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Hi everyone, If you and your friend (boy friend, girl friend or just friend of the same gender) have a heated argument and you both don’t talk for a week. Now you feel like you want to make peace, how do you start the peace-making process? I mean, your habit of peace-making, such as just [...]

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Hi everyone, Here is a little more about man-woman relationship. A pickup line is a line a guy uses to start a conversation with a woman he hasn’t met before. Like, “You look so familiar, have we met before?” (No, I don’t know you. Go away and leave me alone ) In your experience, what [...]

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Hi everyone, All the responses to yesterday’s question on “eternal love” are on the practical side, namely, “our love is eternal until it it dead.” Hey, no Romeo and Juliette anymore? Well, then, let’s continue today with a practical question on man-woman relationship–prenuptial agreement. This is the contract signed by the bride-to-be and the groom-to-be [...]

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Hi everyone, When we’re in love, we say, “I love you forever, I love you till eternity…” like the BFF sign that everyone has been translating in the friendship songs. But chị Đông Vy and anh Phạm Công Luận say today “Hãy nói yêu thôi, đừng nói yêu mãi mãi!” Hah! What do you say [...]

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Dear CACC, I like these guys. That is the kind of job I would love doing. But more than that, the streets of Saigon are very unsafe. We need special police to clean them up a little. Have a great day! Hoanh . Những pha rượt đuổi ngoạn mục của trinh sát Tiếng nẹt pô [...]

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Dear everyone, This textile plant in Hanoi polluted the air so bad that the people living in the area couldn’t handle it anymore.  Hundreds of them got into the plant’s yard and requested the plant management to stop burning whatever that was that polluted the air. I think that is very wise.  When it comes [...]

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Dear brothers and sisters, In this news article, the parents do not want HIV-positive children to be in the school with their children. This looks like white parents against black children several decades ago in the US. This is sad. My heart is broken. What do you say? Hoanh . Trẻ nhiễm HIV bị từ [...]

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Dear everyone, Below is the photos of life in a garbage dump in Hanoi at night. These garbage pickers obviously help the environment and recycling greatly. But what a sad job! I feel sorry for them and admire them as heroes at the same time. Have a great day. Hoanh . Đêm ở bãi chứa [...]

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Dear everyone, This new Afghan law allows a husband to starve his wife if she refuses to have sex. How about that? No sex, no food, lady! Hey wife, sex for food! Does this sound like rape? What do you say? Have a great day! Hoanh

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Dear everyone, MP Nguyễn Thị Hoa asked Minister of Construction Ho Nghia Dung to visit the Misery Road (highway 32), with so many miseries for people. I love the question. It is interesting that the Minister couldn’t answer “Ma’am I have visited it already.” Wonder if the Minister has ever been out to look at [...]

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Dear everyone, Vietnam and China are talking about problems on the sea. We’ll keep our fingers crossed. Here is the news. Please read it and I will say something after you finish reading. Đàm phán Việt – Trung tập trung vào vấn đề trên biển Phó thủ tướng Phạm Gia Khiêm, trong buổi tiếp Trưởng [...]

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Dear everyone, The following article says that many construction projects in Hanoi are rushing up to meet the Thang Long 1000 celebration. You know, with all the problems with bad construction in Vietnam, such as the flooded Khâm Thiên Tunnel, the fatal accident at Landmark Tower, the collapsed bridges… I am very concerned when I [...]

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Dear Everyone, Here is the good news that China has agreed to return all arrested Vietnamese fishermen. Trung Quốc thả toàn bộ ngư dân và tàu cá Việt Nam Ngày 11/8, người phát ngôn Bộ Ngoại giao Việt Nam Lê Dũng cho biết, Trung Quốc đã thả tàu cá và toàn bộ ngư dân Việt [...]

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Dear everyone, China is asking for Vietnam’s help in searching for Chinese fishermen missing due to Morakot storm. This is a very good development and Vietnam has given a positive answer. I hope this will lead to further cooperation in keeping the Hoang Sa area safe for Vietnamese fishermen, regardless of the contested status of [...]

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Dear brothers and sisters, The latest news is that 500 thousand students have failed to make it into university. Here is the piece: Nửa triệu thí sinh đã trượt đại học Sáng nay, sau hơn 2 giờ tranh luận, Bộ Giáo dục Đào tạo đã công bố điểm sàn đại học khối A và D [...]

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Hi everyone, Chị Thùy Dương post an article today about HCMC’s lack of encouragement for innercity biking. Here is the excerpt: Thành phố không dành cho xe đạp TT – Tôi quyết định đến sinh sống và làm việc tại TP.HCM một năm sau khi tốt nghiệp Đại học Otago (New Zealand). Sống ở đây [...]

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Hi everyone. China has just arrested 12 more fishermen from Quảng Ngãi province. Obviously China is sending a very clear message that it does not tolerate Vietnam’s assigning Hoang Sa as a district of Quang Nam. That is understandable. But the Vietnamese people now may have less problem with China than with our own government, [...]

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Hi everyone, Probably you have heard about the proposal to have 36 New Streets for Hanoi, as the counterpart for 36 old streets of Hà Nội 36 Phố Phường. The new proposal is to use the names of 36 capitals of the world to name 36 new streets of Hanoi, and to have reciprocals from [...]

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Hi everyone, Archbishop Vincent Nichols said MySpace and Facebook led young people to seek “transient” friendships, with quantity becoming more important than quality. He said society was losing some of its ability to build communities through inter-personal communication, as the result of excessive use of texts and e-mails rather than face-to-face meetings or telephone conversations. [...]

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Hi everyone, Hanoi and Saigon are on high alert about H1N1 flu. Is your routine disrupted? Are you wearing a mask at work or school? Is there some story, some thought, to share about all this? Have a nice weekend. Hoanh

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Hi everyone, This problem has been here a month. 400 monks in tu viện Bát Nhã are living without electricity and water, and they have to rely on the villagers’ supplies. Here is the article on Giác Ngộ. And here is the BBC article. Briefly, Zen master Thích Nhất Hạnh’g group in France spent their [...]

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Hi everyone, Within one week, there were 3 on-the-job accidents, killing 4 persons and injuring 3 persons at Landmark Tower in Hanoi. Hanoi’s labor department is suspending the construction until July 31 for investigation. Why only till July 31? Why not suspend it indefinitely until Vietnam’s labor authorities say, “We think it is  safe to [...]

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Hi everyone, The war demise of Tam Toa church is saved the government as a historical landmark–to stand as the evidence of war, or “war crime.” The parishioners of Tam Toa want to have the church back. It seems the government has talked about giving them land to build another church, but the parishioners just [...]

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Dear CACC, In yesterday’s DED, our friend Thu Vang in the Bay Area (northern California) sent us the information about human trafficking among the poor in Vietnam. All boils down to one thing: People are so poor. They are desperate and they will do anything, real or imagined, to get out of poverty. For the [...]

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Hi everyone, Hồ Xuân Hương is the center of Đà Lạt. And, look at this picture: . . Đà Lạt: Hồ Xuân Hương ngập rác TTO – Được nghe nói nhiều về vẽ đẹp thơ mộng của Hồ Xuân Hương nhưng chuyến đi Đà Lạt vừa rồi tôi đã thực sự thất vọng. Công viên [...]

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Hi everyone, In the following news article, Jetstar Pacific refused to fly two deft passengers because “these passengers cannot hear instructions” on the airplane. Obviously the airline bases its discriminatory on the ground that the law doesn’t require the airline to provide communication assistance to the deft. Why don’t we have such a law? And [...]

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Hi everyone, Chi Thùy Dương provided link to an article about artists around the nation and around the world chipping in labor, ideas and materials for the ceramic arts on the road along the Red River. We also have some pictures of the road here. . . What do you think about this project?  Or [...]

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