Golf Courses Now Grow in Vietnam's Rice Fields

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3 {quote} A Harvest of Golf Courses From Vietnam’s Farmland
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/world/asia/...
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One solution is to change the tax structure, said Nguyen Dang Vang, vice chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee for Science, Technology and Environment.

“Golf courses are for rich people, account for vast areas of land, cause pollution and affect food security, so taxes should be appropriately high,” he told the newspaper Tuoi Tre in July.

And when rich people play, it appears that farmers and villagers pay the price.

Development of a single course can cost the land of hundreds of farms, displacing as many as 3,000 people, sometimes devouring an entire commune, Nguyen Duc Truyen, an official of the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Sociology, said at the recent conference. Only a small number of them find jobs on the new golf courses.

For example, the Dai Lai golf course in Vinh Phuc Province drove thousands of people from their land but provided jobs for only 30 local residents, according to a report in July on the Vietnam News Service. Farmers are typically compensated at a rate of $2 to $3 a square meter, the news service said, about the cost of a sack of rice.

Along with land, golf courses also put a strain on water resources, said Le Anh Tuan from the Can Tho University Environmental Technology Center. In a widely quoted estimate, he said an 18-hole course could consume 177,000 cubic feet of water a day, enough for 20,000 households.

“The dry season is critical,” said Kiet Tuan Le, the chief groundskeeper here at Ocean Dunes, 125 miles northeast of Ho Chi Minh City.“I’ve got to continually ask the water department, almost fight them, because there’s not enough water for the city people.”

Mr. Greve said that the resort was working to minimize its environmental impact, with a new strain of grass that was more salt-tolerant and would require less fresh water.

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When Vet
Met

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Two men, aged 60, walking in opposite directions of each other on the street of Hanoi - Both legs dragging on the ground!
When met, they looked at each other with sympathy and proud. One pointing to his feet, said:
** Ho Chi Minh Trail, 1969! How about you comrade?
The other pointing his fingers in backward direction, said
** Dog shit ! 20 meters behind my back, over there !
(Tens of thousand of crippled North Vietnamese Army vet are scraping a living, sometime illegal, on the streets of HaNoi and elsewhere)

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How much 6 USD/year support can accomplish in helping the poor in Vietnam by VC social program
http://www.vietchange.com/forum/archive/index...
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(Dan Tri)- Prime Minister has issued Decree on direct support policy to people in poor households and disadvantaged areas, the rate is 80-100 thousand VND per person per year.

The objective of this policy is the direct support to people in disadvantaged areas of poor households contribute to poverty alleviation, economic development - the social difficulties; help people improve productivity, quality of agricultural products and step by step approach to commodity production, through support of plant varieties, animal breeds with high quality.

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After April 1975, Vietnamese with French citizenship were allowed to leave Vietnam; and they were questioned by the police
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- In Vietnam, you have a good job, nice house. What's missing here that you want to leave?
- You're right comrade, but my wife wants to go
- You're a man, Couldn't you convince your wife?
- Dear comrade, but my parent and parent in law and all my children also want to leave.
- So let them go, but you must stay ... to rebuild the country.
- No can do, comrade, because I'm the only one who have French citizenship

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The Hot "Game Orica" Debate
of the HaNoi Poliburo

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Pham Van Dong said:
- Game Orica ! Anybody understand this?
Le Duan said:
- Maybe Uncle wants us to progress quickly, strongly, firmly as playing game orica
Pham Van Dong sighed:
- We already tried that and in China, Chairman Mao has also advocated "the Great Leap Forward", but all failed miserably, Uncle wouldn't tell us to follow the old track?

Nguyen Van Linh said:
- Or Uncle tell us not to play game anymore? and Getting down to do serious business
Le Duc Tho pointing his fingers at Nguyen Van Linh and yelled:
- How dare you to advocate not playing the Game? Revolution is a Life Game from the very start

Seeing the 2 sides geting angrier, Vo Chi Cong advocated for middle ground:
- Or Uncle tell us to play Game when we having progress and getting down to serious business in dead end time
Le Duc Tho gave the old man Vo a dirty look:
- The Communists must be resolute, decisive, not arbitrary!
The atmosphere getting more and more stressful, so Poliburo people steadily left.

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The "Game Orica" Decipher
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The next day, Pham Van Dong asked Dang Thai Mai, Tran Quoc Vuong, Nguyen Dong Chi, Dao Duy Anh,... but nobody can answer it. So Pham Van Dong left for Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh city in search for a pressing answer

Sitting in an outdoor cafe shop along Saigon river and pondering "Game Orica" of Ho Chi Minh spirit, he saw the statue of Lord Tran Hung Dao with his Right hand pointing to the East Sea. Suddendly he overheard some young students walking by, saying "Go West, young man". He asked Dr Nguyen Van Hao
- What did these students say ?
- Oh, that's the old advice for young American, in the old days, to go West, such as California
ect

- Do you have any idea about "Game Orica" ?
- Oh! that's one again! I heard this phrase in Moscow from street people there. And they explained to me:

"Game Orica" - if you interchange the syllables of the 2 words - it understood as "Go America" - so KGB won't bother you

- Eureka ! That's it! Thank you Mr Hao. You are of great service for the country for deciphering our great Uncle Ho's advice to get out of the current dire strait situation
Immediately Pham Van Dong stood up and headed back to HaNoi in a hurry

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And the rest is history
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Then, HaNoi secretly sent delegation after delegation to America, to Philippines, to Indonesia ... in a pressing campaign to ask America to suspend its policy of sanctioning Vietnam. The Communist Party gave millions of dollars to Nguyen Van Hao to carry out the mission in contacting senior American officials to complete the first step. With persistence, finally USA agreed to stop Vietnam embargo and established diplomatic relation with Vietnam. So the story went as the saying

Upon the expiry of Russian and China aid era
Now is the high time to ask America for helps

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Teacher Life under HaNoi Communist Rule
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A former Minister of Education went into cafe. the cashier greeted:
- Hello Sir Minister!
- Oh, you know me?
- Yes, before you were minister, I was already a teacher.
The former Minister sitting at the table, the waiter came and said:
- Welcome Sir, Minister!
- Oh, you know me too?
- Yes, while you were minister, I was a teacher.
As the former Minister stepped out, a beggar standing right at the door.
- Hello Sir Minister!
- Again, are you also a teacher?
- Yes, but not 'was a teacher' but 'being a teacher' now, I'm working here to earn extra money

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Pay No Bribe, and You'll Get VC ... Wild ... Monkey
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Walking to the couple, I said
- "I'm a public employee, interpreter for the police, people with me are police, here's my card"
And I said to my Japanese police friend:
- "Konishi, let this lady and gentleman see your badge"
But other police said that they do not belong to this precinct, they can not perform an enquest. My boss then asked us to give the couple the business card just in case they want to sue the Vietnam Embassy.

While Konishi tending the lady's wound, she said:
- "My name is Hoa, from Tan Binh District in Saigon. I married my Japanese husband for a year now. Today I came here to renew my Vietnamese passport; but the staff here demanded 60,000 Yen (~600 USD). I refused, only paid the official passport fee. Then this accident happened"

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13 July 2009 - Trouble, I Sense
http://meetmeinsaigon.blogspot.com/
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A VC police officer came to my rented house last night trying to make some money while trying to sound threatening, what a F*&ing B%#**(pardon my French). Oh, he made my knees shook and almost peed in my pants...(joke intended here).

What a turd, he didn't get anything in return, but an embarrassed expression on his face when he left. Yeah, i think i felt his irate frustration as he left the gate. Hahaha, don't you just love it when you use the law to slap the face of a law enforcement agent who's trying to be a leeching maggot?! Loving it. Muahaha.

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How many patents Hanoi Supreme Intelligence Have Produced?
http://web.datviet.com/blogs/forums/khoa-ha-c...
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According a recent report by the Rockefeller Institute (Australia Branch)

- After 30 years, oversea Vietnamese of 3 million, produced 15.500 patents around the world
- Thailand with 70 million people : 6500 patents
- Singapore with 5 million people : 7500 patents

While the Unified Vietnam of 85 millions under Hanoi Communist Rulers
, produced a shameful 258 patents

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VC Super Accountant
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A manager of a SOE energy company used the company fund to pay for his China trip. He even bragged that he had a super 5 year program accounting degree issued by his superior. He doesn't need to do any real work since there are a teamful of capable subordinates working for him
- You know, I want to travel to China. I just ordered my subordinates to 'prepare' paperwork with 40 millions VND expense. If whoever dare to complain, he can stay home". He added:

He was a guerilla in Cu Chi ... even very basic accounting is beyond his comprehension ... but he is a super accountant in Vietnam

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