Red eye fly

A Vietnamese man from southern Vietnam is living his dream, or everyone’s dream: traveling the world by motorbike. On the 794th day of his journey, Tran Dang Dang Khoa reached Sydney - the two-third mark on his seven-continent motorbike journey. “Suddenly I opened my eyes and I saw Sydney, an important milestone which marks two-thirds of my world journey on ‘The Memo’ and over two years since my departure,” Khoa shared with his 237,500 Facebook followers on August 3. A picture capturing nature in a rural area in Australia taken by Khoa has received positive feedback from his Facebook followers. “The Memo” is the name of the motorbike he has used for the trip, which began in June 2017, and the vehicle has so far taken him through around 50 countries. After Australia, the Tien Giang Province native expects to travel to Africa and the South Pole before heading home to Asia. In the middle of his journey, Khoa met with a Tuoi Tre News … [Read more...] about Vietnamese man visits 50 countries, and counting, on motorbike

How about the first time you went to a supermarket in your new country overseas only to discover a favourite food item had a price tag that nearly knocked you off your feet? Or you visited accommodation while apartment hunting that was expensive yet missing what you consider to be basic features? When we move abroad we have to decide which toys, trinkets, and habits we’ll keep in our adoptive country and which we’ll let go. I recently wrote an article about the cost of living for an expat retiree in Vietnam and discovered during research that I was spending money on things out of habit, not need, and that I could save a fair amount by tweaking priorities:  How much does it cost an expat retiree to live in Vietnam? - Tuoi Tre... Part of that exercise was a sanity check on where money was going because the cost structure is quite different in Vietnam, so simply converting prices from a foreign currency to Vietnamese dong (VND) only tells part of the story. Some … [Read more...] about Out of sight…

Chili’s American Grill & Bar opened on Saturday in SC VivoCity Mall in HCM City's District 7. — Photo courtesy of Chili’s The American chain of restaurants Chili’s American Grill & Bar opened its first Chili’s in Viet Nam at SC VivoCity mall in HCM City’s District 7 on December 7. The Golden Gate Red Hots Joint-Stock Company and Brinker International Inc worked together to bring Chili’s American Grill & Bar to the country. The restaurant serves Tex-Mex style meals with steaks, burgers, ribs and fajitas and drinks such as margaritas. Ha Thuc Tu, managing director of the Golden Gate Red Hots Joint-Stock Company, said: “We see the potential for a restaurant model with a bar for high-income people who need a diversity of services. “Chili’s decided to choose this group as the main target audience for the long-term development orientation of Chili’s ® American Grill & Bar in Viet Nam." David Weston, … [Read more...] about US restaurant chain Chili’s opens in HCM City

A high school student in Gia Lai Province has set up 15 charity projects to help students from low-income families. Le Van Phuc Le Van Phuc, a 12th grader at Hung Vuong High School, is leading the Fly to Sky Charity Club. Phuc has had outstanding academic achievements. He has been an outstanding student for eleven academic years and won third prize at provincial and national geography competitions. He was also selected to attend the 8th Vietnam Youth Union National Congress. "I have loved geography since I was in 10th grade. I started reading more books about it which helped me a lot during the competitions," he said. "I have never stopped reading books and online. Continuous learning has expanded my vision and I have also visited authors to learn more." Phuc will be admitted to the university after winning third prize in the national geography competition. Phuc said he wanted to continue learning geography at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National … [Read more...] about High school student devotes to charity works

The reserve, hailed as ‘the lung of Mekong Delta,’ spans 2,800 hectares and is home to over 500 kinds of plants and animals, some of which appear on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Moreover, the Lung Ngoc Hoang is the home of 330 plants with vessel, also called trachea, which the most specialized and efficient conducting structure of xylem (fluid-conducting tissues) in botany; many of them can grow in saltwater. Additionally, 206 terrestrial vertebrate animal are living in the nature reserve and 77 species of fish Especially, the reserve is comprising of other nature reserves such as Lung Chuoi Nuoc, Lung Tran, Lung Ba Dia, and Lung Sen. By CAO PHONG - Translated by ANH QUAN Tags: fresh air Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve natural habitat terrestrial vertebrate animal botany … [Read more...] about Enjoying fresh air in Lung Ngoc Hoang Nature Reserve