But in the days that followed, we ventured beyond the modern city, into Yunnan Province.
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Earlier this year an American tourist blogged about a fake Apple store in China's southern Yunnan province.
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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.
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.
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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Five thousand inhabitants of Nanhua country in Yunnan Province had no choice but to leave their homes in mountainous areas and set up camp near streams in a lowland region.
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"We learn to exchange e-mail, make our own Web pages and, best of all, improve our English, " says Yang Yimei, who is from the town of Simao, in China's southwestern Yunnan province.
And I have eaten a delicate turtle soup while watching dancers from the Dai ethnic group, of subtropical Yunnan province, flutter mothlike to an ancient melody wafting forth from a battered cassette player.
This time Mr Thant's travels take him to Myanmar's hill country, near the Chinese border, to the other side of the frontier, in Yunnan province, and to Assam and Manipur in north-east India, on Myanmar's other flank.
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Among the 26 additions for 2012 were the Lakes of Ounianga in Chad, Africa, the Chengjiang fossil site in the Yunnan province of China, the decorated farmhouses of Halsingland in Sweden and the Margravial Opera House at Bayreuth in Germany.
Mandalay in particular is where one feels the depth of China's demographic penetration into Myanmar, owing not only to recent decades of commercial expansion from gems trading to real estate but also centuries of seasonal migrations across the rugged natural border with Yunnan province.
Mr. Ye, who was born in Kunming, Yunnan province, and studied oil painting at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, knew he had to renovate his Dali house, but the question was what to touch and what not to touch and what Bai traditions to honor.
The hero who is celebrated varies by region: the romantic poet Qu Yuan is venerated in Hubei and Hunan Provinces, Wu Zixu (an old man said to have died while slaying a dragon in Guizhou Province) in South China, and Yan Hongwo in Yunnan Province among the Dai community.
Officials realized that the Net would prove "invaluable" for lifting the economy and education of a landlocked province like Yunnan, Hedin says.
Home to many of China's 56 ethnic minorities, the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan is known for its diversity in food, dress, language and geography.
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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