@Geezer: Marxist thought: we all pay the guy a decent amount for the work he's done & the materials he's used, then those who need it can use it. Much better idea than having plagues arise in poor areas & then having them spread all over the planet.
Suggest you just buy one, shouldn't cost much unless you need something for really serious weather, in which case you'd be better off buying one anyway, as you can freeze to death up there & you don't want to gamble on the effects of somebody else's chicken-soup spill on the thermal quality of the thing.
Probably won't amount to anything for just a few days, but it might - best to just do it, it's pretty painless.
@disco: OK, but be choosy about what you volunteer to do - obviously the value of what you do depends on...what you do. If you want to volunteer some money I know some people who could see that it gets used to good effect (in education) in areas where sending kids to school presents a certain amount of hardship on parents.
@Liumingke: somebody probably is - capitalist ethics encourages people to 'make' money out of anything they can. Good idea to watch the drug companies.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Mass arrests shine light on illicit Sino-Burmese timber trade
Posted bySuch a crackdown is a good thing.
Celebrating a Tibetan Christmas in Yunnan
Posted byNice article, sounds like interesting research.
China pursues soft power agenda with Thailand
Posted byIf & when they get the RR link through Laos built, yes, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Winners: Best of Kunming Awards 2014
Posted byWould be interesting to know how many votes were cast, and for what/whom.
Kunming to Vietnam border by rail soon to be reality
Posted bySmoking areas on trains are confined to the passages between the cars. I've had lots of experience on Chinese trains (2nd-class sleepers, mostly) and have found that people almost always respect this rule, at least these days. Hope you can handle it.