@Geezer: Marxist thought: we all pay the guy a decent amount for the work he's done & the materials he's used, then those who need it can use it. Much better idea than having plagues arise in poor areas & then having them spread all over the planet.
Suggest you just buy one, shouldn't cost much unless you need something for really serious weather, in which case you'd be better off buying one anyway, as you can freeze to death up there & you don't want to gamble on the effects of somebody else's chicken-soup spill on the thermal quality of the thing.
Probably won't amount to anything for just a few days, but it might - best to just do it, it's pretty painless.
@disco: OK, but be choosy about what you volunteer to do - obviously the value of what you do depends on...what you do. If you want to volunteer some money I know some people who could see that it gets used to good effect (in education) in areas where sending kids to school presents a certain amount of hardship on parents.
@Liumingke: somebody probably is - capitalist ethics encourages people to 'make' money out of anything they can. Good idea to watch the drug companies.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Yunnan could hold model for China's labor camp reforms
发布者A move in the right direction: disallow the cops from sending people who have not been tried for any crime to up to 4 years of forced labor. I wonder why they didn't think of that before.
Report: Yunnan drug war "extremely dangerous"
发布者I wish journalists would stop using the category 'drugs', or even 'illegal drugs', as if it explained what the substances are and what they do (are we talking about weed or smack? or perhaps whiskey, in some countries?) - it instills a very ambiguous category into the human brain, so that it can't think clearly (ie., similar to many 'drugs' which have the advantage of wearing off after awhile, besides the fact that the 'drug' user KNOWS that he's inflicted weirdness upon himself). And at any rate, there's no excuse for the state in which we live to go about executing people, China has plenty of prisons, and my thought would be to decrease the number of killings, intentional or otherwise, not increase them.
Yuxi university working to preserve minority languages
发布者I agree with szbruce - the idea of using hanyu pinyin would, however, perhaps encourage any non-mother-tongue users of the language (such as most Chinese, and non-Chinese who don't go to IPA (as most won't)) to pronounce it in a similar manner to the pronunciation of Chinese, and so in this way to move in the direction of a 'sinicization' of the languages (essentially, to make Han Chinese a sort of standard for these languages). This sounds suspiciously like a nationalist move, and perhaps that is what is intended.
Jianshui: southern Yunnan's cultural gem
发布者Some years ago (maybe 4) one could/couldn't actually stay at Zhu Family Gdns (unless you were some kinda government bigshot), but it is perhaps a hotel now?
Kunming Environmental Court toiling in obscurity
发布者If the 6 people on this court's staff are indeed serious about what they are trying to do, I really feel for them, as the priorities for 'development' run straight counter to them. Keep up the good work, and perhaps it might be best if these folks didn't keep too much booze around the house, especially if they live alone.