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Some are, some aren't.
I've studied at KCEL and had no particular complaints, altho I studied at Keats later and thought it was a little more conscientious about teaching etc. Since I live here I had no need to deal with school-provided housing etc. KCEL was not dirty when I studied there (last time about 2010).
@mPrin: I don't know about mailing your passport to Forever Bright (Ever Bright?), but there have been other companies that have advertsied they could get you a renewal of your (present) M visa if you send them your passport 3 weeks or so before your present M visa expires, and I have a friend who did this and it worked. However, if your student visa is expiring I don't think this will help you.
Anyway, waiting in Hong Kong while the visa is renewed is the standard method - in former years it didn't necessitate sending the passport to one's home country, but only to Macao.
Try for an M visa through Forever Bright, a company in East Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, who are very good at arranging visas and know what they are doing - have been doing this for about 20 years. If they have to send your passport to your home country to get it, in which case it will take 5 days to a week. If there are other options they will know what they are.
@Haali: no pollution, you'll just be wandering around with your own drinking habits on your own, unless you want to conform reasonably to local drinking customs. You may not want to, but anyway you have the choice.
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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.
Come join the Have a Heart fundraiser jubilee this Saturday!
发布者ditto Colin - well done folks!
Haigeng, Kunming's popular lakefront promenade, to close for six months
发布者I hope the largest chunk of this money will go to the necessary maintenance of the damn and to the filtration system, etc. - spending a lot of money on making things pretty for tourists is such a roundabout way to produce, supposedly through all them wonnerful trickle-down effects, a more reasonable wealth distribution, that it never really happens. And, as Kunming adds its zillionth car to the roads in order to ameliorate the desperate lives of the middle & upper classes, it is the 25% of the Yunnan population who live below the official poverty level that should be the target of spending efforts.
Old Kunming apartment complexes looking to build new elevators
发布者@ Geogramatt: I have not heard that all the old walkups are going to be torn down - I certainly hope not. But maybe you have some information that I don't have?
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
发布者@ Kongming: You mean Prince? Where'd he say that?
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
发布者@ Peter: Note that there's no mention of these characters operating in India.