Forums > Living in Kunming > What is bad about Kunming and Yunnan? Most of Yunnan is pretty nice, but my top 3 complaints are:
1. racism - racism is very bad, unless you have white skin... but if the economy tanks don't expect that to last.
2. lack of water
3. drug abuse - chain smokers everywhere, and of course please destroy your liver at every meeting/event possible...
Forums > Study > Anybody know about Rosetta software ? The speech recognition for Chinese isn't very good. Even on the highest setting it's quite easy to say gibberish and let you pass. If you're buying it only for that then look for something else.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Justice? What does this have to do with China? The girl learned a hard lesson that unfortunately many have learned in every country. Some people are just plain irresponsible. The situation is very messy, and you can't blame their family and friend's for that.
What do you want the school/police/society to do? Force him to pay for an abortion? Force him to be her boyfriend? Force him to financially support her? Unless they were married I don't see that happening.
I suppose if you wanted to make a big deal about it, and feed off xenophobia in China you could contact the news and immigration department.....
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Stone Forest Scam When I went there a year or so ago the locals didn't seem too happy about the people managing the tourism. Maybe the gate was moved farther away to make it more difficult for the locals to sneak people in?
Though this practice of hiking fees, and building tourist traps has been quite common for a quite a while now... so can't say I'm surprised.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Please may somebody help me to get Studient Visa in Kunming? The visa is actually relatively cheap. Last time I checked a 1 year visa was about 800 RMB. Most schools charge about 3,000 to 4,000 RMB per semester. So one year of classes plus visa will cost about 6,800 to 8,800 RMB.
Most schools require about 10 hours of classes each week.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
发布者Schools in Kunming do the same thing. It's so bad many schools make them sign a document stating they aren't being forced to attend the "extra" classes... yeah, right.
Spring City looks to embrace sweeping green agenda
发布者Also look at the roads that were just recently redone. In the north they aren't even a year old and the top layer is rapidly decaying. When the holes get big enough to do serious damage to small cars they just put a traffic cone in it....
Spring City looks to embrace sweeping green agenda
发布者Kunming does invest, but the results are usually no where to be seen. Just look at all the new enlarged sewer pipes literally spewing shit all over the road.
Fishing on Dianchi Lake banned once again
发布者If it's banned for industrial use doesn't that mean there are some pretty nasty heavy metals in the water? Why would they allow shrimp to be fished in the past? Do they want people to get cancer or something?
Villainous jade king attempts billion yuan fraud
发布者Don't see how it could be insurance fraud. Nothing was stolen. The man just didn't pay off his debts.