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GoKunming is the online resource for Yunnan Province and its capital city, Kunming. We offer up-to-date information regarding events, local businesses, news, nightlife and travel, as well as incredibly active user-generated classified and forum sections. GoKunming is southwest China’s largest and best English-language website.
Jukui Lou: Kunming's forgotten landmark
Posted byIf old buildings could be put to modern use, they'd be more likely to be preserved. But as you say, most old buildings are already gone.
Norwegian band headlining Kunming International Music Week
Posted byaddendum: however, halfway house organizers were kind enough to let us in for free. we did feel bad though since everyone else was paying.
Official: Yunnan-Myanmar pipeline work to start in early 2009
Posted byChris; if I had written this interesting piece, I would have been tempted to highlight the words "... power and coal projects," The words jumped out of my screen but maybe not everyone's.
Just kidding ... a bit.
Fuxian Lake and the disappearing kanglang fish
Posted byreally? I never saw and ate that fish even I have ever been to Fuxian Lake.
Starbucks to market Yunnan coffee in China outlets
Posted byjust imagine: "Salvador's opens 50th store in Peru"
what then? the horrors! a successful indie brand from Kunming has gone global, and that makes them "bad", just because of their success?
and i expect Salvador's would have the sense to change their menu for different markets, as most international chains in China have.
brands are everything, and the market is always right.
Starbucks to market Yunnan coffee in China outlets
Posted byCheers founder! If Europe or America are models for the "Starbucks impact" there will be no more Salvadors, French Cafe or Prague in the future. Starbuck will take over WenLin Jie (because we go there) and the beautiful diversity of coffee shops in this town will vanish. So Ouyang, no I will not get over it.
Snow Mountain Music Festival schedule released
Posted byI was there for Daolang! And I love him. See more of him at www.daolang.sg/index.cfm?GPID=8
Happy viewing!!!
Starbucks to market Yunnan coffee in China outlets
Posted byHuh? How is Yunnan distinctive from rural areas in any other country with a centrally controlled economic system(which is pretty much any "modern and developed" country today)? How is The Brother's Jiang expanding everywhere in Yunnan different from Starbucks trying to expand in Yunnan?
Do you think Iowa has lost its distinctness because of all the Mexican and Chinese restaurants that have opened up? Oh wait, even though they almost all serve the same food, and their suppliers are almost all the same... it's so much better because they all have a different name... cripes, it's just marketing.
You can go to any city in Yunnan and you will see the same products being sold in all of them. What does it matter if the name of the store is in Chinese or in English? Does this somehow prevent you from speaking to the people who work there? Does it stop you from taking your time? It's just a marketing symbol, get over it.
Starbucks to market Yunnan coffee in China outlets
Posted by"Despite aggressive expansion in mainland China and sourcing Yunnan beans, Starbucks has yet to open retail outlets in Kunming or elsewhere in Yunnan." Good! -- the last thing we need in Yunnan is an international chain replicating here what can be found on streetcorners every place else in the world you go these days. Let's hope Yunnan remains distinctive.
Auguste François, Yin Xiaojun and Kunming at the end of the Qing Dynasty
Posted byDear Sirs,
I would like to contact Yin Xiaojun however the indicated mail address seems outdated.Do you have any update or useful information ?
Thanks for prompt reply.
Best regards,
Michel Nivelle
Officials fired over Yangzonghai arsenic pollution
Posted byThis is just a small example of arsenic pollution in China...The problem could be greater than the milk issue.
This weekend around Kunming
Posted byIt's the 3rd year in a row at least. I did the pub crawl 3 years ago but that time we started from Shi Da and not Yun Da :)
Construction begins on bicycle path around Dianchi Lake
Posted by. . . and with a greater awareness of the polution in the lake, we ought to see more effort in the clean up.
Kunming police tighten grip on city's dogs
Posted byI'm bound to ask what affect it will have on dog meat restaurants?
Construction begins on bicycle path around Dianchi Lake
Posted bysounds great! what a nice ride it will be...