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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Is a Health Certificate for Chinese nationals required?

chinese nationals can get a visa on arrival for 1000 baht as long as you have the return ticket and 10,000 baht equivalent or above on you.

international health certificate is not required, as long as you have not been to the countries which have been declared Yellow Fever Infedted Areas, china is not one of the countries listed.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Best mobile service provider for 3G?

it is just my personal experience.

if you travel interstates/inter-regions a lot, china telecom is the best in coverage and stability. a China Telecom CNY100/month business plan allows 60 hour on the net with no data limit. as a supplement, if you ever go to hong kong, you could purchase a China Unicom 3G plan there for HKD$130/month, with that you could access the internet in china,free from the 'China Great Wall.' the access uses proxy in hong kong instead bypassing the 'Great Wall,' accessing overseas sites is 'almost instant.'

i used china mobile before in shanghai, shenzhen and guangxi, it's stability drove me crazy, signal dropping off in random to be useful. i dont know if China Mobile has improved since.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How much do we pay a cleaning Lady?

yeah, it is hard to ignore the HUGE economic and Severe POLITICAL disparity, the lack of REAL indepedent organised labor union reflects the political reality. i am not in particular a fan of union back home but in china, the different circumstances changes me somehow.

i am not sure the housekeepers' pay rate is "market driven" at all, if it is, then paying the "market rate" is sufficiently FAIR, i think.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > How much do we pay a cleaning Lady?

well, putting the "exploitation" aside. one could hire a full time 24/6 live-in good house helper for 1300 a month (social security + insurance included) in guangzhou, shenzhen, a bit more in beijing. that is going rate the local chinese family would pay. as a reference, the foreign house helpers in hong kong get paid (rate regulated) 3000 month (8/5) + return airfaire + insurance. if you pay the local would pay, there is little point in slipping in the word "exploitation", i think.

make sure there is insurance otherwise it might be trouble, if.......she/ he falls.....etc

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Cannot receive SMS from overseas

greg,

it is a plain/Standard China Unicom prepaid SIM, not the dual number sim variety.

form memory, it was quite a shock to receive a sms from CU saying i could use the sim in hong kong, thinking they must be trying to rob me in monthly subscription fee..etc by stealth, as it turned out it was not the case. CU did not charge anything at all for that at all. i think CU shenzhen must be a separate unit to the rest of china CU. :-(

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yes, Anonymous C. it is Foshan, thank you. it is the pm2.5 that makes the story. here in foshan, it reads 106 micrograms and 180 micrograms lately. where in Shunde the reading reads 202. keeping in mind that below 25 is considered safe by WHO, I believe. :-)
on API, in "99 percent urbanised" hong kong where I visit often, the api can get up to 207. makes me wonder. :-)

I believe it is the dirty industries coupled with the lack of enforcement of environmental laws that are the problem. I am now in Fushan in the southern part of china in Guangdong, there is little farming (agriculture) left in this part of china but fish, pig and poultry farming, but the air pollution is choking because of the concentration of industries and the curtains of high rising buildings. if one remembers the Beijing Olympics, the gov ordered shutting down industries around Beijing in neighbouring provinces during the games, that made a difference even the air was still bad. with that perception of mine, I don't think the small farmers shouldn't be held responsibility for the problem. admittedly it helps if the small farmers can afford to pay more attention to new technology and practices.

the People's Web is tightly controlled by the party propaganda machinery. if the documentary could go "viral" without the machinery "noticed", there must be "something" at work. Now, the trivial. The report's daughter is an American because she was born in the USA. so whose money that was spent on the documentary, is not the issue.

yes, there is a "quiet censorship" going on. the local media have been told ( a phone call from the Propaganda chief ) to keep the subject in a low key - meaning no more mention of it a day after the documentary hit the screen. so... no, the gov will put gdp in front of anything else at this juncture when the economy is slowing. :-)

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