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Need to get confirmation that this is true, i got the info from tweeter, but i have not seen anything else yet.
Ok let's keep posting. Exciting times ahead. Ah the military chief (he looks grim) is accompanied by members of general staff of all three branches the ground force, the airforce and the navy plus the coast guard.

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Vietnam expands MRO capability to support Sukhoi fighters
Jon Grevatt - IHS Jane's Defence Industry
09 August 2017

The Vietnam People’s Air Force (VPAF) has advanced local capability to support its fleets of Russian-built fighter aircraft partly through support provided by Ukraine, state-run media in the Southeast Asia country have reported.

The VPAF’s primary maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) facility is known as the A32 factory, which is based in Da Nang on Vietnam’s east coast. According to recent reports, the A32 factory has received technical assistance from Ukraine as part of a series of facility upgrades.

The A32 factory is able to carry out extensive support and modernisation to its Russian-made combat aircraft as well as their onboard systems and engines.

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Best medicine is to let the reality continue to flourish I say....neutral people can judge for themselves.

In Vietnamese Television station now is playing an Indian film called as " The 8 years old Bride" and It gets more attention from Vietnamese women. Do you know about this film @Nilgiri ? I guess Vietnamese government is trying to import Indian film and movie to replace for the Chinese films. A good way to expand Indian culture to Vietnam, and open the path for Indian product. You know Korea is a good example to sell their product through the film in oversea. This film I guess It was donated by the Indian government to strengthen the relationship between two countries.
 
Rosneft drills for oil more in Vietnam eez waters by next year. Let's see whether the Chinese will threaten the Russians with war.

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In Vietnamese Television station now is playing an Indian film called as " The 8 years old Bride" and It gets more attention from Vietnamese women. Do you know about this film @Nilgiri ? I guess Vietnamese government is trying to import Indian film and movie to replace for the Chinese films. A good way to expand Indian culture to Vietnam, and open the path for Indian product. You know Korea is a good example to sell their product through the film in oversea. This film I guess It was donated by the Indian government to strengthen the relationship between two countries.

You mean this TV show?:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balika_Vadhu

In Vietnam, the drama began airing under the title, Cô Dâu 8 Tuổi (8-Year-Old Bride) on TodayTV from 11 November 2014 and ended on 11 February 2017. The drama has enjoyed immense popularity in Vietnam and has been the number one show in the country since its premiere.[6] The show was the ninth most searched item in 2015 in Vietnam on Google as confirmed by the annual Google Trends end-of-year report.[7] The popularity of Balika Vadhu is part of a wider appeal towards Asian dramas in Vietnam, which experts say have a "cultural edge over their Western counterparts" due to cultural similarities that are found in soap operas imported from South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia

I have heard of it, have not really watched any of it though. It seems to have won many awards...I will give it a try when I get some time :tup:

You are correct though, I hope to see much more cultural exchange between the two countries....Korea definitely good example of how soft power permeated with TV shows and movies very far and wide, esp in Asia.

Can you suggest me any of the best Vietnamese made TV shows/movies that have been dubbed/subbed into English?
 
In Vietnamese Television station now is playing an Indian film called as " The 8 years old Bride" and It gets more attention from Vietnamese women. Do you know about this film @Nilgiri ? I guess Vietnamese government is trying to import Indian film and movie to replace for the Chinese films. A good way to expand Indian culture to Vietnam, and open the path for Indian product. You know Korea is a good example to sell their product through the film in oversea. This film I guess It was donated by the Indian government to strengthen the relationship between two countries.

To import such culture to Vietnam? To kill people who eat beef? To defecate openly on the streets? to live like sub-humans in the sea of slums in every Indian big cities, to rape tourists and to re-produce like rabbits?

Vietnam is one of the most civilized country on earth. Most of our bad behaviours are rooted from the low standard of living and century-long wars, which can be improved with time and when people getting richer. But some cultures can never been improved.

I doubt you are serious.
 
To import such culture to Vietnam? To kill people who eat beef? To defecate openly on the streets? to live like sub-humans in the sea of slums in every Indian big cities, to rape tourists and to re-produce like rabbits?

Vietnam is one of the most civilized country on earth. Most of our bad behaviours are rooted from the low standard of living and century-long wars, which can be improved with time and when people getting richer. But some cultures can never been improved.

I doubt you are serious.

What?? :what: I admit the Indian culture is not really good in some aspects and need to improve. Vietnam is just a third world country and wants to get the higher location in the world we need to learn anything ( which we suppose it is good to Vietnam) from Chinese, Japanese, Korean..not except Indian. Do you know Sundar Pichai, He inspired motivation to a lot of Vietnamese technology engineer. Vietnam is not good like you said "most civilized country on earth" It is so ridiculous when every day the killing, the raping...are still happening. Your reason you give to explains for Vietnamese crime, uhm, Not convince anyone. Instead of insulting others, you should give the question why we don't learn the good thing from them and eliminate their bad things. Dear
 
What?? :what: I admit the Indian culture is not really good in some aspects and need to improve. Vietnam is just a third world country and wants to get the higher location in the world we need to learn anything ( which we suppose it is good to Vietnam) from Chinese, Japanese, Korean..not except Indian. Do you know Sundar Pichai, He inspired motivation to a lot of Vietnamese technology engineer. Vietnam is not good like you said "most civilized country on earth" It is so ridiculous when every day the killing, the raping...are still happening. Your reason you give to explains for Vietnamese crime, uhm, Not convince anyone. Instead of insulting others, you should give the question why we don't learn the good thing from them and eliminate their bad things. Dear

What I say is from broader perspective, not on daily issues. Killing and raping happens every where, and as a poor country, what Vietnam has achieved on this regards is among the best, comperatively.

I have made my research on culture of many countries and hopefully, when I retire, I can have free time to publish something about people and cultures, although my background is more about technical and management.

The main difference between my viewpoint, which is inspired from Lew Kuan Yew, and western liberals one is that people are inherently different and races are different. I am not racist in the sense that I hate people based on their race, but I believe races are not the same. Something cannot be changed.

The more I know about culture of other countries in the world, the more I think our culture is superior. As a manager in one of the biggest organization in Vietnam, I have met a lot of people from different countries with different races. I have applied my theory into management and can be proud to say, my staff are the best managed in whole organization.

Yes, Vietnam should learn a lot from other countries, even from India. Every culture have something which others can learn. But not in the sense what our Indian friends on this forum like to brag about.
 
What?? :what: I admit the Indian culture is not really good in some aspects and need to improve. Vietnam is just a third world country and wants to get the higher location in the world we need to learn anything ( which we suppose it is good to Vietnam) from Chinese, Japanese, Korean..not except Indian. Do you know Sundar Pichai, He inspired motivation to a lot of Vietnamese technology engineer. Vietnam is not good like you said "most civilized country on earth" It is so ridiculous when every day the killing, the raping...are still happening. Your reason you give to explains for Vietnamese crime, uhm, Not convince anyone. Instead of insulting others, you should give the question why we don't learn the good thing from them and eliminate their bad things. Dear

India, together with China and Egypt are the 3 ancient civilizations that had massive ancient knowledge and wisdom, much of which we are still trying to figure out. They can be considered the 3 root civilizations of the human race. Only ignorant / uneducated people can ignore that.

Some samples of the contributions of Indian civilization:
What the ancients knew - India

Science of Time in Hinduism | Scientific India | Part 1

The magic of Vedic math - Gaurav Tekriwal.

BBC - History of Indian Mathematics Part-1 of 2

BBC - History of Indian Mathematics Part-2 of 2.

Sanskrit Language: The Most Scientific, Ancient, Spiritual - *Full*

Brilliant stuff !! Why Cow is Holy ? - By London Based Physicist Jay Lakhani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRZzvbhc7ww

Extraordinary Facts of Vedas That Made Western Scientists Spellbound || Source of Inventions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_dEgFdjoM

@Nilgiri @Farhan Bohra
 
What I say is from broader perspective, not on daily issues. Killing and raping happens every where, and as a poor country, what Vietnam has achieved on this regards is among the best, comperatively.

I have made my research on culture of many countries and hopefully, when I retire, I can have free time to publish something about people and cultures, although my background is more about technical and management.

The main difference between my viewpoint, which is inspired from Lew Kuan Yew, and western liberals one is that people are inherently different and races are different. I am not racist in the sense that I hate people based on their race, but I believe races are not the same. Something cannot be changed.

The more I know about culture of other countries in the world, the more I think our culture is superior. As a manager in one of the biggest organization in Vietnam, I have met a lot of people from different countries with different races. I have applied my theory into management and can be proud to say, my staff are the best managed in whole organization.

Yes, Vietnam should learn a lot from other countries, even from India. Every culture have something which others can learn. But not in the sense what our Indian friends on this forum like to brag about.
What are things the Indian friends on this forum like to brag? What I see about Indian friend on PDF. It is They want to make friend with Vietnam and have the friendly eyes toward Vietnam, Can you give the Indian name who talk shit and insult Vietnam on this forum for nothing? We even had not war with them, and I don't see any Indian who insult Vietnam. You always said the Vietnam and Vietnamese are superior to them but In fact, You piss off your leg. Are you really Vietnamese? If you are really good like Vietnamese you said, you should inbox me to discuss Indian culture instead of insulting them on the PDF. Proud about your nation is good but insulting another country to prove your country is superior is not good, Dear. Add more: Vietnamese culture is poor, not superior than anyone, in the page, Nigiri asked me some films of Vietnamese but Im really shy when I dont know how to answer him. So sad. But true
 
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What are things the Indian friends on this forum like to brag? What I see about Indian friend on PDF. It is They want to make friend with Vietnam and have the friendly eyes toward Vietnam, Can you give the Indian name who talk shit and insult Vietnam on this forum for nothing? We even had not war with them, and I don't see any Indian who insult Vietnam. You always said the Vietnam and Vietnamese are superior to them but In fact, You piss off your leg. Are you really Vietnamese? If you are really good like Vietnamese you said, you should inbox me to discuss Indian culture instead of insulting them on the PDF. Proud about your nation is good but insulting another country to prove your country is superior is not good, Dear.

Sister Xiao, from your profile, I see that you are 25 years old and Aviet is 45 years old, but it seems like you are the older adult and he is the child that needs you to teach him a few things.
 
India, together with China and Egypt are the 3 ancient civilizations that had massive ancient knowledge and wisdom, much of which we are still trying to figure out. They can be considered the 3 root civilizations of the human race. Only ignorant / uneducated people can ignore that.

Some samples of the contributions of Indian civilization:
What the ancients knew - India

Science of Time in Hinduism | Scientific India | Part 1

The magic of Vedic math - Gaurav Tekriwal.

BBC - History of Indian Mathematics Part-1 of 2

BBC - History of Indian Mathematics Part-2 of 2.

Sanskrit Language: The Most Scientific, Ancient, Spiritual - *Full*

Brilliant stuff !! Why Cow is Holy ? - By London Based Physicist Jay Lakhani https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRZzvbhc7ww

Extraordinary Facts of Vedas That Made Western Scientists Spellbound || Source of Inventions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_dEgFdjoM

@Nilgiri @Farhan Bohra

Indian civilization greatly affects almost the entire Asean civilization

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Indian cultural zone Dark Orange The Indian subcontinent Light Orange Other countries culturally linked to India; notably Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Southern Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and Indonesia (excluding the easternmost Indonesia region where Indian influence is non-existent). Yellow Regions not included in Indian cultural zone, but with considerable current or historical Indian cultural influence, notably Afghanistan, Tibet autonomous region, Yunnan province, and the Philippines.

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Hinduism expansion in Asia, from its heartland in Indian Subcontinent, to the rest of Asia, especially Southeast Asia, started circa 1st century marked with the establishment of early Hindu settlements and polities in Southeast Asia.

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What are things the Indian friends on this forum like to brag? What I see about Indian friend on PDF. It is They want to make friend with Vietnam and have the friendly eyes toward Vietnam, Can you give the Indian name who talk shit and insult Vietnam on this forum for nothing? We even had not war with them, and I don't see any Indian who insult Vietnam. You always said the Vietnam and Vietnamese are superior to them but In fact, You piss off your leg. Are you really Vietnamese? If you are really good like Vietnamese you said, you should inbox me to discuss Indian culture instead of insulting them on the PDF. Proud about your nation is good but insulting another country to prove your country is superior is not good, Dear. Add more: Vietnamese culture is poor, not superior than anyone, in the page, Nigiri asked me some films of Vietnamese but Im really shy when I dont know how to answer him. So sad. But true
VN policy toward India is driven by strategic interest so India toward Vietnam. nothing wrong about it. Nations cooperate if their interests are allied. In respect to culture, well VN is the only the country in entire the region that is sinized, while the rest is indinized. however common culture and custom never hinders conflicts, confrontations and wars we haven seen much in Europe or between Vietnam and China.

Look at the tension with the Chinese. they threaten us with war if we continue to drill in our international recognized EEZ waters because our work "violates" their claim. you can see how much they care about good neighbourhood and international laws. VN backs down because we are not ready yet. but if anyone knows VN habit we will know we will come back. at the recent Asean summit in Manila, the Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says: “At this time, if you ask who is carrying out reclamation, it is definitely not China – perhaps it is the country that brings up the issue that is doing it.” He apparently accused of VN doing land reclamation. sure we do, but Wang Yi lies as satellite images reveal. unfortunately the new leadership in the Philippines support the Chinese aggression for a handful yuan.

the Chinese perform massive land reclamation in the Paracels, stationing all sorts of defence and offensive weapons on the islands with fighter aircraft capable to launch aerial attack on Vietnamese mainland.

we need to respond.

https://amti.csis.org/paracels-beijings-other-buildup/?block1

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An interesting article in Global Times, the mouthpiece of CCP China Communist Party, revealing Vietnam secret influence on one of the most influential US Think Tanks: Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).



http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1058196.shtml

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Report claims Hanoi's influence in shaping think tank's agenda in Washington
Source:Globaltimes.cn Published: 2017/7/26 19:45:18


Editor's note: A report entitled "How Hanoi's Hidden Hand Helps Shape a Think Tank's Agenda in Washington" was posted by Greg Rushford on July 11 on www.rushfordreport.com.


Next Tuesday, July 18, will be another big day for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which has been one of Washington's most prestigious think tanks for more than a half century. The Seventh Annual CSIS South China Sea Conference, as have its previous incarnations dating to 2011, will once again draw public attention to Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea. Speakers with impressive national security credentials will be flown in from Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, and elsewhere in Asia. They will be joined by leading American authorities from such respected institutions as the U.S. Naval War College and its Center for Naval Warfare Studies. Sen. Cory Gardner, a Republican from Colorado who chairs the Foreign Relations Committee's Asian panel, will kick off the day with a speech on "Renewing American Leadership in the Asia-Pacific."

So who has been generously paying for conferences aimed at encouraging the importance of renewing American leadership in Asia? CSIS President and CEO John Hamre has been ducking the question for the past six years. Last July, for instance, CSIS informed the public that its sixth annual South China Sea conference had been "made possible by general support to CSIS."

That's not only too vague to convey real meaning, but a flat-out "misrepresentation," according to a source who prefers to remain anonymous. To substantiate that charge, the source has provided me internal "Confidential" CSIS documents that show exactly where the money has been coming from.

The memoranda, e-mails, and other records reveal that Hamre has had a secret angel — in Hanoi.

And the angel has had an important say in who has been invited to the annual CSIS maritime conferences, and who hasn't. CSIS's secret benefactor is an arm of Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The unit, called the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, reports to Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and the Communist Party, according to its official website. Pham Binh Minh, currently Vietnam's deputy prime minister, is a senior Party member who has served as foreign minister since 2011.

Since 2012, Vietnam's government has given CSIS more than $450,000 to hold the annual South China Sea conferences. Over the years, CSIS has added another $55,000 from the think tank's internal accounts, the sources of which are not identified in the documents I have been shown. CSIS chief Hamre declined to respond to persistent requests for his comment.

Questions about transparency

This is not the first time that questions have been raised in the press about CSIS and shadowy contributions from foreign sources. On September 7, 2014, for instance, the New York Times published an article headlined "Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks." Reporters Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams and Nicholas Confessore tracked millions of dollars from foreign governments that have been flowing into influential Washington think tanks, including CSIS, in recent years. The murky money "has set off troubling questions about intellectual freedom," they noted, citing instances of scholars whose opinions seemed to be unduly influenced by financial considerations.

In response to the inquiries from the Times, CSIS agreed to release a list of more than a dozen foreign government donors including Japan, Sweden and Turkey. But the disclosure from CSIS chief Hamre was semi-transparent at best. CSIS "declined to disclose details of its contracts with those nations or actual donation amounts," the newspaper reported.

Currently, the CSIS website discloses eleven foreign governmental donors. The United Arab Emirates, for instance, has contributed "$500,000 and up," for unspecified "regional studies." Saudi Arabia and Turkey have chipped somewhere between $100,000 - $499,999," again unspecified. And donations between $5,000 - $99,999 have come from five other governments including Kazakhstan and Germany. No contributions are now listed from the government of Vietnam.

Hanoi's Hidden Hand

That some Vietnamese money has been given to CSIS, however, is noted elsewhere on the CSIS site — tucked away under gifts received from 48 foundations, non-governmental organizations, and "Nonprofit Donors." The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam is listed as having donated at least $5,000 to CSIS, but not more than $99,999. What the DAV is, or what the money was intended for, other than the usual unspecified "regional studies," is not disclosed.

There is nothing anywhere on the CSIS site to indicate that the DAV is an official arm of Vietnam's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Nothing to suggest that the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam advises the foreign minister "in the formulation, planning and implementation of the foreign policy of the State," as it notes on its own website. To glean that DAV also participates in "academic exchanges" with research institutions, inside Vietnam and overseas, one has to go to the DAV website, where CSIS is not mentioned.

The official connections between CSIS officials and the Vietnamese government, according to the documentation I have been shown, date to April 25, 2012. That's the day the first memorandum of understanding between CSIS and a Vietnamese diplomat was inked. Ernest Bower signed on behalf of CSIS as the think tank's senior adviser and director of its Southeast Asia Program. Since 2011, Bower has also been the president and CEO of the BowerGroupAsia, an international consulting firm that has offices in Vietnam and other Asian countries.

Tung Nguyen Vu, who in 2012 was the deputy chief of mission of the Vietnamese embassy in Washington, signed on behalf of DAV. Hanoi contributed $129,236 to hold the second CSIS conference that July. CSIS added another $20,000.

Diplomat Tung — who is also referred to as Nguyen Vu Tung — is now a senior official with DAV; he appeared on a panel at the 2016 CSIS South China Sea conference, held last July 12. And at next Tuesday's seventh CSIS event, Dang Cam Tu, the deputy director of the DAV's Institute for Strategic Studies, will appear on a panel moderated by CSIS senior adviser Murray Hiebert.

Conflicted interests

Hiebert is also a senior adviser to the BowerGroupAsia. His work as a private business consultant does not appear on his CSIS bio, nor does he does not disclose his corporate affiliations in his public CSIS appearances. Hiebert has declined to explain his dual roles, and CSIS chief Hamre and the think tank's board of directors have also remained silent.

While the contractual arrangements with Hanoi specified that both CSIS and the Vietnamese would "together draft the agenda and the list of participants," CSIS also asserted its rights to full editorial independence and its "total discretion and final decision-making authority."

Those rights were put to the test in the days before last year's conference, which was held on July 12, 2016. That same day, an international tribunal in The Hague issued a ruling that determined that China has been acting in violation of its international legal obligations by destroying coral reefs to build weaponized artificial islands in waters with the Philippines' exclusive economic zone — putting both Manila and Hanoi in range of Chinese jet bombers.

The Paymasters' Power Play

Given the likelihood of intense public interest in the wake of the tribunal's ruling, CSIS staffers Murray Hiebert and Greg Poling asked China's ambassador in Washington, Cui Tiankai, to speak at the conference. Considering the beating that Beijing would be taking that day in light of the legal ruling, Hiebert and Poling thought that was only fair, and said so in their e-mail correspondence.

Poling informed Thuy on July 7 that he had heard from the Chinese embassy, and that Cui was willing to speak.

Thuy hit the roof.

"Murray, we cannot agree with the way you handle the conference," the Vietnamese diplomat informed Hiebert in one July 8, 2016 e-mail. "You invited Chinese Amb without consultation with us and now saying that you cannot disinvite him. Please understand that to create a forum for promoting Chinese propaganda is not our purpose."

Hiebert shot back: "Our goal is not to create a form for Chinese propaganda, but to create a credible forum that shows China's unacceptable behavior in the SCS [South China Sea]. Amb Cui won't convince anyone that justice is on his side. Allowing him to speak will give our all day event and the event's sharp criticism of China much more credibility without detracting from our message."

Finally, after the flurry of e-mails with the CSIS staffers had reached an impasse, Thuy put his foot down. "Murray, not allowing Chinese Amb to deliver his speech is not only my personal opinion but a strict requirement from our 'sponsors' and I don't have chance to convince them anymore."

Faced with the implacable attitude of the men with the money in Hanoi, Hiebert and Poling crafted a compromise position. "Thuy, Amb. Cui will not speak at the SCS conference tomorrow," Hiebert informed his Vietnamese benefactor on July 11. "Instead, he will speak later in the day after the conference has ended at the invitation of the China Power Program, which is not related to the SE Asia program that organized the conference."

As Hiebert had promised Thuy, the July 12 conference that the Vietnamese government had paid for adjourned at 4:30 p.m. Fifteen minutes later, at 4:45 p.m., the Chinese ambassador delivered his remarks, which were live-streamed.

There is an irony to this story. CSIS has earned genuine respect in leading foreign-affairs circles for its success in focusing the American public's attention on China's misconduct in the South China Sea. The rub is the evasiveness concerning who was paying the bills. That has been compounded by the business affiliations of CSIS officials who were raising money from the Vietnamese government at the same time they were promoting private business dealings in Vietnam.
 
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