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Forums > Living in Kunming > Gay scene in China

In China or in Kunming? There is a very active gay scene in Shanghai and has been for years. Evidenced by the LGBT annual drag party in Shanghai this weekend.
There were a lot of very effeminate men who spent a lot of time at the mirrors of the changing rooms in a big gym in the city centre, some putting on make-up. Or hanging around the 'lounging area' beyond the showers.
The gym was a regular gym open to the public, but we were told that we would not like the swimming pool on a seperate floor, they would not even let us up to have a look. We guessed, 'bath house'.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > New Residence Permit rules are coming

Depending on what you are applying for.
If you need the document to be legalised (not just notorized) the official position on UK marriage and birth certificates is (an extract from an email I got from UK Embassy in China this month):

The marriage certificate [must be] notarised by the FCO Legalisation Office and the Chinese Embassy in London...
For information, this isn't a service we [the UK Embassy] provide in China. All legalisation of UK documents must takes place via the FCO Legalisation Office [in London].

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Forums > Study > English Subject downgrade?

100% in English is 100 points.
100% in Chinese would be 180 points.
Hmm! easy decision at to where to put the effort.

I agree with the argument put forward about relevance. The majority of kids will hardly use English beyond school. I bit like my school French and German.

However, mother tongue is essential. If they are going to raise the standards, and not just the weighting, it can only be a good thing.

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Forums > Study > English Subject downgrade?

My understanding.
English will still be a core subject, but the weighting will be lower than before.

From Xinhau news news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-10/22/c_132821028.htm
"The Beijing Municipal Commission of Education said Monday that the scores for subjects like English and Chinese in Beijing's gaokao will change as of 2016. The overall score of English will drop from 150 to 100, while the total points for Chinese will rise from 150 to 180."

I think it will have little affect on demand as all SS need to get the highest score possible in every subject. Those who are good at English and want to go abroad will still do so.

I think the biggest impact on teachers will be the increased supply of big noses in China.

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As for going after the lower level guys.
The fat cats were milking other fat cats.
It is all the little lower level guys that make life difficult for the guy on the street, and expensive for those on low incomes.
It would be nice to think of an egalitarian round up (tigers as well as flies), but most people are plagues by flies, and are unaffected by tigers.

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There are a lot of restaurants in our area. It used to be that there was congestion caused by cars parked at the side of the road. This was most nights of the week. Some places had exotic dishes and high prices.
Now the roads are clear except for festivals, and prices even a middle income family can afford.
You can draw your own conclussions.

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Talking of construction. One solution is to build a new town from the ground up the adequate infrastructure. This was done in Dali and oops, Chenggong. Shanghai has also built a number of satellite cities/towns.

The accumulated debris is a problem and not all of it is trash, a lot of it is leaves, twigs, and dust/dirt. Often this can not be effectively dealt with until it accumulate. You can have teams going around clearing culverts and grids, but not every bit of debri that could potentially reach the culvert.
This is a universal problem.

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There is the same problem in Shanghai and Beijing, the drains are not up to coping with the heavy rains, even though they come yearly.

Urban planning is often about sprawl, without the effort to upgrade the old infrastructure. The norm is to jus connect the new drains to the old. The new drains may even have sufficient capacity, but there is a bottle neck as water reaches the old drains. Until there is the political will to dig up and replace the drains in the older parts of the city (costly and very disruptive to local residents, traffic, and business) we will continue to see occastional flooding. It used to the be same in many towns in the west.

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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.