Kunming Golden Dragon Hotel

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Bought our entrance tickets for the exhorbitant price of 140 Yuan for me $25 & student price of 100 Yuan $20 for Nath. Glad I thought to bring his student card!!! There were lots of guides dressed in traditional local dress that no -one wears anymore. Groups of chinese followed the guides with their little flags & once inside we had to escape ...

... seen.


There have actually been signs of
this transformation already. Last year a young girl was killed in
Wengan County, Guizhou but the public was extremely dissatisfied with
the official explanation. Guizhou Party Secretary Shi Zongyuan [石宗源]
perceptiv ely detected the problem of state controlled media condemning
the public ...

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... Mother and Daughter
9. ZHU Jian-er: Tone Poem "A Wonder of Naxi" - The Red-deer Hunting
10. ZHANG Chien-yi: Tone Poem "Northern Forest"
11. CHEN Yi: "Duo Ye" No. 2

"Recipient
of the prestigious Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters (2001-04), Chen Yi* has served as the Lorena
Searcey Cravens/Millsap/Missouri Distinguished Professor in Music
Kunming, Yunnan Province, China happysheep

In the news this week the story about a man who died in custody in a Yunnan jail. The interesting thing is not his crime, but more how he died in jail and how his death is now under investigation. Li Qiaoming was in jail because of illegally felling trees. But in jail, initially it was reported that he died, while playing a game of hide and seek with other inmates. They found him, and he fell. But there has been an uproar about his death. And it went viral ...

... way, a share is 500 thousand Yuan. The duration of the investment is 18 month, after which a 7% profit is guaranteed. The particularity is that you can choose to get this 7% profit in Pu'er tea or in money. As an investor you get free tea and other VIP favours for the duration of your investment. All shares have already been sold during pre-sales, which shows that there is a certain interest for this kind of investments. The Pu'er ...

The same week China Daily runs a story about how China has decided to use genetic modification to increase crop yields - partly to make up for all the land it is swalllowing up in in development, there was a small story about organics in China. Don't panic, it's organic: nature knows best By Erik Nilsson (China Daily) Beijinger Wang Liping says it was more than the taste of her first organic meal that amazed her three years ago. "I felt really good ...

... Thankfully there were no further unplanned tourism stops. We did though stop for at least 20 minutes while the owner of the bus decided that it needed to be washed - obviously doing this in their own time would be just too inconvenient and it would be much better to waste ours on it. Still, a major sight of Yunnan has now been experienced, and we all only have slightly ridiculous sunburn (really didn't notice that it was sunny, oops).

... t* s*me little ****** l**k*ut p*int called the Drag*n Gate. I'm sure the view w*uld've been nice if the weath** was nice, but it's the rainy seas*n in Kunming right n*w s* ev**yday is eith** *v**cast *r raining. The m*st fun part *f this trip was the ride back... I r*de my bike d*wn the m*untain at at least 20km/h, and actually passed s*me cars driving d*wn *n the way. The next day I b*ught a train ticket t* g* t* Lijiang, a fam*us t*urist *ld t*wn ab ...