Forums > Travel Yunnan > Scum landlords of Dali. Exactly what you have described just happened to our former (Chinese couple) flatmates.
The owner gives them cheap rent for 3 years as long as they decorate (at the start of last year). They decorate and get in flatmates to cover their costs. Just over a year later, the owner says that they have to leave, fuck what the contract says, they want them out. And they aren't going to pay for any of the renovation costs.
After threatening them with a lawyer friend of theirs, they finally caved and said they would pay the renovation costs but they still had to move out. Of course not everyone knows a lawyer or is in a position to settle.
Hang on a second, wasn't one of the reasons Mao's revolution was so successful due to greedy land owners? Hmmm... are we seeing history repeat itself? This time not with land but landlords?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Problems with China Eastern Airlines Oh yes - I can finally understand why Chinese people have gone ballistic at the counters! Has anyone checked - the times that this has happened in Kunming, I bet they were all China Eastern!
Forums > Living in Kunming > Problems with China Eastern Airlines I would like to jump on the f**king useless China Eastern.
I booked flights a while ago with them to Hong Kong and return for 3 days. Everything looked a-OK, but now 11 days before the flight leaves, they decide to change both flights to and from Hong Kong, both now a day later. Obviously this screws everything as connecting flights, meeting people, hotel reservations and everything else is completely off.
I should have learnt from the first time this happened with them when they decided that I would have to return 3 days later than I planned. Luckily that time it was OK and I assumed it was an anomaly.
How they think they can effectively operate an Airline business if they change flights within 2 weeks before they were supposed to go is beyond me.
This is a tip for everyone - if you want to actually arrive on time, on the right day and probably even in the right place... don't fly China Eastern.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Strange light in the sky tonight Quite a few Chinese people saying they saw a UFO too, so it wasn't just us laowai's imagining some secret Chinese technology! Might have been an aircraft on afterburner going straight up realising they were in the flight path of commercial airlines, but likely we would have heard that... doesn't make sense if it was a rocket launch, straight above a city isn't very smart if it explodes or drops out of the sky...
20 years in Yunnan with Jim Goodman
发布者Brilliant story, good work GoKM! It explains who it was when I was in Chiang Mai and saw this crazy looking dude blasting around on his bike... Will definitely have to look his books up being completely unfamiliar with them.
Snapshot: Fuxian Lake from the air
发布者Great shots Mike, brilliant. With industry a new arrival, it probably won't be long before the lake is polluted to hell, I guess we should go and enjoy it while we can.
Metro Line 1 begins passenger trial period
发布者40 seconds to get in and out? Its probably not enough time because everyone tries to get in and out at the same time, just like most subways on the Chinese mainland... something tells me if passengers obeyed the "exit to the sides" and "let everyone get off before you get on" rules, 40 seconds would be plenty of time. Instead there will be the middle-older women/men pushing past the people getting off to ensure they can get on.... meanwhile causing a massive deadlock bottleneck of passengers at the entrances/exits.
Yunnan's Party Secretary lays out vision for the future
发布者Looking on google maps... that looks like one HELL of a water diversion. I don't get it though, will they pipe the water in? Dianchi is in a basin, as I understand it, with the catchment area of the rivers flowing into Dianchi only being within said basin which includes Kunming city and up into Jindian in the NE and similarly in the NW. Does this mean the water will have to be either taken over or through the mountains to get here (both must be via a pipeline)? Correct me if my understanding is incorrect, this seems pretty hardcore!
How bad is Kunming's air?
发布者You only have to think about my last fairly logical statement about complex systems (and study systems theory a bit) and the evedenciary recorded warming since the mid 1900's to realise global warming, or better "climate change", is not just a theory, but actually happening. I aren't saying don't keep questioning, I encourage particularly scientific evidence to the contrary, but denying human caused climate forcing now is equivalent to claiming the earth is flat. There is simply too much change in too short of a time span without a massive meteor or volcano to explain the current trend without attributing it to the human caused conditional change. If you still doubt it's us causing the change, I encourage people to suggest another cause of a 1 degree climb in global temps in a century.