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@OceanBeach92107 I didnt ask you a question about visas . I have been here a lot longer than you and already know everything about visas. My question was about rooms around 2.5 mill vnd...so...I found one for 3 million . Very nice and Im very happy ... Read More

@Dannyroc3I googled, what day is the Chinese new year 2025 and got this answer: January 29, 2025.That is the first new moon (?) of the new lunar year. All the stuff ahead of that and all the stuff behind that that is referred to as "Tet" is just the ... Read More

45 days at the border free visa.....visa free whatever ...you know what i mean . - @ushfuhgGeneral Stickler here.Actually, I don't know what you mean. Those of us who have spent a bit of time here in Vietnam are keenly aware of the visa challenges ... Read More

A while ago, I posted about a New York Times article about the expat life.(An expat is an immigrant with money. . . . jokingly proffered.)Here are the letters to the editor that The NY Times printed today on their ... Read More

@Aidan in HCMC Retired music teacher, promoted to General Stickler . . . Read More

@cheehaI know this is a very old thread/post. Technically, it's not the music that's been translated, it's the lyrics. The music is the same (or similar enough to be recognized as the same) whether the words are English or Vietnamese. 🤪 ... Read More

@Aidan in HCMCIt unfolds like a Monty Python sketch of a news interview. 😂It's safe until the front falls off.It was towed outside the environment. Read More

@Aidan in HCMC,A friend of mine, now deceased, grew up on a farm in west-central Minnesota. The county agricultural assistance program included the service of artificial insemination of his dad's cows. The man who did the work, very much like having ... Read More

@Aidan in HCMC, when I first moved to Shanghai, China, I thought the operative meaning of a red light was simply a suggestion that you do something different, like slow down for example. Read More

@Aidan in HCMCI *think* I applied for my current visa back in March 2024, so there may have been water under the bridge since then. I see below here [now above] a post from someone who "used their passport photo" for the application. That may or may ... Read More

@ushfuhgHi, I took a photo of the photo page of my passport. I made a copy and cropped it down to just the photo. Then, I uploaded it to the eVisa site. That has worked three times -- eVisa granted each time. So the passport photo and the visa ... Read More

A man and a dog go into a bar.Bartender: Sir, you can't come in here with a dog.Man: But this is a talking dog!Bartender, getting irritated: It doesn't matter if the dog is a talking dog. You can't bring a dog in here, get out!Man [to dog]: What do ... Read More

@OceanBeach92107I agree with *some* of your points, among them, that the USA isn't the country it was when I was a little boy. Specifically, America was a country in which its citizens were, rightly or wrongly, confident about their place in the ... Read More

Here's a shared opinion from The NY Times. If it is what they say it is, you can open it without a subscription.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/opin … =url-shareI don't agree with the author about the attributes of an expat but I did like ... Read More

Hi all. My exchange was 100.00 for 26,000,000 two days ago. Gold shop as advised here before. Thank you - @TwinlessTwinAt 26,000 VND to USD $1, wouldn't $100 USD be 2.6 million VND, not 26 million? 26,000 = $1260,000 = $102,600,000 = $10026,000,000 ... Read More