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@Liumingke: Do you really think of foreigners in China being in a situation of us vs. them?
Either you're joking or paranoid.
Relocations can be good or bad; when Power decides they must be forced, it should be a wake-up call that Power has been, and is still, doing something wrong.
Outlet for train/bus tickets just across bridge from north end of Wenhua Xiang - go there, show passport, buy ticket, get it immediately.
I.e.: Absolute private/group ownership is only a concept; doesn't exist in the real world, where what 'ownership' means is always a matter of some compromise between common agreement concerning use rights, on the one hand, and concentrated power on the other. Nice when the compromise is accurately and clearly specified in law, and the law is enforced, though - which seems not to be what happened in John Israel's case.
Then we can decide what to do about, e.g., 19th century Alabama laws, or any laws about ownership.
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I'm not a health foody but the few meals I've had here have been really good and, yeah, I'll be happy to go back alone to sample all the rest of them. It's also not a bad place from which to people-watch the street below.
Environmentalists sue Yunnan hydropower developers
Posted bySounds like they've got a case, although I'm sure there's another side to it. One important thing, however, is that groups like this can force some transparency on a government that needs it, if it is to govern properly.
A call for volunteers: Sprucing up a Kunming school for migrants kids
Posted by@gokunming: Good to hear.
Migrant workers receive bricks in lieu of pay
Posted byIf there are not legal consequences, there will be other consequences, sooner or later.
Kunming versus the cold snap
Posted byHard to imagine Kunming as a good choice for Winter Olympics, but I can imagine its possibility as some kind of political/diplomatic decision. Of course that is not, from a sports perspective, what national or international sports spectaculars should be about - but how long has it been since that was the real consideration, anyway?
New high-speed rail line to link Kunming with Dali
Posted byIs this worthwhile? I don't know.