A single town in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta has reported pirate attacks on 26 boats so far this year. They were all robbed or held to ransom, mostly by pirates from Malaysia, Cambodia, and Thailand.

The vessels are registered in Song Doc town of Ca Mau province and were attacked while fishing off the Vietnamese coast.

Nine of them were towed out of Vietnamese waters, two others had to pay a total ransom of US$4,500, and materials worth billions of dong were stolen from the remaining 15.

Source: Tuoi Tre – Translated by Minh Phat

By the way, they may be rich (malaysia, thailand) but they still have a low life. It is a shame we are still lagging behind those savages !

I would love to, but unfortunately I don't have the money to buy tickets to travel. fu-king pirates are all over the place.

what the hell is the Vietnamese Coast Guards or Navy doing? I heard the armed forces are pretty big down there.

The pirates are too fu-king fast!

thay can't navigate far off the coast, their ships , built by Vinashin, could be damaged at once

if only i were in charge... [tsk tsk tsk...] not a single innocent Viet soul would be given up dead for nothing.

Just off the Vietnamese coast? What is the Vietnamese coastal patrol doing?

I have other thing to worry about. That is not my job, but its the Vietnamese coast guard job.

i'll volunteer. how much do i get paid?

How about a medal for bravery in the face of combat. Or maybe a medal with the face of "Uncle Ho"

Ho Chi Minh Order

Gold star order

^can i have a house by the sea instead?

Land in Vietnam right now is very expensive. They probably won't even let you build any house by the sea because they would rather sell those land to make beach resort.

Kill 1000 and you get a MiG.

a mig? wtf am i going to do with that? gas is effin expensive, and i don't know how to fly. i would take a couple of vietnamese girls and a whole year supply of pho.

Or a MiG. Trust me dude. Take a MiG to the mall; total chick magnet.

Nothing says "Date me or I blow up your house" like a MiG.

Maybe a year supply of pho but Vietnamese girl is more expensive than that. Maybe we will give you one if you say take over singapore, malysia, or any other country for us.

okay. how about this, every pirate one hot vietnamese babe. the pho, non negotiable. also you're going to name a major street in vietnam "flip road". no tax for me when i go to vietnam. sinapore is a little too much for me.

to su, true true. you got a point there. but i don't know how to fly 'em. i'd need a chauffer.

Last offer, Take it or leave it!

I love the medals

I wonder why there are no girls in this chat room.....

pirates? what the heck..

Where is the Navy of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam? I thought it had a considerable amount of 'patrol boats' -serious.

The Royal Thai Fleet should intervene and wipe these pirates then...like we have done in our border with cambodia and malaysia.

Anyways..get your navy in order..if you cant stop pirates from attacking your own coast..wtf is a navy for then? Unless this is proof of the subpar conditions of the viet navy. Thats most probable.

Good point.

Pirates aren't like how they are portrayed in the usual fiction.

There are several answers: (1) our Coast Guard should have light airplanes patrolling the coastal waters areas; (2) there should be more Cost Guard vessels aggressively patrolling the fishing areas; (3) every Vietnamese fishing vessels should have radio comm with the Coast Guard; (4) the Cost Guard should send out decoy fishing vessels, whose crews are in fact Coast Guard people and armed to the teeth; (5) train and arm, and deputize fishermen volunteers with armed forces experience

The strategic answer would be to ask for more Coast Guard cooperation training from the Australian, US, Thai, Singapore and Canadian navies.

We don't have to sit on our hands and claim that's all we can do. And who knows what will happen, if we don't do anything: today, it's Vietnamese fishing vessels. Tomorrow, it will be Vietnamese merchant vessels. And the day after tomorrow, it will be foreign cruise ships and foreign merchant ships traveling in our waters. We need to cut the problem at the throat.

I agree that there should be increased cooperation between the Royal Thai Fleet and the Vietnamese navy; considering the Royal Thai Fleet has had intensive cooperation and experience training with world navies such as the American Pacific Command, Austrialian Navy, Philippine Navy, Singaporean Navy, Malaysian Navy, TNI (Indonesian Navy) as well as the Indian and Peoplese Liberation Army Navy in dealing with piracy as well as conventional threats. Its apparent that there have been no large cooperation with Vietnam in terms of naval exercises. If the Royal Thai Naval High Command were to establish cooperation vis a vis naval exercises with the SRVN, then there might be obvious soluiton to this 'piracy' problem.

Piracy is practically non existent in our waters, as the southern, eastern, western, and central fleets of the Royal Thai Navy have hunted them down to minisculity since beginning massive anti-piracy activies 2 decades ago.

As for Byron, my friend the Canadians practically dont have an armed forces; as they are under American military umbrellaship. On reference to your little comment about the Thai army, first of all there are 4 armies that compose the Royal Thai Army, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and the 4th. The 4th Army which is stationed in Nakon Si Thammarat province of southern thailand is composed of approximately 6 divisions, 2 armored divisions and 5 F-16 air squadrons--these main forces do not partake in the anti terrorist exercises, as we have security forces AKA Tahan Prahan, Royal Marines, Royal Army Rangers, Police Commandos, King's Personal Guard that have been solving our little 'islamist' problem in the south. And to be optimistic, things have actually died down, due to the efficiency and brutal lethality of our Armed Forces. The Royal Thai Army could have pacified the region by completely bombarding southern provinces, but what would that have done? lol. We have to live with our southern brothers, hence we target only the suspected ones.

But back to the subject. Yes, I agree, Vietnam needs to increase its thinly stretched 'naval' fleet. These instances of piracy attacks are personal attestment that Vietnam needs it and fast.

Wow, we need a Thai to tell us about our navy.

Good ideas, blacklight

You don't need to worry much about naval co-operation, our navy is conducting joint-patrols with the Chinese and Malaysian navies. I can post the articles if you want a read. The thing with priates is that they're fast, they hit-and-run and the next you know they already disappear, it happens in the Philippines, Indonesia and elsewhere not just VietNam. Some people, however, only want to mock our military to make themselves feel better lol

you are right my Thai friend. our navy is crap. i should kick those soldiers in the @$$ and get them back in line.

This is only a matter of army, but also about education and culture, Thai society should teach its people that piracy is evil ! Unless armed threats could prove to be the best educative instrument to those pirats !

Of course we teach our people about the immorality of thievery as well as piracy--the point of the matter is not about Thai prerogatives in piracy; as our piracy problem is practically miniscule compared to other nation states in our region with higher piracy problems per se, Indonesia and the Philippines, which have larger coastal areas and island areas.

The matter to be addressed is what the Vietnamese government is doing to solve this problem. Acquiring more naval patrol boats is simply not enough to solve this piracy problem, but to work with governments in the region to hold joint exercises to combat this mutual problem. Yes, I do agree that Vietnam should increase PLAN exercises because of the naval border you have with China; secondly, there should be increased interaction between the vietnamese naval forces as well as cambodian naval forces to hold sessions as both nations share the same southern border and same naval border.

Time shall tell.

it's cause you guys don't talk about $hit like girls aren't interested in. always about money in vietnam. wars in vietnam. nationalistic stuff. girls don't get wet with kind of jive.

im sure there are some girls out there interested in that kind of stuff.

there are plenty of Vietnamese websites with that where girls can go too. We should at least have one forum that talks about the non superficial stuff and this place is good as any.

well that's not the point. if you are thinking that to get girls in here you are going to talk about ONLY about things as such, then yeah this shouldn't be the site. but you can speak something other than so once in a while.

I don't mean to pick on you, 'flipcombatmedic' but sometimes when guys get together we sometimes view 'girls" like products. that's wrong and I admit I'm guilty of that sometimes too. I know we just talk for fun but there are people like some Taiwaneses and S. Koreans they do it in real life like we read on the news. Just want to be fair to the other half; thats all.

arent most of the pirates in southeast asia thai?

oh i'm sorry if you think that that's my pure intention. it's but a joke. i'm sure there are girls who'd make fun of guys like us as if we're cattle meat. but it's all fun and games.

but as for what girls like i'm not joking about that. i'm stereotyping of course, but from my experience girls don't like too much to talk about national pride (or at least the way we do) or business and things. i know alot of female viets here but they post mostly only outside of this thread.

and sorry for being offtopic.

I know you were joking and that was not your intention at all but its just the timing of it, I guess....
Stories of girls being abused in Taiwan and S. Korea are still very fresh in my mind so i'm a little jumpy on any subjects related to that.
I remember there were some girls in this chat room but there are also some "mean" people in here....

sorry I'm off topic...... ok back to battle plan.....