Three weeks later another riot erupted, this time in the neighbouring province of Yunnan.
But in the days that followed, we ventured beyond the modern city, into Yunnan Province.
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Southwest Yunnan province has suspended approvals of the controversial laojiao re-education through labour system.
In particular, Yunnan Baiyao, a high-performing pharmaceutical maker, is on the cusp of Fab 50 consideration.
But by 1990 Yunnan had nearly 58, 000 known addicts, more than half the country's total.
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The number of known addicts in Yunnan has actually fallen, to 20% below its 1990 levels.
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The spark, though, came from Li Guanlu, president of the Yunnan Education College in Kunming.
Eventually, ACLEDA might even hop over the Myanmar border into Yunnan province in southern China.
Earlier this year an American tourist blogged about a fake Apple store in China's southern Yunnan province.
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Dams are springing up on Myanmar's rivers, to generate hydropower to keep the lights burning in Yunnan.
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Ruili, the main border-crossing between northern Myanmar and China's province of Yunnan, has become a seedy boomtown.
There are plans to deport another 4, 000 from makeshift camps in Yunnan province, the US-based group said.
Li last visited the hospital in summer 2007, and he stayed in his hometown in Yunnan province.
The landslide hit the Tiantou Primary School and nearby houses in Yunnan province, southern China, on Thursday.
The birds in Xizhou, a charming town in Yunnan Province in extreme southwestern China, had no such restraints.
China's Yunnan province is halting the use of so-called re-education-through-labor camps, which are commonly used to stifle dissent.
More than 730 people were injured after the quakes hit Yunnan and Guizhou provinces on Friday, state media say.
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Khun Sa had most impressive international contacts in Thailand, Yunnan, Macao, and the murkier docks of Hong Kong and Singapore.
Both species grow exclusively in Yunnan province -- now the focus of an extensive re-planting campaign organized by FFI.
He managed to stop the cutting of virgin forest (and the destruction of golden monkey habitat) in Yunnan province.
"I can't live in Beijing, " says Luo Xu, who was born in Yunnan.
They concentrated on Yunnan Province where Sino Forest claims to have purchased 200, 000 heactares of standing timber from one specific company.
The discovery was made in the Yunnan Province, China, and is being considered as major breakthrough in the study of insect evolution.
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China's Xinhua news agency quoted officials in Yunnan as saying 6, 650 houses had been destroyed in the province and 430, 000 others damaged.
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Officials realized that the Net would prove "invaluable" for lifting the economy and education of a landlocked province like Yunnan, Hedin says.
Yunnan wants to see a railway going all the way to Singapore.
So far, all the known executions by lethal injection in China have taken place in the southwestern province of Yunnan, bordering Southeast Asia.
The Beijing News applauds Yunnan's decision and hopes that other parts of the country will "accomplish this historic task as soon as possible".
Elsewhere in China, biogas projects have proven more popular than in Yunnan, where colder temperatures generally require a greenhouse to cover the units.
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