Comments on: Its not car related, but it is China related

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:55:30 +0000

Let’s say it this way – would you like to pay twice more for the same made-in-china goods tomorrow?

If not, let’s keep everything as is.

By: sexy

sexy — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:42:16 +0000

Lucky it was not windy that day! Crazy!

By: Qingdao

Qingdao — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:32:41 +0000

I’d bum a fag from him if he weren’t on the 17th floor. He deserves mad props!

By: Ashley

Ashley — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:12:13 +0000

Ive been having trouble too, but I can only get 1mb DSL in this apartment. I was very much accustomed to the 10mb cable I used to have

By: woxihuanpijiu

woxihuanpijiu — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:08:10 +0000

Could be your ISP Slade. I am in Guangzhou and have no problems getting here.

By: woxihuanpijiu

woxihuanpijiu — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:06:38 +0000

I am sure they will aspire to enforce the laws when they work out a credible way to make a profit from it… Enforcement costs money and the government doesn’t have enough (coughing wildly) so that department has to be self sufficient before it can exist.

By: Slade

Slade — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:19:56 +0000

Not China related…and on another topic.

I have found it hard, from Southern China, to get on this forum. Today is the first time in over a week that I could get on.

By: Slade

Slade — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 09:17:30 +0000

Sure they do. They have tighter laws than they do State-side.

I couldn’t make sense of it until I heard of them refered to as “aspirational laws”.

My question is, When to they aspire to enforce them?

I get tired of people tell me they have this law and that law. I get tired of people telling me that kids in the States shouldn’t work in McDonalds when they are only 16 yo. “We have child labor laws” they say. Yeah, right. Go tell that to all the kids both I and they see working.

By: Mememe

Mememe — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:16:23 +0000

OMG I hope the Chinese government enforce that law more, this is total madness. Very very risky indeed.

By: woxihuanpijiu

woxihuanpijiu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:34:45 +0000

Villas here are a rip off too and the quality is not that good. Even the newer places start falling apart after a few years.
6 wan for a car park… ouch, plus management fees too…

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:58:08 +0000

a parking spot cost me 60,000rmb here, two cars = 120,000rmb.

I should have rented.

Villas are nice, but nearly 2million RMB, add on decoration for a 200m villa you’re looking at 2.5 million RMB.

By: Acid Kid

Acid Kid — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:31:06 +0000

I believe there ARE OHAS laws in China, but nobody would give a damn. lol

By: woxihuanpijiu

woxihuanpijiu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:20:43 +0000

lol, want to move after 2 weeks…. not a good sign. Prices seem similar to mid range here (Guangzhou). A proper house would be nice, just make sure there is no security gate for parking attendants and fees…

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:36:26 +0000

I got mine early, 8k per sq m.

After living here for just over two weeks, I hate high rise living and am planning to escape ASAP to something like a PROPER house up in the hills.

By: woxihuanpijiu

woxihuanpijiu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:26:38 +0000

He stopped for a smoke to remember the time he built a sunroom on the 30th floor and how the view was slightly different this time around.

If the customer started to demand the contractors use safety gear then I’m sure they would…… yeah right.

Ashley, how much per square metre do those places go for? Don’t look too bad.

By: M0L0TOV

M0L0TOV — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:01:50 +0000

I’m scared ****less, I don’t like heights at all. Maybe it’s attributed to my father stopping on a suspension bridge during a typhoon in Okinawa (I was a Navy brat). Yeah, China definitely needs some type of OSHA laws (I used to do Human Resources).

By: JOHNSON

JOHNSON — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:47:56 +0000

obviously the PRC will need to enact some sort of OHS laws, or at least enforce them! Imagine this in the west, the bosses will be sued penniless.

It is a rather nice apartment though.