[Vnbiz] Vietnam happiest country in Asia: survey [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Nguyen Hong Nhung]

Hi anh Quang Anh and CACC,
I heard this news on the TV this morning too...
Anh Quang Anh, what are your comments? D'u agree or d'u doubt? :)
*Nic Marks, the center's head for well-being, added: "It is clear that no
single nation listed in the Happy Planet Index has got everything right."*
So, afterall, what makes you happy; and does that means you are happy when
you feel happy?
I remember catching a line in The Platoon: "Feeling good's good enough."-
Does feeling good bring you happy?
We are heading for a happy society, and happy lives for ourselves.. You want
to be happy, I want to be happy, ain't we? But anyone ever succeed in
answering what "happy" means?
:p
Carry on the talk if you have time, CACC-
-nhung

On 7/13/06, QuangAnh.Nguyen at dfat.gov.au <QuangAnh.Nguyen at dfat.gov.au> wrote:
>
>
> [Vietnam Business Forum]
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Forwarded by QuangAnh Nguyen/People/DFATL on 13/07/2006 10:49 AM
> -----
>
> The website for the happiness index is: http://www.happyplanetindex.org
> Cuba ranked number 6.
>
>
> http://www.thanhniennews.com/society/?catid=3&newsid=17646
>
> Vietnam happiest country in Asia: survey
>
> Vietnam is the 12th happiest country on earth, and the happiest in Asia,
> according to a study
> published Wednesday that measured people's well-being and their impact on
> the environment.
>
> The tiny South Pacific Ocean archipelago of Vanuatu is the happiest in the
> Happy Planet Index,
> compiled by the British think-tank New Economics Foundation.
>
> Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica and Panama complete the top five.
>
> Out of Asian nations Singapore was ranked lowest at 131.
>
> Island nations performed particularly well in the rankings. But Vanuatu,
> with a population of around
> 200,000, topped them all.
>
> "Don't tell too many people, please," said Marke Lowen of Vanuatu Online,
> the republic's online
> newspaper.
>
> "People are generally happy here because they are very satisfied with very
> little," he told The
> Guardian.
>
> "This is not a consumer-driven society. Life here is about community and
> family and goodwill to
> other people. It's a place where you don't worry too much."
>
> "The only things we fear are cyclones or earthquakes."
>
> The index combines life satisfaction, life expectancy and environmental
> footprint—the amount of land
> required to sustain the population and absorb its energy consumption.
>
> Zimbabwe finished at the bottom of the 178 countries ranked, below
> second-worst performer Swaziland,
> Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ukraine.
>
> The Group of Eight industrial powers meet in Saint Petersburg this weekend
> but have not much to
> smile about, according to the index.
>
> Italy came out best in 66th place, ahead of Germany (81), Japan (95),
> Britain (108), Canada (111),
> France (129), the United States (150) and Russia, in lowly 172nd place.
>
> Andrew Simms, the foundation's policy director, said the index "addresses
> the relative success or
> failure of countries in giving their citizens a good life while respecting
> the environmental
> resource limits on which all our lives depend."
>
> Nic Marks, the center's head for well-being, added: "It is clear that no
> single nation listed in the
> Happy Planet Index has got everything right.
>
> "But the index does reveal patterns that show how we might better achieve
> long and happy lives for
> all, whilst living within our environmental means," he said, according to
> British daily The Guardian.
>
> "The challenge is: can we learn the lessons and apply them?"
>
> Source: AFP
> _______________________________________________
> To subscribe/unsubscribe, please contact admins at
> vnbizadmin at vietlinks.net
> Info at http://mail.saigon.com/mailman/listinfo/vnbiz
> Archive at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vnbiz
> Or http://groups-beta.google.com/group/VNBIZforum/
> Or http://mail.saigon.com/pipermail/vnbiz
> Or http://www.tin.le.org/archive
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.saigon.com/pipermail/vnbiz/attachments/20060713/9d7008b3/attachment.html