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Forums > Living in Kunming > Receiving international Payment in China

Hello

For a conference we're organizing, I'm looking into ways to receive international participant fees in China.

Requirements:

- receive payments from VISA/PayPal/Mastercard ... into a Chinese bank account or into any other account we can easily transfer the money to our Chinese bank account from
- payout at any given time
- guaranteed payout (not like PayPal horror stories where they refuse to release the money because they lack this or that document)
- option to refund
- low overhead (no high transaction fees per payment or payout)
- currency converted from USD/EUR/whatever to RMB
- possibility to integrate into WordPress or the likes

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Is anyone going to Dongchuang Red Soild Land

January, February best time for Yuangyang.

Dongchuan can definitely not be called 'natural' beauty. It's the result of decennia of deforestation in order to turn mountains into farmland. I'm sure the land is pretty degraded and causes all kinds of problems further down, like landslides.

Still, it's beautiful in its barenness.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Is anyone going to Dongchuang Red Soild Land

I'd be sort of interested in riding my bike up there again. Back roads to Xundian then up to Dongchuan's Hongtudizhen, via Tangdan and Tuobuka to Gele, and then back on the main road to Dongchuan city. Home on a bus.

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If you crossed Central Asia during summer, I think a luggage this size would be enough for the essentials.

Luggage does not increase with distance. Once you have a tent, sleeping and cooking gear, a change of clothes and some tools, that's it.

Many long-distance riders like to add extra panniers to the front wheel in order to balance their bikes, but with good material and careful planning, this isn't necessary.

A bigger problem is food and water, but you could lose this extra ballast once you're past the barren areas.

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So that's:
Official: "Yunnan will have two bullet trains by 2016"
not:
Official: Yunnan will have two bullet trains by 2016

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4G/3G connections are possible at high speeds. It all depends on the handover when you move from beacon to beacon. Some providers are particularly bad at it, others better. I remember that I had no problem using mobile internet riding high-speed trains in Germany with Deutsche Telekom, but with O2, the connection would always drop.

Streaming movies over Wifi is very unlikely. Takes up way too much bandwidth and most people who bring their computer will have their own movie collection.

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Because they have no idea where they put them. That's the deal with mines, military don't seem to keep track of where exactly every mine is positioned, especially as some of them are moved around by landslides or other factors.

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cloudtrapezer you're just saying something. China is actually one of the few countries to enforce a pretty strict wildlife protection policy. Banna is one of the few places where elephant populations are growing instead of dwindling because of this policy, much in contrast with other Asian regions.

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First and last experience. Absolutely horrible. I came in late with a big flesh wound. The doctor sewed it up and told me to come back in the morning "perhaps to redo it, and to change the bandage". When I did come back the next morning, they just changed the bandage and sent me off.

When I peeked at my own wound, I noticed it was horribly done. "Like a vet did the stitches," as someone commented. I then had to stay a night in a different hospital in order to do it right, with a 40% chance of getting infections. This cost me a lot more, thanks to Richland fucking up in the beginning.

Whatever X-rays were taken were not printed out and given to me so I couldn't go to another hospital for a second opinion or treatment.

The nurses didn't seem to know where half the things were and the doctors had to repeat orders to get basic things like scissors.

In the next hospital, it was noticed that I had fractured my jaw in two places. On the five X-Rays taken at Richland, they did not notice the fractures.

Pretty sure these people are not actual doctors and are therefore criminal.

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Super place. Really cool interior, lots of good beers and drinks, fun toilet inside the telephone booth, and an interesting clientele.

Cons: pretty hard to find, no matching glasses for the imported beers, and home brews need some work.

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Teaching and support lamentable.

Four people signed up for the highest-level class and got a teacher who does all the talking, refers to herself as 老师 and makes classes absolutely uninteresting. As of this moment, only 1 person is still going on a regular basis.

While staff is friendly, they are absolutely incapable to help out with visa matters in an adequate way. Lack of information beforehand, lack of support and lack of information during the visa process meant that I am waiting forever for my residence permit to be processed, without any information about why it's taking so long, why they can't get started ... I'd say this school is a good option if all you wanted is a visa, but they can't even handle this properly.

Anyone giving this school a 5-star rating hasn't been to any decently-run schools in Kunming, such as Keats'. The only redeeming quality is facilities and space, those are indeed excellent.

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Have been studying at Keats for almost four semesters now and I'm very enthusiastic about the quality of the teachers and the commitment of the school's staff.

One point of criticism is that I think they could put in some effort to group people of the same level together, rather than base it on who was together in last semester's class.

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I stayed here in the early days of March 2013. Dave and his wife are swell owners, the staff attentive, the food good, rooms in perfect order, WiFi fast enough... Much like the old hump, the entire place is an excellent place to relax and make friends. And that is what you come to do in Dali, after all. The location is a bit isolated from the old town, but nothing is really far away in Dali. Besides, it makes for a better starting point to walk up Cangshan.