Green Lake Kunming

... hundreds of steps into cool shady narrow valleys & then up hundreds more steps. It was such a unique place & fun to explore, never knowing whay was around the next corner & always a choice of trails - would I go left, right, up or down??? Just my kind of place. We explored for a couple of hours & didn't see it all.









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... He harshly criticized the media, which most people found
quite refreshing. Also, when a manager was beaten to death by workers
at Tonggang Steel factory recently, Xinhua openly criticized the local
authorities for rashly pointing their fingers at the workers. They
called for less usage of phrases like “they don’t know the truth”
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... to probe the suspicious death. The pair is part of a 15-member team that includes six other members of the public (three of whom were chosen in an online lottery), three reporters, four public security officials and prosecutors. It is hoped the crew can find out what really happened to Li Qiaoming, 24, who police said died after playing hide-and-seek. The Jinning public security bureau said Friday that Li was fatally injured while playing hide-and-seek ...

27 Jan 5 PM train hard sleeper arrive Kunming about 11 AM ?[290 Y] Interesting conversation with Professor of Chinese at Univ in Kunming. Beautiful mild sunny day. ran into Chris from Guilin and Jaspar from UB and Beijing at the Hump. Nest few days overcast chilly some rain, unpleasant. New Years with a great group: German couple, another German, Dutch man, Swedish man. Good dinner then wandered ...

... s growing hunger for organic fare. Domestic organic market sales increased from zilch in 1995 to 73.3 million yuan in 2006, says Zhou Zejiang, senior advisor of the Organic Food Development Center of China (OFDC), under the State Environmental Protection Administration. "China is probably the only one among exporting countries that also has a strong domestic market," he says, adding the export sector increased from $300,000 to $450 million in the same ...

... to begin, we are firmly re-ensconced in Jiangyong, Hunan - the little town where we were living and teaching the Spring term of last school year. The new term began September first and we just concluded our 4th week of teaching - my how time flies! It was fairly easy to return and resume teaching, and both Craig and I feel that some of the experiences we had over the summer break may have even combined to make teaching this go-around a bit easier and us a bit ...

... tried t* get me t* sleep in the back *f the bus, which he claimed was l*ng**. Actually, it was just a bunch tiny beds squished t*geth**, s* it was m*re like 5 pe*ple sleeping *n a queen sized bed. I grabbed an individual bed in the middle aisle, which I realized lat** was a bad idea. If I leaned a f**t t* my right *r left I'd fall *ff. I secured my backpack as best as I c*uld, put my wallet und** my pill*w, and put my passp*rt in my ip*d case ...