KUALA LUMPUR -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday spoke to reporters about the South China Sea issue in response to questions while attending annual ASEAN Plus foreign ministers' meetings here.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that the South China Sea issue is discussed every year at the meetings, and this year was no exception. "What struck me most this time is the clear temperature difference between regional countries and a few countries from outside the region." (Malaysia-China-South China Sea)
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KUALA LUMPUR -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday briefed reporters on his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, met with Rubio here on Friday on the sidelines of the ASEAN Plus foreign ministers' meetings. (Malaysia-China-U.S.-Meeting)
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SYDNEY -- A Qantas flight from Sydney to Johannesburg has been delayed by almost a full day after being struck by an aerobridge.
Flight QF63 was at a gate at Sydney Airport preparing for its scheduled 9:30 a.m. take-off for Johannesburg on Saturday when an aerobridge made contact with one of the Airbus A380's four engines, causing damage. (Australia-Plane Damage)
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NEW DELHI -- Both engines of the recently crashed Air India airplane had shut down mid-air within seconds of take-off, showed a preliminary investigation report released on Saturday by the Indian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (ABI).
According to Indian media, the report said that before the Flight AI-171 plane crashed, the switches controlling the fuel flow of the two engines switched from "RUN" to "CUT OFF" within a second of each other, which caused the aircraft engines to stop working. The cockpit voice recorder shows that one of the pilots asked, "Why did you cut off?" and the other pilot replies, "I didn't." (India-Air Crash-Investigation) ■
