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The Taiwan Rescue Team is on the way! Turkiye's earthquake disaster was severe. My first batch of 40 people supported the search and rescue
Reporter : Yao Jiexiu / https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/4203251 / Image : Turkiye was hit by a century-old earthquake. The first group of Taiwanese rescue teams set off to assist in the search and rescue tonight. Turkiye's representative in Taiwan, Betinko (right), also saw off at the scene and shook hands with the rescuers one by one to express their gratitude. (Photographed by reporter Yao Jiexiu)
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in Turkiye in the early hours of Taiwan time. The depth of the earthquake was only 17.9 km, and there were many aftershocks. The Taiwan Rescue Team Departed for Turkiye at night to assist in search and rescue.
The first group to depart included 10 members from the Fire Department of the Ministry of the Interior, 30 members from the Taipei City Search and Rescue Team, 3 tons of search and rescue equipment, and 3 search and rescue dogs. Before departure, Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie and Interior Minister Lin Youchang presented the flag at Taoyuan Airport tonight. Turkiye's representative in Taiwan, Betinke, also shook hands with the rescue team members one by one to express their thanks.
Wu Zhaoxie said at the airport that after hearing about the earthquake in Turkiye this morning, he contacted the foreign embassy and learned of the seriousness of the local disaster. Fire Department and Taipei City Search and Rescue Team; Wu Zhaoxie and Lin Youchang said that tomorrow there will be another 90 search and rescue team members taking the EVA Air chartered flight to Turkiye.
Wu Zhaoxie pointed out that according to the report from the foreign embassy, a family of Taiwanese in the disaster area has been rescued and escaped.
Wu Zhaoxie and Lin Youchang emphasized that when the September 21 earthquake occurred in Taiwan, Turkey was the first country to send a search and rescue team to Taiwan to assist in the search and rescue of the disaster area. They hoped that the team would do their best to rescue the disaster. They also emphasized that the local weather is bad and it is still snowing. Also pay attention to your own safety.
The first members of the Taiwan Rescue Team took the Turkish Airlines flight to the local area at 10.25 pm on 6 February. Many foreign passengers who took the flight also applauded for them.
Image : The first Taiwanese rescue team to go to the earthquake-stricken areas in Turkey included 10 members from the Fire Department of the Ministry of the Interior, 30 members from the Taipei City Search and Rescue Team, 3 tons of search and rescue equipment, and 3 search and rescue dogs. (Photographed by reporter Yao Jiexiu)
Image : Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie and Interior Minister Lin Youchang presented the flag at the airport for the Taiwan rescue team to set off. Both ministers emphasized that the local weather is bad and it is still snowing. (Photographed by reporter Yao Jiexiu)
Image : The first batch of departure included 10 people from the Fire Department of the Ministry of the Interior, 30 people from the Taipei City Search and Rescue Team and 3 tons of search and rescue equipment. (Photographed by reporter Yao Jiexiu)
Image : Taiwan's rescue team set off to rescue the earthquake-stricken areas in Turkey at night. After the flag presentation ceremony, Foreign Minister Wu Zhaoxie, Interior Minister Lin Youchang, Turkey's representative to Taiwan, and others took a group photo with the rescue team. (Photographed by reporter Yao Jiexiu)
News (2) to (5) / Reporter, editing : Liu Zheqi, Chen Yuzhen / https://news.tvbs.com.tw/world/2034410
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7.8 strong earthquake hit! 2,300 deaths in Turkiye and Syria
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey at 4:17 a.m. local time on the 6th, with a depth of only 17.8 kilometers. The epicenter was near the ancient city of Gaziantep. Only 11 minutes after the strong earthquake, another shallow earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7 occurred at 4:28, with a depth of only 9.9 kilometers, and another strong earthquake with a magnitude of 7.5 occurred in the afternoon. So far, there have been at least 20 aftershocks. Not only Turkey, but also Syria has suffered a lot. The following is "TVBS News Network" sorting out the latest situation of the strong earthquake in Turkey for readers:
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2,300 people died, "corpses all over the field" in the hardest-hit area! Rescue teams from all over the world race against time
The death toll from the strong earthquake in Turkey keeps rising. According to CNN, the death toll in Turkey and Syria has exceeded 2,300, and the number continues to increase. Rescue teams from all over the world rushed to the hardest-hit areas, and the Taiwan rescue team also set off tonight, including 40 people and 3 search-and-rescue dogs. In addition, the international community is also active, and even Israel, which has been at war with Syria for many years, has joined the ranks. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel is ready to extend a helping hand after receiving a request for assistance from Syria's strong earthquake disaster, showing rare cooperation between adversaries.
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The runway was broken! Flights halted at Turkey-Syria border airport
Turkish journalist Ragıp Soylu posted photos and videos on Twitter, showing that the runway of the Hatay Airport on the border between Turkey and Syria was abruptly bulged and cut in two. According to Turkish aviation news AirportHaber, the runway at Hatay Airport was broken due to the strong earthquake, and all flights were suspended.
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Another "magnitude 6.0 earthquake" hits Turkey
China Earthquake Network automatically determined that at 3:21 p.m. local time in Turkey on the 6th, another earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 occurred. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has a scale of 6.0 and a focal depth of 10 kilometers.
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Turkey was shaken again at 6 pm on 6 February
According to data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake occurred in southern Turkey in the early morning of the 6th, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake occurred in central Turkey at 1:24 p.m. local time (6:24 p.m. Taiwan time on the 6th). The depth of the earthquake was only 10 kilometers.
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The total number of victims in Turkey and Syria exceeded 1,300. The Turkish President: It is impossible to estimate the death toll
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at least 912 people were killed, 5,383 injured and 2,818 buildings collapsed in the quake, the BBC reported. It is currently impossible to estimate how high the death toll will be, and rescuers are still continuing to search and rescue. Syrian officials put the death toll at 467.
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A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkey in the early morning, and Syria was also affected
Gaziantep, near the epicenter, is one of Turkey's main industrial and manufacturing centers and borders Syria. The strong earthquake caused Lebanon, Syria and other countries to feel the strong shock. From the videos circulating on the Internet, it can be seen that the chandelier was shaking vigorously when the earthquake occurred, and many people also hurriedly fled their homes in the early morning. The quake has killed at least 350 people in Turkey, News Insight reported. Syrian officials said at least 420 people were killed. The U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the quake could have killed more than 1,000 people.
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At least 1,710 Turkish buildings collapsed, residents had no time to react
After the strong earthquake, social media also began to circulate many shocking images and photos. Some netizens shared a video and pointed out that the southern Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş was devastated, with many buildings collapsed, no different from a bombed war zone. Foreign media pointed out that at least 1,710 buildings in Turkey collapsed, and many residents had no time to react in their sleep and were trapped in the rubble.
At least 12 people were killed and 34 buildings collapsed in the southeastern Turkish city of Sanliurfa, the chief executive told CNN. In Malatya, 130 buildings were reported to have collapsed.
The Syrian Civil Defense (Syrian Civil Defense) stated on Twitter that the earthquake and aftershocks affected the northwestern region of Syria. Several houses collapsed and some people were trapped. They called on local people to evacuate to open areas immediately.
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Report / First image by : Gan Yung Chyan, KUCINTA SETIA
Image of Azur Air before takeoff in Phuket : Researcher's Picture
Emergency abort takeoff! Passenger plane taxiing "engine exploded in seconds" punctured tire burst into flames
Image of Azur AIr's B767 jet burst into flames : Twitter @Abdifat75097284
There was a flight accident in Phuket, Thailand. On 4 February 2023 local time, a Boeing 767 flight preparing to fly to Moscow had a tire blowout accident during taxiing. In addition, the unilateral engine was suspected to burst and burst into flames, so the captain had to stop urgently. Fortunately, the flight procedure was only at the stage of preparation for take-off, so there were no casualties among the 321 people on board. The exact cause of the failure is still under investigation.
Daily Mail reported that the accident occurred in Phuket. At 4.30 pm local time on 4 February 2023, the Boeing 767-306ER passenger plane belonging to Russia's Azur Air was preparing to take off, carrying 309 passengers and 12 crew members, but there was a sudden abnormal noise during the taxiing process on the runway, and then it can be seen from the screen that the engine on the right side burst into flames, and the plane also slowed down and stopped.
After discovering the fault, the captain of the flight immediately suspended the flight procedure and initiated emergency evacuation measures, and Azur Air arranged another flight pick-up. Although there were no casualties in this incident, the runway at Phuket International Airport was closed for about 40 minutes, 47 flights were affected. Afterwards, Azur Air stated that the fault has been successfully eliminated after investigation. At the same time, it apologized to the affected passengers and promised that the company will be responsible for the meals during the waiting period.
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Airport runway split into two due to strong earthquake, flights are fully suspended!
Image of the split runway: Twitter Screenshot
On 6 February 2023, Turkiye was hit by two 7.8-magnitude earthquakes in one day. On 7 February local time, Turkish Vice President Oktay said that the earthquake had killed 2,379 people in Turkey. According to the Syrian Ministry of Health, the strong earthquake has killed 711 people in Syria and injured 1,431 others. Turkiye declared seven days of national mourning in memory of the victims of the earthquake. The Turkish Ministry of Education announced the closure of schools at all levels across the country for a week.
According to Turkish media reports, the earthquake was the worst earthquake in Turkiye since 1999. At least 78 aftershocks occurred in the early morning of the 6th earthquake, and 10 provinces were affected by strong earthquakes. A large number of local buildings were damaged, and entire rows of houses collapsed. It is currently winter in Turkiye, the weather is very cold, and snowfall may affect search and rescue. After the strong earthquake, a natural gas pipeline in Turkiye exploded. It has not yet been confirmed whether the explosion is directly related to the earthquake.
The largest earthquake in Turkiye and Syria in the past 100 years hit the two countries hard. Not only the natural gas pipeline in the Hatay Province where the two countries border the two countries was blasted, but also the Hatay Airport runway and the highway in the Reyhanle area were crushed by the strong earthquake and instantly cracked and bulged. All flights have been suspended.
According to Turkish aviation news AirportHaber, the runway at Hatay Airport was severely damaged due to the strong earthquake. So, all flights were suspended, and airport staff continued to work inside. In fact, long before the construction of this airport, the Turkiye Construction Engineering Association has loudly appealed, "There are faults in this area, and work should not be done here", and strongly opposed the construction project.
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7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey again! Airport facilities were severely damaged! This airport is temporarily closed!
According to AviationSourceNews, in the early hours of 6 February, local time, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit southeastern Turkiye, causing serious casualties and damage to buildings.
According to ABC News, more than 600 people have been killed and thousands injured in the massive quake, with buildings collapsing in surrounding countries affected by the quake.
The quake's epicenter was located about 33 km from Gaziantep, Turkiye's main provincial capital, according to the US Geological Survey. According to videos on social media, facilities at Turkey's Hatay Airport (HTY), not far from the Gaziantep region, were severely damaged. Severe cracks appeared on the runway at the airport, causing all flight operations to be suspended.
According to the latest news, another earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 occurred in Turkiye in the afternoon of 6 February, local time, with a focal depth of 20 km. The Turkish government announced the closure of Adana Airport until further notice.
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Third earthquake hits Turkiye on 7 February 2023
Reporter : Chris Jewers / https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11721455/Turkey-Syria-earthquake-NEW-earthquake-hits-Turkey-early-hours-death-toll-nears-5-000.html
A third earthquake hit Turkiye early Tuesday morning after two others devastated the country and its neighbour Syria a day earlier, killing at least 4,800 people and trapping scores more under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
The 5.8-magnitude quake struck at a depth of 1.2 miles in central Turkey, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said, as rescue efforts in the two countries continued as dawn broke and as the death toll in Turkey alone rose past 3,300.
A winter storm causing near-freezing temperatures has been hampering those working desperately to free people from the rubble of collapsed buildings, with the cold weather making the need to reach trapped survivors even more urgent.
In the badly hit Turkish city of Hatay, residents helplessly called out as the screams and shouts of those freezing under the rubble filled the air. Desperate to reach them in time, rescuers have been digging with their bare hands.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands have been left homeless and sleeping in their cars or searching for temporary accommodation after thousands of buildings were brought down on both sides of the border, sparking a growing humanitarian crisis in a region already ravaged by the years-long Syrian civil war.
A vast international response will be required to tackle the crisis. Several international rescue missions have rushed to Turkey and Syria after both countries called for help.
Tremors felt as far as Denmark, Greenland and many other countries
The earthquakes that hit Turkiye and Syria were felt as far as Denmark, Greenland, Greece, Egypt, Cyprus while Italy issued a tsunami warning along the country's coast.
The first earthquake, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, shook Turkey and Syria for about a minute and resulted in the deaths of more than 2,300 people.
The epicentre was just north of the city of Gaziantep at a depth of around 11 miles (18 km), according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), and the quake struck at 04:17 am local time (01:17 GMT).
Tremors were felt as far away as Egypt, Lebanon and the island of Cyprus, while a tsunami warning was briefly issued by authorities in Italy along the country's coast.
Hours later, a second 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit two-and-a-half miles south-southeast of the town of Ekinozu.
The nearby city of Gaziantep has a population of about two million people and the region is home to large numbers of Syrian refugees.
About ten minutes after the initial quake, a strong 6.6-magnitude aftershock rumbled, and another 40 smaller quakes were felt over the following two hours.
However, that wasn't the end of the devastation, as a second 7.7-magnitude earthquake hit the country at 1:24 pm (10:24 GMT).
This struck 60 miles (97 km) north of first epicentre, about 42 miles (67 km) north-east of Kahramanmaraş, before about 100 smaller aftershocks.
It occurred at a depth of 6 miles (10 km), according to USGS, and the epicentre was in the Elbistan region of Kahramanmaras province.
Tremors were felt as far away as Greenland, the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland said.
"The large earthquakes in Turkey were clearly registered on the seismographs in Denmark and Greenland," seismologist Tine Larsen told AFP.
On average, fewer than 20 earthquakes exceed a magnitude of 7.0 worldwide each year, and Dr David Rothery said this one was "relatively shallow".
The Professor of Planetary Geosciences at The Open University said, "The shaking at the ground surface will have been more severe than for a deeper earthquake of the same magnitude at source.
"Many of the subsequent aftershocks, although weaker at source, have occurred at shallower depths."
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Malaysia approves KL Subang airport revamp plan to attract high-end travelers
According to the Lianhe Zaobao report, the Malaysian cabinet has approved the upgrade plan (SARP) for the Kuala Lumpur Subang Airport, preparing to turn this once the most important international airport in Malaysia into a capital city center airport similar to London Heathrow Airport, and focus on attracting high-end tourists.
Malaysian Transport Minister Lu Zhaofu told the media after inspecting Subang Airport (Subang, in short) on Monday (6 February 2023) that the plan is not for Subang Airport to replace Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), because Subang Airport will focus on attracting business class and first-class passengers after upgrading.
He revealed that the Subang Airport Renovation Project is a strategic transformation plan to transform Subang into the most popular aviation hub in the Asia-Pacific region. After years of research by successive governments, Malaysia Airports Holdings (MAHB) formally submitted the plan to the cabinet on 2 February, and the cabinet decided to approve it after careful study.
He said the transformation plan includes making Subang an aviation hub, maintenance and operations centre, research and development centre, general aviation operations, business aviation operations, urban air operations, and regional commercial aviation operations.
Lu Zhaofu said that the authorities will reintroduce Airbus A320, Boeing 737 and other similar narrow-body passenger aircraft to Subang, as well as narrow-body passenger aircraft used as cargo aircraft. “Subang Airport is strategically located in the heart of Malaysia’s capital city, and our target market is business class and first class passengers.”
He pointed out that the renovation plan will make Subang a regional aviation hub with an annual passenger volume of 8 million passengers and create thousands of job opportunities for Malaysians. However, he emphasized that the transformation plan is not intended to replace the KLIA as KLIA in Sepang has reached its annual passenger capacity target of 60 million passengers as early as 2019.
Subang used to be one of the busiest airports in the Asia-Pacific region. However, after KLIA opened in 1998, Subang Airport has gradually declined, and is currently only used by private jets, Firefly, SKS Airways and the Malaysian Air Force.
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With a total investment of nearly 54 billion RMB, Xiamen Xiang'an Airport is expected to be basically completed by the end of 2025
Image of the planned Xiang'an Airport, Xiamen, in the middle shape of "X" : Video Screenshot
Xiamen Xiang'an Airport, which is under construction, is positioned as an important international airport, a regional hub airport and a cross-strait exchange gateway airport in China. This year's project construction has entered a critical year. After the Spring Festival, the construction personnel seized the golden period of project construction, accelerated the construction speed in an all-round way, and sprinted for the project construction to "start steadily" and "start well". The project will start construction in January 2022, with a total investment of 53.685 billion RMB, and it is planned to be basically completed by the end of 2025. The main construction task this year is to promote the construction of the terminal area including the terminal building, traffic centre and parking building.
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On the first day of the resumption of the pilot outbound group tour program, the first group of Chinese outbound tourists arrived in Thailand
Image : Spring Travel
At 8.05 am on 6 February 2023, a group of nearly 40 tourists who boarded Spring Airlines flight 9C7419 flew from Guangzhou to Don Mueang and were warmly welcomed by the locals. They will be on a 6-day romantic trip to Koh Samed, Pattaya, Bangkok from Don Mueang. After the resumption of China's outbound group tour pilot program in three years, this group is the first tourist group to arrive in the first batch of 20 destination countries and Spring Airlines completes its inaugural flight to Don Mueang from Guangzhou.
Image : Spring Travel
Don Mueang Airport in Bangkok held a grand and warm welcome ceremony to welcome the first group of tourists from China. Yang Xin, charge d'affaires of the CCP embassy in the Kingdom of Thailand, Yuthasak, director of the Thailand National Tourism Administration, Ma Tao, director of the Asia-Pacific Office of the International Civil Aviation Organization of the United Nations, Karan Thanakhunkirapa, director of Don Mueang International Airport, and other leaders attended the welcoming ceremony, and presented exquisite souvenirs to the tourists.
On the same day, the outbound travel team organized by Spring Travel Agency also set off from Shanghai, Kunming and other cities across the country to Phuket in Thailand and Vientiane in Laos. According to the statistics of Spring Travel Agency, as of 3 February, Spring Travel Agency has sold nearly a thousand types of outbound travel products online, including group tours, independent travel, visa services, air tickets, hotels and other individual products, fully meeting the different needs of tourists of different ages.
Image : Spring Travel
Spring Airlines said that at present, Spring Airlines has resumed 24 international and regional routes, including 16 routes in Southeast Asia. Since the Lunar New Year, the passenger load factor of flights in international regions has reached an average of over 90%, and many flights have reached 100%. "After the resumption of China's outbound group travel pilot, Spring Airlines has received calls from many travel agencies to inquire about charter flights and seat reservations. Seats on international flights from Nanchang and Jieyang to Bangkok, Thailand have been booked by travel agencies." At the same time, the demand for flights to other tourist destinations in Malaysia, Singapore and Cambodia is also very hot. The number of group tour tourists received every day is steadily increasing. "In the first ten days of February, there are expected to be 80 group tourists every day departing from Shanghai alone. In the middle and late ten days, this number is expected to increase to 120 people."
With the acceleration of outbound travel related personnel, including destination reception staff returning to work, the positive information dissemination of first-time group tourists after on-site experience, and the continuous increase of international flights, Chinese citizens' outbound travel is expected to pick up rapidly this year.
After the resumption of outbound travel, the first Shanghai delegation departs on 6 February 2023
Image : Spring Travel
According to the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, travel agencies and online travel companies will resume inbound and outbound group tours and "air ticket + hotel" business in the Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau from now on; travel agencies and online travel companies can resume operating outbound group tours for Chinese citizens to relevant countries and "air ticket + hotel" business. After the implementation of the new policy, 4 tour groups from 3 travel agencies in Shanghai set off on 6 February 2023 their outbound travel itineraries.
According to the statistics of Spring Travel Agency, as of 3 February, Spring Travel Agency has sold nearly a thousand types of outbound travel products online, including group tours, independent travel, visa services, and individual products such as "air tickets" and "hotels". Among them, the group tour product of Phuket Island, which includes the "classic" + "net celebrity" attractions in Phuket, Thailand, has been sold for 6 days and 5 nights because of its advantages in price, itinerary, visa (Thailand visa on arrival is optional), and flight schedule. Launched and sold out on the same day, the first tour on 6 February was this route, covering 24 Chinese tourists from Shanghai of all ages, old, middle-aged and young. The Spring Airlines flight 9C8521 takes off from Pudong at 10.40 am and arrives in Phuket at 3.15 pm.
At the scene, Spring Travel Agency and the Shanghai Office of the National Tourism Administration of Thailand held the "Welcome Ceremony for the First Outbound Tour Group to Phuket, Thailand" at Pudong Airport. Thai hostesses dressed in traditional Thai costumes gave each of the first group tourists a phone card that can be used to surf the Internet in Thailand and flowers to express their welcome when they arrived at the airport for check-in procedures. KT boards and welcome banners were also specially prepared for the group tourists to take pictures and check in.
In the face of the newly restarted outbound travel market, people in the industry are very cautious. Spring said that the notice issued by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to resume the outbound group travel business of travel agencies was issued close to the Lunar New Year. Travel agencies do not have enough time for product design, resource procurement, marketing, and landing operations. There are not many tour groups departing on the 6th. With the accelerated return of outbound travel related personnel (including destination reception staff), positive information dissemination after the on-site experience of the first group tourists, and the increasing number of international flights after the civil aviation season changes at the end of March, the outbound travel of Chinese citizens will be welcome in the spring of 2023. However, considering comprehensive factors such as the economic downturn and employment pressure, the holiday nature of tourism, and the international environment, it still takes time for policies, and the joint efforts of tourism practitioners to fully recover outbound tourism.
With the gradual advancement of the inbound and outbound group tourism business, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism requires all travel agencies and online tourism companies to shoulder the main responsibility as the actual operators, tighten the string of safety at all times, and accurately grasp the tourism business, especially in the process of overseas operations. Considering the risk points, establish and improve enterprise safety management system in a targeted manner, and enhance tourism emergency prevention and emergency response capabilities. It is necessary to strengthen safety education and training for employees, implement tourism safety responsibilities at all levels, and establish a solid safety awareness. At the same time, the analysis and judgment of the national security situation and the epidemic situation of the pilot destinations will be strengthened, and the outbound tourism business will be carried out in an orderly and steady manner.
Tourism law enforcement departments of the CCP will also pay close attention to market dynamics, strengthen law enforcement and supervision of the tourism market, and punish violations of laws and regulations in outbound tourism business such as "unreasonable and low-priced travel", operating travel agency business without a license, and destination countries that do not comply with regulations, comprehensive and long-term investigation and rectification.
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Airport Authority of Hong Kong: 30 terminal buildings will be built in the Greater Bay Area to reduce the number of steps to enter and exit Hong Kong
According to the website of Radio Television Hong Kong, Lin Tianfu, CEO of the Hong Kong Airport Authority, said that the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area has a population of more than 70 million, which is more than the population of many medium-sized countries. It is hoped that the Hong Kong International Airport will include "airport cities" and radiate the entire Greater Bay District, so that residents of the Greater Bay Area feel that Hong Kong Airport is like their own airport, and they are more willing to use it for travel.
Lin Tianfu pointed out that the Sky Ferry Terminal is currently connected to the airport and 9 terminals in the mainland, and in the next few years, 30 "urban terminals" will be built in the Greater Bay Area. The functions are the same as those in Central and Tsim Sha Tsui, and passengers do not need to enter Hong Kong. You can enter the restricted area of the airport, reducing the steps of entering and exiting Hong Kong.
Lin Tianfu said that a closed bridge connecting the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge is being built. There are counters at the Macau and Zhuhai ports of the bridge to handle boarding and luggage procedures. Passengers from the two places can take special buses to enter the restricted area of the airport without entering Hong Kong.
Lin Tianfu pointed out that on the artificial island of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge port, two parking lots are being built, one of which will be completed by the end of this year.
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Korean media: The covi-positive rate of passengers entering South Korea from China is zero
According to Yonhap News Agency, according to the data released by South Korea's Central Anti-epidemic Countermeasures Headquarters on 4 February 2023, the covi-positive rate of the covid landing test for passengers entering South Korea from CCP China that day was zero. This is the first time since South Korea implemented the covid inspection for short-term stay personnel entering South Korea after more than a month.
According to statistics, a total of 1,136 people entered the country from China that day, 164 of whom were tested for the covi nucleic acid after entering the country, and no one was confirmed to be infected. From 22 to 28 February 2023, 7,399 people entered South Korea from China, of which 7,272 were tested for the covi nucleic acid after entering the country, and 146 were confirmed to be infected. The covi-positive rate was 2%, a decrease of 0.9 percentage points from the previous week.
The South Korean government has implemented landing inspections for people entering South Korea from 2 January 2023.
As the covi-positive rate of landing inspections for people entering China from China continues to decline and the number of confirmed cases continues to decrease, attention has been paid to whether the measures of landing inspections and the suspension of issuance of short-term visas for Chinese citizens to South Korea will be canceled in advance. At the end of last month, Prime Minister Han Jue-soo said in a discussion with the journalist group that if the test results of the covi nucleic acid of Chinese citizens entering the country are within the controllable range, they will consider canceling the visa suspension measures in advance.
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Burst! Two American planes collide at airport
According to CBS and other media reports on 3 February, two planes collided at an airport in New Jersey that morning, and the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States is investigating this.
Image below : Accident scene. (Screenshot of social media)
The accident occurred on the morning of the 3rd at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey. A United Airlines Boeing 757 was hit by a Boeing 787 while it was waiting to take off. The left wing of the 757, which was fully loaded with passengers, was partially snapped off in the collision.
Passengers of Flight 2135 bound for Orlando were safely evacuated from the aircraft and no one was injured. One passenger described feeling a jolt and looking out to see a large plane's wing hit theirs.
The pilot then calmly told everyone on the radio, "Obviously, our wing was hit."
According to the description, the passengers on board did not panic, and everyone spent two or three hours waiting for another plane to pick them up at around 11.40 am.
NBC4 pointed out that two accidents occurred just two weeks ago at JFK Airport in New York, involving Delta Airlines, American Airlines and JetBlue aircraft.
The first incident occurred on Friday, 13 January 2023, when an American Airlines plane crossed their runway and the two planes were only 1,000 feet apart.
In a second incident, a JetBlue aircraft struck an unoccupied parked aircraft while backing from the gate.
No one was injured in either crash but the National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. (Comprehensive Overseas Chinese News Network, Overseas Network)
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Costa Rica: CCP China admits balloon flew in and apologizes to government
Costa Rica, a Central American country, said CCP China had apologized to the local government for a Chinese balloon that flew into its airspace.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica issued a statement saying that the Chinese government admitted that one of the balloons flew into the local area. The CCP embassy in San Jose apologized for this and insisted that the balloon was mainly used for climate research.
The statement also said that CCP officials told the authorities that the balloon deviated from its original course and that the balloon itself had limited ability to correct related errors.
Costa Rica was notified on Sunday that a balloon appeared over the local area last Thursday. Authorities notified the flight at the time but took no further action.
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