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Macao, Hong Kong declare two-week flight bans over Omicron

Macao has announced a two-week ban on commercial passenger flights from regions outside mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong from midnight on January 9 to midnight on January 23 to prevent the spread of Omicron, according to the country's government information bureau.

"All civilian flights from outside China are prohibited from carrying passengers to Macao from midnight on January 9, until 11:50 on January 23, 2022," it said in a statement.

Two airlines likely to be affected by the temporary ban are Scoot (TR, Singapore Changi) and Qatar Airways (QR, Doha Hamad Int'l), while most other airlines serving the Chinese special administrative region of Macao fly in from the mainland, Hong Kong, or Taiwan. The most popular routes from Macau Int'l are Shanghai Pudong, Taipei Taoyuan, and Beijing Capital, the ch-aviation PRO airports module shows.

Hong Kong has also ordered a two-week ban from January 8 to January 21 on flights from eight countries as the city attempts to stem an emerging Omicron outbreak. Incoming passenger flights will...

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US designates COMAC, Air China's parent as military users

The United States Department of Defence (DOD) has added COMAC (Shanghai Pudong), Grand China Air (CN, Haikou), and China National Aviation Holding to its list of Chinese firms sanctioned under the National Defense Authorization Act for their alleged close ties to China's military and the Communist party.

"The Department is determined to highlight and counter the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Military-Civil Fusion development strategy, which supports the modernization goals of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) by ensuring its access to advanced technologies and expertise acquired and developed by even those PRC companies, universities, and research programs that appear to be civilian entities," the administration said in a statement.

The DOD sanctioned China's state-owned aerospace conglomerate AVIC in its initial tranche in June 2020.

While the National Defense Authorization Act does not directly prescribe consequences for the listed companies, in 2020, President Donald Trump issued an executive order banning any US investment in any of the sanctioned companies.

The DOD list is separate from the Military End-User (MEU) designation...

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