family each month, the amount received by them will be bigger, spelling good news .

[SureScore]

Originally Posted by SingViet

DBut if you sending a fixed amount of sing dollars to yr spouse's family each month, the amount received by them will be bigger, spelling good news .

Certainly good news for the family. Hope this will continue.

[jackbl]

In a word: Girls – be careful!
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VietNamNet Bridge – We’ve translated and summarized a series of stories from the local media about the business of brokering marriages betwen Vietnamese women and Korean men. The stories have triggered hundreds of letters to VietNam Express from its readers. Here are typical reader’s comments.


As a Vietnamese man, I always protest Vietnamese girls marrying foreign men. The fundamental solution is creating jobs for rural women so they can have stable sources of income and can live in their homeland. If that’s not done, this situation will persist forever, even though the law forbids it. I hope the state can solve the fundamental problem. (Duong Phan)


Who will Vietnamese men marry? Korean women don’t want to marry unsuccessful men so Korean men go to Vietnam to seek wives. Where will Vietnamese men go to seek wives? (Thu Nam)


Government agencies must intervene. It’s so sad to read stories about Vietnamese girls who are maltreated or even killed by their Korean boyfriends in Vietnam. Please be watchful, you Vietnamese girls who dream of marrying foreign men! In my view, Government agencies must do more to educate girls and deter such marriages, to minimize unfortunate consequences. (Quang Tuan)


Learn from Cambodia. Our male-female balance is at an alarming level already. Vietnam should learn from Cambodia and adjust the laws on marriage with foreign men. Further, these Korean grooms don’t have good jobs. They belong to low social classes in their country and local women don’t want to marry them. But they can immediately have young, pretty and obedient, especially… cheap wives when they go to Vietnam. Does anyone feel this pain? (Nguyen Trung Nam)


Vietnamese people in the eyes of foreigners. As an overseas student, I felt great anguish when a Taiwanese asked me “How is it that we can buy Vietnamese girls at such cheap prices?” Good Taiwanese friends told me that if I know any girl who wants to marry a Taiwanese men, I should tell them to not do it because 99 percent of Taiwanese grooms are rural or disabled men. (Nguyen Tuan Anh)


Gambling their lives. The young women don’t understand about overseas life. All of them imagine that foreign countries are heaven, places where they can have a new life. That is the mistake that any naive girl can make.

It is very difficult to integrate into the life of foreign countries because of cultural and lifestyle differences. It is also lonely. Everyone has to work to maintain their lives. In a developed country, they have to work very hard.

Girls, don’t believe your lives will become happy if you get married to a foreign man. Those who gamble with their lives and are unlucky must pay a very high price. It’s better to respect your values and strive to make a happy life in your homeland. (Ta Duc Thong)


Create a good environment for Vietnamese women. I don’t understand why we ask the state to copy Cambodia’s policy. It is a human right to marry anyone one likes, if they have civil capacity. Why should we prohibit Vietnamese people from marrying the people of this or that country. Suppose such people are in love? Cambodia only bans temporary marriages with foreigners and I think they are seeking an optimal method.

I think that nobody wants to marry someone they don’t love, who is much older than them, and with whom there are language and cultural barriers. You Vietnamese men need to take a good look at yourselves and they way you treat women.

Our society needs to create jobs and better conditions for women to become more socially aware. If foreign men want to marry Vietnamese women, we should not ban them but help our women to learn more about foreign men so they can make good decisions. (Andy)


Why bar people from making choices? Why should the State prohibit Vietnamese men or women from marrying foreigners? They have the right to choose. We should organize clubs, for example a club for Korean grooms in Vietnam and a club for Vietnamese brides in South Korea.

These clubs can provide information for people to learn about each other, the culture, customs and habits of both countries. They will also protect the interest of Vietnamese brides in South Korea.

Please don’t think that if you can’t control something you ought to ban it! If our newspapers only report about Korean-Vietnamese marriages turning out badly, it will hurt Vietnamese brides, their Korean husbands and especially their children when they visit their mother’s homeland.

Girls can take care of their lives. If they are happy, they will stay abroad, otherwise they will return home. Some may unluckily marrry brutal men but that ratio is not high, otherwise they would not go to Korea. It is better to live far from home if you can have a better life and send some money home to the parents than to live in Vietnam with a despotic husband who forbids a wife to help her parents. (Fiat1.6)


Education and jobs are the key. Do you see any girl who has graduated from a university or has a stable job lining up at the marriage brokers to get a Korean or Taiwanese husband? If one has no job, one dreams of changing one’s life. And why would any woman prefer a Vietnamese husband if he’s a drunken oaf, a wife-beater and one who disdains her parents? If that were my only choice here, probably I’d think of marrying a foreigner myself. (Le Annie)


Korean grooms are really very poor. I’m working in South Korea so I know about real life there. My advice is not to marry a Korean man because they are really poor. Their income is no more than the income of workers like me and they are all from rural areas. Often they leave their foreign wives at home with their parents while they work in industrial zones, and only come back home one every few months. Elderly Koreans are often very demanding, so many Vietnamese brides are treated badly.

Moreover, many men only marry you to have children. If you can’t bear a child, you may be divorced and sent home. Sometimes after giving birth to a child, you’ll be sent home anyway. Another matter is that in your first years in South Korea, you don’t have Korean nationality so you are not protected by the local laws. You can become victims of violence. (Hoang)


It is quite common. I see this ‘brokerage’ going on every day. Sometimes the girls have to strip naked for the Korean men to choose. At 107 Nguyen Du, District 1, HCM City you can see top brokers, both Korean and Vietnamese. It is sad that ‘selections’ take place publicly at two schools, Nguyen Du and the Conservatory of Music. I hope the authorities do something to stop it. (Thanh Hoang)


There is no happiness when you are tricked. I’m living in South Korea with my Korean husband. I married him through brokerage. I cried when I was chosen by my husband from among hundreds of girls. I agreed to follow him within several minutes. At that time I only know his name and that he was 38 years old.

After three months of doing paperwork, I went to Korea and my dream collapsed completely. My husband is unemployed and an epileptic – something I’d never been told. At first I suffered great misery. I cried a lot, missing my home and knowing I’d been cheated. However, my husband is very gentle and my parents-in-law are very kind to me, because they know that I suffer in this marriage. I’m luckier than many other Vietnamese brides in Korea. I accept this life and try to overcome difficulties. I hope others in similar circumstances will also succeed. (Nguyen Thi Hong)


My life is ruined. I was cheated by the go-between, who assured me that my current husband is very gentle, a university graduate and an office employee. Within two weeks after I came to Korea, I knew that I was tricked.

My husband is a brute. Sometimes he wakes me at midnight to press his fingers into dangerous spots in my body. My husband and his mother told me that in Vietnam and Korea, it is normal for husbands to beat their wives. It is their way of show their love.

I’m thoroughly fed up and have made up my mind to return home. However the officials told me to wait. I don’t know how long I will have to wait. I want to tell my story so other girls will know and avoid bride ‘selections.’

Briefly, we are seen as cheap girls and I hope the Government will abolish marriage brokerage in our country. (Nguyen Thi Thu Huong)


The ‘brides’ dream of eating well and wearing beautiful clothes. I think differently. I think it is a shame for Vietnamese women. Only a very few of the women who get married via brokers are forced to live hard lives. Others are lazy women who want a life of luxury, don’t want to struggle to achieve it themselves but rely on luck through marrying foreigners. (Knight)


Just fate. I witnessed a bride selection in Hai Phong. Actually, looking at the future grooms I couldn’t image that they were selecting wives. A group of men wore black suits. Some looked odd.

Escaping from poverty by marrying foreigners is a fact in not only Vietnam but also in China and some other Southeast Asian countries. We can’t ban because Vietnam is too poor and it’s too difficult for rural girls to escape from poverty. (Ha Thi Phuong Dung)


A ‘love market’ may be a good idea. I’ve been to many countries in the world and I see that life in Vietnam is the best. I wish our leaders to create jobs for Vietnamese people to help them escape from poverty. Our media must report about unlucky lives of Vietnamese women in Korea to awaken rural girls.

Girls, there are many good men in Vietnam for you to marry. You just don’t have opportunity to see them. A ‘love market’ -- like in China -- may be a good idea. (Dung Pham)


PV

[leecs]

Shit.......

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by leecs

Shit.......

Huh??? How come? What happened? U scolding me? Cos u never reply anyone and I m just 1 posting before u

[magixskin]

Originally Posted by jackbl

In a word: Girls – be careful!
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very interesting, thanks for sharing

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by magixskin

very interesting, thanks for sharing

"hinh xam keo dai hon lang man" - can explain what this sentence means?

[leecs]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Huh??? How come? What happened? U scolding me? Cos u never reply anyone and I m just 1 posting before u

No la. Not scolding you. My shit means jialat that scarli vn govt wants to enforce this or whatnot

[KangTuo]

Originally Posted by leecs

No la. Not scolding you. My shit means jialat that scarli vn govt wants to enforce this or whatnot

the report is on korean and taiwanese men only leh

[KangTuo]

i just heard this from my girlfriend. anyone hear this recently?

3 gals will be coming to sillypore with my girlfriend first time sometime in december. so they have a new passport. according to the person who sell airticket to them, the immigration officer in vn will need them to deposit $500 if the 3 gals are taking tiger airways, jetstar or lionair.

if they successfully enter sillypore, the immigration in vn will return the money when they go back vn. if they are being send back, the deposit will be gone.
the ticket seller tells them that it is better to fly by vietnam air as there will not be such policy being impose.

new passport + budget = $500 deposit

[xyman]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

i just heard this from my girlfriend. anyone hear this recently?

3 gals will be coming to sillypore with my girlfriend first time sometime in december. so they have a new passport. according to the person who sell airticket to them, the immigration officer in vn will need them to deposit $500 if the 3 gals are taking tiger airways, jetstar or lionair.

if they successfully enter sillypore, the immigration in vn will return the money when they go back vn. if they are being send back, the deposit will be gone.
the ticket seller tells them that it is better to fly by vietnam air as there will not be such policy being impose.

new passport + budget = $500 deposit

Is shy saint going vn soon? Let me know... I want to go also

[shysaint]

Originally Posted by xyman

Is shy saint going vn soon? Let me know... I want to go also

Bro ... why you so cute

You quote KT message and your ask me going to Vietnam anot ?

thought you are going to comments on his post....

YES YES YES ... I am Going .... CONFIRMED .... Date should be next week ...

Any Bro(s) need delivery service, pls let me know ....

[shysaint]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

i just heard this from my girlfriend. anyone hear this recently?

3 gals will be coming to sillypore with my girlfriend first time sometime in december. so they have a new passport. according to the person who sell airticket to them, the immigration officer in vn will need them to deposit $500 if the 3 gals are taking tiger airways, jetstar or lionair.

if they successfully enter sillypore, the immigration in vn will return the money when they go back vn. if they are being send back, the deposit will be gone.
the ticket seller tells them that it is better to fly by vietnam air as there will not be such policy being impose.

new passport + budget = $500 deposit

Bro KT ... never heard of such ruling ....

But sometimes VN airport do have funny actions ...

1. When I flew back with my BX ,,, they check our marriage certificate.
2. They ask Her When she is coming back to Vietnam?

When I lead tour groups to VN and leaving VN ..

1. They check their VISA during check-in for departure, if expire cannot leave Vietnam ....
2. Besides Passport, they want to check Work Permit, Working Pass and etc ..

Why wrong ??? hahaahha ..... Cannot Understand ...