MACAO - Macao International Airport (MIA) has handled more than 2.33 million passengers in the first quarter, representing 17 percent year-on-year growth, MIA said on Thursday.The airport said in a statement that the flight movements at MIA also recorded an increase of 17 percent year-on-year to over 18,000 movements in the first quarter. The daily average traffic of the airport reached 25,000 passengers and 205 flight movements.MIA added that with the continuous increase of air routes and new airlines entering the market, the markets of Chinese mainland, China's Taiwan region and Southeast Asia recorded increases of 28 percent, 4 percent and 14 percent respectively compared to same period of last year.Passengers traveling with conventional and low-cost airlines increased by 11 percent and 29 percent in the first quarter respectively.MIA said it will continue to develop a diversified aviation market, and cooperate with airline companies to develop other potential medium and long-haul charter routes to help develop Macao as a world tourism and leisure center.It will also accelerate the pace of airport facility improvement in the future to meet the demand of growing passenger traffic, and provide new services such as a check-in center at Macao Border Inspection Building on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge. cheap custom rubber bracelets no minimumchristian silicone wristbandspink rubber band braceletsupcycle silicone braceletsmake your own wristbands
Pigs raised in the village of Fuyang city, Anhui province, Dec 5, 2018. [Photo/IC] GUANGZHOU -- South China's Guangdong Province has said that actions have been taken to ensure pork supplies to Hong Kong and Macao after the province's first African swine fever outbreak prompted it to cull nearly 2,000 pigs. The agriculture and rural affairs department of Guangdong, a major hog and pork supplier to neighboring Hong Kong and Macao, said they had formulated plans to prevent disruptions in hog and pork supplies to the two cities. Inspections of farms have also been strengthened to ensure quality and safety of products, it said. Eleven pigs were confirmed dead after being infected with the viral disease at a slaughterhouse in Xiangzhou district in the city of Zhuhai on Wednesday. The department on Thursday said they had enhanced inspections and disinfection in the city's pig farms and slaughterhouses, though no other cases of the disease have been reported in the province. Guangdong supplies 1.6 million and 120,000 hogs to Hong Kong and Macao, respectively, every year. The southern province is the 23rd province in China that has reported the outbreak of African swine fever, a highly contagious disease that infects pigs. The disease does not affect other animal species or humans. China reported its first case of the disease in August in the northeastern province of Liaoning.
