@wildwildwest
Canadian expat in Vietnam
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Registration: 11 October 2017
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Surprising Reasons to Reject Countries X, Y and Z by cccmedia
The YouTuber and USA-born Expat, Dom Buonamici -- known as Mr. Second Passport -- lived in many countries before deciding to re-locate permanently to one in South America. He explains the top reasons why he rejected each country, some of the ...
The food in Thailand is notoriously spicy. The solution is to order it not spicy. The phrase, in Thai, is pronounced "my ped." cccmediaLove spicy. Read More
Good News in the Fight Against Covid-19 by cccmedia
Two ways that covid improved things in the past year... 1. We got better at coding for vaccines. 2. We got better at using our digital infrastructure against a pandemic. The elaboration is available at The Atlantic in an article, easily ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued an emergency authorization for the first time for an anti-covid pill to prevent severe reactions to the virus. It's for persons ages 12 and over. The pill will eventually be available to ... Read More
Looking for a English Christian Church in HCMC by superdave02
Hi! I just moved to HCMC and I am looking for an english church. I grew up in a charismatic Christian church (Non-denominational).... if this does not exist i still want to join a church family! Any help is much appreciated. Thanks everyone.
May I also recommend a good bilingual English-Vietnamese service? It's 5:30 pm on Sunday nights at Agape Church: 15A TÚ XƯƠNG P. 7 – Q. 3 – TP. HCM This weekend will be their Christmas service, expect gifts! Also, they have a ... Read More
Looking for a English Christian Church in HCMC by superdave02
Hi! I just moved to HCMC and I am looking for an english church. I grew up in a charismatic Christian church (Non-denominational).... if this does not exist i still want to join a church family! Any help is much appreciated. Thanks everyone.
Most of the Vietnamese I have met and learned are Protestant identify as "Christian" or "Evangelical Christian," even if the church might have the name Protestant on the sign. Probably this practice became common in Vietnam ... Read More
An issue to consider before opening a company for visa purpose by VanKhanh Ho
Lately some ex-pats contacted me about the idea of opening a company with 3 billion VND charter capital so that they can apply for an investor's TRC. This is, I think, possible if you have about 100 million VND in your account at this moment. ...
That sounds like a very expensive way around things. Read More
Looking for a English Christian Church in HCMC by superdave02
Hi! I just moved to HCMC and I am looking for an english church. I grew up in a charismatic Christian church (Non-denominational).... if this does not exist i still want to join a church family! Any help is much appreciated. Thanks everyone.
The first Protestant missionary in Vietnam was Canadian, not American, for the record. He brought his faith to Central Vietnam, where Protestants are commonly found to this day. Most Vietnamese in Vietnam attend Vietnamese-led churches, not ... Read More
Looking for a English Christian Church in HCMC by superdave02
Hi! I just moved to HCMC and I am looking for an english church. I grew up in a charismatic Christian church (Non-denominational).... if this does not exist i still want to join a church family! Any help is much appreciated. Thanks everyone.
I've noticed that many Vietnamese protestants don't consider Catholics to be Christian. This might be in part due to the practice of the worship or veneration of Mary and various saints, as well as the cultural intermixing of ancestor ... Read More
Ameliorated windows by Fred
https://ameliorated.info/ It seems a geek lot have taken all the crap out of windows, including forced updates, and released the code. My greatest problems with windows is the updates, with bloatware and privacy next on the list, but this appears ...
I wonder if you can update an installed version of Windows with this. Looks promising, I used to use stripped versions of XP back in the day. Read More
If you could live anywhere, where would you choose? by The Happy Migrant
Personally I am loving everything that Australia has to offer at the moment. Kama
Paraguay has low Corona infection. Read More
Is the vietnamcupid dating site legit by HenryJo
I joined yesterday. Today, found my inbox swamped with messages 'from girls'. Have a slight suspicion that not all the messages may be legit. Perhaps, to temp me in to signing-up for the paid subscriptions? Can anyone using the paid ...
They're all bots. :P Read More
Nylon Webbing & fittings by AndyHCMC
Hi, I'm trying to make a custom harness for a wheel chair, i'm looking for 2" (50mm) wide webbing and adjusting buckles and fixings if anyone knows where I can buy. Thanks in advance. Andrew
Make sure to spray it down with an antiviral spray when you receive it. Read More
Coronavirus - forced fever check by condo admin by Jurassic
Hello, all, Sorry to make my first post an unpleasant one. I received this email today from the apartment property management company (HCMC D2) and I am shocked and more than a little worried about potential for Kafkaesque insanity. Has anyone ...
SARS, from which novel coronavirus is descended from, was a weaponized version of the original coronavirus. COVID-19 also contains the HIV delivery mechanism and something similar to Ebola in terms of transmission (being spread through feces and ... Read More
Twitter account suspension by sanooku
Has anyone had their twitter account suspended? On Sunday I replied to a tweet and suddenly saw a message asking for my phone number. Searched online and saw a post on Quora.com saying emailing support had their account unblocked in less than 24 ...
Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, and other big tech companies are primarily owned by liberal extremists, and routinely censor, block, cancel accounts of those with conservative, Christian and pro-Western values. Ironically, they don't seem to ... Read More
Anyone willing to buy Samsung S7 in hcm? by macao87
As it says, selling Samsung S7. It has a little scratch and the color is rose gold. It's only the phone without charger and the box but the condition is very good. if anyone interested, let me know. I can show some pictures of the ...
If it's not the active model, it will get broken. :P I like the S7 series but you need good screen protection. Read More
Police check in HCMC: Why? by Kurterino
I would love to get some opinions on this, especially from expats who have been here a while. The other day, a regular Monday morning around 10AM, I was riding in HCMC and got stopped by a couple of cops on a motorbike. It wasn’t a checkpoint, ...
They might have just been doing their job. Read More