The guy tigertiger is talking about.
www.gokunming.com/en/classifieds/item/25116/car_rent
I have not used his car service, but I have read a few good reviews about him here on GoKunming.
@Chingis
Spring made it clear that she offered to pay mainly because it might be stranger whom she requests help from. Also, there is plenty of evidence in GoKunming forums of foreigners shooting down Chinese asking for free help.
Spring never said anything close to the vitriol you spouted. You put those words out there.
I agree with laotou that Spring's request was pretty clear, till Dazzer baited with that crap reply and confused the whole thread. Not even sure Dazzer can write, revise, or whatever you want to use a phd level econometrics paper, but Dazzer threw it out there for personal amusement.
Before this spirals out of control, it could just be a case of "lost in the translation."
Dazzer's opening reply:
"Would you like me to write the paper for you?"
To most Westerners that means: I will complete your paper for you. In that case, it is like having another person take a test for you. That's bad.
To some non-native speakers the offer to "write" can mean edit or revise. It may not mean "write from scratch" that it implies in Western thought. That's fair and what Spring requested originally.
"write" in the context of a reply to an offer for editing services can mean very different things to native/non native speaker.
Never been to the old one, but if you have to pick, I'd go there. It's probably closer and more manageable.
The new one is far away and HUGE, in a bad way. The buildings are physically gigantic (you feel more ant than human there). Due to the spacing, the vendors are really spread out. It could easily take your whole day to just find the yarn vendor. The whole area has this cold/gray/lonely feel to it, despite the full parking lot and ebikes shuffling goods around.
Kunming will be lucky to just get it's Hanoi flight back, much less new direct flights to Europe when the new airport opens. For KMG to add routes to Europe, better connections to SE Asia are required.
Bangkok has plenty of flights to Europe and only a 2 hour flight away.
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Never gotten sick once at Sals. Their food is TexMex, so yeah, not authentic Mexican food, but pretty authentic as TexMex goes. Burrito wrap has improved a lot. Like the draft beer option now.
If you haven't had dairy products in a while, and do eat here, best forgo the sour cream. Nothing wrong with it, in fact it's the best sour cream in Kunming, but if you've eaten Chinese for month or months with no dairy intake, your system will react to sour cream or probably any liquid dairy product not so well. Maybe that's what happened with nailer and tallamerican.
Update:
It's now 5 working days for regular processing. So I submitted my application a bit before 5pm on a Friday and was told to pick it up next week Friday after 5pm.
Cost is now 400rmb for a single 30 day entry. Or that was what I was charged anyways. There are no posted prices and its cash only with no receipt except for your passport pickup. That's like $65 USD.
You can pay another 150rmb for 2 day or 100rmb for 3 day processing. For 400rmb, they should process it in three days like they used to before, but now you'd pay 500rmb. The office is still like deserted most of the time, so why does it take longer now and cost extra. If you opted for 2 day, thats like $90 usd. All other neighboring countries charge like $25usd.
The rest of and cope review is still good for hours and location.
Far out, less people. Big enough to get lost in. Pretty and quiet near dusk. 20yuan entrance fee.
Like everyone else says, best Indian food in Kunming. They have lunch plates and dinner plates. Show up before 1pm for lunch.
They are on the 4th floor of the half empty shopping mall. Best way is too take the elevator past the KFC around the corner from Starbucks.
Most individual dishes can feed only two hungry guys, so order more if you are starving. Naan order can take care of one only.
Five stars for the food. Go with Yereth's recommendations, plus any vegetable the waitress says is fresh.
Beware that Xue Fu lu is one way, so many taxis have to take a roundabout way to get here.
Self-taught villager clears 10,000 mines from Yunnan frontier
发布者Amazing. Props to this guy. Too bad his country's politicians and my country's politicians refuse to ratify the international ban landmines treaty.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者The children need to go to school. Otherwise the medival cycle of having more children to work to support themselves and the farm continues. Their situation is dire no doubt, but if their children grow up without any schooling, the next generation is left with zero hope and left in the same dire situation. In addition, the children want to be in school. I saw a documentary about poor kids in Vietnam, where even subsidized govt schools still require some tuition. It was heart breaking how the kids had to earn tuition money on the side and go to school, but the kids tried their hardest to scrape enough tuition funds together, because school was some hope in their poverty stricken lives. Sadly, in one case, the elder sister who was good at school and earning high marks gave up her slot to her younger brother, since they had only gathered enough money for one tuition slot.
Bye-bye for now Kunming narrow gauge railway
发布者Good reporting. Those little but very important notices are hard to spot.
Scientists "99 percent" certain SARS originated in Yunnan bats
发布者So Easier, where is the proof, that these bats in Yunnan were the ones that started it? Again, the Guardian article never provides details this. If your only point is that the viral precursor is found in this group of bats, then duh? An Aussie led group of scientists found it in horseshoe bats prior to this Yunnan discovery. I'm just saying until you can detail the transmission mechanism from Yunnan bats to humans, it could be any bat colony in any of those other provinces I mentioned that were the originators.
Scientists "99 percent" certain SARS originated in Yunnan bats
发布者Yes, I did. How does the Guardian article refute my point that other bat populations in other provinces might be viral reservoirs also? And where in the Guardian article did they explain Yunnan bats to human viral mechanism or have any other supporting evidence besides the genetic viral code that bats from that Yunnan cave started the SARS outbreak in humans?