Forums > Living in Kunming > RMB to American Dollars You can buy $500USD per day no questions asked. If you have ATM receipts or receipts buying RMB with USD, you can change more. I bought $2,400 one day at the BOC at West end of Nan Ping Jie a couple of months ago.
You must declared $10,000 or more on entry to the US. Don't think there is a limit but I am sure they will ask
questions.
Think to wire, or Western Union, USD requires the USD in hand when you do it.
I live off my US money, income, so I have lots of ATM receipts.
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Laos visa Made it to the Laos Consulate, about a 40 kuai taxi ride from Bei Chen Da Dao, Walked from the security gate to the consulate and got quick service. But left without a visa.
If you are an American, you get your visa at your entry point. Sorry about that.
Getting a taxi back home is nearly impossible. It took more than one hour to get a taxi. Was unfamiliar with the bus numbers and the bus signs were so dirty even the Chinese couldn't read them.
See you in Vientiane!
Forums > Travel Yunnan > Exchanging RMB in Laos I am planning a trip to Vientiane, visa run. You can buy $500USD per day at the Bank of China downtown on Dongfeng Xi Lu. No questions asked and it is simple. Bring your passport, RMB, and fill out a form, it has English labels for the stuff they want to know. Normal questions.
If you changed USD to RMB, like using your US ATM card in Kunming, and have the ATM receipts, you can buy USD up to the value of receipts. I got $2,400 in one trip a few months back.
Check the USD you get carefully. Give back any worn, wrinkled, old or defaced bills. Hard to unload them for kip, baht, dong or yuan.
Forums > Living in Kunming > New Visa Regulations Is a visa run to Laos doable? I'm gonna need to do one and also need to go to Vientiane as well
Forums > Living in Kunming > New Visa Regulations Best I can tell these changes apply only to ethnic Chinese. Only one item did not mention "Chinese" but it referred to living with "immediate family" which may include a Chinese spouse.
Yunnan's Manhu band storming international charts
发布者Above link isn't wotking.
Try:
www.youtube.com/[...]
Manhu has 11 tracks (videos) online.
Report: Poverty levels continue to drop significantly across Yunnan
发布者A little more information on how China has reduced poverty:
geopoliticalfutures.com/china-is-still-really-poor/
Kunming dog registration required as of August 1, 2019
发布者@Liumingke1234: Unfortunately, banned dogs are banned. In the past banned dogs have been clubbed death on the street by police or who ever is tasked with removing them. You can find videos of this happening if you look for them.
This video is dated but the banned list is up to date.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIhKnP1YmjY
Film Review: The Fall of Womenland
发布者This film is on yoou2b
Protests challenge Myanmar's Belt and Road participation
发布者The BRI is genius. Projects are brought about by China conceiving a project, engineering it, gaining local political support, financing it, building it with Chinese labor and when the debt can't be serviced takes the natural resources used to collateralize the debt. In the case of dam in close proximity, China gets the energy as well. In response to criticism of China, Xi is now saying China will curtail what many countries say is predatory tactics.
More than a half century ago the US and Russia used this approach to extend their hegemony. One of the greatest dam projects, the Aswan Dam built by Russia, turned into gigantic problems.