{"id":180,"date":"2010-01-17T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=180"},"modified":"2010-01-17T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T15:05:23","slug":"north-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/north-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"North Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I was with my friend in a town called Lao Cai in the northern part of Vietnam. It was there that I saw something that I would never have imagined- a Vietnamese casino which counts its bets in \u4eba\u6c11\u5e01<\/strong> <\/span>(RMB, Chinese currency). Situated on the border with China, the casino <\/span>primarily <\/span>attracted Chinese tourists who came to play \u767e\u5bb6\u4e50<\/strong> (Baccarat). One unsettling reminder of the dark side of border crossings surfaced when we saw a sign warning of prosecution for \u62d0\u5356\u4eba\u53e3<\/strong> (human trafficking). <\/span>As Lao Cai is next to \u4e91\u5357<\/strong> (Yunnan province), there are many <\/span>\u50a3\u65cf<\/strong> (Dai people) from Yunnan who cross the border to work in Vietnam. While in Lao Cai, we saw the \u65e5\u98df<\/strong> (solar eclipse) which occurred that day.\u00a0 Near Lao Cai is a <\/span>\u5c71\u533a<\/strong> (mountainous region) <\/span>called Sapa, where many of Vietnam’s ethnic minorities reside.\u00a0 From Lao Cai we made our way to <\/span>\u6cb3\u5185 <\/strong>(Hanoi) where we learned about <\/span>\u80e1\u5fd7\u660e<\/strong> (Ho Chi Minh) and tried to avoid spending our \u8d8a\u5357\u5143<\/strong> (Vietnamese dong) as much as was possible.
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\u4eba\u6c11\u5e01 ren2min2bi4 – Renminbi, the official name of the Chinese currency
\n<\/span>\u767e\u5bb6\u4e50 bai3jia1le4 – Baccarat, a card game found in casinos (and many James Bond films)
\n\u62d0\u5356\u4eba\u53e3 guai3mai4ren2kou3 – human trafficking\/smuggling
\n<\/span>\u4e91\u5357 yun2nan2 – Yunnan province
\n<\/span> \u50a3\u65cf dai3zu2 – the Dai people, one of China’s ethnic minority groups
\n\u65e5\u98df ri4shi2 – solar eclipse
\n\u5c71\u533a shan1qu1 – mountain regions\/mountainous region
\n<\/span> \u6cb3\u5185 he2nei4 – Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam
\n<\/span> \u80e1\u5fd7\u660e hu2zhi4ming2 – Ho Chi Minh
\n\u8d8a\u5357\u5143 yue4nan2yuan2 – Vietnamese Dong
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The other day I was with my friend in a town called Lao Cai in the northern part of Vietnam. It was there that I saw something that I would never have imagined- a Vietnamese casino which counts its bets in \u4eba\u6c11\u5e01 (RMB, Chinese currency). Situated on the border with China, the casino primarily attracted…<\/p>\n

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