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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Vietnamese visa at Hekou

Is it still possible for foreigners to obtain a Vietnamese visa at Hekou? What's the price, what's the duration and what's the delivery time?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > receive money in a chinese bank account

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I'm looking for a way to wire money from EU/US countries into a Chinese bank account. Also, is it possible to wire money back to them?

Which banks can I use, what will it cost, what's the typical processing time, how do I get my IBAN/BIC number (if such a thing applies) etc.?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Army surplus store

Beijing lu's east side, north of Yuantong daqiao and south of the north train station, is lined with the things. You can even get a nice army surplus garden chair.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How much do interpreters make?

I am a professional translator and charge €35 per hour when I work for agencies and €50 when directly for the client. That makes €400 on a standard working day. Obviously, an interpreter (who will have to move, arrange his time schedule ...) will make more money. A simultaneous interpreter making $800 a day sounds about right.

You may think this is an awful lot of money for a totally free job. But do not forget that most of us are freelance, pay up to 50% tax on income, do not get full-time equivalent work, have to buy our own insurance, and may take years to build up a translation business that generates enough money to make a living off.

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Great news. I assume foreigners won't be able to make use of it, but I would very much welcome anything that brings down the number of cars bought and driving around on the street.

Way to go, Kunming. Perhaps you're a spring city after all. And what a timeframe!

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they're derivatives of the influenza A virus, not the common cold. The fact that they get names is because they are different diseases that both threaten large populations and need different treatment.

That they just called it a cold before is because medicine wasn't as developed as today and because, you know, a cold is just a cold, and no strains of it can be cured while its symptoms can be treated in the same way.

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As indicated by Meine Van Noordwijk, it would be good to have a roundtable with the different stakeholders in the industry and perhaps create something like a 'green label' for rubber, making it easier for users and manufacturers elsewhere to gauge their impact.

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Also don't forget that family names don't necessarily relate to the other meanings of the character.

In Hmong and Yi areas, if you see a 巫 or any other seemingly meaningless character, I would also argue that it's safer to assume transliteration of a Hmong/Yi word, as neither Mandarin nor Hanzi belong to these people.

Many examples can be found around Yunnan, but they're often most striking in Tibetan areas (甘孜, nothing to do with sweet stuff, just sounds like Tibetan Garze) and Dai areas (猛论, not a fierce debate, but Meng a transliteration of the Dai/Thai Mouang which means village).

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On my cycling tour through Yunnan into South-East-Asia, I've stopped regularly at Mei Mei for a bit and a lot of drinks.

The service is friendly, the location is great and the prices are reasonable. I'm over the moon about their brownies (served with ice cream) and coffee. Though I've not had everything on the menu, I was pretty impressed with the dishes I ordered.

Don't bother with Mekong café. Mei Mei is as good a place to rest, at night or in the afternoon and has the better food.

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This was my first stop in Jinghong when I was cycling down south. I was hungry and in need of calories, so I ordered up the biggest burger on the menu: the imperial with added cheese.

I was sorely disappointed to see the sad pile of gooey beef and bread arrive, covered in half-melted cheese and not much bigger than two McDonald's cheeseburgers stacked on top of each other.

The best thing about this place are tourist informations, for everything else I suggest Meimei nextdoor or Wangtianshu a bit further in town.

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Good noodles (well perhaps most Chinese places can pull off a Chinese dish properly). Excellent selection of beer, including my favourite Orval. Beer is chilled to the right temperature indicated on the label. Friendly and good-smiling staff. Fair-priced. Terrace in the sun.

Only complaint? Not enough matching glasses to serve those delicious beers in. See, if that's the only complaint, it's a 5-star review!

Why can't other places be as good?

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If I go back, it won't be for the lazy service or the bland spaghetti bolognese. The cosiness and selection of beers could and the game aspect will be the only reasons to go back. Really some places should just try ro be what they are: cafés, not restaurants.

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Though happy with the friendly service, I'm not too impressed with the food quality vs. price ratio. Also, the vietnamese coffee comes without condenses milk as it would be served in Vietnam or next door, in vintage.