China’s aviation authority has suspended all flights from the Indonesian holiday island of Bali to Chinese cities until the threat of volcanic ash clears.
Clouds of ash from Bali’s erupting Mount Agung volcano disrupted flights to and from the island’s airport last week Aron Baynes Celtics Jersey , stranding thousands of tourists.
Flights began resuming when the airport reopened last Wednesday, after the wind changed and blew the ash away from flight paths. Individual airlines make their own decisions on flying.
Australia’s Jetstar resumed flying tourists to Bali yesterday, while Virgin Australia Holdings said it planned to do so today.
Despite the resumption of some services, China’s aviation authority was stopping any more flights after the return yesterday of the last charter flight, bringing to 15,237 the number of stranded Chinese tourists brought home, the People’s Daily newspaper said on its Twitter page.
“China’s aviation authority has suspended all flights from Bali to Chinese cities until volcanic ash threat clears,” the paper said.
China Eastern and China Southern airlines, which stopped flying tourists into Bali last week, said any resumption of flights would depend on the situation.
China Southern said that “due to volcanic activity in the area, the local airport and associated routes are not airworthy so flights on these two routes have been canceled in the near term.”
China has overtaken Australia this year as the biggest source of international visitors to Bali, representing about a quarter of the 4.9 million arrivals from January to September, according to industry statistics.
Airlines avoid flying through volcanic ash as it can damage aircraft engines, clogging fuel and cooling systems, hampering pilot visibility and even causing engine failure.
Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency said Mount Agung was no longer spewing ash but just white smoke that reached a height of 1,000 metres early yesterday.
The volcano remains at its highest alert level but most of Bali is deemed safe for tourists.
The exclusion zone around the volcano still extends 10 kilometers from the crater in some directions. More than 55,000 people are living in shelters.
Indonesian government volcanologists say that Agung’s crater is about one-third filled by lava and there is still a high risk of more eruptions.
(Agencies)
LOS ANGELES， March 29 (Xinhua) -- A U.S. federal judge in Hawaii on Wednesday extended his previous nationwide order blocking the implementation of President Donald Trump's revised travel ban while the lawsuit continues.
U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson's original order halting the travel ban was issued on March 15， hours before the ban was set to go into effect， in the form of a nationwide temporary restraining order.
Court papers show that Watson granted a motion on Wednesday to turn his temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction， extending his order against the ban while the case moves forward.
The move sets the stage for the Department of Justice to appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals， which is the same court that upheld a national halt to Trump's first travel ban last month after a Seattle federal judge ruled against it.
Hawaii has become the first state in the United States to file a lawsuit against Trump's revised travel ban. Judge Watson blocked provisions of the March 6 executive order of Trump that would have frozen the refugee program for 120 days and stopped citizens of six Muslim countries from entering the United States.
The revised travel ban will bar entry of citizens of Iran， Libya， Syria， Somalia， Sudan and Yemen for 90 days.
The new order lowered the named nations from seven to six， among other changes. Iraq， which was included in the first ban， has been taken off the list.
The state of Hawaii sued to stop the travel ban， arguing the president's policy violates the Constitution and the travel ban would harm its economy because of the loss of tourism and the ability to recruit international students.
Trump reacted to Watson's March 15 restraining order by calling the ruling "an unprecedented judicial overreach"， pledging to take the legal fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
An Apple store in Beijing Photo: IC
Apple Inc's latest flagship smartphone models have received the radio transmission equipment type approval certificate from China's top information technology watchdog, but still lack another key license to enter the Chinese mainland market, the Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday.
Analysts said that this indicates that the highly anticipated devices - iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus - can be shipped to the Chinese mainland as soon as they get a network access license, but it is hard to tell when that license will be granted.
Fax inquiries to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) by the Global Times got no replies by press time. Calls to an Apple spokeswoman remained unanswered either.
"Usually, it takes one to two months for the MIIT to grant a network access license," Wang Yanhui, head of Shanghai-based Mobile China Alliances, told the Global Times Thursday.
The radio transmission equipment type approval is granted to handsets that meet China's spectrum requirements to function well in the country, said the report, citing the MIIT.
Apple reportedly obtained the radio transmission equipment type approval certificate for the iPhone 5 on September 27, 2012, and was granted an Internet access license on November 29, 2012.
But this time, the iPhone 6 series, launched on September 9, will likely need a longer time mainly due to information security concerns, said Wang.
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