Posted in Ill-informed opinions about China on April 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
This may be the first of many rants about various large companies and service providers in China. There are two large online travel booking services in China (well actually there are many more but these two companies supposedly have English service and can take international credit cards). They are Elong and Ctrip. I believe [...]
Posted in Ill-informed opinions about China on March 25th, 2008 No Comments »
In a dramatic u-turn from the censorship of last week, the BBC News website is available in China for what might be the first time in 10 years. I'm not entirely sure of the accuracy of that statement but all I can say that when I first came to China 10 years ago news.bbc.co.uk was [...]
Posted in Beijing, Ill-informed opinions about China, internet on February 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Interesting article by James Fallows about internet censorship (including how it will be reversed temporarily at a few select locations during the olympics for a few weeks). Takes me back to when I was writing about this at University.
"In reality, what the Olympic-era visitors will be discovering is not the absence of China’s electronic control [...]
Posted in Ill-informed opinions about China on November 2nd, 2006 No Comments »
Posted in Ill-informed opinions about China, Yunnan, Kunming, Erhai Lake & Dali, Lijiang, Lashihai, Tiger Leaping Gorge, Haba Snow Mountain, Shangrila (Zhongdian), Xishuangbanna, Jinghong, Laos, Vangvieng, Vientiane, Luang Probang, with Mum & Dad, with Lucas on October 19th, 2006 No Comments »
The last 56 photo and video posts (wow, maybe I should try to group those photos together as I've done with the last few) show you where I spent some of this Summer. There are some beauties in there if I do say so myself. The easiest way to view them is in reverse order [...]
Posted in Ill-informed opinions about China, Yunnan, Kunming on September 18th, 2006 2 Comments »
I’ve just noticed that GoKunming has added a Kunming Blogs section to the links page of the site – Thanks Chris.
I’m pretty sure all the people at home I enthusiastically gave my blog link to more than a year ago have got bored long ago when they realised I haven’t written anything for more [...]
Posted in Ill-informed opinions about China, Yunnan, Kunming on June 7th, 2006 5 Comments »
1) It seems that in Yunnan it is impossible to get a SIM card with International SMS and International calling. China Mobile in Yunnan Province offers a plethora of different SIM cards with different rates and services but combining them is somehow beyond them and voicemail isn’t available in Yunnan at all yet. My [...]
Posted in Beijing, Ill-informed opinions about China, Yunnan, Kunming, Erhai Lake & Dali, Photo Posts on March 7th, 2006 2 Comments »
Posted in Ill-informed opinions about China, Yunnan, Kunming, Hong Kong, Shenzhen on December 15th, 2005 2 Comments »
I am beginning this blog entry at Kunming airport. I’m about to take a flight to Shenzhen, the mainland China city on the border with Hong Kong. I need to go to Hong Kong to get a new visa for China and it’s considerably cheaper to fly in to Shenzhen as that is considered a [...]
Posted in Ill-informed opinions about China, Yunnan, Kunming, Environment, Photo Posts on November 8th, 2005 4 Comments »
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