Forums > Living in Kunming > teeth cleaning in kunming? should I? I've also been to the Huiying clinic. Excellent work and no pain during the cleaning. I had some work done there on my previous visit to Kunming, then had the work checked by a dentist in Toronto who is a teacher at the U of Toronto dental college. She said it was excellent work.
I'll be back there this week for a root canal. It's the only place I would trust in Kunming.
All their dentists speak English which is a real bonus for me.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Marrying a local... I guess we did things the easy way. My wife is a Kunming girl, but we got married in Las Vegas!
Forums > Living in Kunming > Visa extension in Chiang Mai, Thailand We did L class visas in Chiang Mai last November. The consulate was very efficient - but.....
1. Standard time for completion is on the 4th day. You can pay a fee for faster service, including same day.
2. When we were there the consulate was closed on what would have been the 4th day. Not sure why.
3. Be careful getting there. I had a TukTuk driver who thought I said 'Condo', not 'Consulate' and got driven all over the place. This was critical since I was trying to get there before closing time on the only day I could go.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Looking for list of decent private schools in KM to work at I've actually heard a lot of BAD things about Henderson. They've been in the news quite a bit the past few months for overcharging clients or charging for services where fees were not stated up front. It's got the locals in a snit and looking for other schools as well as generating a few law suits.
Chinese college freshmen increasingly unfit
发布者In the past few years there has been an increased reliance on cars and e-bikes. I can see the change in only 5 years. Where people used to walk or take real bicycles they are now reliant on machinery.
In that same 5 years span I've seen a huge increase in the number of fast food outlets around Kunming.
It would appear that China is going the way of North America with poor diets and lack of exercise.
Golden Week: Planes, trains and especially automobiles
发布者The low number of driving related deaths over the week doesn't surprise me. With traffic so congested and moving so slowly (or not at all), it's easy to have a "fender bender" but more difficult to have a fatality.
Traffic in China would move so much more quickly if people would stay in a lane and drive in a straight line instead of going up the road like a snake!
Truncated subway Line 1 to open New Year's Eve
发布者@tallamerican. 4 years to build? Not bad. Up in Toronto they can't even decide what to do in 4 years. As for train service, the liner from Vancouver to Toronto has been know to arrive 23 hours late!
Proposed hotel tax eyes Dianchi rehab
发布者10 Yuan is not a big amount and I would have no problem with it, but Mr Xiao is right, the polluters should be paying - BIG!
Also, is there any guarantee that the tax collected would actually go where it's supposed to, or will it all go to administering the tax collected. I have only Canadian habits to reference on that point, but that's what happens in Canada, eh!
Kunming proposing congestion fee, more public parking
发布者Lack of enforcement of the laws just serve to reinforce people's beliefs that what they are doing is OK. It's made worse by the fact that police and military are exempt from the traffic act and others simply follow their bad example. Last year we actually witnessed a hit and run accident, where a police car sideswiped a bus then promptly left the scene.
At the end of November I made my first ever visit to Hong Kong. What a refreshing change! Drivers followed the rules, as did pedestrians. The only people walking on the don't walk signs were from mainland China. At bus stops, people formed orderly queues as they arrived instead of everyone trying to be first. With strict adherence to the rules the traffic moved so much better!
I also noticed that people in Hong Kong don't use their horns much, as opposed to Kunming where somebody will be honking at 5:00 a.m. when there is only one other vehicle on the road!