Comments on: Who wants to be a millionaire?

By: Yein Jee

Yein Jee — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:21:23 +0000

Minh… from what I read 50,000 was only introduced in 1990…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_dong

I know Wikipedia could be wrong sometimes… but I couldn’t find other information about this.

By: Minh

Minh — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:22:23 +0000

“in 1985 the largest banknote was 500, but now 500,000.”
Correction of typos.
in 1985 the largest banknote was 50,000 but now 500,000.

By: Yein Jee

Yein Jee — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:00:58 +0000

Anon#9… it’s not as easy as you hope. Vietnam government is controlling their currency tight, you probably won’t find any banks outside of Vietnam offering their currency exchange.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:58:08 +0000

I’d like to have some of that to paste on my wall or add to my foreign collection, lol. Think I’ll go see the exchange bank and load up on some.

By: Emilie

Emilie — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:49:14 +0000

that very true in vietnam…the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:37:20 +0000

That’s a very good and interesting observation Yein Jee about the rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. Most people have always believed that only happens in a capitalism society. It in fact, can happen in any system.

By: Yein Jee

Yein Jee — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:05:06 +0000

The biggest challenge with Vietnam economics nowadays is the distribution of wealth… it seems like the rich are getting richer while the poor poorer.

By: Emilie

Emilie — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:54:43 +0000

vietnamese people count money very fast. the money is probably going to increase over the years since it’s economy is increasing about 8% a year, last time i checked. everything was so cheap but money ran out fast when i thought everything was worth buying.

By: Yein Jee

Yein Jee — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:11:24 +0000

kyon… I wish it’s as easy as you suggest.

Iris… the locals would just ignore the three zeros behind, making it easy to count… just that foreigners might not accustom to it.

The Vietnamese are certainly trained well when it comes to counting money though… both V-dong and USD are used in Hanoi, and they could convert the currency rather easily.

bb… thing is, most Vietnamese are millionaires :p

By: bb

bb — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:50:33 +0000

haha…seems really confusing.
but at least you can hold up all that money and act rich! XD

By: Iris

Iris — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:39:46 +0000

lol..then i bet Vietnanese can count very well:P

By: kyon

kyon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:16:59 +0000

why can’t they start all over and cut all the zeros :p