Forums > Living in Kunming > Child Support Advice Just because she IS pregnant doesn't mean she's planning to have the baby. It could easily still be her or her family's attempt to get some money out of this while they have leverage. Unless she's a deranged Christian or VERY different from the average Chinese woman, there is no way she'd at least consider an abortion in this situation.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Child Support Advice I find it a huge red flag that she demands money from you like that. Child support is normally something you pay after the kid is born, and she doesn't have anything to report you to the police about (unless it is rape, but I imagine by now you've already saved as much of your correspondence as you could, which would put you in the clear on that one. If she's really planning to go ahead and have the child without a husband, she's stirring up a giant hornets' nest of trouble with the authorities, and the risk of not being able to find a husband later on.
I think there is a good chance this could be a scam in the sense of either she's not pregnant, or she's going to milk you for everything she can before she gets an abortion.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Legal weapons. I know this is an odd question but after hearing about the woman in Kunming who got her eyes stabbed during an abduction last week, I was wondering what kinds of defensive weapons are legal to have in China? I know guns are illegal unless you belong to a minority with hunting traditions, but what about mace, bats, knives, knuckledusters stuff like that? What can you legally have in your home and what can you legally carry around?
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Buses from Kunming to Shangri-La Non-stop? I guess there are some but not too many, and that would be quite a grueling trek. I think most buses go to either Dali or Lijiang first and from there you'd jump on the next one. If you haven't been to either I'd recommend going to Dali first, stay a couple of days, then go to Lijiang and stay there for a couple of days and finally take off to Shangrila.
GoKunming New Year's Eve Preview
发布者You're right, it does in fact make you sound like a party pooper.
China blogs: 1980s turkey, corruption show, Copenhagen, top lists
发布者Love the turkey-story.
Third detainee this year dies in Kunming police custody
发布者I get why many policeofficers won't make statements due to ongoing investigations coz "Xing was healthy before going into the interrogation waiting room. He went through some emotional changes during the interrogation, but no torture was used." sure sounds fishy.
That said the more time I spend in China the less compassion I am willing to extend to thieves.
American fugitive and environmental activist sentenced to prison in Dali
发布者drugdealing, arson, faked papers and known terrorist associations. Seems like a swell guy.
Kunming adding 900 vehicles to its roads daily
发布者I honestly don't get why it seems to be so important for people to have a car. I assume there is some face and a little showoff-iness in it around here, but then again isn't there everywhere? Whenever my gf hints of the idea of buying a car I always say that if she can find more good reasons to do it than I can NOT to I'll go ahead and buy one. It's not even close.
-Expensive, polluting, dangerous, crashes (not the dangerous kind but the fender bender kind you see all the time), gasoline prices, theft risk, parking lot price, parking fees, lack of parking space, carvalue plummet, not to mention the traffic jams happening everywhere. Oh,, not to forget that you can take a taxi to and from work the 15-20 times a month you need to and it will still be much cheaper than buying a car and paying what is needed to keep it running.