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Forums > Living in Kunming > Notary able to authenticate foreign passports

Am after a notary office that is able to authenticate a copy of a foreign passport. Basically I need to send a copy of my passport to the Chinese Embassy in my country in order for them to authenticate a document. They asked me to send my original passport, but after I told them that Chinese law I must keep my passport on me and that they were asking me to break their own law, they said I can send an authenticated copy instead.

Seems mad. I need to authenticate a document in order to authenticate another document in order for me to authenticate a third document in China. When does the insanity end?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Buying an affordable US-compatible smart phone in Kunming

"There are no "Android" phones in mainland China. They must remove the google app store, and add spyware required by the central government."

Its still Android, its just their version of it. Android is OPEN SOURCE, meaning anyone can basically get the code and modify it to whatever requirements they want. That INCLUDES us users however, so, without too much effort, you can download and flash the OS to an OS from another country. The longest part of the process is downloading the files required to do it and reading up how not to brick your phone. But the 1000's of articles on the web about how to do it safely and the support provided on public forums makes it pretty damn simple. Seriously it took me a few hours of reading, a couple hours of downloading, about 10 minutes of rooting/copying/flashing and I had a stock US phone. Easy.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Buying an affordable US-compatible smart phone in Kunming

"There are no "Android" phones in mainland China. They must remove the google app store, and add spyware required by the central government."

Its still Android, its just their version of it. Android is OPEN SOURCE, meaning anyone can basically get the code and modify it to whatever requirements they want. That INCLUDES us users however, so, without too much effort, you can download and flash the OS to an OS from another country. The longest part of the process is downloading the files required to do it and reading up how not to brick your phone. But the 1000's of articles on the web about how to do it safely and the support provided on public forums makes it pretty damn simple. Seriously it took me a few hours of reading, a couple hours of downloading, about 10 minutes of rooting/copying/flashing and I had a stock US phone. Easy.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Buying an affordable US-compatible smart phone in Kunming

Note that with all phone purchases (pretty much), there is no such thing as an international warranty. If you buy one here, take it to some other country, then it breaks in the warranty period, you have to bring it back to China for service. Bummer, I know.

Also note that iPhones purchased in China are registered on the app store using the persons ID card number (not sure how they do it for foreigners here, maybe passport number? Can anyone else chime in?). In the USA and other countries (I believe) you register using a name/email address/credit card. This fundamental difference will probably mean you have to change your Apple ID when you go back to the US. I don't know how to do this though as I am an Android user. This information is coming from my girlfriend who we bought an iPhone for 3 months ago and this is what she was told by the person in the Shanghai Apple store, so its probably quite reliable.

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So if you are arriving at the train station, how do you get on the subway at the moment? I don't know any way to get to the south of the station without going through the main building, is there a way I don't know about?

Or do you just walk north to the next station at Huanchen Nan lu?

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Oh - has anyone seen any work on the railway station connection? Last time I was there I didn't see anything interesting going on (i.e. knocking down walls underground etc). There will have to be an underground connection through the railway station I assume?

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Wow, great news!

Once line 1 extension and line 3 are operational, only then will we have a real subway in operation, connecting NSEW points of the city, an inner city loop, a connection to the airport and train stations. Until that time, I would expect passenger numbers to be quite low, though Beichen and North become much more viable for city workers to live.

I do wonder also if anyone is working on the bus connections and combining both the payment cards from buses with subway and rejigging the stops or entire routes so that they link with the Subway. Hopefully, but likely it will be a secondary consideration knowing how things work in China!

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I heard the extra 10% was added because they mapped the sides of mountains as total area. You can see how this happens when, a 3:4:5 triangle shaped mountain is usually mapped as having an area of 4x width, however it is now measured in Yunnan as 5x width. Elementary, and I think a better explanation!

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Fonts now taking a long time to load again on the mobile site. Won't report this error again, will just visit the site less.

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So fast, so convenient. One star off for opening before the train station stop is connected!

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Wow, just wow. Possibly the best Chinese food I have had in Kunming. And in one of the nicest, traditional courtyard style restaurant I have been in. A woman dressed in traditional qi pao playing a gu zheng just adds to it.

We had okra, mushroom soup, dried beef and chou dofu. All top notch with the bill coming in at just over 250 kuai. But we could have fed 3 people for that so not too bad at about 80-90 kuai each. Not the cheapest but for the quality, it's damn good.

If you have people visiting and want to take them to a traditional Chinese style restaurant with Yunnan style food, or want a romantic night out with a gal, you can't go wrong here. Close to Green Lake (down a little alley) for a romantic walk... Just perfect.

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Pretty good place for getting all your documents translated and/or notarised. Note that there are a number of notaries in the building which you can find by going up the stairs (the elevators are impossible). But you have to find the stairs to do so... go in the door, head over to the right, go up the big wide stairs which head up a floor, turn right then right again into the elevator area and right again into the stairwells. Whew!

One point off for the elevators never being available and having to hike 7-9 flights of stairs (not good if you have to go 3-4 times a day like I often did!)

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This does not stop at the Jinanya hotel at Da Shang Hui as the flyers state (and is on the images tab here). They need to have another stop in the same area or else they are missing out on covering a big chunk of the city.

You can take another bus, the 919C, I believe, if you are nearby Da Shang Hui, which leaves from the bus station on HeHong Lu, nearby the Qianxing road intersection. This bus goes every hour and is white, found at the western end of the station. It is operated by a different company and takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to get to the airport due to a large number of stops especially near the airport.

Great bus though if you can catch it!

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Friendly people, even got to the talk to the vice consulate, who told me she had done a stint in Malaysia's Siberian Consulate!

English is spoken by some of the Chinese girls working at the desk who are pleasant to deal with. I assume they do Visa's as well but I wasn't here for a visa, this time!