Dragonair to launch new service to Guangzhou

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- Dragonair to launch new service to Guangzhou
- Guangzhou Investment acquires land for RMB 345 mln in Guangzhou
- 100-member Indian youth delegation to leave for China
- Kenya Airways plans to increase frequencies to Far East

Dragonair to launch new service to Guangzhou
Trading Markets (press release)
Kenny Tang CE of Dragonair said: “The new Guangzhou service is important because air-to-air connections are still by far the most convenient way for international travelers to move in and out of the Pearl River Delta region. “pening Guangzhou as a destination reinforces Dragonair’s long-term commitment to explore potential destinations and strengthen our presence in our core mainland market. comRepublication or redistribution including by framing or similar meansis expressly prohibited without prior written consent.

Guangzhou Investment acquires land for RMB 345 mln in Guangzhou
China Knowledge nline
6 bln in Jan-May Updated 8:45:01 AM Jun 12 2009 (China Knowledge) – Ping An Insurance (Group) Co China’s second-largest insurer announced on Wednesday that its life insurance unit Ping An Life Insurance Co of China Ltd recorded RMB 61. 6 billion in unaudited premiums in the first five months of this year. The Shenzhen-based group which is 16.

100-member Indian youth delegation to leave for China
Sify
Arun Yadav Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports will lead the 100-member Indian delegation. During their ten-day stay in China the delegation will visit Beijing Chengdu and Guangzhou. In view of the forthcoming Commonwealth Games 2010 in New Delhi the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has finalized this year the Indian youth delegation with the objective of getting an exposure to the volunteers programme in China where large number of volunteers were recruited and trained to handle the international visitors and also for the actual conduct of the international events like the Beijing lympics World Expo and similar International Events. The Chinese side has welcomed this Ministry’s proposal to utilize the visit to learn about the volunteers’ programme in China. To facilitate this they will be arranging appropriate visits and interactions for the delegation and the accompanying officials in the cities of Beijing Guangzhou (the venue of Asian Games next year) and Sichuan – the first two are places where volunteers will be mobilized for mega international events while the third is where volunteers played important role in relief and rehabilitation after the massive Wenchuan earthquake last year. The places to be visited in China by the delegation will expose the youths for the volunteers’ programme to be utilized for the forthcoming Commonwealth Games 2010.
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Kenya Airways plans to increase frequencies to Far East
Coastweek
special report by xinhua correspondent Daniel oko AND ZHA ZHUYUN NAIRBI (Xinhua) — Saying that global economic recession has done little to abate demand for its destinations Kenya’s national carrier Kenya Airways has announced plans to increase flight frequencies to the Far East including China’s Guangzhou to tap in huge opportunities from the region. In an interview with Xinhua on Monday Kenya Airways Chief perating fficer (C) Bram Steller said additional frequencies would provide customers with conveniently scheduled connections in China and help improve relations between Africa and the Far East. “Kenya Airways will keep focus on increasing frequencies and capacities to Guangzhou and we are well planning to soon online Beijing with new aircraft availablethe B777″ Steller said. Steller said the Kenya Airways venture into Chinese skies is strategic as it positions the airliner to take advantage of the growing number of Chinese tourists and traders to Kenya and other African countries. He said China is the airline’s fifth biggest market in terms of passenger numbers in the whole network with very high network contribution as more than 70 percent of these passengers go beyond Nairobi. “We also see good growth of cargo business out of China to Africa market and this will be further supported by our Boeing 777 operations. It’s also interesting to see the big growth of leisure market to Kenya because it’s expected that China will be the biggest outbound tourist market by 2010 with more than 100 million tourists.

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