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Forums > Living in Kunming > BYD F0 anyone?

Get out of town on days off,, explore Yunnan. Those kinds of things. Maybe I am just a bit baffled over the price since the cheapest cars where I am from usually cost 4 times as much. It's is a good looking little compact though,, gotta say I am tempted.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > BYD F0 anyone?

Seen plenty of these compacts around lately and since the starting price apparently is set at 30.000 for the basic model I am interested to know if any foreigners here have driven it or maybe even have bought one?.

I know the design is a Peugeot 107/Toyota Aygo ripoff but I still like it a lot and it has made me rethink the whole I'll-never-buy-a-car-here issue. What do you guys think about it? If you don't recognize the name then here is a link. I'm sure you've seen them on the roads.

www.byd.com/showroom.php?car=f0

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Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming redesign: we want your input!

As other people have said, yes the search function is practically useless. More local news would be great but a brief daily update would probably take a lot of work. National and foreign news? nah, we can get that elsewhere. The forum could use some updating including more features and categories. I'd love to get more stories on short day trips to interesting places near Kunming and although I know there is a vibrant biking community here and the articles they write are good reads we aren't all into fighting 18 wheelers on the freeways.

All in all your concept seems fitting for this city and I don't really have any big ideas as you guys are doing pretty good with this site already. The forum though,,,

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Indian Visa

Found out that China Eastern is the carrier doing the KM-Kath route but on their website they seemingly have no flights (searched on all 7 days of the week) on the Chinese site since the English version naturally was useless as usual when it comes to Chinese airlines. 2 of the world's largest travel sites showed that it is in fact China Eastern. Oh well,, I am sure they would have given me the foreigner price online anyway.

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Since when did a 1 kilometre run become an 'endurance' test? During handball and football practice, our endurance training was rarely less than a 5 km run. Apart from that, many of my students talk enthusiastically about sports but when do they have time to train? My high school kids attend school 7 days a week, 6 of those from 8 morning to 11 at night (with 2x 1.5 hours breaks) and the little time left not spent at school is used for homework and what few extracurricular activities they have left, and they are always study related. At the start of this semester when a 1-on-1 student began 10th grade she finally had to give up on her piano lessons and her track and field (which she had enjoyed immensely) as well as her extra maths lessons because there's just no way for her to keep it up. Hell, even finding time for her private English lessons took 2 weeks of sorting out her schedule and intense planning. Before China begins complaining about the priorities of the youngsters, they ought to take a good, hard look at how the educational business is conducted and how teenagers are treated in this setting.

They have one of those here in Tengchong. They're noisy but people seem to enjoy it. The water wall projection is so-so but the laser/fountain thingy set to music looks very nice. I agree with Dazzer by the way that it it's a bit of an eye sore when the nozzles and the pipes protrude the water. Don't expect the movies to look spectacular though. When the novelty's worn off you find yourself struggling to figure out what's on 'screen'. The photo on top is definitely taken during one of the brighter moments.

Against capital punishment per definition here. Also, in China a bullet to the neck normally happens less than a month after the sentence and then that's it. These guys won't suffer, it will just be over. Personally I'd like them to spend life in a Chinese prison/work camp, every day like hell. Somehow seems more fitting.

30.000 a month for such a tiny place? Does The Box have 4-5 floors above it I'm not aware of included in that price? You could find cheaper storefronts in London's W2 no problem. The businesses ought to sit down together and all decide to move to another accessible area, sign cheaper 5 year leases and collectively raise their middle fingers to the greedy bastards at Wenhua Xiang.

Nice job allowing an insane murderer back into society so he could kill countless more people, eat their flesh and stack their eyeballs. That's what you get when you're focused on punishment and not rehabilitation, have nothing in place to do something about the mentally ill or some functioning psychiatric system able to determine if someone is fit to be released. Also, 4 YEARS to figure out who did this in a relatively small town where an insane loner with stacked human flesh on his property lives?? No one managed to tip off the police that, you know, just maybe they should go take a look at this guy's property?

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Went there yesterday and it totally made my week. Nice decor and friendly staff and a real salad bar. Sadly we both wanted mexican food so I can't really say much about their other courses. The food was great but just a tad spicier would have improved the dish. The best thing was that we almost had the place to ourselves and we could have a quiet conversation without shouting, spitting Chinese people in the background. I realised how much I had missed that since coming here.

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We went to Chicago Coffee a couple of days ago and it was a nice experience. The place is cozy with soft comfy chairs (I realized how much I have missed one since coming here) and they have a nice little collection of English language books in the corner consisting mainly of classics and travel litterature. I was looking forward to trying their advertized tortilla bar but it wasn't up and running that evening.

Instead we went for 2 12 inch pizzas -roast chicken and pepperoni- but we quickly realized that 1 would have been enough. Those things are heavy. I am mainly into Italian style pizza but Chicago's double layered pizzas are well worth a try. Their coffee seems to be a bit on the expensive side but people say good things about it and they have got a nice selection. I wouldn't mind dropping by again some day,, hopefully when they've got the tortilla thing going. English speaking staff btw.