Forums > Living in Kunming > Headphones and Stereos Carrefour, Metro offer fixed pricing. Range of qualities from fair to middling. And you can get branded. Remember that this is China, there are no real bargains, and you get what you pay for.
I bought an 8rmb set of in-ear phones. Bass response OK, but no midrange or high end. Not much good, even for voice. There is more to speakers/phones than simply wiring up a speaker. Same with stereo systems. There are good amplifier circuits and poor ones. Really a waste of 8rmb.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Opening a Chinese bank account Yes Gompo, I think the Banks in Europe and America have already proved your point.
I also think it is good that banks do not give people access to funds unless they can show, to the bank's satisfaction, that they are who they say they are.
I really don't have a philosophical or procedural problem with the bank asking for the same documentation I used to open the account. Especially as the alternative would leave me open to the risk of identity theft.
Forums > Living in Kunming > This site is ridiculous To be fair to the mods.
If someone registers multiple accounts (was it 10?), and then uses them to subvert/sabotage the reviews section, then I agree with them stepping in as they did.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Moving to Kunming. Please Help Me Many VPNs have already been blocked. Even pay for VPNs can be blocked with no warning. As a result, some of us have learned to live without FB.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Question about local Kunming dialect If you understand tones, you could use audio or video recordings of people speaking. That way you can develop your own system of analysis that is compliant with recognised phonological systems, standardise and codify it. If you use opinions of others, who will all be using a different set of criteria for describing tones, you have a problem, especially with quality control of your analysis.
Audio/video clips you can also re-visit them several times, and submit them as part of your study.
If you go to youku.com and type in 'kunming' or '昆明' you will find lots of klips. This will give you lots of samples of voxpop, many in Kunminghau.
Kunming Auto Show rakes in 1.5 billion yuan
发布者Normally in Kunming there are over 1000 new cars registered every day.
@ Ocean
Another thought.
Byd Vs Lambo with Kunming roads. Winner Byd
Official: Yunnan will have two bullet trains by 2016
发布者Leaky feeders used to be the solution for tunnels with 2G.
New underwater archeological discoveries made at Fuxian
发布者Agree. Because that would imply that China has always been a Han dominated homogeneous culture. However, it wasn't always so.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
发布者My daughter's school wasn't an elite school.
It was the local middle school. Not even that high in the rankings.
If a school is high in the rankings I am sure parents who are not from that district of the city can find a way to get their children in.
Update: Officials fired after school stampede kills six
发布者My daughters middle school principal was removed for graft. That was in Shanghai in about 2006.
We had to pay 20 000 rmb, and a watch to get my daughter into the school. This was not a special school by any means. We had just moved into the city mid-year.
Students were told that they must have English tutoring. The tutor was the brother of the head of the English dept. It was 100rmb per student per hour (in 2005), about 2 hours per week. Now that doesn't happen without the principal knowing about it.