A bunch of us headed over to Lazy Bones in Think UK for some pizza buffet action yesterday, only to find that the place is closed for renovation until next year and they won't even be delivering from their restaurant until after Christmas.
It would be a good idea, especially if they'd like people to form the habit of showing up there to eat, to announce this sort of thing (it's not even on their official website). Of course, then they might have to change their name.
National Geographic is available in English at a lot of magazine kiosks around town.
Mandarin Books sometimes has Time, Economist and Newsweek, though the supply is sporadic. List prices hover around 60-80 kuai, which is actually the list price, not some scam by the management.
I make a point of stocking up every time I pass through a tier 1 city. You can usually find some international newspapers and mags at the Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai airports
It is easy to discredit TCM if you look at every single folk belief in China as one whole system. Even the photo essay says "Strong beliefs in OBSCURE (emphasis mine) parts of traditional Chinese medicine..." Much of that is really fringe right now.
A startling amount of new drug discoveries these days are actually extracts made from old herbal medicines from places like China, India and indigenous cultures. The most effective malaria treatment today, artemisinin, has been used in herbal form in China for the exact same disease for at least 1000 years.
Yes, there is still a lot of quackery out there, but there are also university trained doctors practicing some very effective and well-documented techniques too.
I'm not saying that it's some powerful thing that can cure anything, but the focus should be on examining both sides objectively, rather than merely cherry-picking evidence to support a gut opinion.
Some construction folks told me a few years back that most of Kunming is unsuitable for underground rail because the bedrock is too shallow. I figure most, if not all of the new trains will be light rail.
The construction is almost definitely light rail. They announced it in the papers (and on this site) quite a while ago.
cedricm1234, I think your placement of this ad here is tasteless and totally inappropriate. Are you trying to have a "terrorist victim fashion show" or something?
An exciting new gallery space built from an old factory warehouse in the Paoluda Creative Industry Park. Looking forward to seeing what they'll do with it.
Investigation into bomb attacks continues, injured recovering
发布者cedricm1234, I think your placement of this ad here is tasteless and totally inappropriate. Are you trying to have a "terrorist victim fashion show" or something?
Show some decency.