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[Thom07]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

dun think so leh...going there to work is your choice...earn money quietly...

Either go there or get out.
Not much of a choice.

[Thom07]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Quick go to the ktv above sheng siong. plentiful of your choice from vn, cam and local

That place still around? Wow.

You tiam tiam go there steal eat how many times already?

[Thom07]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Sometimes makes u wonder how they managed to "do" it to get the 2nd & 3rd when the first kid is around

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

Early educational programs.

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by Thom07

Either go there or get out.
Not much of a choice.

still there is a choice...you made the choice...so just be happy...

[Hurricane88]

130,000 overseas Vietnamese to return home for Tet holiday

December 12, 2016




Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City is working hard to make sure passengers can move quickly during this holiday season.

The Business Association of Overseas Vietnamese expects about 130,000 overseas Vietnamese to fly home for the upcoming Lunar New Year, or Tet, the country’s most important holiday.


Nguyen Hong Hue, chairman of the association, said the estimate is based on visa application data.

The number of returning Vietnamese overseas is forecast to sharply increase from mid-December to mid-February, with an estimated 3,000-4,000 arrivals daily.

Tet begins on the first day of the first lunar month, which falls on January 28 next year, but festive celebrations can stretch over days both before and after that. The official break for the upcoming Tet is one week.

Tan Son Nhat, the country’s largest international airport, will be under more pressure during this holiday season.

The airport, designed for both domestic and international flights, has become increasingly strained. It is expected to handle up to 31 million passengers by the end of this year, far beyond its maximum capacity of 25 million, said Lai Xuan Thanh, director general of the Civil Aviation Administration.

Customs officials at the airport said they stand ready to make sure that customs check only takes about 25-27 seconds.

There are around five million Vietnamese overseas, according to the World Bank.

By 2014, 1.3 million Vietnamese immigrants resided in the U. S. It was followed by Australia with 227,000 Vietnamese immigrants, Canada with 183,000, and France with 126,000, according to mid-2015 estimates by the United Nations Population Division.

Remittances from Vietnamese overseas remain a key source of funds for the country’s economy, equivalent to about 8-10 percent of gross domestic product.

Vietnamese-Americans alone sent back about $7 billion last year. The number is expected to reach $8 billion this year.

Vietnam recorded roughly $13 billion in overseas remittances last year, slightly up from $12 billion in 2014, according to the World Bank.

[Hurricane88]

Vietnam airlines found selling tickets for not-yet-approved extra flights

December 11, 2016

Vietnam’s airlines have been selling tickets for the upcoming Lunar New Year, the busiest travel time of the year, for a couple of months when it turned out their extra-flight plans may not be approved.

The 2017 Lunar New Year, or Tet in Vietnamese, falls late January, but people in big cities normally start flying back to their hometowns weeks before the New Year’s Eve to observe the country’s traditional holidays with their beloved.


Airfares usually shoot through the roof during this special occasion but easily sell out, and people therefore tend to book tickets even months before departure.

However, early ticket buyers are sitting on hot bricks, when the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) recently announced that the planned additional flights of local carriers have yet to be approved – and may never be.

Adding flights before approval

Three Vietnamese airlines, flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and low-cost Vietjet and Jetstar Pacific, all announced they will add thousands of flights during Tet, and already started to accept booking over the last two months.

Vietjet plans to add 1,500 flights during Tet, having started sales for 1.5 million tickets with departures between January 15 and February 15, 2017. The no-frills carrier said there is huge demand for flights from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to northern and central destinations, adding Tet tickets are selling out.

Jetstar Pacific has also announced an addition of 1 million seats for the busy travel time, up 25 percent from last Tet.

In the meantime, Vietnam Airlines said it will add nearly 900 flights, or 185,000 seats, for travels between January 15 and February 13, totaling the number of seats available during Tet to 1.6 million.

Despite these widely publicized plans, it turns out that the airlines have sold tickets for additional flights even before they are allowed to offer the extra services.

“These announced additional flights are only based on the plans of each carrier, not the final official figures,” CAAV head Lai Xuan Thanh told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

Thanh said it is not simple to add new flights, as “a carrier has to have enough resources.”

According to the official, 67 percent of the extra flights have departure time between 11:00 pm to 7:00 am the following day.

“Aviation employees are not allowed to work overtime, given the importance of their job,” he said, implying that there will be not enough airport personnel to work after midnight.

Thanh said the extra flights may even paralyze operations of the Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

“In 2016 the flight frequency at Tan Son Nhat is already 28 percent higher than normal rate,” Thanh said. “If the frequency is raised further, the whole airport will be completely stuck.”

Thanh underlined that even during the busy Tet occasion, the frequency at Tan Son Nhat must be maintained at 40 landing/takeoff per hour.

“The CAAV will also thoroughly check the operation capacity and service ability of each carrier and will not approve their extra-flight plans if they fail to ensure these requirements,” Thanh said.

“If you offer additional flights and then fail to serve passengers, they will get a lot angrier than usual.”

Dang Tuan Tu, director of Tan Son Nhat, said the airport also needs the final approval from the CAAV for the additional flights, rather than just the announcement from airlines.

Tu made no secret that his airport will continue to be overloaded during Tet.

The airport is expected to handle some 32 million passengers by the end of this year, far surpassing the designed capacity of only 25 million passengers a year, according to the director.

Airlines to take responsibility

Passengers who already bought Tet tickets said they do not care about the business between airlines and the aviation watchdog, as “the carrier should by all means offer service as stated in the tickets it sold to passengers.”

“It is not about money, as we may get a refund for the booked tickets,” said Trang, a Ho Chi Minh City-based worker who plans to fly home in the north-central province of Ha Tinh. “What matters more is we are unable to return home for Tet.”

Commenting on the risk passengers now face with the additional flights, Thanh said the airlines have to take full responsible for their passengers.

“Just because airlines have already sold tickets for additional flights does not mean that CAAV must approve these services,” Thanh said.

The CAAV added that it is carriers who wanted to be allowed to sell tickets before getting approval for additional flights in the first place.

Under the old regulation, airlines were only allowed to start selling tickets after they obtained approval for the extra services.

“But airlines later petitioned that they be allowed to sell tickets in advance, and they will be fully responsible for any problems that may arise, to which the government has agreed,” Thanh said.

-Tuoi Tre News

[Hurricane88]

More tour guides needed to cater for Vietnam’s tourism boom

December 12, 2016

‘Training schools have not been able to meet the demand.’

Low quality of hospitality training in Vietnam is pulling back the strong growth of the country’s tourism sector, and the problem of labor shortages can get worse in the coming years, industry insiders have warned.

Figures released at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday showed that the country has 346 hospitality training facilities for the sector, but somehow the number of skilled workers remains low.

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Vu The Binh, vice chairman of Vietnam Tourism Association, said tourist arrivals have been increasing steadily in recent years, which requires the workforce, particularly the group of well-trained professionals, to grow by around 20 percent a year.

According to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, Vietnam had 2.25 million people working in the tourism sector by the end of 2015, including 750,000 directly serving tourists.

“Training schools have not been able to meet the demand. There is a very high risk of a severe labor shortage,” Binh said, as cited by the Saigon Times.

Representatives of tourism companies at the conference said graduates often lack important skills, especially language competency.

A lack of foreign-language speaking guides has prompted many travel firms to break a ban and hire foreign guides.

In 2014, there were media reports that many groups of Russian tourists to the central resort town Nha Trang were led by Russian guides.

The country this year deported 64 Chinese working as illegal tour guides in Nha Trang.

Authorities in Da Nang in June also found some 60 Chinese tour guides working illegally and providing false information about Vietnam to tourists.

Foreign visitors to Vietnam topped nine million in the first 11 months, up 25.4 percent from a year ago and already surpassing the full-year 8.5 million target for 2016.

The country expects the total number of foreign tourists for 2016 to go up by more than 22 percent from last year, to a record high of 9.7 million.

-VNExpress

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

when cannot afford then no choice...cramp but still liveable and happy...

Wait until the kid sleep liao then no choice have to do it quietly, the wife want to moan also cannot......

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by KangTuo

Quick go to the ktv above sheng siong. plentiful of your choice from vn, cam and local

Ermmm you sure or not???? dun anyhow pom hor wait we go no have gonna squeeze your tummy big big the next time we meet..... just went FC last week all the above 22 MILFs

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by smallplayer

Why bother to start when there is no end?
Hahaha. Might as well find someone who is easier for u to tame..hahah

If got SSSSSSSYTs I dun mind if got no end

Find someone else ah??? You volunteering to intro to me ah???

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by smallplayer

Troi oi...
Lam tinh I like to be below one.
Like this I mati liao.

Harlo uncle for your size you better start doing some missionery or doggie position exercises liao

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Thom07

What's xnn?
Can eat or not.

Meet the saviour close to a year later when I first arrived...
The locals are so bloody unfriendly and racist.

Of cos can eat, only problem is can digest or not???

The only fair part about the locals there is that they are racist to almost all other nationalities including ang-mo

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Thom07

Uncle oi... I'm not KT leh.
Anything that walk, crawl, move also can eat.

Syt and still syt for me.
Leave all the sssssyt for you.

Correction - even those not moving one KT also will eat

Wah thuong you deep deep lah for the last statement

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Thom07

That place still around? Wow.

You tiam tiam go there steal eat how many times already?

KT nowadays where will waste time & $$$ to go this kind of place leh, he rather go those legal wetnam houses liao machiam like a panda - straightaway eat shoots & leaves

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

The Business Association of Overseas Vietnamese expects about 130,000 overseas Vietnamese to fly home for the upcoming Lunar New Year, or Tet, the country’s most important holiday.

The WLs Association of Overseas VBs expects about 1.3m overseas VBs to fly home for the upcoming Lunar New Year, or Tet, the country’s most important holiday

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^