just to tell everyone that don papa restaurant is not anymore run by french person and the food is discuting it's chinese pizza and the service is horrible.no more baguettes or croissant.....

Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads after an estimated more than $60,000 was spent to paint an entire barren mountainside green.

Workers who began spraying Laoshou mountain last August told villagers they were doing so on orders of the county government but were not told why, media reports said Wednesday.

LATIN NIGHT FEBRUARY 14TH
Latin Night in Kunming with DJ JOE, if the time and the crowd allows he throws some dubstep and drum'n'bass at the end

Hi. I want to move to Yunnan province esp Dali or Kunming. I have read and heard all the stories, so i want to have my own! was an english teacher in sichuan this past year. I guess i want to ask and find out how difficult it would be if i just packed up my bag and came to Kunming/Dali and started the process of english job hunting once am there?  I can't seem to get anywhere trying to do it over the internet. Please help me with ideas. how to go about it?

cherio.much thanks

Where were you before Jinghong and how did you travel to Jinghong?

Nice wooden house with lots of natural light and huge garden for rent in Dali. 10 minutes walking real slow up from the old town. Nice, quiet and really private. Start Jan 07. 0872-6691842 or fivespades@gmail.com

I heard not too long ago about some climbers that were in town and going to try to be the first ever to climb Kawa Karpo and survive.  Today I read about a pair of climbers gone missing.  Wonder if it's the same people.

Mon Jul 31, 2:42 AM ET

BEIJING (AFP) - A county in southwest China has ordered all 50,546 dogs to be killed in an effort to fight a rabies outbreak that has caused the deaths of three people, state media has said.

Around 90 percent of the dogs in Muding county, Yunnan province, had already been killed since the campaign began on July 25, the Beijing News said.

Owners were ordered to kill their pets or face having teams of local police and other enforcement officers kill them, it said.

Even the 4,292 dogs in the county that had been immunized against rabies were ordered put to death, as authorities said the immunizations were not 100 percent effective, the report said.

I love and like China. Since 1993 I visited China several times . I visited kunming 3 times. I wish to know many many friends in China, particularly in Kunming.Please do send me mail and I invite my friends to visit India, Calcutta.My mail address: rbishnu@vsnl.net.My telephone number:+91-9830053058(M) and land no. +99-33-24526857 ( Calcutta)

July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese authorities arrested a reporter from Germany's Die Zeit newspaper and held him for five hours for conducting "illegal interviews" with villagers about a dam project in the southwestern province of Yunnan.

The journalist, Georg Blume, was detained by two police patrols in the village of Xiao Shaba after he interviewed farmers near the Nu river about their impending relocation, Die Zeit reported on its Web site. He was taken to a police station, where authorities asked him to turn over his notes and film material.

Blume refused to hand over the documents and signed a declaration that he wouldn't conduct any more interviews and would leave the region immediately. He was released after he'd destroyed a portion of his documents himself, Die Zeit said. The newspaper said it had spoken with Blume by mobile phone.