Forums > Living in Kunming > RMB to American Dollars You can buy $500USD per day no questions asked. If you have ATM receipts or receipts buying RMB with USD, you can change more. I bought $2,400 one day at the BOC at West end of Nan Ping Jie a couple of months ago.
You must declared $10,000 or more on entry to the US. Don't think there is a limit but I am sure they will ask
questions.
Think to wire, or Western Union, USD requires the USD in hand when you do it.
I live off my US money, income, so I have lots of ATM receipts.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Laos visa Made it to the Laos Consulate, about a 40 kuai taxi ride from Bei Chen Da Dao, Walked from the security gate to the consulate and got quick service. But left without a visa.
If you are an American, you get your visa at your entry point. Sorry about that.
Getting a taxi back home is nearly impossible. It took more than one hour to get a taxi. Was unfamiliar with the bus numbers and the bus signs were so dirty even the Chinese couldn't read them.
See you in Vientiane!
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Exchanging RMB in Laos I am planning a trip to Vientiane, visa run. You can buy $500USD per day at the Bank of China downtown on Dongfeng Xi Lu. No questions asked and it is simple. Bring your passport, RMB, and fill out a form, it has English labels for the stuff they want to know. Normal questions.
If you changed USD to RMB, like using your US ATM card in Kunming, and have the ATM receipts, you can buy USD up to the value of receipts. I got $2,400 in one trip a few months back.
Check the USD you get carefully. Give back any worn, wrinkled, old or defaced bills. Hard to unload them for kip, baht, dong or yuan.
Forums > Living in Kunming > New Visa Regulations Is a visa run to Laos doable? I'm gonna need to do one and also need to go to Vientiane as well
Forums > Living in Kunming > New Visa Regulations Best I can tell these changes apply only to ethnic Chinese. Only one item did not mention "Chinese" but it referred to living with "immediate family" which may include a Chinese spouse.
Several provinces under suspicion of "faking" environmental protection data
Posted byWhile this is nothing new, having it called out is.
A dozen years ago, while wandering around Hainan taking photos, I took photos of a factory spewing pollution into the air. Back in Beijing I mentioned this to a friend who was an official at the old Ministry of Environmental Protection. She said "There are no factories in Hainan." When I told her I had photos, she shook her head and repeated, "There are no factories in Hainan," adding, "There can't be any pollution in Hainan."
Problem solved, I guess.
Much ado about...littering at Lugu Lake
Posted byAn example of tourists damaging what they came to see.
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Stone Age graveyard discovered in Yunnan's Chuxiong Prefecture
Posted byAre you guys talking about Lufengosaurus huenei or Lufengosaurus changduensis?
Bringing classic Shanghai elegance to Kunming
Posted by@alien YUa think? "Editor's note: This article is a sponsored post."
Study: Air pollution causes loss of intelligence
Posted by@bilingualexpat Thanks, got it.