Forums > Living in Kunming > Just landed. Looking for an apartment There are plenty of for rent ads in the classifieds. No Chinese required.
I have only met one local agent with ok English skills. A young guy at the agency closest to the McDonald's drive thru menu at the bottom of Hongshandong Lu.
You really should find a Chinese speaker to assist if you plan on dealing with agents.
Forums > Food & Drink > McDonald's More interesting than Prince George bday photo.
Update to this meat scandal should you care. Seems a single supplier is to blame.
www.bbc.com/news/business-28399162
This will just mean a faster shift to purchasing their chicken meat from the plant Cargill built near Nanjing.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Temples, are Chinese on good behavior? I'm actually going to conclude that Chinese are on excellent behavior in temples since the expat community sensitive to this stuff has not seen it occur inside temples. None of the four 800+ posters has been able to give an example, me included. I assume the rest have none either.
As to fishing for dirt or trolling, I've got zero history of doing that and I find my entertainment elsewhere. As stated above, other threads got me thinking on where in public would the Chinese restrain themselves from some behaviors vulgar to our Western sensibilities. I mean they will smoke and spit in/on elevators, fine carpeting, and hospital wards. I searched my recollections of public places I didn't recall such behavior occuring. As memory is fallible and one data point insufficient, I went "fishing for dirt" or "trolling" as Dazzer says.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Tiger skin trade It's always the rich nations that a hundred years ago cut down their old growth forests and extincted the majority of their native species and/or peoples that seem to have the biggest hearts.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Smoking in Starbucks Chinese people, mostly the poor, try and use the laws and lose all the time. Plenty have been driven off their land. Plenty of lawyers who stand up for them end up in jail. So the law is a win for foreigners complaining about tickytacky stuff like 2 kuai on a taxi ride.
Sichuan water release devastates parts of northwest Yunnan
Posted byI rode across that bridge. It's going to be a pain to rebuild since it's isolated from any other infrastructure. Also, pretty sure there isn't a detour besides backtracking many hours.
On Yunnan's border with Myanmar, trade in illegal wildlife thrives
Posted byGood journalism. Credit to Shi Yi and GoKunming for bringing us this report.
Snapshot: Trails of Tibet
Posted bySo many stunning pics! Great travelogue!
From hobby to passion, trail running with Yunnan's Li Zhaoyang
Posted byNice story. Great job even finishing top ten in that race.
China-South Asia Expo takes over Kunming
Posted byComes from 丝绸之路经济带, silk road economic belt.