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The CNAC Exhibition is a wonderful thing and I am happy it has come to be.
CNAC is also strongly linked to the Flying Tigers and many former Flying Tiger pilots flew for CNAC. Film director John Woo is getting his project underway to make a film about the Flying Tigers.

The story, the real story, of the Flying Tigers far exceeds anything any fiction writer could dream up. The suffering of the Chinese people was enormous and the history here demands respect. The potential for a great film is most significant and I wish Mr. Woo every success in this important film. Great care needs to be taken with the casting as any mistakes here can ruin the film.

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Just wanted to add to the comments above that the John Woo film project about the Flying Tigers is getting off the ground. If he can make a good movie it would be great for the Air Park.

The story, the real story, of the Flying Tigers far exceeds anything any fiction writer could dream up. The suffering of the Chinese people was enormous and the history here demands respect. The potential for a great film is most significant and I wish Mr. Woo every success in this important film. Great care needs to be taken with the casting as any mistakes here can ruin the film.

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If I read this correctly it seems that the North is getting a pretty lousy deal. Would seem logical to extend the line by 3-4 stations. That said it looks as if they are doing the initial preparations for building tracks a lot further up North than the diagram suggests.

The story, the real story, of the Flying Tigers far exceeds anything any fiction writer could dream up. The suffering of the Chinese people was enormous and the history here demands respect. The potential for a great film is most significant and I wish Mr. Woo every success in this important film. Great care needs to be taken with the casting as any mistakes here can ruin the film.

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This is a wonderful opportunity to make a truly great film. Lots of of great story material to work with. Great care needs to be taken with casting or it can be ruined.

For those that may wish to see a video of a restored P-40 Tomahawk fighter plane in flight in Flying Tiger markings look here:

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Planning is carried out by individuals who often never need to use buses or taxis - or their feet for that matter.

If you're a pedestrian or a bus user you have lower status than a kid on a two wheeler with stabilizers.

Just look at how the young and the elderly, the fit and the unfit, the abled and disabled...... and everyone in between, have to run the gauntlet when attempting to cross a junction on a green light.

Without 'illegal' taxis I'd have problems getting into town. 'You no car? Then you no matter!'

the launch of the new bus stations was rather rushed and haphazard, but i think it is a good move.

now, we just need the rest of the infrastructure to catch up - not just transport links, but also ticketing - downtown ticket offices (like with train tickets), or a ticket infrastructure that any authorised travel agent can interface to (like with air tickets) would be great. having to trek out to the bus station to buy tickets and then trek back a few days later to take the bus is less than efficient.

The proliferation of illegal taxis has stemmed pressure on the city to revamp their woefully inadequate taxi system. Licensed cabbies have a lot of legitimate complaints, but their attitude and the shortcomings of the system are becoming untenable. Drivers frequently refuse to take people to places they deem too far or unprofitable, something which is illegal, and it seems every taxi in the city switches drivers at dinner time, which is when they're needed the most.

For now, people just shrug their shoulders and hop in a black cab. I hope that the crackdown will expose the deeper problems, and the local media will start to follow this story. When I came to Kunming 10 years ago, it had one of the best run taxi systems in the country. The problem is, it's still the same system today.

Let's hope they get some competition soon. Especially since we foreigners often have to pay full price and it can't be right that you can fly to Beijing for half the price of what a ticket for the 40 minutes flight to Xishuangbanna is.

I'm against the dams, but it really hasn't been raining. Really.

What really happened is all in the above article, though the writer doesn't say it outright. A deal must have been struck before the summit: China gives some of the info it wants and plays nice at the summit if the other countries don't come out and point the finger at them.

It was palatable because the current drought really has to do with the lack of rain.

That sounds like quite a lot to stuff in a bra.

Either way, these women will most likely be executed. That's not funny.