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Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming feedback...

Registered and verified "real-name" accounts could be optional, visibly marked in posts. Readers could then learn to ignore others, if they so choose.

It would still leave the possibility to contribute anonymously for more secretive people.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Naming your child

We started with a foreign name, which can be easily and harmlesly pronounced in Chinese, and therefore transliterated into Chinese written language.

Our son now has this Chinese name, which can be pronounced (more or less) according to foreign pronounciation. Observing however, that this particular foreign name can be pronounced in two different ways abroad.

However, when we got his Chinese passport, his Chinese name was transliterated into Pinyin and then it no longer matched the expected English form of name.

If we in future get him foreign passport, he will have my family name on it, and the given name is initially required to be exact Pinyin version of his Chinese name.

We can then separately request to have this name changed into correct foreign version.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Change in bank transfer requirements

Heads up!

Earlier this month I made a regular bank transfer from my foreign bank to my Bank of China account, like I have done numerous time before.

However, the money didn't arrive to my account (usually it just takes 3 days or so), so after a week of waiting we today went to the main BOC branch on Beijing Lu to ask about it.

Turns out, you now have to indicate in the message of the bank transfer, what the money is for. In my case, something like "Money for living expenses in China" would work.

Previously, I have just put some meaningless text like "Hello" in it, thinking that it is a message just for the recipient (myself) and not serving any greater purpose.

Because this information was not included in the transfer, the bank just held the money. I didn't even receive call or anything about it.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Does our baby need a visa to be in China?

We did this the other way - our son has all Chinese paperwork, including hukou, ID and passport, and we are considering if/when to get foreign passport. I can only assume that this new change works this way too - we can get the foreign passport without it becoming challenging to hold his Chinese passport at same time.

However, this challenges me:

"my son can get a Hukou, ID and indeed a Chinese passport and STILL get the Entry/Exit permits"

If he has Chinese passport, why would he need Entry/Exit permits? At least our son (1yr) could travel to Europe just fine with Chinese passport. Of course he needed Schengen visa, since he doesn't share my nationality yet.

But I have understood that a Chinese passport would allow one to leave the country, and the foreign passport for the destination would allow one to arrive there = no separate Exit/Entry permits needed.

Though previously the problem of holding two passports would have been a problem, since China would have interpreted the presence of foreign passport as the Chinese nationality being cancelled. This would have been apparent from foreign visa & entry/exit stamps (or lack of them) in the Chinese passport.

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I think that bigger concern than server space may be privacy issue.

If you want to delete your data (or some of it), but it doesn't really delete it...

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"support the website by making an account, asking questions in the forum, leaving reviews and using the classifieds section to find a job, sell your stuff or rent an apartment."

This (or rather what is not included in that list of to-dos) sums the criticism that I personally have toward the whole ordeal, and how GoKunming (out of no choice I understand) had to respond to it with rest of the nation.
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Ask questions and increase revenue, but feel free to avoid discussing and, heaven forbid, debating anything.

Not sure if this applies to Italy visas, but for many other European countries:

The Joint Visa Application Center that used to be in Beichen, is now relocated to an office building at intersection of .Shibo Road and Bojin Avenue.

New address:
1501D, Building A, Low Carbon Business Center, No. 12 Shibo Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province 650000 China

www.vfsglobal.cn/finland/china/contact_us.html#14

I'm not a big fan of croissants anyway, and donuts I have not found in either of the establishments you mentioned.

@Dolphin: "savouring the croissant helps to cultivate appreciation. ie appreciating simple things rather than always feeling discontent that you don't have enough"

Perhaps, but it equally helps to cultivate ignorance of all the labor that has been put into creating that experience for you. At least I would allow you to feel discontent on behalf all the people who don't have enough, whether they had part in creating the croissant or not.

I't shouldn't anymore be about what you have or don't have, but what the other 7.7 billion (minus 1) people have or don't have. That's where the musings of Buddha (as quoted above) go wrong in this day and age.

There perhaps was a time, when embracing reality same way you would savour the croissant, could have been beneficial to achieving an enlightened state of mind.

But today, many would call such view on life quite the opposite of enlightened - it could be called ignorance or covering your eyes from all that is wrong. Perhaps that's suitable in Chinese context.

There, I connected the croissant to politics.

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