HONG KONG –The Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) introduced on Sunday that in January, passenger visitors at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) registered round 2.1 million, marking a year-on-year surge of round 28 instances.
In January, flight actions noticed a year-on-year enhance of 34.9 % to 16,215, whereas cargo throughput dropped 26.4 % to 288,000 tons in comparison with the identical month final yr. (HK-Air Passenger Traffic-Surge)
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TOKYO — People flocked to Tokyo’s Ueno Zoological Gardens to see Xiang Xiang on Sunday, the ultimate day for public viewing for the beloved five-year-old feminine large panda earlier than her return to China.
The superstar panda’s eventual departure drew followers to attend for hours on the zoo to say goodbye. A lottery for tickets to see Xiang Xiang on Sunday was held prematurely since many guests had been anticipated, with the general odds surpassing 20 instances and the percentages for the ultimate group of viewers reaching 70 instances. (Japan-Giant panda-China-Return)
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MANILA — A army helicopter has sighted the wreckage of a small aircraft that went lacking on Saturday morning in Albay province, southeast of Manila, a authorities spokesperson stated Sunday.
Tim Florece, the data officer of Camalig city, advised a neighborhood radio interview that the army chopper noticed the tail of the plane lower than 2 km from the crater of Mt. Mayon, a 2,460-meter cone-shaped volcano situated in Albay province roughly 300 km southeast of Manila on the island of Luzon. (Philippines-Plane Crash)
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KABUL — The Afghan caretaker administration has determined to vary former U.S. army bases into financial zones to bolster financial actions, the state-run Bakhtar news company reported on Sunday.
The resolution has been taken at a gathering of the Economic Commission with Deputy Prime Minister Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on the chair, Bakhtar stated in its report, including that the pilot mission would start from Kabul and Balkh, and increase to different elements of the nation. (Afghanistan-Military Bases)
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SYDNEY — Severe thunderstorms rolled into Australia’s most populated metropolis Sydney on Saturday afternoon, bringing about damaging lightning and gusts that disrupted the each day lifetime of native residents.
From 11:00 a.m. native time, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) started updating extreme thunderstorm warnings roughly each 20 minutes, alerting individuals to the fast-moving storm cells that might trigger damaging winds, giant hail and heavy rainfall. (Australia-Thunderstorms)