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[jackbl]

The following include some other, less common, surnames, in alphabetical order:

An: 安
Ân: 殷
Bạch: 白
Bành: 彭
Cao: 高
Châu: 周
Chu: 周 or 朱
Chung: 鍾
Chử:褚
Diệp: 葉
Doãn: 尹
Đàm: 譚
Đào: 陶
Đinh: 丁
Đoàn: 段
Giang: 江
Hà: 何
Hàn: 韓
Kiều: 喬
Kim: 金
La: 羅
Lạc: 駱
Lâm: 林
Liễu (in northern or central regions): 柳
Lục: 陸
Lương: 梁
Lưu (in central or southern regions): 劉
Mã: 馬
Mạch: 麥
Mai: 梅
Nghiêm: 嚴
Phí: 费
Phó: 傅
Phùng: 馮
Quách: 郭
Quang: 光
Quyền: 權
Tạ: 謝
Thạch: 石
Thái/Sái: 蔡
Thi: 施
Thân: 伸
Thảo: 草
Thủy: 水
Tiêu: 蕭
Tô: 蘇
Tôn: 孫
Tống: 宋
Trang: 莊
Triệu: 趙
Trịnh: 鄭 (almost exclusively a northern surname, based around Thanh Hóa)
Trương: 張
Văn: 文
Vĩnh: 永
Vương: 王
Vưu: 尤

[Ramirez]

+8 return to you bro jackbl

[jackbl]

Can you find your equivalent surname in Vietnamese?

[lovelyboy]

Originally Posted by Ramirez

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How Vietnamese youths abuse Singaporean live-streaming service Bigo Live

A new social network featuring live video streaming has become a new platform for Vietnamese youths to showcase their lifestyles, including non-traditional ones, as the world watches on.
At one o’clock in the morning recently, over 6,500 users were on Bigo Live, a live video streaming social network that allows its users to broadcast their activities live via smartphones to their audience of choice, and were still wide awake watching a group of three youths club-dancing for their camera phone.
Out of the blue, a girl in the group nicknamed Trang said, “I’ll flash when the view count reaches 7,000. Hurry up, guys!"
Three minutes later, the girl smiled suggestively and pulled up her shirt to reveal her breasts in front of 7,234 live viewers.
This is only one example of hundreds of sexually explicit live streams broadcast daily on Bigo Live, which has attracted over one million users, most aged 18 to 25, since its launch in Vietnam on May 18, boasting 700,000 active daily users.

Getting high ‘live’
Logging into a chat room on Bigo Live, developed by a Singaporean company, at 20 after midnight last Monday, one Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporter found himself watching a live broadcast of a group getting wasted inside a secluded room.
The camera holder, who identified himself as V. from Ho Chi Minh City, said the group was “eating candies” (a Vietnamese slang term for synthetic drugs).
Over 3,000 viewers watched on as the group proceeded to take the drugs, while comments popped up furiously onto the screen, many encouraging the group and asking questions like; “are those colored candies?” or “these guys are for real,” and “shoot it up, guys.”
After a few minutes, V. turned the camera at his face and wrapped up on about a dozen pink pills on a white piece of paper.
V. then proceeded to distribute the drugs to everyone in the room, before the lights went out and club music could be heard in the background.
By the time V. ended his live stream, the application’s view counter had calculated that as many as 15,502 viewers were watching the group get high in real-time.
At 12:30 am in another chat room, a young man with username N.O. was live-streaming himself touching the private parts of a girl lying by his side, all the while asking where his viewers would like to see him touch the girl next.
Despite ending after ten minutes and 49 seconds, the sexually explicit live broadcast had already attracted as many as 17,414 live viewers.
In another chat room, two female undergraduates dressed in suggestive clothes could be seen dancing erotically in front of the camera while sharing their Facebook addresses to the 23,332 viewers at two in the morning.

When life goes live
Apart from drug use and sexually explicit content, the social network also sees its young users sharing their everyday activities to an audience of hundreds or thousands.
Over 15,000 users watched a girl live-stream herself getting a tattoo on her breast for over an hour at a tattoo shop in Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City last Monday.
L., a live streamer from Ho Chi Minh City, dozed off during one of her live broadcasts, but 627 persistent viewers still hung around to watch the girl sleep!
White-collar workers and deliverymen also joined in the trend, broadcasting their whole day of work live on the social network for the whole community to see, some even going as far as live-streaming themselves and their family members brushing teeth, cooking, or changing clothes.
Though the application does not allow viewers to save broadcast videos, many users still used a third-party application or a separate camera to record the live streams and have uploaded them on other video-sharing sites such as YouTube or even porn sites.
A closed Facebook group named ‘Hunting live pretty girls’ has been created with nearly 17,000 members to share photos, clips, and even personal information of ‘hot’ female live streamers.
Q., one of the two aforementioned female undergraduates, said she deeply regretted the live streams after discovering her explicit clips available on YouTube.
“I was just having fun with the new app and was only hoping to bring the fun to my viewers, too,” Q. said. “I didn’t know they would record everything and upload it on the Internet. I’m deeply worried.”
Ngoc Lam, a 21-year-old man from Ho Chi Minh City, said he had to uninstall the app after having used it for a week, saying it was “addictive.”
“Nighttime is when youths unleash their ugly self, and since nobody knows anybody on the social network, inappropriate content keeps flooding in, and yet for some it’s a pleasurable hobby,” Lam said.

Recruiting ‘baits’
Ethan Van, marketing executive of Bigo Live in Vietnam, said that his company had not been registered for business in the country despite having opened a representative office in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, on May 18.
However, according to Tuoi Tre’s findings, the company has already recruited and signed contracts with hundreds of female Vietnamese students to work as ‘baits’ by using the social network at least 40 hours every month with a minimum wage of VND3.2 million (US$143).
Commenting on the application’s negative impacts, Van said his company took full responsibility for the issue, adding that he was personally saddened by that.
According to an, his company has taken measures to restrict accounts that violate the application’s terms and conditions.
More specifically, he said, the company had established two teams of supervisors to monitor the two markets in Vietnam and Singapore, who had already blocked over 700 accounts that go against the Vietnamese sense of decency.
Van added his teams are on the watch 24 hours a day, and would deliver warnings to first-time violators, before blocking them completely for further abuse.
The marketing executive added that Bigo Live currently had seven million users worldwide, and that the company is looking to cooperate with a university in Ho Chi Minh City to deploy an e-learning application in the near future.

[jackbl]

Middle name

Most Vietnamese have one middle name, but it is quite possible to have two or more, or even no middle names at all.

In the past, the middle name was selected by parents from a fairly narrow range of options. Almost all women had Thị (氏) as their middle name, and many men had Văn (文). More recently, a broader range of names have been used, and people named Thị sometimes omit their middle name.

Thị is by far the most common female middle name. This word expresses possession; for example, "Trần Thị Mai Loan" is a person who has the given name of "Mai Loan" and the surname "Trần", and the combination "Trần Thị" means "A female person belonging to the Trần family". The combination is similar to Western surname formation like "Van" in "Van Helsing", "Mac" in "MacCartney" etc. Male middle names include Văn (文), Hữu (友), Đức (德), Thành (誠), Công (公), Quang (光) and many others.

The middle name can have three usages:

To indicate a person's generation — brothers and sisters share the same middle name, which distinguish them from the generation before them and the generation after them (see generation name).
To separate branches of a big family. For example, "Nguyễn Hữu", "Nguyễn Sinh", "Trần Lâm". However, this usage is still controversial. Some people consider them to be dual family names, not family name + middle name. Some families may, however, set up arbitrary rules about giving a different middle name to each generation.
To indicate a person's position in the family, also known as birth order. This usage is less common than others.
However, nowadays most middle names do not have those usages. They can either have a meaning or just be there to make the full names more euphonious.

[jackbl]

Given name

In most cases, formally, the middle name is actually a part of the given name. For example, the name "Đinh Quang Dũng" is separated into the surname "Đinh" and the given name "Quang Dũng". In a normal name list, these two parts of the full name are put in two different columns. However, in daily conversation, the last word in a given name with a title before it is used to address a person, for example "Ông Dũng", "Anh Dũng", etc. where "Ông" and "Anh" are words to address the person which depend on age, social position, etc.

The given name is the primary form of address for Vietnamese. It is chosen by parents and usually has a literal meaning in the Vietnamese language. Names often represent beauty, such as bird or flower names, or attributes and characteristics that the parents want in their child, such as modesty (Khiêm, 謙).

Typically, Vietnamese will be addressed with their given name, even in formal situations, although an honorific equivalent to "Mr.", "Mrs.", etc. will be added when necessary. This contrasts with the situation in many other cultures, where the family name is used in formal situations, and is a practice similar to Icelandic usage and, to some degree, to Polish practice. It is similar to the Latin-American and southern European custom of referring to some people as "Don" along with their first name.

Addressing someone by his or her family name is rare though not unheard of. In the past, married women in the north were called by their (maiden) family name, with Thị (氏) as a suffix. In recent years, doctors are more likely than any other social group to be addressed by their family name, though this form of reference is more common in the north than in the south. Some extremely well-known people are sometimes referred to by their family names, such as Hồ Chí Minh (Bác Hồ - "Uncle Hồ") (however, his real surname is Nguyễn), Trịnh Công Sơn (nhạc Trịnh - "Trịnh music"), and Hồ Xuân Hương (nữ sĩ họ Hồ - "the poetess with the family name Hồ"). In the old days, people in Vietnam, particularly North Vietnam, addressed parents using the first child's name; for example, Mr and Mrs Anh or Master Minh.

When being addressed within the family, children are sometimes referred to by their birth number, starting from one in the north but starting with two in the south. This practice is less common recently, especially in the north.


Examples Edit
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is the former Prime Minister of Vietnam. Nguyễn is his family name, Tấn is his middle name, and Dũng is his given name. In formal usage, he is referred to by his given name ("Mr. Dũng"), not by his family name ("Mr. Nguyễn").
Likewise, the famous general and military leader, Võ Nguyên Giáp, is referred to by his given name, i.e. "General Giáp".

[jackbl]

3 jailed for duping Vietnamese women into prostitution in Malaysia

A Can Tho City court Tuesday handed down jail terms to three people for duping seven women into going to Malaysia to work as sex workers.
Tat Cam Linh, 34, got 13 years, Mai Thi Be Thuy, 39, got 10 years and Luu Tuan Khanh, 29, got five years, all for human trafficking.
According to the indictment, Linh married a Malaysian man in 2009 and migrated to his country, where she met an unidentified Malaysian man and a Vietnamese woman who own a bar and a massage parlor.
The couple offered Linh up to VND6 million (US$270) for bringing Vietnamese women to Malaysia to work as sex workers.
Linh then asked Thuy and Khanh to join her and they managed to send seven Vietnamese women to Malaysia by offering to get them high-paying jobs in coffee shops and others.
It all began to unravel last August when Thuy took a Can Tho woman, identified only as T, to a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City before flying to Malaysia.
T phoned home and told her family to report to the police after overhearing one of the trio speaking on the phone.

[jackbl]

Vietnam road accident nightmare: Bus... Stop!

It’s border visa-run time again; time to board the scary bus with the scary driver, write a letter to my mum, and try to look at anything except the road.
Each time I travel from Hoi An to Da Nang via the coastal highway it’s clear that the road has become a Formula 1 race track with buses and taxis vying to be the first to anywhere. When I first arrived in Vietnam in 2006, I remember the media controversy over calls for speed limiting devices on large vehicles and tougher penalties for traffic violations. It seems not much has changed.
After another horrific bus accident near Da Lat on June 19, I’m fed up and quite angry. When is the bus madness going to stop? When are the company owners going to be punished for giving their drivers schedules that push them to meet deadly timetables? When are the drivers going to be brought to account for overloading their vehicles, dangerous driving, and reckless risk taking on the roads?
What’s the cause of the carnage? Arrogance from drivers? Greedy owners running too many services? Probably both, alongside a combination of poor driving skills, lack of sleep, speed, alcohol, and stimulants. Bus companies, not rail services, are the backbone of this nation’s transportation system; yet the value of human life doesn’t seem to play a role in that system.
Smaller ‘people carriers’ can be thrown into this mix as well. There are all too many tourists, local and foreigner, with horror stories from road travel in Vietnam. This is an obstacle to developing a safe, reliable, and efficient trans-national transportation system.
As the summer rolls on and tourism increases with the coming cooler months and upcoming national events, the number of bus passengers is only going to increase, creating the potential for even more road fatalities.
The quality of roads also adds terrifying hazards to this deadly mix, but at least it seems the government is taking any steps to fix road widths and other issues. Maybe not as quickly as we’d like, but it is happening.
Like a lot of Vietnamese problems, a major part of the issue is that it is deemed ‘reactionary’ by law enforcement and transportation companies who, instead of rectifying what is wrong, dump the responsibilities and penalties solely on the drivers. Shouldn’t there be more pressure on the owner/operators so that they can be pro-active in saving lives and preventing accidents?
It might be cost-effective to set up a traffic hotline for the anonymous reporting of bus and truck traffic behavior and impose a strict requirement that ALL large vehicles have their company name on their sides and rear. The idea of the hotline would not only be to report violations but also to identify companies whose drivers are constantly creating traffic trouble. It would be a fast track to getting to the heart of the matter: the companies who force drivers to meet unrealistic schedules and shift people and goods as quickly as possible without considering the consequences.
I’m aware that much of this is already in operation in some parts of the country, and that’s one good step in the right direction. Many companies make enormous profits while paying their drivers a pittance, a commission, or a percentage – however the penalties for when problems occur don’t seem to fit the crimes. Up the ante and make the companies pay not only the fines but the additional costs for damage to the environment and communities who lose their loved ones.
Australia, my birth country, has experienced an ongoing battle for decades over the terrifyingly regular event of truck accidents brought about by driver fatigue and the over-use of stimulants that keep drivers awake, as well as the speeding caused by tight transport schedules.
In Vietnam, rural speeds tend to be higher and driver fatigue issues dull reaction times, so accidents can quickly become more severe. Curiously, while Australia made laws limiting the legal time commercial drivers could drive before taking a compulsory break, it made little impact until many companies were examined in detail and penalized.

Since Vietnamese drivers are prey to many forms of pressure, have a weak union presence, and lack the ability to organize effectively against employer pressure, the national government has to take on the burden pressuring companies to accept slower and better driver habits.
One last point – much of Vietnam’s billion dollar tourist trade is moved by plane and bus. With each new tourist destination that opens, particularly in the mountains and other attractions such as Phu Quoc, bus services are expanding extremely quickly, yet the level of traffic control hasn’t changed much in the last ten years. Why put the tourism dollars and human lives at risk if it’s going to cost the nation so much in heartache, resources, money and reputation?

[jackbl]

Dun try even it is in Vietnam, and think you won't get caught ......

Vietnamese-American man jailed for having sex with teen girl

An appeals court in the southern province of Ca Mau on Thursday handed down a three-year jail term to a Vietnamese-American businessman who was found guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old girl.
Tieu Van Luan, the 57-year-old owner of a large hotel in Ca Mau, was earlier given a three-year suspended sentence in May. Local prosecutors appealed that decision, saying the punishment was "too lenient."
The court also sentenced Lam Thi Chau, 40, who brokered the illegal sex service, to three years in jail on Thursday, instead of a suspended sentence.
Luan and Chau were arrested in June 2015 after the girl's family reported that Chau had kept their daughter against her will.
Investigators said the girl began to work as a waitress at Chau’s restaurant in May 2015.
But Chau forced her to do sex work and collected half of the money.
Luan admitted to paying VND500,000 (US$23) twice to have sex with the teenager at a local hostel.
Sex work is illegal in Vietnam. Having sex with a child between 13 and 16 years old is a serious crime punishable by up to 15 years. Procuring sex with those in that age range may also lead to a 15-year jail term.

[cabayasi]

Originally Posted by jackbl

Dun try even it is in Vietnam, and think you won't get caught ......

Credit 11 as return, thanks bro and beward of underage

[jackbl]

Vietnamese woman rescued from brothel in Dubai: report


A Vietnamese woman has been rescued from a brothel in Dubai after a group of criminals kept her there against her will and forced her into sex work, an official from the Vietnamese embassy in the United Arab Emirates told news website VnExpress on Tuesday.
Nguyen Thanh Quang, the first secretary of the Vietnamese embassy in the UAE said it is working with local police to bring the woman home.
The embassy was informed by some Vietnamese in the country on June 26 that the woman, known as Nguyen, was being detained, beaten and forced into prostitution by a group of Vietnamese criminals.
The embassy then sought help from local police.
The police raided the brothel and arrested 11 people, including four Vietnamese men.
After being rescued, Nguyen told the police she was lured to travel to Dubai for a week by an acquaintance named Linh.
After she arrived in Dubai on a tourist visa, the Vietnamese criminals detained her, took her passport and forced her to do sex work in an apartment.
The embassy said there has recently been an increase in the number of Vietnamese women who forced into prostitution in Dubai. Most of the other victims were promised well-paid jobs.
After they arrived in Dubai, they were forced to into prostitution, according to the embassy.

[jackbl]

The minuses of Da Nang tourism

Editor’s note: Quang Kiet and his family would have had a perfect vacation in the central coastal city of Da Nang if they had not encountered “some minus points” when touring it.
In this piece sent to Tuoi Tre News, the Vietnamese recounted how his family was upset by the trip.
Definitely we will return to Da Nang City because it is an appealing destination.
We will take it into careful consideration when catching taxis as well as visiting Ba Na Hills next time, however.
Last week, my family visited Da Nang to let the youngsters enjoy a relaxing holiday.
Embraced by the Han River, the city was an ideal place to visit, I admit. The streets and beaches were clear of trash; there were loads of public beaches and eateries in general offering fixed prices, with staff showing good manners.
However, there are some issues that I see as the “minuses” of the city’s tourism, which somewhat lessened the comfort I had expected from the trip.
Here come the cab drivers who try their best to take visitors to stone sculpture stores to earn commissions from the store owners.
My family and I took a taxi to visit Hoi An City to spend our first day.
As soon as we departed from the hotel, the driver advised us to visit some stone sculpture facilities.
When I refused to do so, the driver kept urging, “You just drop by for 15 minutes. It’s OK to buy nothing.”
As my family did not change their mind, he pleaded “Please help me earn a bit!” and told us that those taxi drivers bringing visitors to the said stores would receive tips from the shop owners and a crate of beers in the case of taking many visitors there a month.
Tired of being hustled, we agreed to let him carry us to a stone sculpture facility on Truong Sa Street.
When arriving at the shop, we saw a lot of taxis there waiting for visitors to go around the place.
On the second day, after exploring Ngu Hanh Son Mountain, we had the same experience as another taxi driver begged us to visit a stone sculpture store for 15-20 minutes when taking us to the hotel.
In the evening, my family decided to dine at a well-known seafood restaurant on Vo Nguyen Giap Street and chose a table outside to relish the gentle breeze.
During two hours dining there, we were continuously solicited by many food hawkers despite the signpost of local authorities banning such behavior.
But it was nothing compared to the trip to Ba Na Hills, a horrid journey, I must say: two hours queuing in sweat under the scorching heat; totally worn out by the crowd jostling for the cable cars to the amusement park.
When my family and I managed to arrive at the park, it was completely disappointing as we were stuck among a sea of people. I really felt pity for the kids as they were all tired and almost “fainted” at noon, so they hardly had any chance to play there.
I hoped that the Ba Na Hills attraction would offer 50 percent discounts to those visiting in the afternoon to solve the crowding problem of the morning.

[jackbl]

For those that rides motorbikes in Vn please take note...

Motorbike drivers face higher fines from next month

Motorbike riders in Vietnam will face higher fines for traffic violations like driving on the sidewalk and running red lights under a decree that will take effect August 1.
Captain Tran Thi Hong Nhung of the Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Police Agency said most fines would be around VND400,000 (US$18), an increase of VND100,000-200,000 from now.
Driving on the wrong side of the road and on the sidewalk, except to enter a home, will be fined VND300,000-400,000.
Le Hong Viet, deputy chief inspector of the city Department of Transport, said these are among the most common violations by motorbike drivers.
The new decree, which replaces a 2014 document, stipulates fines of up to VND400,000 for motorbikes jumping a red light. Violators will also have their driving license revoked for 1-3 months.
Drivers using cell phones or audio devices will be fined VND100,000-200,000, up from VND60,000-80,000.
Those who drive in the tunnel without headlights will face fines of VND500,000-1 million.
According to Nhung, the new decree maintains the same fine for those driving motorbikes without a license or with their license temporarily revoked. In addition to seizure of the vehicle for a week, violators face fines of up to VND1.2 million in case of motorbikes of under 175cc and VND6 million for 175cc and above.
Vietnam has nearly 2.75 million cars and 45 million motorbikes.

[jackbl]

Survey finds 30 percent of coffee in Vietnam has no caffeine

If you are loyal customers of sidewalk cafés in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City, there is real probability that you have been sipping the favorite drink with almost no caffeine.
More than 30 percent of the coffee consumed daily in four Vietnamese provinces and cities have an insignificant content of caffeine, the Vietnam Standard and Consumers Association (Vinastas) announced Thursday, citing findings from its latest survey.
Most of the coffee with a poor caffeine content is served at sidewalk and small-sized cafés, according to the survey, which examined 253 black coffee samples taken from Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and the southern provinces of Binh Duong and Soc Trang between June and July.
The samples were randomly taken from coffee shops at different places, including coffeehouses, small-sized cafés, hospital canteens, sidewalk cafés and mobile coffee carts, according to Vinastas.
The survey indicated that 30.04 percent of the taken samples have a caffeine content of less than one gram per liter. Five samples were found having no caffeine at all.
The no-caffeine coffee is mostly served at all of the serving places surveyed, except for the standard coffeehouses, according to the survey.
More alarmingly, of the number of coffee cups sold by the mobile carts, hospital canteens and sidewalk café, those with little or no caffeine content accounted for as much as 47.54 percent.
Vuong Ngoc Tuan, deputy general secretary of Vinastas, said the survey only looks into the low-cost segment of coffee consumption in those localities.
“We will survey more locations in the coming time,” he told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. “We will also examine other quality parameters rather than just the caffeine content.”
A cup of coffee that has no caffeine obviously means it is in fact a mixture of different chemicals which are greatly harmful to drinker health.
Vietnam’s overall coffee production remains unchanged at 29.3 million bags (60kg each) in the 2015-16 marketing year (MY), the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its ‘Vietnam: Coffee Annual’ report released last month.
The Vietnamese coffee production for MY2016/17 is forecast at 27.3 million bags, a seven percent drop compared to that of MY2015/16 due to adverse weather conditions, El Nino and possibly followed by the La Nina phenomenon, according to the report seen by Tuoi Tre News.