It's all a nice history lesson laotou, but you still refuse to recognise that the young people of HK have genuine grievances. These aren't just foreign influence sycophants that you seem to suggest, in fact, that line reads far too close to the rhetoric of the Chinese government to be taken seriously. Do you really believe that is the truth? It is worth noting public foreign support of HKers in this action appears AFTER not before...
Viewed through an historical looking glass and as someone who is relatively impartial, I tend to agree laotou.
But from the perspective of the young people alive right now who are threatened with the death of something very important to them (their identity, culture and opportunities), you are miles off.
It's fine to pass judgement from an armchair where those judgements don't affect you, but when your very way of life is threatened by those judgements it's a different story.
Young people I have talked to in Hong Kong most of all wish to protect their way of life and their unique cultural identity. They are angry because they have no power - all the decisions made about their future were negotiated between two foreign powers when they were in nappies or before, leaving them with little power or control of their future. They then see the very things that would allow them some level of autonomy and self determination being diluted or removed. These are genuine grievances they have, they are not just idealistic morons as you purport.
The notion that a local dating a foreigner must be a whore is antiquated to say the least. This would have been the case a long time ago, anyone who thinks the same today in China likely has little education, has been living in a hole for 30 years and/or has deep nationalist sentiments making them rationalise Chinese/foreigner relationships by marginalising the Chinese side.
Most Chinese ask my wife if she is my guide first, a few are surprised when she responds "lao po". Only one has ever asked her how much she is getting paid a night, they were drunk and received the most vicious tirade I have ever heard from her. He ran away pretty quickly after he realised the game was up, there was no defence for such an idiotic notion in today's China.
Yep, no way they would implement a search that would require a VPN! That would be rather silly...
It has been happening more and more to me too, when by myself. When I finally get a taxi I usually ask the driver why others drive past me, they usually say its because they are too nervous - they don't speak English and are scared of offending tourists! Pretty funny, but there it is.
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So fast, so convenient. One star off for opening before the train station stop is connected!
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.
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!)
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!
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!
Interview: Biogas researcher Ben Underwood
发布者Any plans to use the plants they scoop up for power generation and fertiliser?
They may not wish to use the plants as a fuel source though - creating an industry based on the stuff you want to eradicate e may mean you never eradicate it...
Interview: Biogas researcher Ben Underwood
发布者How about using all the plant waste coming out of Dianchi? There must only be thousands of tonnes of organic waste every year...
Man misses 1 billion yuan jackpot by single number
发布者What do you do HFCAMPO that justifies your existence as a clearly well off foreigner in a relatively poor area of the world?
Your answer better include working with orphaned drug addicted lepers or you may just fall off your high horse.
And how do/did you make the money you have? It better not have been through the capitalist system you so despise...
Kunming Auto Show rakes in 1.5 billion yuan
发布者Nope 13k+. Read the article?
Official: Yunnan will have two bullet trains by 2016
发布者Ok, strangely enough I am posting this from a two storey train on the way to Lijiang via their ON BOARD WIFI! More reasons to ignore others when on the train.