Forums > Travel Yunnan > Getting China Work Visa in Hong Kong Ok, well firstly an F visa is not a work visa. Its a business visa - doesn't allow you the right to work or earn salary. A work visa is a Z visa and it still is valid only for entering the country. you then need to get the residence permit and work permit.
If all you need is the business F visa for a longer term you could try going to a travel agent rather than china consulate. they can usually get much better deals for you through their contacts. In the past i've used travel expert - they have branches all over the city.
I recently went to Hong Kong to get a visa for my daughter and they will only do 3 months double entry for anyone without Hong Kong ID.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Internet Slow? Unfortunately ISPs in China couldn't care less if you don't reach the speeds you are paying for and international bandwidth is totally irrelevant to them. They will only semi guarantee your speed to a server on the same ISP within the same city.
A good site for testing local speeds is www.linkwan.net/
Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming sucks the life out of me... We used the name "Kunming sucks the life out of me" as our team name in the Trivia Quiz at Chapter One tonight and we won. I'd like to think that you, Gaoxing, had some part in our success. Thank you so much!
Forums > Living in Kunming > Kunming sucks the life out of me... Godwin's law says "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1" basically rendering all further discussion fairly pointless.
Well done gaoxing for managing to do this so early on in the thread. Is there really any point continuing?
Welcome to the new GoKunming.com!
发布者Desktop site is looking great.
However the mobile site still doesn't work for webkit browsers such as iphone safari. I believe a lot of android phones also use webkit browsers. Text is just too small. If you could vary the font size depending on the browser that would be great. At the moment I can either view the really tiny text and strain my eyes or zoom in and have to scroll left and right to read every sentence.
Kunming takes aim at car horns - again
发布者Limiting the use of horn doesn't really solve the problem. drivers won't really understand why they aren't allowed to use the horn and will feel the new regulations are arbitary. they need to be taught that the horn is NOT a substitute for the brake nor is reaction a substitute for anticipation.
Basically they need to learn a totally different way of driving.
Kunming addresses taxi shift change troubles
发布者yeah, I was told once before that because that is the busiest time of the day it is preferable that neither of the 2 drivers gets it than one of them makes money instead of the other.
Of course this is nonsense as they could swap shifts at different times (before and after rush hours) on alternate days.
Kunming addresses taxi shift change troubles
发布者I hope this works. My wife told me she saw some news interviews with drivers who said that they will simply not stop at all, pretending they didn't see people, instead of stopping and then refusing a fare.
We'll see.
Yunnan news roundup
发布者always amused to see the word "solicitor" used by a non-British English speaker. totally different meaning.