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Forums > Study > Email for Yunnan Unıversıty

There are lots of hotels and hostels in KMG.

Perhaps someone can recommend a good one near to the Uni that taxis will know about.

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Forums > Study > Email for Yunnan Unıversıty

Spring Holiday is 9-15 Feb 2013. The 16th is a Saturday and this will be a working day. However, new students may start the following week.

Be prepared, all travel during the holiday will be more expensive and flights can be hard to book.
Book early.

Check semester start dates for your course. It might be you will fly after the holiday.

Consider arriving a week before to acclimatize, as we are at about 6000ft (1900m) altitude here. You can also then get a feel for Kunming in slow time and enjoy the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) on the 9th (eve) and 10th.

When flying check the best route. Shanghai to Kunming is a premium route and discounts are rare. There are direct flights from Kuala Lumpur to Kunming on Air Asia, I believe. Air Asia flies to KL from most other global air transport hubs. You may also be able to fly into Chungdu, before transiting to Kunming.

Just some thoughts.

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Forums > Study > Email for Yunnan Unıversıty

The spring courses usually start immediately after the Spring Festival holiday.

Follow the procedure for visa as laid out by YNU. If they say come on a tourist visa, then maybe you will have to, but I don't think they will. I have been known to be wrong though.

My comments before were more advice against playing fast and loose with the visa system. People have come unstuck. But if YNU advise a certain course of action it will be within the rules. The universities are more accountable to central government for the foreigners they are responsible for, as compared to the private schools.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 101 Good Reasons to live in China

I am pretty sure there is an under reported drug problem here as well. They have recently introduced new regs to control some of the OTCs because they contain the main ingredient of a hard drug (meth? can't recall). Yunnan is also a centre for cross border trade, remember the Mekong River Massacre last year. This was not about small shipments.

As a result of the trade there are many users of several hard drugs. It is not all just weed.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Voicemail on China Mobile

My wife's iphone has the voice sms type app. (record a message and send). She is using ChinaUnicom.
I know this is not answer-phone, but if you cannot get an answer, you could follow up with a voice message.

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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.

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.

@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.

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.

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This has moved.
The cut flowers are about 700m east on Duonan Jie. The plants and trees are about 700 m west and follow Duocai Section.

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A reasonable choice of lumber that has improved over time. Fancy hardwoods like walnut, and mahogany are in abundance. There are some plywood and rubber-wood boards available. There are also some kiln dried imported softwoods and merbao available. Some of the lumber is very green, so look for the kiln dried if you need stable timbers.

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Echo everything said by others.
Breakfast great and the serve from 8am. Most other places say 9am and they still are not ready.
Sandwiches are cheap 22-32, and really packed full of filling. We got some sandwiches for a day out, the only mistake I made was ordering two, as this was too much. These are seriously good sangars, and they are wrapped in alu foil.

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In fairness to Metro, they are a wholesalers, and not really a supermarket. Hence the need for a card, which can be got around.

They have improved in the year I have been away. They now carry a more consistent range of imported foodstuffs and they also seem to have sorted out the mported milk supply.

They have a wider range of electrical appliances now, there is a coice of more than one toast. There is also a better range of seasonal non foods, like clothes, shoes, garden furniture and camping gear.