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Forums > Study > Tudou vids

Yep, the youku app on my Android phone is excellent - last night I downloaded 6 episodes and 4 movies for viewing when travelling off line. Took about 2 hours (busy time and slow internet) and you have to wait for the adverts to finish before clicking the download button, but it works well and also allows my wifey to watch them too (she reads the subtitles in Chinese).

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Forums > Living in Kunming > ADSL or Network internet connection?

We moved into a brand new apartment block a year and a half ago. Actually people had been living in it for 8 months already...

Apparently the apartment block was waiting to be "registered with the government" and so didn't officially exist. Therefore it didn't have any services to it, people couldn't register that they lived in them, I couldn't register with the local police at that address and China Telecom (at the time we moved in) didn't know it existed. It took 2 months before we could get the cable into our building and actually connect to the internet, but it was eventually done and it was fibre, it was fast and reliable. So my advice - check first whether the internet can actually be connected i.e. whether people in the building have it connected already or if China Telecom has the building (the actual building, not just block) in their system. Our landlord said that it was no problem, just ring China Telecom, but it was actually a big problem...

Incidentally that same apartment block STILL hasn't been registered with the government, so people still can't register with the government etc. Its a real pain in the ass for lots of people there who are living there and wanting to register their local hukou as Kunming - no official address, nobody officially lives there, meaning their kids can't go to school in Kunming etc etc. Clearly not enough guanxi payments made by the apartment builders...

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Kunming flight to Koh Samui

Recommend you call them, it usually takes a little while for the flight to be registered in all the systems/with all the authorities. Even though they may be flying there is usually a lead time for them to appear, but usually you can book over the phone or at their office. Strange though that it isn't even on their own website!

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The local/central government response to cleaning up Dianchi has to be laughed at.

Step 1 - Dianchi's getting dirty. We know its because all of the human/industrial/farm waste we can see going into it. Don't care because caring doesn't make us any $$$.
Step 2 - Realise its actually a problem.
Step 3 - Wait until it becomes a HUMONGO MOFO problem.
Step 4 - Commit to cleaning it up by throwing a hell of a lot of money at it. Look for some quick way to clean it up involving ill thought out and unresearched but looks like we are really doing something method.
Step 5 - Commit more money to cleaning it up because Step 4 ain't working and has likely made the problem worse. Use some more but just as dodgy methods as in Step 4 but with bigger machines and more construction so it looks like something BIGGER is happening.
Step 6 - Finally admit that pollutants going into the lake are causing pollution (duh) and the only way to stop polluting the lake is to stop putting pollution into the lake (double duh).
Step 7 - Stop pollution getting to the lake.

All in the space of what, 20 years? Genius!

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I thought any hotel in Yunnan could take foreigners? I have never been denied but then again I have never tried the real dodgy places... Has this rule changed? Or was it only in my imagination?

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Anyone seen the new and massive Yunnan Baiyao offices in Chengong? Massive! They have their own lake and a good 50+ hectares of land, with running track etc... crazy!

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667 hectares... 120k... you must be joking. That's a ridiculously low amount, 180 kuai per hectare which normally gives income of (according to their numbers) 500k of income per year. They need to add 2 more zeroes to that number if they aren't giving them similar land elsewhere. Do they also live on this land?

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Normally there would be a few problems with any airport around the world when they have their first crisis.

But this is China, so multiply the problems x 3 due to lack of preparedness.
And this is Kunming, so multiply that result x 2 due to general lassitude.

Can't wait for the subway... not that I will be on it for the first 6 months, its not worth my life!

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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!