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[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Actually not really repeating as all in entirely different context just that the person referred to is the same i.e. Transcended Being aka you


Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

who...certainly not me....I just a ordinary pee sai...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

This is why being one of those impatient ones to jump on the bandwagon immediately may not always be the best sometimes good sometimes bad

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

anyway now they selling 4G sim cheaper than 3G sim...no plans to change sim yet...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

They have renovated and relaunch but most unfortunately the management & girls is the same so frankly speaking I see no improvement from previous other than the newer furniture & wallpaper

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

hanoi....yawn...just ask naemlo hand hold services...

[bluestorm]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

They have renovated and relaunch but most unfortunately the management & girls is the same so frankly speaking I see no improvement from previous other than the newer furniture & wallpaper

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

ok noted senior! so you also stay at VN?? me too if have chance let come out have a couple drinks

[Hurricane88]

Saigon police bust ‘high-end’ prostitution ring involving models, actresses

August 18, 2017



Actresses and models in Saigon were providing sexual services for up to $2,500.

Police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested three Vietnamese women on Thursday for brokering sex work services.

Nguyen Thi Tien, 33, her sister Nguyen Thi Ngoc, 31, and Pham Thi Thanh Huyen, 32, were busted after police raided hotels on Ba Thang Hai and Pham Hong Thai streets and discovered four sex workers on Tuesday.

The women claimed to be amateur models and actresses, and were providing sexual services for $700-2,500 per client. The deals were brokered by Tien and Ngoc.

At the station, the sisters claimed to be working as hosts for entertainment shows, and had persuaded some of the actresses and models they worked with to become sex workers to earn some extra cash.

Police have identified more than 30 members of the high-end prostitution ring, and have summoned them for testimonies.

Around 3,000 people are believed to be working as sex workers in Saigon, according to official data.

The city has also seen an increase in male prostitution and the involvement of foreigners in the racket, as well as the appearance of “high-end prostitution” rings involving self-proclaimed actresses and models.

Ho Chi Minh City has asked the National Assembly, Vietnam’s legislature, to draft a law on sex work prevention to improve the legality and effectiveness of police crackdowns. – VNExpress

[Hurricane88]

Saigon's road space 167 years behind national standard: city leader

By Vi Vu, Thien Ngon August 18, 2017 | 12:04 pm GMT+7

Many members of the public have vehemently objected to the city’s stand against motorbikes, saying private cars are the main culprit.

Saigon’s top official has ordered the city to speed up road construction or face the prospect of an even more congested urban environment.

“With the current speed of construction, it will take another 167 years for Ho Chi Minh City to reach national standards,” Nguyen Thien Nhan, the city’s Communist Party chief, said at a meeting on Friday.

The city is “very short of road space,” he said.

Road density in the megacity is 1.98 kilometers per square kilometer, while the national standard for urban areas is 10 kilometers for every square kilometer.

He said the city needs “urgent breakthroughs” if it wants to end its dire traffic problems.

"We must speed up road construction by sevenfold in the next 25 years," he said.

A detailed roadmap has not been publicly discussed, and it’s not clear if the construction rush will involve the felling of more trees as it did for the recent metro line and road expansion projects.

HCMC, the country’s most crowded city with 13 million people, has been struggling to deal with worsening traffic congestion in recent years.

Last December, the city released reports showing that it has run out of space for vehicles.

There are now 7.6 million motorbikes and 700,000 cars in the city, with another 850 motorbikes and 180 cars hitting the roads every day, according to official figures.

There are plans in HCMC as well as Hanoi to restrict and eventually ban motorbikes from downtown streets by 2030. Cars will not be subject to this blanket ban, according to the plans.

Although no official debate has been heard, many members of the public have vehemently objected to the city’s stand against motorbikes, the country’s most popular and affordable means of transport.

“The sole cause of traffic jams in HCMC and Hanoi is private cars,” a VnExpress International reader wrote.

Another called it “delusional” for officials to think they can solve the constant gridlock with anything other than reversing the rapid car ownership trend.

According to Vietnamese transport experts, a motorbike carrying one or two people takes up 4.8 square meters of road, while a four-seater car can take as much as 45 square meters.

[Hurricane88]

Prostitution in Saigon: Sex trade finds a new face

August 17, 2017



Although illegal in Vietnam, prostitution can still be found all over the country’s biggest cities, with those controlling it coming up with countless ways to dodge the law and authorities seemingly helpless to stop its unchecked development.

There are shops in Saigon with “cafe” signs above them, but they won’t take a drinks order. After some exchanges, girls show up grinding, sitting on and rubbing clients’ thighs. That was the insight given by an anti-prostitution official in Ho Chi Minh City.

At a recent conference to evaluate the city’s efforts to curb what the authorities call “social evil” over the last six months, Tran Van Ngoi, a social affairs official in District 12, said that the number of so-called cafes offering girls had surpassed what inspectors are capable of checking. Along just a few kilometers of highway in his district, there are some 40 cafes that offer prostitution services, marked by two coconuts and a colored light at the front.

He said the cafes don’t do drinks, and there also barber shops full of girls but void of scissors and clippers, where female staff only offer massage sessions.

In central HCMC, prostitution has abandoned the streets and moved indoors, rendering most inspection efforts useless, said Le Thi Phuong Cham, another social affairs official in District 1. As it goes underground, prostitution is spreading across the whole city, said a representative of Cu Chi District’s social affairs agency.


According to Nguyen Thanh Huyen from HCMC’s Police Department, prostitution rings have gone online and are using social networks like Facebook and Zalo to woo clients. Sex tourism is also showing signs of returning.

HCMC has 17,545 businesses offering services likely to attract prostitutes such as clubs, bars, beer clubs and cafes.

As prostitution continues to grow, authorities are struggling to get a handle on it because as soon as they close down one brothel, others are alerted and shut down. A license revoked here will become another license issued there.

In the first half of 2016, inspectors checked 2,767 businesses and found more than half of them had violated regulations, fining them nearly VND11 billion ($500,000).

In 2013, Vietnam abolished compulsory rehabilitation for sex workers, slapping fines of $25 to $100 on them instead. The reason for the increase seems to be prostitutes returning to the streets after being encouraged to abandon their jobs and being given VND5 million ($240) for vocational training. The range of jobs available from this is narrow, and most of them pay a lot less than prostitution, according to a representative from HCMC’s Women’s Union.

Concluding the conference, Huynh Thanh Khiet, vice director of the city’s Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said that the increase in prostitution was due to legal policies that do not give officials authority to punish prostitutes who don’t pay their fines.

The city looks to compel all businesses offering services that could be linked to prostitution to sign an agreement not to do so and hang it on their shop fronts.

Vietnam’s abolition of compulsory rehabilitation for sex workers in 2013 has since sparked fierce debates among researchers, officials and lawmakers on whether the country should legalize sex work.

Proponents of legalizing prostitution in Vietnam say the move is critical because it could significantly reduce the transmission of HIV among sex workers, citing studies that indicate that in places where prostitution is illegal, sex workers are more susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases.

They also say even though Vietnam has declared its “war on prostitution”, it has continued to thrive anyway. The intent is not to stem prostitution, but to better manage it.

But those in the opposing camp are adamant that prostitution is an emblem of moral decadence and is strongly associated with organized crimes such as drug trafficking, human smuggling and money laundering.

Prostitution has been regulated by law in about 70 countries, including regional neighbor Singapore. The United Nations Development Program said in a report that sex is legally tradable in several countries in ASEAN, while all other activities such as soliciting prostitution or organized prostitution are not allowed.

Vietnam admits the presence of 33,000 sex workers, 2.6 percent of whom are HIV positive, according to official figures. Unofficial figures say there are 200,000 sex workers in Vietnam, 40 percent of whom are said to be HIV positive.

Of the estimated 250,000 Vietnamese suffering from HIV/AIDS, female sex workers are among the three most vulnerable groups, along with drug users and homosexual men.

[Hurricane88]

Vietnamese underwear firms lose market to foreign goods

August 20, 2017



Vietnamese underwear enterprises are dying slowly because they cannot compete with smuggled cheap Chinese products with false labels of origin.

Many of the domestic enterprises have scaled down production or sold their factories.

Ha Xuan Anh, chair of Son Viet Garment, said Vietnamese manufacturers mostly target the mid-end market segment, while the low-end and high-end market segments are dominated by foreign brands.



The high-end market segment belongs to global well-known brands with special design, high quality and high prices, while low-cost products are mostly from China.

“Chinese products are unimaginably cheap. The price of knickers is less than VND10,000 and underpants 10,000-20,000, while bras are tens of thousands of dong. We outsource bras at VND30,000 per product,” he said.

“China is the production base of the world with tens of thousands of factories. Their faulty products alone are enough to provide to the whole SE market and they have been entering the Vietnamese market across border gates,” he said.

Vietnamese manufacturers not only have to compete with each other, but also with counterfeit goods manufacturers. There are many enterprises which outsource to Chinese manufacturers and then label the products with their brands to sell as mid-end products.

V L, a manager of a shop which specializes in distributing mid-end products, confirmed that half of the products in her shop are from China. However, the selling prices are relatively high – VND400,000-700,000 for a bra.

“Consumers will refuse made-in-China products, so we have to label them with Vietnamese brands,” V L said.

Nguyen Thi Hong Trang, general director of Son Kim Fashion JSC, which owns Vera, Misaki and J.Buss brands, also said that many shops ‘cry wine and sell vinegar’.

Since smuggled goods distributors don’t bear any kind of tax, they are willing to offer high discount rates to retailers and run attractive sales promotions to attract customers.

“State management agencies loosened their control over the quality of the products in the market. I am sure 80 percent of low-cost underwear products are smuggled from China and they are available everywhere, at pavement kiosks, shops and supermarkets,” Trang said.

She said that many authentic manufacturers are dying because of cheap smuggled products.

Xuan Anh from Son Viet Garment said 70 percent of products made by Xuan Viet are for foreign customers (50 percent are made under outsourcing contracts, while the other 50 percent are made to order and sold under the FOB mode).

The remaining 30 percent is sold in the domestic market, but ‘just for fun’.

“We still make products for the domestic market, but we have lost the passion,” he said. VietnamBridge.Net

[FireShark]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Saigon police bust ‘high-end’ prostitution ring involving models, actresses

August 18, 2017



Actresses and models in Saigon were providing sexual services for up to $2,500.

The women claimed to be amateur models and actresses, and were providing sexual services for $700-2,500 per client. The deals were brokered by Tien and Ngoc.

Wow Actress sia; I wanna Minh Hang; does she do that???

[Killer_c]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

They have renovated and relaunch but most unfortunately the management & girls is the same so frankly speaking I see no improvement from previous other than the newer furniture & wallpaper

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Senior.. can I tag along in ur next outing?

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

who...certainly not me....I just a ordinary pee sai...

If a Godzillianaire in USD can be called a pee sai then people like me will belong to those micro-organisms & bacteria liao.. too small to be even seen by the naked eye ...

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

anyway now they selling 4G sim cheaper than 3G sim...no plans to change sim yet...

Most of us visitors are using prepaid cards so not much of a difference to us

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

hanoi....yawn...just ask naemlo hand hold services...

Ermmmm we were not tokking about Hanoi.....

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by bluestorm

ok noted senior! so you also stay at VN?? me too if have chance let come out have a couple drinks

Oh no unfortunately I don't, I'm just a frequent visitor thats all

And welcum to Wetnam TCSS

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Prostitution in Saigon: Sex trade finds a new face

August 17, 2017



Along just a few kilometers of highway in his district, there are some 40 cafes that offer prostitution services, marked by two coconuts and a colored light at the front.

So next time just look for the 2 coconuts and a coloured light in front and you can identify those "interesting" joints liao must be to symbolised kkj and 2 balls kekeke

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^