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Ticket giveaway: Tiger Beer Battle of the Bands 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
This Saturday, Tiger Beer Battle of the Bands 2013 (虎牌啤酒乐队龙虎榜2013) will hold its national finals in Kunming. The four-hour event will take place outside at Wujiaba Airport, which has been vacant since...
China's coal industry facing monstrous downturn 26 Aug 2013 | 01:35 pm
The hits, and the debt, keep coming for China. Less than a decade ago the country was suffering from a shortage of coal. Today that situation has reversed itself entirely as China's incessant drive fo...
Snapshot: Wild mushroom season in Chuxiong 23 Aug 2013 | 11:20 am
Kunming has received its fair share of rain this summer. Although the Spring City endured flash flooding in July, many parts of Yunnan are thankful for the precipitation as it is alleviating some of t...
Monkeys menacing Qujing cornfields 23 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
Elephants are on the rampage in Xishuangbanna and bears attacks on humans in Zhaotong are on the rise. Burrowing crayfish have infested the Hani rice terraces of Yuanyang and threaten the integrity of...
Yunnan initiative looks to help children with AIDS 21 Aug 2013 | 11:05 am
Yunnan has long been the province in China most affected by HIV/AIDS. Generic anti-retroviral drugs are reportedly made available for nearly all who seek treatment but that is often where government s...
Film Review: The Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition 20 Aug 2013 | 09:05 am
The rivers of Yunnan, as well as all those flowing off of the Tibetan Plateau, have been in the news recently. Hundreds of dams are in the planning stages and the waterways of Yunnan could be altered ...
Shop owner fined 68,000 yuan, pays 10,000 in coins 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
An unidentified noodle shop owner ordered by a Kunming court to pay restitution in an assault case apparently has taken umbrage with the fine and this weekend paid a large portion of it in coins. Staf...
400 Himalayan dams: power versus prudence 16 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
Over the past week, media outlets from England to China to New Zealand have run stories about a historic "water grab" going on in and around the Himalaya Mountains. At the center of all of these stori...
Kunming's metro could cost 300 billion yuan 16 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Kunming's under-construction metro has caused headaches for anyone trying to get around in the Spring City. The biggest headaches, however, now seem reserved for the accountants and bureaucrats in cha...
Kunming's forgotten, and now desecrated, WWII cemetery 14 Aug 2013 | 11:30 am
A public cemetery once maintained in honor of the Chinese soldiers and support staff who aided foreign airmen during World War II now sits disused and vandalized on the outskirts of Kunming. An articl...
