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So indeed it is the age thing.
According to the present law no one will be able to drive after 70.
China has a lot of catch up to do with the whole age thing they are way behind in their legislation. Laws for driving are made as for chauffeurs and not for normal citizens.
Things keep on changing however. In China there are now important people getting old who want to be able to drive and there will be a push for a change in this because of that. So keep an eye out for possible changes.

I know the medicals are a bit of a joke but I know they keep the worst out. When I got my license there was a man in front of me in the cue (No privacy of course) who was as good as blind. He didn't pass despite his arguing that he only drives his 3 wheeler in the town where he lives and knows all the street there ;-)

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Imported. "China Daily said smugglers bought cheap meat abroad, shipped it to Hong Kong and on to Vietnam before bringing it to the mainland. Can you imagine the transport cost and the cost of storing it 40 years."

Sorry but even if it is in the Guardian it still is not credible.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Best / Worst Kunming Food

40 year old meat.
How many times have I heard this urban legend ???

Same story on this same forum 2 year ago. See:
www.gokunming.com/[...]
Referring to:
usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2013-07/11/content_16762593.htm

That story again goes back to the Mao years. So I can repeat my reply:

"46 years ago was 1967. China was in the middle of the Cultural Revolution and I bet you that Frozen Food facilities didn't exist in those days in the town of the story. As technicians know a frozen food warehouse will last only a couple of years and these deep frozen chicken feed would have been replaced several times to new facilities. Very unlikely."

I saw the 40 year old meat story the last couple of days in various western papers. Funny that they all disappeared again after a few days. This papers must have realised that they were publishing bull shit.

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"Not only will the visas allow tourists to visit the Czech Republic, but also all other countries in the Schengen Area. Under the Schengen Agreement, tourists may use visas for any one country included in the treaty in order to enter any other country."

The old British consulate is located at N: 24-02-03 E: 98-29-32 at the former rice and oil market at the old West Gate (Xi Men which is no longer there). It is next to the stadium in the middle of town. The area around is under redevelopment and should become a town park. The building is totally restored but they left the war damage in the outside walls intact.

@Alien.
The above was just a compilation of entries from vicar in an other discussion.

I already contributed his blabla in reaction to the sentence: "The water crisis in Southeast Asia has been blamed largely on climate change strengthened weather phenomenon El Niño." Just trolling a bit.
Indeed I am not a Vietnamese farmer.

And what's wrong with the world being warmer anyway? People are moving to warmer climates all the time. The places that had coldest winters on record last/this year will certainly be hoping for a warmer period. Adapting to climate change shouldn't need to be that expensive or scary. When the ice on the river Thames used to form so hard between the 17th and 19th centuries, people weren't saying they were all going die if they didn't change their lifestyles. They had frost fairs on ice. Today's warnings on climate change are at biblical proportions and only being used as the idea of hell is losing its hold. In fact the average climate is manipulated by the sun's heat intensity at the time and the orbital position of the earth in relation to the sun which does change over long periods, during which humans were not around for the most dramatic changes. You can also argue that the hotter the sun, the warmer the earth, hence more C02. Proof of major climate change over millions of years all around us, stone forest for example. Try and get the picture of the large chunks of ice collapsing into the ocean during the SUMMER and the polar bear standing hopelessly on the last small block of ice on earth out of your mind. If you were right, the artic cap would be totally gone by now as the use of fossil fuels has been constantly increasing since the idea of climate change by human error came into existance. And from NASA. The largest amount of ice in antartica since 1979, yes, in 37 years. How much fossuil fuel has been burnt since then I wonder. A lot more than the numerous previous ice and warming ages. It's been unpredictable for the past few billion years. Putting the majority of attention and money on agenda focused, tax rising, control grabbing schemes is not working. To save ourselves from natural climatic conditions beyond our control we must turn our attention to how best we can protect ourselves against it because if we are honest to ourselves we will never be able control or prevent extreme weather conditions in our lifetimes.

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