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Exploring Danang in one day
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VietNamNet Bridge – Danang, a coastal city in the central, is a mixture of stunning beaches, splendid islands, picturesque mountains, rich ancient history, and many beautiful bridges. However, what tourists should do as they just have one day to go around there will be mentioned hereunder.

From HCMC, travelers can take the early morning flight to get Danang City at 8 a.m. Then, your should go straight to Ngu Hanh Son Mountain nestled 8 kilometers southeast of Danang City. It was named after the five basic elements of the universe in which each mountain is assigned an element - metal, wood, fire, water and earth.

Recognized as national relic in March 20, 1990, the mountain is a cluster of five marble mountains lying close to the sea so that is why it is dubbed Hon Non Nuoc, which means mountain and water in Vietnamese. The limestone mountain is home to splendid scenery, pagodas and grottoes, seducing travelers by the tranquil air and natural beauty.

Trekking up to Thuy Son Mountain which is the highest and the most beautiful peak in the range, tourists can see Tam Thai Pagoda as the first stop after conquering hundreds of stone steps. On the right of the pagoda is the 30-meter Xa Loi Tower. Tourists can also buy a ticket at VND15,000 for elevator to get the tower at the height of 43 meters off the ground.

Descending on foot, tourists can stroll around a traditional stone-engraving village where sculptors ply their trade in small gardens and guests can find traditional and modern motifs and imagery with diverse products from statues, jewelry, household items and artworks.

Then excursionists can take a taxi with a cost of VND660,000 for a distance of 80 kilometers to Ba Na Hills where can give tourists thrilling experience of being in the clouds at the height of 1,487 meters above sea level by a cable car costing of VND450,000 per person.

There travelers can admire many attractions such as an ancient castle in Western architecture, Debay wine cellar, Linh Ung Pagoda where has a 27-meter-high white Sakyamuni Buddha Statue facing a panoramic view of the forest and the city below, Fantasy Park in the shape of a huge cave under the ground and Morin Hotel equipped with high-end services. Guests can have buffet lunch there at VND180,000 per a ticket.

One of the most highlighted destination there is a museum where tourists can see many worldwide famous ones in statues such as Leonardo Dicaprio, Jackie Chan, Mr. Bean, Bi Rain, Messi, David Beckham, the Cambridge Queen Elizabeth, the U.S President Obama former South African President nelson Mandela.

Ba Na is endowed with fascinating landscapes with temperature of 22 to 25 degree Celsius. Stepping upon it, tourists may think you are in the mysterious land.

After leaving Ba Na at about 4 p.m., tourists can take taxi to Linh Ung Pagoda an Bai But Beach on Son Tra Peninsula. Sunset is the time for you to admire the romance in My Khe Beach.

Source: SGT

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This is good for newbie like me to learn simple viet language..
Hope to see more videos... thanks bro jackbl

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Originally Posted by lonexiaobao

This is good for newbie like me to learn simple viet language..
Hope to see more videos... thanks bro jackbl

ha...you want more videos...you can learn all ha...

me learn 10 videos already gave up...brain cannot store so much...

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Originally Posted by lonexiaobao

This is good for newbie like me to learn simple viet language..
Hope to see more videos... thanks bro jackbl

No problem, I just do copy and paste only, very little effort. I will post slowly for u to digest.

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The secrets of Saigon’s night clubs
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VietNamNet Bridge - Most discotheques and bars in HCM City do not have a business license. These are the destination of gangsters, drug addicts and high-end prostitutes.

Before June 2013, New Saigon club, No. 11 Me Linh Square, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, was called Disco 1102 and it was run by a man named L, from Hanoi. This business was not licensed as a night club or discotheque but it lured several hundreds of people each night, who came to dance until 2-3am.

In almost two years of operation, Discotheque 1102 were inspected ten times but it was fined three times, from VND3 million to VND80 million ($150-$4,000).

In June, this discotheque was upgraded and returned in the new name – New Saigon Discotheque. This time, New Saigon registered under the name of Saigon Moi Company, licensed on June 20 in the restaurant, food, travel, advertising business, with Mr. Nguyen Thanh Dat, 37, a native of Hanoi as the director.

Though its name was changed, New Saigon is still an “Illegal” discotheque. In the morning of August 18, Saigon police raided this club and detected eight violations. However, the club still opened the next days.

The 02 Gold Club, No. 2 Ho Huan Nghiep Street, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1, a few dozen meters from New Saigon, is also a popular venue for playboys. A series of raids and inspection were conducted at this place but it is still operating.

A similar case is Feeling Bar on Au Co Street, Ward 10, Tan Binh District. This is considered one of the biggest clubs in Saigon’s suburbs and it was several times detected with violations, but it is operating normally.

The question is why?

A member of the HCM City’s cultural-social inspection team said that clubs that break the rules several times will have their license revoked. However, such clubs are opened again in the new name or under the name of new owners.

Notably, a popular violation at night clubs and discotheques is selling alcohol without licenses but since the fine is too low – VND400,000 ($200), clubs keep selling alcohol after paying fines.

Night clubs and discotheques are also the venues for gangsters, drug users and traders. In a recent raid to New Saigon, the inspectors seized some drugs and arrested eight gangsters. At the inspection of the 02 Gold Club in mid-April, the police discovered a drug trading ring, with the participation of gangsters and the club’s staff.

If a night club is found with drugs, the club owner will explain that they cannot prevent customers from using drugs. In addition, to attract visitors, most clubs open their doors free for high-class prostitutes.

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Legendary Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap dies
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General Vo Nguyen Giap, who died Friday aged 102, was considered one of history's greatest military strategists and was the architect of Vietnam's stunning battlefield victories against France and the United States.

Second only to late revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh as modern Vietnam's most revered figure, the former history teacher's first military lesson came from an old encyclopedia entry about the mechanism of a hand grenade.

The son of a poor scholar, he went on to defeat Vietnam's colonial masters in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu, the battle that ended French rule in Indochina and started direct US involvement leading to the Vietnam War.

Over the next two decades the founding father of the Vietnam People's Army, whose guerrilla tactics inspired anti-colonial fighters worldwide, again led his forces to victory with the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.

"When I was young, I had a dream that one day I would see my country free and united," General Giap later recounted in a PBS interview. "That day, my dream came true."

General Giap's brilliance as a strategist places him "in the pantheon of great military leaders" with the Duke of Wellington, Ulysses S. Grant and General Douglas MacArthur, wrote American journalist and author Stanley Karnow.

"Unlike them, however, he owed his achievements to innate genius rather than to formal training."

Classroom to battlefield

Born on August 25, 1911 in the village of An Xa in central Quang Binh province, General Giap was an admirer of Napoleon and Sun Tzu but did not always appear destined to become a soldier.

Fluent in French, he studied political economy in Hanoi before teaching history and literature at a college and working as an underground journalist.

A member of the Indochina Communist Party, he fled to China in 1939, where he joined Ho Chi Minh, the enigmatic leader who had planned the revolution during decades in exile.

Giap's wife, who stayed behind with their newborn child, died in a French prison, a personal tragedy that would fuel his anti-colonial fervor.

He returned with Ho Chi Minh to Vietnam's northern jungles in 1941 to train an army of revolutionary peasant soldiers and co-founded the Viet Minh (abbreviated from Việt Nam Ðộc Lập Ðồng Minh Hội, English "League for the Independence of Vietnam").

General Giap's guerrilla tactics -- which stressed the need for popular support, the value of hit-and-run attacks and the will to fight a drawn-out war -- would defeat both the French and the American armies.

"Guerrilla war is the war of the broad masses of an economically backward country standing up against a powerfully equipped and well-trained army of aggression," he wrote in one of several memoirs.

"Every inhabitant is a soldier, every village a fortress."

President Ho proclaimed his first government on September 2, 1945 and named Giap as his interior minister, army chief and later defense minister.

The revolutionaries were forced back into the jungle when French troops reimposed colonial rule after World War II, triggering a nine-year conflict that ended at Dien Bien Phu.

"It was the first great defeat for the West," General Giap later said. "It shook the foundations of colonialism and called on people to fight for their freedom -- it was the beginning of international civilization."

General Giap remained the army's commander in chief throughout the ensuing conflict with the Americans and the US-backed South Vietnam regime, which turned into full-scale war from 1965 and claimed the lives of 58,000 Americans and at least three million Vietnamese.

The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, followed by the country's reunification, fuelled his near-mythical status overseas as a master strategist and inspired liberation movements everywhere.

"As we grew up in our own struggle, General Giap was one of our national heroes," South African President Thabo Mbeki said in 2007.

After the war, General Giap retained his position as defense minister and was appointed deputy prime minister in 1976.

General Giap, who had been living in Hanoi's 108 military hospital for the last three years, is survived by Dang Bich Ha, his wife since 1949, and four children.

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Gangsterism abounds at Vietnam metro airport, ‘crackdowns’ for naught
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Despite a backlash in the press and lots of loud lip-service from authorities, thieves and dishonest cabbies continue to prey on passengers at Vietnam’s main international airport

Passengers checking out at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. The airport security agency has reported a rash of crimes targeting passengers recently. Photo by Diep Duc Minh

Tran Thi Hang saw two men in fancy outfits staring at her when she arrived at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport after a recent flight from Singapore.

She saw them again in the parking lot as she walked to her motorbike. But this time they were on a bike and speeding straight for her. Next thing she knew, they had snatched her bag and were speeding away.

“They must have followed me as I checked out,” said the 28-year-old woman. She lost 1,000 Singapore dollars, 300 US dollars, a cell phone and her cosmetics.

Many similar cases have been reported around the airport, highlighting a spate of robbery, extortion and swindling targeting passengers arriving at Ho Chi Minh City’s only airport, the most bustling transit point in the nation.

In another case, a local man, identified only as K, arrived at the airport on September 12 and walked out along nearby Truong Son Street when five men robbed his watch and US$15,000.

The victim said it was likely that his watch, which he said was worth about $100,000, that attracted the robbers who probably followed him from the airport.

Senior Lieutenant Colonel Pham Cong Nghia, chief of police in Tan Binh District’s Ward 2, where the airport terminal is located, said many robbers have begun operating in and around the airport because they believe airplane passengers carry lots of money and valuables.

Easy infiltration

Nghia said criminal gangs from northern provinces have migrated to HCMC recently and are using new ploys to make off with people’s money and property. Add that to the fact that local criminals have also stepped up operations, and things at the airport look pretty bad.

The Tan Binh District police are currently filing robbery charges against 32-year-old Le Hoang Chanh for stealing luggage at Tan Son Nhat in May.

According to police, Chanh, who is serving a one-year probation sentence for a previous robbery conviction, came to the airport’s international arrival section and took a bag of luggage from the carousel.

Wearing smart clothes to impersonate a passenger, he put the stolen luggage in a trolley and easily pushed it out of the terminal. Police said he used the elevator, instead of passing through the gate like most other passengers, to avoid the check-out process.

He was arrested while stealing another bag with the same ploy. Chanh even claimed that he had taken someone’s bag by mistake before confessing to the crime, police said.

Earlier, airport security detected Nguyen Thi My, 41, via security camera tapes, which showed her stealing the purse of a Taiwanese passenger.

My admitted that she came to the airport to steal. After seeing the Taiwanese passenger put her wallet on a pile of luggage, My cleverly stole it while hiding the act with a coat over her arm.

Swindling

Besides outright robberies, police and airport security have also caught con men and swindlers operating at the airport.

Captain Mai Trong Hanh of the District 10 Police Department said officers recently arrested groups of thieves who have confessed to luring airport passengers to hotels for “massages” before stealing their property.

Among the gangs was one led by Nguyen Van Tung and Nguyen Thi Ha, who were arrested and investigated on swindling charges.

Investigators said the duo came to the airport and found Japanese passenger Mayata Yuki waiting for a delayed flight.

They offered a massage package at a hotel in District 10 and after the service, Yuki found that her iPad and money, valuing more than $1,000 in different currencies, were gone.

According to the police, many criminals tend to target foreigners, assuming that they have valuable property and are not watchful enough.

“Criminals even buy a ticket like other passengers but only to be allowed to enter limited areas, like the waiting rooms, to steal properties,” Nghia, the police chief of Tan Binh District’s Ward 2, said.

Unsolved taxi problems

According to the airport’s Aviation Security Center, last week, a South Korean passenger taking a taxi from the airport to a hotel in the city was extorted by a cabbie who charged more than ten times the real fee.

The driver, who was later identified as a Saigon Tourist taxi driver, charged the Korean passenger VND1.5 million while the meter displayed only VND140,000.

After reporting the case, the security agency coordinated with police and identified the driver, who later confessed to the scam and returned the money.

Do Xuan Toan, the agency’s director, said such taxi problems have been persistent for years and are difficult to deal with for several reasons.

“Many passengers only stay for a few days while investigations often take longer,” he said.

“After arresting the criminals, police only issue an administrative fine instead of criminal charges because the victim is not present as required in criminal procedures in order to press charges against the culprits,” he told Vietweek.

He said many criminals, including taxi drivers, have abused this loophole to commit crimes.

He also used the excuse that when scams or robberies happen to tourists in taxis that have left the airport, jurisdiction becomes an issue because even victims who report the crimes do not know the city well enough to pinpoint the location of the crime.

Meanwhile, many taxi firms do not require a deposit from drivers to ensure their honesty at work, he said.

“The strictest measure a driver can face is dismissal. So they are not deterred against violations like appropriating property or stealing money from passengers,” he said.

He admitted that the fact that criminals were now operating inside the terminal was a serious problem.

He said many airlines sell electronic ticket, making it difficulty for security to check their tickets.

“The ticket can be a number code in their phone,” he said. “Previously, we checked paper tickets before passengers entered the luggage check section. It used to be safer for the passenger’s luggage because the criminals, who do not have tickets, could not enter this area.”

He said his agency has coordinated with local police but the airport is located on the border of different wards, which makes the security situation more “complicated”.

“The aviation security agency has tried their best. But it requires actions from other relevant agencies like the police and city authorities to maintain the safety of passengers and to handle violations thoroughly as a deterrent.”

[lonexiaobao]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

ha...you want more videos...you can learn all ha...

me learn 10 videos already gave up...brain cannot store so much...

haha I only learn those common phrases and daily words that I would need to interact with people... these already killed lot of my brain cells..

besides pronunciation is a problem too.. not easy to pronounce them

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Originally Posted by lonexiaobao

haha I only learn those common phrases and daily words that I would need to interact with people... these already killed lot of my brain cells..

besides pronunciation is a problem too.. not easy to pronounce them

you telling me...VBs always say "a noi tieng viet de thuong..."...

can nvr graduate from Primary school...

[lonexiaobao]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

you telling me...VBs always say "a noi tieng viet de thuong..."...

can nvr graduate from Primary school...

haha maybe they really say that but the only problem is when they open their mouth, I am like talking with a m60 with unlimited bullets... no idea where to catch their start or end to understand them

Its like talking cantonese in HK where hongkongers wouldnt understand our singaporeans' cantonese

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Hi bros, may i know what does this means

Yeu Doi, Lac Quang, Nhung ko Hoang lac

Thanks