A Chinese mobile phone user browses the website of Boeing on his computer in Ji'nan city, east China's Shandong province, 13 March 2019. [Photo/IC] MACAO -- The Civil Aviation Authority of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) has decided to temporarily suspend the flight applications of Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft by any airlines, the authority said in a press release on Wednesday. Currently, aircraft registered in Macao do not include the Boeing 737 MAX model. Nor are there any operations of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft by any airlines in Macao International Airport, it said. The authority has always taken a strict manner in ensuring that the operations in Macao's air transport market are safe and would lift the suspension only when the safety concerns of Boeing 737 MAX 8 and MAX 9 aircraft are cleared, it added. The suspension came following the fatal crash of an Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 737 MAX 8 passenger jet on Sunday. The plane bound for Nairobi, Kenya crashed shortly after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board. It was the second deadly crash for a Boeing 737 MAX 8 model in less than five months. The first one occurred in October last year when an aircraft of the same model operated by Indonesia's Lion Air plunged into the water off western Indonesia minutes after taking off, killing 189 people. A number of countries and regions in Asia-Pacific have grounded the aircraft amid safety concerns. upcycle silicone braceletssilicone wristbands johannesburgjelly band silicone medical alert braceletrubber wristbands for eventsrubber wristbands
Dumplings of Sanquan Foods are sold at a shop in Shanghai. [Photo/VCG] The Sanquan Foods has sealed all batches suspected of being contaminated with African swine fever and is cooperating with official investigation. In a public notice released on Monday morning, the company referred to media reports saying that samples from three batches of its pork-filled dumplings had tested positive for the nucleic acid associated with African swine fever. The samples were collected in the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture in Hunan province and Jiuquan in Gansu province. The company immediately reached out to market regulators and sealed all affected batches, including those already dispatched to its sales channels. The provincial government of Henan has sent an investigative team led by the provincial Department of Animal Husbandry to Hunan and Gansu provinces to look into the matter, according to the notice. The notice said the company operates a complete system for food safety and product tracing. In addition to requiring qualified pork suppliers to strengthen their tests and inspections, the company is also implementing better examinations and measures that help control the African swine fever, it said. According to a leaked report circulated online last week, sample tests on pork products from 11 manufactures, including the Sanquan Foods, returned positive results for African swine fever. The agriculture authorities in Gansu province confirmed the incidence over the weekend.
