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[jackbl]

Police unveil conclusion on celebrity prostitution ring
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VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Investigation Police Agency has released the investigation result on the sex ring involving some actresses, models and beauty queens that was detected in early June 2012.

There are six defendants in the case, including: Tran Quang Mai, 42, from Long An province, residing in District 3, HCM City; Le Quang Tuan Anh or Kevin, 25, from Lam Dong province, residing in Phu Nhuan District, HCM City; Vo Thi My Xuan, 30, from Can Tho City, living in Go Vap District, HCM City, who is former Miss Southern Me Kong 2009; Tran Thi Hoa, 27, or Thien Kim, from Hai Duong Province, a model who was the runner-up in the Miss Shining Beauty 2012 pageant; Nguyen Huu Dat, 47, from Can Tho City, residing in Binh Thanh District, HCM City; and Luong Quoc Huy, 28, from Binh Thuan province, living in District 1, HCM City.

According to the investigation conclusion, on June 2, 2012, at about 5pm and 5.30pm, HCM City police officers checked on two hotels in District 1, HCM City and detected four couples involved in prostitution activity. The four prostitutes were defined as models, actresses or the winners of beauty contests.

After that the HCM City police agency arrested and prosecuted against Quang Mai, My Xuan, Tuan Anh, Dat and Huy who were determined as panders. The police also prosecuted Thien Kim and banned the woman from leaving her residence.

The defendants confessed that on June 2, a man called Mai to “order” a hot, famous model on the Internet with a nickname J.P. The man also “ordered” another girl for his friend. The two sides fixed the price of $2,500 for J.P and VND5 million ($250) for the another girl…

Miss My Xuan also received a phone call from a client, asking for two beautiful models. Xuan charged $3,000 for two models and sent them to hotels to serve the clients.

The police also found out that this ring had mediated for some models and “beauty queens” to work as prostitutes. In 2010, Tran Quang Mai and some others sent a model to a hotel in District 1, HCM City, to serve a client at the price of $7,000. In this affair, Mai earn $1,800 as commission.

In June 2011, Mai asked Tuan Anh to introduce a singer to join a sex tour to Vung Tau, at the price of $2,500. In this business, Mai earned $1,300.

In March 2012, Mai acted as the middleman for model Thien Kim to serve a man at a hotel in District 1 at the cost of $2,500. Another time, Mai introduced a client to My Xuan at the price of $2,200.

From a prostitute to a pander

Most of the models and beauty queens were advertised from $2,500 to tens of thousands of dollars for each sex affair. However, they could receive up to half of that amount. The rest was shared to middlemen like Mai, Tuan Anh, Dat, Huy, etc. In this case, Vo Thi My Xuan and Tran Thi Hoa were identified as both prostitutes and panders.

According to an officer from PC45, after being arrested, My Xuan was completely depressed. Born in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, she had lived there until she finished high school. In 2003, she moved to HCM City to live with her mother in Go Vap District. My Xuan worked as an amateur model before she won the Miss Southern Me Kong 2009 title, a local beauty pageant held in Soc Trang Province.

My Xuan said the income of a model could not afford her make-up and clothes while her colleagues all had big houses, beautiful cars and clothes of world famous brands. To compete with her colleagues, My Xuan sold herself and gradually became a prostitute and then a pander. She said her price increased from several hundreds of USD to several thousands of USD after she won the Miss Southern Mekong 2009 title.

From a prostitute, My Xuan got to know rich people and she gradually became a prostitution mediator. Through her relations in the showbiz, she introduced well-known models, actresses and beauty queens to rich clients.

Thien Kim and Tran Thi Hoa, the runners-up in some local beauty pageants, had similar “careers” like My Xuan, but Thien Kim is defined to be more experience and more professional than My Xuan.

According to investigation, in March 2012, Thien Kiem and Tran Quang Mai introduced My Xuan to a client in Vung Tau with the price of $2,500. In this affair, Thien Kim received $1,000 commission. Also in March 2012, Thien Kim was the middleman for model J.P and a client and earned VND18 million.

A senior officer said that people may find it shocking if they know about the depravation of rich men and the deterioration of some celebrities.

He also added that while tracking the sex ring of Tran Quang Mai, the police have collected information about the prostitution ring that organized overseas sex tours on a large scale. Mai had the profiles of tens of models, actresses and beauty queens. Vietnamese tycoons could hire these girls to serve in their sex tours to any country in the world at the prices of tens of thousands of USD.

Compiled by Mai Lan

[wenzai]

Hi bros, i need help on translation:
1) sinh san qua, muon di du lice thailand thi bao, a se phuc vu
2) a sog ben thai ah

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by wenzai

1) sinh san qua, muon di du lice thailand thi bao, a se phuc vu
2) a sog ben thai ah

You didnt give background/context of these sentence so I will just guess:

1) sinh sản=to produce, to reproduce, to genserate, to beget..... Very "sinh san", want to travel thailand then say, I will serve/attend to.

Funny sentence.....

2) I live in thailand

[jackbl]

Vietnamese people “eat to die”?
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VietNamNet Bridge - Dr. Dang Lich, Head of the Cardiovascular Ward of the Hanoi-based Huu Nghi (Friendship) Hospital says that he has met many people who died because of eating and drinking.

“When he was poor, a 45-year-old patient worked very hard and tried to save money but when he became rich, he involved in daily drinking and parties. He drank everyday, even several times a day. At the age of 45, he died of cirrhosis,” Dr. Lich told about one of his patients, as an example.

There is also a patient who suffered from bulimia. He was only 1m63 tall but weighed nearly 100kg. His family has a history of high blood pressure. The doctor advised him to lose weight by eating less and doing more exercises but the patient refused to cooperate with the doctor because “fasting” is impossible for him.

“If doing so, he eats not to live, but to die. I think our society does focus on eating and drinking. Everything must go with parties,” the doctor says.

The senior doctor also says that many of his patients are well-off people and the common diseases that they suffer from are high blood pressure, heart, liver and kidney diseases.

He adds that nowadays, many people eat without thinking about the connection between food and their health. The poor eat cheap and unsafe food while the rich eat super-nutritious food, with too much fat, meat and they can’t control their health.

“They have money but they don’t care how to eat hygienically and appropriately to the nutritional needs,” the doctor stresses.

Medical experts said that there is a close relation between insatiable eating with dangerous chronic diseases such as diabetes, gout, liver, kidney and cardiovascular diseases.

Dr. Ho Khai Hoan, Vice Head of the Diabetes Ward of the National Endocrinology Hospital, says that the diabetes type 1 (mainly with young people) accounts for just 5 percent of the total diabetic patients.

The remaining 95 percent of patients are of the diabetes type 2, mainly due to inappropriate diet (drinking more, eating more meat, fat and organs of animals) and physical inactivity.

The subjects with diabetes type 2 are often the elderly (over 40 years old) but now diabetics tend to rejuvenate, with many patients of over 30.

These patients might avoid the risk of getting diabetes by changing their lifestyle, including diet and exercise. But the fact shows that it is difficult to change the habits because they are already "rooted" in their life and eating is one of the major interests of man. Moreover, the lack of knowledge about the consequences of this disease also makes patients be undetermined to change their lifestyle.

The number of diabetics is showing signs of rapid growth. According to statistics, Vietnam currently has about 5 million patients with diabetes.

The number of new patients increased from 8 percent to 20 percent annually. This rate adds Vietnam to the group of countries with the fastest growth in the number of diabetics in the world.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Lam, Vice Director of the National Institute of Nutrition says that in recent years, the number of the overweight people increased about 1 percent annually and at present the rate is over 10 percent of adults, compared to 6 percent in 2005.

Cam Quyen

[jackbl]

How many billionaires are there in Vietnam?
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VietNamNet Bridge – Thirty years after the doi moi (renovation) was kicked off and 10 years after the stock market made its debut, Vietnam has had a billionaire recognized in the world. Who would be the second billionaire?

Pham Nhat Vuong has become the first Vietnamese billionaire to enter Forbes’ list of world’s richest individuals, with total assets of US$1.5 billion as estimated by March 2013.


Doan Nguyen Duc, the brilliant candidate

The most likely candidate among the Vietnamese businessmen for the title of the second billionaire in Vietnam is Doan Nguyen Duc, Chair of Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group.

Duc, the businessman who has poured his money into many business fields, from rubber plantation to hydropower, real estate to football club, was twice named in the list of the Vietnamese richest stock millionaires in 2008 and 2009.

In those two years, Duc was believed to be richer than Pham Nhat Vuong. However, since the Hoang Anh Gia Lai’s stakes saw the prices drop sharply in 2010, 2011 and 2012, Duc felt into the second position in the list of stock millionaires.

Therefore, though being the only person who expresses his aspiration for becoming a billionaire in the world, Duc has yet reached his goal.

Duc was still firm on the second position of the 2012 list of stock millionaires, but he was left far behind by Pham Nhat Vuong. By the end of 2012, Vuong held VND17 trillion worth of shares, while Duc, though seeing the asset value increasing considerably by 30 percent in 2012, had had VND5,600 billion worth of shares.

However, though the stock prices have fallen down sharply, Duc still has been highly appreciated in the business circle. Hoang Anh Gia Lai, which took loss with domestic real estate projects, has been earning money from other sources of income. The conglomerate has shifted its focus on rubber plantation, with the projects on growing 51,000 hectares of rubber in Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.

It is estimated that when the 51,000 hectares of rubber is put into exploitation, rubber plants alone would bring $300 million a year to Hoang Anh Gia Lai/

Meanwhile, the $300 million real estate project developed by Hoang Anh Gia Lai in Yangon, Myanmar would bring multi-billion dollars to the conglomerate, if the Myanmar market heats up in the next five years.

The rubber, sugar cane projects in Laos could also be the big assets of the businessman. Once all the projects make profit, the prices of Hoang Anh Gia Lai stakes would increase rapidly, which also means that Duc’s asses would also increase accordingly.

The hidden billionaires

They are called “hidden candidates” because there has been no exact information about the actual assets of the billionaires. In Vietnam, people believe that the richest people in the stock market might not be the richest people in Vietnam.

There are many billionaires whose assets have not been known to people simply because their businesses have not yet listed shares on the bourse, or the information about their assets has not been exposed to the public.

The Vietnamese billionaires would enter the Forbes’ list of the billionaires of the word any time once their businesses list shares.

Dao Hong Tuyen, who is called “the island’s kind” in Vietnam, is believed to be the owner of a lot of companies throughout the country and the owner of a series of real estate projects.

There has been no exact information about the value of the assets Tuyen possesses, but Tuyen said his assets are worth two billion dollars.

The owner of Geneximco Vu Van Tien has also been well known in the business circle with the real estate projects in many localities from the north to the south.

Huan Tu

[jackbl]

Wife who killed cop husband gets death
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The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court has given a death sentence to 44-year-old Du Kim Lien, who killed her husband, a police colonel, with sleeping pills first and then pesticide through injection last year.

At the hearing on Friday, Lien, with a calm attitude, pleaded guilty of killing 50-year-old Colonel Tran Xuan Chuyen who had worked in the Phu Lam police office under HCMC Traffic Police Department.

Lien was arrested on March 14, 2012, one day after Chuyen died, and was later charged with murder. Before the trial was opened, the prosecutor's office proposed that the court sentence her to death.

The woman begged the court for a lighter sentence but the jury said she had intentionally poisoned Chuyen to death, so she deserved the capital punishment.

Lien told the court that she had suggested to Chuyen that they should sell their house to pay debts totaling VND1.3 billion ($62,400) that she had borrowed from many people, but Chuyen did not agree because he had previously paid some other debts for her.

Chuyen often beat her when he got home after drinking, especially after she asked him to agree to sell the house, Lien said.

Angry with Chuyen’s refusal to sell the house, Lien decided to kill him so that she would become the sole owner of the propertyand have a free hand to sell it at any time.

On March 11, 2012, Lien bought 10 sleeping pills, a pair of glove and a syrine in preparation for the crime. That evening, after Chuyen returned home and got drunk, she mixed the drug into a glass of milk and offered it to him.

Finding Chuyen not dead after hours of sleeping, Lien fed him with the sleeping pills again, but the man was still alive, so she decided to kill him with pesticide.

She then bought pesticide and injected it into her husband’s bottoms through a syringe and poured it into his mouth until he died on March 13.

After Chuyen’s death, she claimed he had suffered a hypertension that led to a stroke that killed him.

The investigation into the death was launched after Chuyen’s colleagues discovered abnormal signs in his death.

According to investigators, Chuyen was found dead with symptoms of being poisoned, and police collected from the scene some jars suspected to have contained pesticide.

District 6 police then joined hands with specialists from HCMC criminal investigation department to conduct an autopsy.

Forensic tests later showed that Chuyen had died of poisoning with Methidathion, a highly toxic organophosphate insecticide.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by jackbl

You didnt give background/context of these sentence so I will just guess:

1) sinh sản=to produce, to reproduce, to genserate, to beget..... Very "sinh san", want to travel thailand then say, I will serve/attend to.

Funny sentence.....

2) I live in thailand

my guess...

after good friday, you service(help) me go tour thailand...

You(Anh) stay in Thailand...

think only wenzai can guess what she meant or ask her directly to explain...

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

after good friday, you service(help) me go tour thailand...

New words learnt : Good Friday = sinh sản

[jackbl]

Firms must help break ‘circle of corruption'
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Vietnamese firms are contributing to the vicious circle of administrative corruption in the country, but they also have the capacity to break it, participants agreed at a roundtable conference in Ho Chi Minh City on March 29.

Tran Thi Lan Huong of the World Bank (WB) said that firms and citizens provided the incentive to keep the circle going by choosing the quickest way to solve difficulties created by officials – paying them.

In a survey commissioned by the Government Inspectorate and the Anti-Corruption Steering Committee, and carried out with assistance from the WB and other institutions, about 44 percent of respondent firms admitted to making unofficial payments.

About 59 percent said they sometimes reacted to difficulties by giving gifts or money. More than 75 percent admitted that they had paid up without being asked to do so.

"Corruption is becoming more complex. Fewer corruption cases being detected does not mean that there is less corruption but that corruption has become more sophisticated and harder to detect," Huong said.

Ngo Manh Hung, a Government Inspector, said many companies have not joined the fight against corruption because they are willing to pay up or wait for the Government to help.

Increasing transparency is crucial to effectively fighting corruption, said participants at the roundtable, co-organised by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and the World Bank
They also said companies and firms must become more active in fighting corruption by setting up a code of conduct for businesses, building campaigns to say no to corruption, organising events to improve knowledge of non-corrupt ways to resolve difficulties, reviewing and rotating positions that carry corruption risks, and participating in anti-corruption initiatives.

Another idea mooted at the meeting was for companies to cooperate and set up a system to fight corruption with the support of the Government.

This system has been successful in many countries including Malaysia , some participants noted.

Speaker at the roundtable stressed the importance of fighting corruption, which they said has negative impacts like making the country less competitive and less attractive to investors.
The survey was conducted over 18 months in 10 provinces across the country with the participation of more than 1,000 firms and companies and 2,600 citizens.

[jackbl]

Teen phone obsession concerns parents
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VietNamNet Bridge – When an American mother presented her 13-year-old son with an iPhone 5 – and a contract with strict guidelines - it set off a heated online debate about the role of technology in teenagers' lives.

According to the contract, the boy had to hand the phone to his parents at 7:30pm every night (9pm on the weekend) and could not bring it to school. He was also not allowed to write anything in a text message or email that he would not say out loud with his parents in the room.

"When we read those rules, we printed them out and stuck them on the wall so that our son could follow them," said Chu Hoang Khanh, the father of Chu Hoang Tung, a tenth-grader at Viet Duc High School. "Many of my friends also agreed with the rules and applied them at their homes."

However, he acknowledged that he and his wife were too busy to make sure their son would adhere to the rules.

Bui Thanh Phong, a friend of Khanh's, also made several rules when he bought his 12-year-old son a smartphone, but they were not so harsh.

"Many Vietnamese parents buy their children what they ask for. They do not pay much attention to teaching them how to use these things, particularly phones," he said. "We always remind our son not to spend too much time playing games on the phone – or to use the phone at all, to protect his short-sighted eyes. But we have no time to supervise him to make sure he really follows these rules."

Psychologist Nguyen Thi Ngoc Minh of the HCM City's National Administration Institute approved of the American mother's rules, saying they were educational but also preserved his independence.

"Parents should not interfere too much in children's lives. They should teach them life skills, not put pressure on them," said Minh.

The psychologist cautioned, however, that parents should make sure gifts are suitable for a child's budget. Since Viet Nam is still poor, parents should not present teenage children with expensive iPhones, because they don't know how to take care of such valuable objects.

Tung said he hates his phone being controlled by his parents.

"I can't follow all the rules my father stuck on our wall. I think I will return the phone to my parents soon," Tung said, adding that he would use his own money to buy a cheap Nokia.

In contrast, Tung's friend Hoang Nguyen Thu Ngoc said she felt comfortable turning off the phone to spend time with her family or leaving it at home to go out.

"I hate seeing a family dinner where each family member pays attention to his or her phone. I'm certain that my parents do not like it either," Ngoc said.

And while many teenagers are constantly filming on their iPhones, she agreed with the American mother's rule not to use the phone to take too many photos or videos: "We should experience life by ourselves."

According to 18-year-old Nguyen Thi Thuy, the American mother's rules – if followed properly – would help teenagers live more fulfilling lives.

"In the past, I felt I couldn't live without my phone and laptop. Then I read the rules and started to leave those things at home when I went out. I realise now that there are many valuable things beside phones and laptops, such as joining my family members to watch an interesting TV programme or going for a walk with a close friend to share an interesting story," Thuy said.

While the rules may cause older teenagers to feel inhibited, they would be helpful for 13 and 14-year-olds who have never had such an expensive phone, the teenager added.

"I want to print the rules and present them to my son when he turns 14," Thuy said.

Source: VNS

[Hurricane88]

Có nên không khi yêu 1 người không yêu mình ???
Có đáng không khi nhớ 1 người không nhớ mình ???
Có ngốc nghếch quá không khi cứ đau khổ vì một người ?
Đừng hạ thấp mình thế, đứng dậy đi bạn nhé, 1 cánh cửa đóng lại đồng nghĩa là có vô vàn cánh cửa khác đang mở ra để chào đón bạn . . .

Hạnh phúc vẫn luôn ở phía trước . . . ! ! !

[jackbl]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Hạnh phúc vẫn luôn ở phía trước . . . ! ! !

Wow so chim.... use google translate also no hieu

[jackbl]

More sex scenes in Vietnamese movies
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VietNamNet Bridge - According to Google's statistics, Vietnam was always in the top 10 countries, even ranked No. 1 sometimes, in searching for the keyword "sex" in the 2008-2012 period. Is that the reason for sex to become the “ultimate weapon” of Vietnamese movies to draw the audience?

Sex scenes have become an indispensable part in Vietnamese movies in the past five years. They are so rampant in all genres of films, from drama to action, horror to comedy, etc, to such a degree that the local media has to comment “No sex scenes, that’s not a Vietnamese movie.”

The 2012 Golden Kite Awards is said the “champion” for the density of sex scenes in its entries compared to the nine previous awards. The sex scenes flooded trailers of all 11 movies, including Hot Sand, Passion, In the Name of Love, Cold Summer, Passion, Scandal, Blood Letter, Marry Me Soon, etc.

The level of sex scenes has increased, no more hiding in the twilight and no more explanation, it is free and quick now. Sex scenes also involve characters of all social classes, from a waste collector to a lady, from a farmer to a playboy, from an intellectual to a businessman, and even a swordsman.

Reviewing older movies like Adrift, Clash, Bi! Don’t Be Afraid, The Death’s Kiss, War of Brides, Living in Fear, Lost in Paradise, School Ghost, Between Two Worlds, Landmark 23, etc. sex scenes are also numerous.

Most recently, High School Trap, which was released in 2012, is criticized for the abuse of sex scenes, which are sad to be obscene.



Sex in movies; is it used effectively?

Vietnamese film producers are now keen on advertising their products through “revealing” trailers with sex scenes or information about actresses or actors who play sex scenes without body doubles.

Watching trailers, the audience may think these movies must be about sex and have a lot of sex scenes but the fact is totally different.

The question is when film producers stop advertising their products through sex contents because sex is not the factor that make the value of a movie. And Vietnamese audiences know it clearly. The evidence is that many movies that were advertised with sex scenes failed in term of revenues in Vietnam, such as Cold Summer, In the Name of Love, Bi, Don’t Be Afraid, Lonely, etc.

Most of sex scenes in Vietnamese movies are commented to be insipid or even obscene because they do not contribute to highlight the characters or the film contents and values. Thus, they are unnecessary.

Sex is no longer a taboo in Vietnamese movies. However, with the “development” of sex scenes like this, it is a problem for Vietnamese movies now. Moreover, the requirement of the audience for sex scenes in movies is more than curiosity. If anyone thinks that sex scenes are a way to increase commercial value, they definitely are wrong.

Lao Dong

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Wow so chim.... use google translate also no hieu

Hạnh phúc vẫn luôn ở phía trước

means "Happiness is always in front (future)"

[Stabil0]

wah good place to learn vietnamese language ...