Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming new features and functionality Sadly I have to agree with livinginchina.
GoK was once lively, contentious, at times abusive but also interesting, entertaining and always informative. The goal of harmony resulted in policy of forced moderation and eventual censorship. Only approved opinions and discourse was allowed. As the hand on the tiller grew heavier, GoK lost the wind.
Sorry for getting nautical but I bought a home less than a kilometer from the ocean in California and have been relaxing, enjoying my dotage, sailing, and the Kunming like weather here. I miss China and Kunming. American food is boring.
祝大家春城好运，万事如意！
Forums > Living in Kunming > Buildings torn down inside protected area Any chance that the people putting up cash for houses/buildings can recover their money?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Stocking up on food, recommendation In the US we are being told that getting vaccinated will end the supply chain problem. Biden’s Energy secretary Jennifer Granholm on skyrocketing prices of goods:
"[Economists say] there is a transitory nature to the inflation problem…We wanna make sure we get everybody vaccinated so we can unclog the bottlenecks that we’ve been seeing.”
The Chinese government is more rational.
Forums > Living in Kunming > COVID 19 vaccine for foreigners Found an interesting video (48 min) on the COVID pandemic and the vaccines being pushed. The mRNA vaxx are still experimental and controversy is raging on who should get the shot. I got the two Pfizer shots as I am 78 with additional high risk problems.
This is the link and there are many (100+ ?) links to additional resources.
www.algora.com/[...]
Frankly, I would try to get the Chinese vaxx as it seems to be, to my non-medical mind, a safer bet than the untested experimental mRNA versions.
Province moving to overhaul regulation of vast tourism sector
发布者The new guidelines announced in early March have already begun to payoff. Yunnan Tourism Co Ltd announced on April 3rd that it willn be profitable in Q1 2017.
Now that is effective management and speedy accounting!
Defeat Corruption!
Blackwater founder bringing new security firm to China
发布者Frontier Services Group is backed by China's state-owned CITIC Group and Hong Kong-based investor Chun Shun Ko. FGS advises and supports Chinese investment in oil and gas in Africa.
Prince says that Blackwater involved 40,000 missions and only 200 involved his employees firing guns. From what I have heard it was a highly effective and capable company. A large part of the services provided was training. Prince is very wealthy guy who solves unusual problems.
Governor vows to cure "diseased" Yunnan tourism industry
发布者Words like "stricter" and "standardization" do not bode well for tourism. Alas, that seems to be an easier way to control business.
"Out with the four olds!"
Celebrating a Miao Christmas in Yunnan
发布者Seems China has often accepted religions from abroad: Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Communism, Climate Change. The last three are the same: Get converted, unquestioned belief, must have faith as nothing is provable, and pain with suffering for the apostate and unbeliever.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者The deposits should be invested but that much cash is tempting. Chinese companies tend to grow debt so holding cash deposits is mot in the plan. Deposits are a liability, if refundable, in this case aka debt.
Cash will be gone when the bikes are gone.