@satii: "Are you back yet JanJal? Your warm donuts and hot shower await."
If all goes well, we will return to Kunming in Saturday tomorrow. Hot shower after 6 weeks without sounds heavenly.
I'm not sure if regular bakeries are open yet, or decently stocked. Happen to know about Just Hot?
On a quick Google search, "ynkmwqw1" did appear on one China scammers list result page, but there was no further information.
Email and domain addresses in China (especially in public institutions) can be quite cryptic and it's difficult to tell anything based on those alone.
You could play along but refuse to send any money and refuse to come to China on tourist visas.
Have them provide any authorized invitations and financial guarantees that you may need for cultural exchange visas (F-visa I believe) for your team. Your nearest Chinese consulate may be helpful as well.
Them asking for money, or asking to go on tourist visas, indicate obvious fraud.
Lol, well that was obviously unintentional comedy.
Recent developments from the rural Yunnan.
Earlier this week migrant factory workers were allowed to be shipped back to the coastal cities.
The employers had to collect a busfull of people from each village to travel together in a bus all the way from the village to the company housing in Zhejiang for example - no trains or planes allowed. Local hospital provided health screening (chest x-rays etc) before they were allowed on bus.
We would have option to get out of here too, but will probably stay another week because we want to take the aging mother-in-law with us to Kunming, and that takes some preparation.
The pig is still alive, as are the squirrels.
From the GoKunming official page:
"The Entry and Exit Bureau service has not resumed on Monday, February 3. "
I'm assuming this is a typo (not=now), but in case it isn't, is there any new info on this?
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Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
Posted by@alienew: "The workers should hold them liable with brickbats."
Well, that would set a dangerous precedent, which would only result in only tighter enslaving of employees in future operations across the nation. And certainly overriding limited liability of iinvestors only serves to drive investments away from these places.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
Posted by"The company may not have assets to pay, but I bet the owners do."
And that's the difference between limited and unlimited liability ownership.
University life in the not-so-ghost town of Chenggong
Posted byThe second to last picture with all the shop signs actually reminds me of Hong Kong.
Perhaps off topic, but this is strikingly opposite of recent developments in first tier cities and in fact even our own apartment block in northern Kunming, where the authorities are forcing shops to remove excessive signs on the streets and in the walls - basically anywhere outside the immediate space the shops have leased.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
Posted byAlright, if you go that way then everything is assuming. Assumptions is what made our ancestors come down from trees and cross a river and a mountain range. You assume quite a bit already when you go to sleep at night.
I am not assuming anything that didn't happen already. China already had a peasant revolution that was supposed to bring prosperity to all.
I am not asking for another revolution, but I am asking for that same spark. I do admit assuming that the Chinese state can contain such spark better this time.
Government sues parents to get kids back to school
Posted by@Dazzer: "you go again, asume asume "
Is it assuming if I have seen it with my own eyes?