Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese tourist in Paris I don't think France has sold its soul for Chinese money, and whether it has opened its doors to immigration or not has nothing to do with Chinese tour groups, which are not groups of immigrants. Seems spitting on the floor by mainland Chinese tourists is already on the radar, however.
I doubt if many Chinese have immigrated to Paris, or that those who have are the ones spitting on the floor.
I have a friend who is a Chinese tourguide and has taken groups to Paris, who affirms that there is very little interest in French culture among them and that little if any is provided by the tourguides. The main thing seems to be shopping.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese tourist in Paris Group tourism strikes me as only slightly more educational than the average tv show, and usually a good bit less than a BBC documentary (or - my God! - a whole book!) Just another consumer item, promoted by the consciously or unconsciously cynical for profit.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese tourist in Paris I don't like it either.
Especially seems disgusting among people from cultures where it is considered disgusting.
Forums > Food & Drink > Foreign takeout delivery service @ Geezer: Elliott is in Shanghai importing wine.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Leaving China ...only ordinary problems, the main one being the incredible boredom and phoniness (it is this I find 'grueling') of commercial air flights and their plastic atmosphere when it lasts more than about 1&1/2 hours (airports are very similar), and less than 1&1/2 hours they're both unnecessary and ecologically damaging. Felt the same 40 years ago. Doubt if I'd like Michael's problem described above either, but for me that's not the main thing.
When I leave China it's on the surface, unless I'm crossing large bodies of water. Looking for inexpensive (as it should be but isn't anymore - costs the shipping company virtually nothing beyond meals) passenger-carrying freighters.
Six Chinese nationals wounded in Lao ambush
发布者Voltaire's guess is a good one. Note that few Chinese get shot and few Lao shoot at them. I'm not advocating gunfire, but most poor are used to being poor, and I don't think this is good - but individuals losing their cool and blasting away is unlikely to solve anything.
A trip to Yunnan's Jurassic Park
发布者I think museum displays of dinosaurs almost everywhere are partly built of real petrified bones and partly by artificial parts made according to what is known about the type of dinosaur in the display from remains found elsewhere. However, I know nothing of the specific displays under discussion.
Kunming buses installing wi-fi services
发布者Wi-fi addiction is weird.
Jinghong dam release aimed at easing SE Asian drought
发布者Zhudan's implied point. Probably has to do with the high amount of precipitation this winter in Yunnan?
Getting Away: Ten days of Bengali bedlam
发布者Good article! I visited the place (Dhaka and a couple villages in the beautiful green poverty-stricken countryside), in 1985, and now it sounds even crazier than what I saw at the time - and I was coming from Calcutta by land, so I was already a bit acclimatized to South Asia. Calcutta is amazing and also crazy, but looking back on my experience there from Dhaka,m it seemed like a beacon of hope, sanity and development, compared to the sadness and desperation of Bangla Desh.
Too many people, incredibly fertile farmland with no possibility of developing any more because it's all already under excellent labor-intensive cultivation, corrupt ruling class, and further problems - hopefully, we both simply missed seeing whatever causes for optimism may exist somewhere. Been a lot of places, but Bangla Desh is the only place that made me, literally, cry. I read a lot about the country while I was there (nearly 3 months), and the more I read the more depressed I got. Supposedly the economy is better now than it was then...??