Ex-official probed

A FORMER senior official in northeast China’s Jilin Province is being investigated for suspected serious violations of Party disciplinary rules and laws, according to the top anti-graft agency yesterday.

Qiu Daming, former deputy secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Jilin Provincial Committee and vice director of the provincial supervisory commission, is being investigated by the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and the National Supervisory Commission, said the CCDI statement.

Porcine infection

CHINA has confirmed a new outbreak of African swine fever in the eastern province of Anhui, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Monday.

The new outbreak was discovered in Yi’an district of Tongling, where 63 of the 219 pigs on a farm were confirmed infected and 23 died, the ministry said citing a report from the China Animal Disease Control Center.

China reported its first case of the disease in August in Liaoning Province.

Direct flight

A NEW direct flight took off on Monday, linking the city of Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong Province, with Sihanoukville, a coastal city in Cambodia.