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ByLinEd writes a good description of her trip to the Tiger Leaping Gorge and Lijiang in Yunnan Province, China.

An unsourced map shows China's railway network plans for the year 2020... with an intriguing route that passes from Xinjiang into Tibet and then onto Yunnan. Behold, the future!

China is apparently being tempted to lift a ban on the sale of tiger bones and body parts. It is sad that tiger may be reduced to a status akin to cattle.

Despite marked progress in recent years, the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases remains a major challenge for China - especially in Yunnan, which is just north of the Golden Triangle and where China's first AIDS case was discovered. In an effort to combat the disease and other problems such as malaria, the Chinese government cooperates with several international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) who work towards reducing the prevalence and spread of these illnesses.

It's no secret to anyone who's been approached by a sketchy Uyghur on the streets of Beijing or Shanghai that Xinjiang is to hashish what Yunnan is to... well, every other illegal controlled substance. Thus it came to be last summer that Marvin Moses — intrepid reporter for High Times magazine — traveled to my fair but remote region of China to track down the holy grail of ganja: the original mother plant from which all later strains of cannabis are descendants.

This is a great story about experiences in India, Yunnan, and Burma that one American soldier had during WWII - read it.

In December 1997 Lijiang in Yunnan Province and Pingyao in Shanxi Province were both designated as World Culture Heritage sites by UNESCO. They became world heritage sites at the same time but they both have their own unique charm.
Lijiang is an old town which was built about 800 years ago in the northwestern part of Yunnan Province. Local Naxi people have kept their culture and traditions. In 2003, Naxi Dongba Literature Manuscript was recommended for inclusion in the Memory of the World Register in 2003.

A follow-up to the clubbing of 50,000 dogs in Yunnan last month. Though a wave of grumbles were made by the public, largely the fear and abuse has been copycatted throughout the country.

Thousands of ancient artifacts and wooden poles more than 3,000 years old unearthed in southern China's Yunnan province.