In the case of lotus flowers, the mud is required during initial seedling process. Once matured, they are moved to/or flooded with water to form lotus flower ponds.
Visit Green Lake from March to June to witness entire process.
Every powerhouse hegemony or perceived civilized nation gave birth from mud.
Sometimes the best ways to lift backward ideologies from the mud is to plant lotus seeds where they may blossom into more enlightened lotus flowers. This is also the case for BRI in Pakistan.
Today, the Malaysia PM authorized the BRI project in northern Malaysia to resume.
Construction cost reduced from 16B to 10B.
70% percent of workers will be local.
40% of civil works will be given to local contractors.
Project completion in December 2026.
Chinese tourists to Malaysia is expected to double to 6 million annually.
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Snapshot: Trails of Tibet
Posted byCurrently listening to an interesting audiobook called Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by award-winning journalist and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Barbara Demick. Nice read/listen on a rainy Saturday with coffee.
Demick lived in China for seven years. One of the extraordinary (and controversial due to >100 monk immolation) places she visited was a remote Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture county 480km Northwest of Chengdu, Sichuan called Ngawa (aka Ngaba). Demick documents Ngawa people's cultural heritage from a historical context, and how the indigenous conformed to modern day China over the last half century.
Sample listening (part 1 of 11):
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Getting Away: Eco-tourism in Malaysian Borneo
Posted byBBC Earth, encompassing their "Planet" nature documentary series spanning decades, published their Top 5 "Nature's Oddest Looking Animals" on Youtube yesterday:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLPjP3hjhMM
Borneo's long-nose proboscis monkeys made it on the list as #4:
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#4: The Proboscis Monkey
Ironically, #1 is awarded to "The Monkey With Blue Skin and No Nose." These Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey, or 四川金丝猴 in Chinese, are endemic to Southwest China. If memory serves right, I believe they were once featured here on GoKunming:
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#1: The Monkey With Blue Skin and No Nose
Yunnan reaches out to Cambodia with children's health initiative
Posted byAssisting Cambodians is great. Pink elephant in the room is the looming BRI project through Cambodia. All said and done, BRI will increase Chinese tourism and may gradually lift their country out of poverty and help their people at a macro level.
Kunming dog registration required as of August 1, 2019
Posted byDennis may not fare well in Kunming and in China for that matter. Highly recommend you leave.
Kunming unveils 12-year development plan
Posted byIshmael, are you not one of the polluting air travelers you so despise?
Correct dolphin. I believe Airbus has recently unveiled concept plane that fly on 30-50% less fuel.
Government policies that back sustainable engineering innovations will nudge markets to greener pastures.
To mind & spirit!