There is soccer club Kunming Football Club, which has many foreigners. Not sure where the latest thread is, but for example here is some old contact info:
www.gokunming.com/en/forums/thread/855/soccer_in_kunming
And I believe the skating rink at Hongta sports center has reopened and ice hockey continues there. Older thread is here:
Peter99: I posted that article. It only contained government's denial of ordering telecom companies to shut down VPN traffic (whether possible or not).
Further information from government indicates that authorized VPN providers can continue to offer VPN services, but nobody seems to know if such providers even exist.
Additionally foreign businesses have been instructed to lease lines of their own to connect freely to their HQs abroad, but that would mostly just cover needs of large multinationals.
Personaly I think that a likely development (as far as general public and Chinese industry is concerned), is that there will will be some "VPN" providers but the VPN coverage will not be from end user to abroad.
Rather the traffic will be encrypted from end user to the provider in China, where it will be fully decrypted to record traffic or otherwise implement government requirements (including blocking some data), and then from there on to overseas VPN server it will be normal VPN again.
Redjonn: I would hope so, but TIC.
I remember a few years ago somewhere in China there was a case of police violence (or was it chengguang, I forget), and the explanation afterwards was that those were temporary substitutes, not the real police. And even the Chinese public was questioning where the real officials were then.
"as part of punishment he had to take care of traffic for three hours"
This actually sounds dangerous - putting a random guy who himself is out with offenses to take care of traffic.
Imagine if there is a crash on his watch - who's to blame?
I think the flooding 4(?) years ago was worse than we had recently - but perhaps the infrastructure to accommodate all that water was even worse back then.
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Letter from the editor: Kunming community spirit in times of Corona
发布者"support the website by making an account, asking questions in the forum, leaving reviews and using the classifieds section to find a job, sell your stuff or rent an apartment."
This (or rather what is not included in that list of to-dos) sums the criticism that I personally have toward the whole ordeal, and how GoKunming (out of no choice I understand) had to respond to it with rest of the nation.
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Ask questions and increase revenue, but feel free to avoid discussing and, heaven forbid, debating anything.
Editorial: Kunming 2020 biological diversity conference should be based on Paris Agreement
发布者Wouldn't you say a new kind of virus adds to biodiversity though? Also in relation to biodiversity, I suppose there is some poetic justice in the virus killing humans.
European visa centers open to Chinese citizens in Kunming
发布者Not sure if this applies to Italy visas, but for many other European countries:
The Joint Visa Application Center that used to be in Beichen, is now relocated to an office building at intersection of .Shibo Road and Bojin Avenue.
New address:
1501D, Building A, Low Carbon Business Center, No. 12 Shibo Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province 650000 China
www.vfsglobal.cn/finland/china/contact_us.html#14
Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
发布者I'm not a big fan of croissants anyway, and donuts I have not found in either of the establishments you mentioned.
@Dolphin: "savouring the croissant helps to cultivate appreciation. ie appreciating simple things rather than always feeling discontent that you don't have enough"
Perhaps, but it equally helps to cultivate ignorance of all the labor that has been put into creating that experience for you. At least I would allow you to feel discontent on behalf all the people who don't have enough, whether they had part in creating the croissant or not.
I't shouldn't anymore be about what you have or don't have, but what the other 7.7 billion (minus 1) people have or don't have. That's where the musings of Buddha (as quoted above) go wrong in this day and age.
Video: Zen and the art of patisserie with chef Igor Nataf
发布者There perhaps was a time, when embracing reality same way you would savour the croissant, could have been beneficial to achieving an enlightened state of mind.
But today, many would call such view on life quite the opposite of enlightened - it could be called ignorance or covering your eyes from all that is wrong. Perhaps that's suitable in Chinese context.
There, I connected the croissant to politics.