Forums > Living in Kunming > I CAN'T FIND......WHAT ? Jessica
We get wholemeal organic but we have to go direct to the farmer in Guizhou when we are there. I have no idea when we will return.
I think you can get whole meal bread four in Metro. If it is not whole meal, at least it will be course flour. You could then make your own, dead easy with a pasta machine.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Legal weapons. Legal?
A cosh, but not a knife.
There is a thing called an Asp. It is like a telescopic baton, but metal. The police use them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASP,_Inc. . Usefull if you take some aikido lessons in how to use it. You see these around Kunming in the bird market and elsewhere.
Electrical things like Tazer may well be illegal.
Mace may be illegal. However, any perfumed spray, especially those with alcohol, will do the same job is sprayed in the eyes. Then run like hell.
Avoid anything potentially lethal or capable of causing grievous harm to anybody, because you won't be willing to use it. If you don't use it, it can be taken from you and used against you.
You don't need to harm people, you just need to get them to stop attacking you for long enough for you to run away.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Child Support Advice As has been pointed out.
It is illegal for her to get pregnant out of wedlock. End of story.
Unless you want this child and see a future with this child, which is unlikely.
Tell her to go to the police, you will not pay a penny.
Don't do a paternity test, unless demanded by the courts. Otherwise you just make things more complicated for yourself.
If you do want a future with the child, which is unlikely to be permitted, then get a paternity test.
Unless you have other commitments here, go home to your country and leave not forwarding address.
If you are a teacher this is easy as you have no commitments after June. Wait till the dust settles and return to another city in China.
Sorry it this sounds brutal, but it does not sound like she is thinking about either you or the child, and she is probably being driven by the parents. She won't have the baby is the most likely occurrence. Her parents will probably take your money and then the girl will have an abortion. It will be impossible for her parents to marry her off if she has a child already.
Sounds heartless? This girl is not dealing with matters of the heart, she is blackmailing you.
Forums > Living in Kunming > DIY stuff, tools, wood etc. The green stuff I am talking about that was taken off the market in about 1990 in EU was a green painted on wood treatment with a fungicide that was harmful to humans.
We got an H&S notice to handle any existing timbers with gloves and avoid other contact with exposed skin as it was taken into the body through the skin (adsorbed?).
That does not mean that other green product is not safe.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Getting a break from Kunming? There is Anning hot water spa village just west of Anning. Thermal baths, some hotels not too expensive for a communal hot spring. Or more expensive if you want a spa bath in your room.
Very quiet mid week and some hill walking.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
发布者I don't think the courts are uneducated. I think more cynically. The amount owed is $14k. I bet the owners are still driving flash cars and own several properties. The company may not have assets to pay, but I bet the owners do.
Weekend in Dali: A Chinese perspective
发布者I have just come back from a quick trip around that area, and spent one afternoon and night in Dali. Dali has found a new identity.
I have visited Dali several times over the years, and like many people on here was disappointed with what I saw. The slow commercialisation of Dali, leading to a schizophrenic (not one thing, not another) mess.
On my recent visit, the street vendors had gone the really low end food places had mostly gone. The city was busy, and for a mid-week just before CNY that was surprising. It was not a frantic busy, everything was moving smoothly and working well. Even noise seemed to be down, and I found it a lot less stressful.
There is a sort of gentrification among traders. There are more upmarket shops. There are many more shaokao (national trend) and most of these are chains, rather than small independents. Many of the small family food places have redecorated and are not the old dim and dismal places that they used to be. The commercial development has also spread into other streets.
Dali is not the Dali of old, but it has found a new identity. This new identity may not be to everybody's taste, but I found the city a much nicer place to stay, than I did 3 years ago.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者So we must make them learn.
You can take a horse to water, but a pencil has to be lead.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
发布者@Janjal, your argument contains many assumptions and additional requirements (story tellers etc). If we cannot provide the additional resources your suggested strategy would require and you cannot get China's rural poor to demand answers; again we have a moot point.
Comparing EU farmers, who are business owners who learn to work the system for profit with the rural poor, Is perhaps a case of chalk and cheese.
China hands out happy city awards, Kunming sad
发布者Of course material wealth is not the only measure, but it affects many other measures, and is a predominant feature in a capitalist system.
Perhaps it is human nature to want more than we have now, in capitalism this includes having more than the guy next to us. If we have more now than we had before, there is likely to be a sense of achievement/progress/increased security/satisfaction/happiness in that fact alone,. It is also a very simple qualitative measure for almost anyone.
Q. Do I have more than last year. A. Yes/no. If yes, has my relative position compared to my neighbors also improved? Am I content/happy with this?
In reality the questions are not even asked, they are not even out there, but they are part of the zeit geist. In cities with stronger economic growth the answers to the questions are going to be yes for more people. Chengdu is such a place. It is only when the personal costs of achieving this wealth are perceived to outweigh the advantages of the new wealth that people start to question it, but that comes later.