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.
Several provinces under suspicion of "faking" environmental protection data
Posted byWhile this is nothing new, having it called out is.
A dozen years ago, while wandering around Hainan taking photos, I took photos of a factory spewing pollution into the air. Back in Beijing I mentioned this to a friend who was an official at the old Ministry of Environmental Protection. She said "There are no factories in Hainan." When I told her I had photos, she shook her head and repeated, "There are no factories in Hainan," adding, "There can't be any pollution in Hainan."
Problem solved, I guess.
Much ado about...littering at Lugu Lake
Posted byAn example of tourists damaging what they came to see.
www.scmp.com/[...]
Stone Age graveyard discovered in Yunnan's Chuxiong Prefecture
Posted byAre you guys talking about Lufengosaurus huenei or Lufengosaurus changduensis?
Bringing classic Shanghai elegance to Kunming
Posted by@alien YUa think? "Editor's note: This article is a sponsored post."
Study: Air pollution causes loss of intelligence
Posted by@bilingualexpat Thanks, got it.