Just realised that I mixed up Rakhine and Kachin. Sorry for that. Kachin is of course the Burmese state right across the Chinese border.

What do you want? Three thumbs up?

Very unlikely Rohingya Muslims would be here. But there are many more groups at odds with the powers that be in Myanmar. This includes nearly all groups living near the Chinese border and include the Rakin, Shan, Wa, Lisu and ethnic Chinese that have lived for centuries in the region just across the border and as well the Kuomintang soldiers that moved to there after the communist takeover of Yunnan. Many of these groups are spread out on both side of the border and therefor it is easier.

Same applies for the border with Laos and Vietnam.

I don’t think many involved in protest against the military coup in Myanmar have left for China. Anyway the census was before the coup.

The explanation for the high number in Yunnan is simple. The fast majority of them are people from across the southern and western border that entered Yunnan to escape the violence in Myanmar and people from across these borders that look for better economic prospects then the ones prevailing in their area of origin.
The number of westerners in Yunnan has gone up as well in the last 10 years but is still only a small percentage of the total.

The header of this article is/was a bit confusing. For most of us being based in Kunming the "North" is an area of Kunming north of the Kunming North railway station. From the article and the description of Vera I understand that the fire is north of Dali.

Anyway the article is a reminder that we have to be careful about fire; not only does it destroy nature but has a cost in human lives as well, like in this case.