Chinese nationals leave Mexico City in chartered plane

A total of 79 Chinese citizens left Mexico

City early Tuesday aboard a chartered flight sent by the Chinese government.

The plane took off from international airport Benito Juarez at about 3:05

a.m. local time (0805 GMT), heading towards Tijuana, northern city on the

U.S.-Mexico border, to lift 20 more Chinese before returning to China. Full

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FM: China's bans on pigs, pork imports in line with WTO rules

BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhua) -- China's temporary bans on the imports of pigs

and pork products from some regions hit by the A-strain influenza are in line

with the rules of the World Trade Organizations (WTO), Foreign Ministry

spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said here Tuesday.

China's emergency measures, to safeguard its stock industry and human

health from the A/H1N1 virus, are also in accordance with the rules of the

World Organization for Animal Health, Ma told a regular press conference.

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China says quarantine of Canadian students legal

BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhua) -- China defended on Tuesday its quarantine of 25

Canadian students in Changchun, capital of northeastern Jilin Province,

saying it was in accordance with law and the Canadians had assented to it.

The students began a seven-day quarantine period at a hotel on May 2 when

they arrived, the same day that Canada confirmed 51 cases of A/H1N1 epidemic

infection, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu. Full story

China Exclusive: Quarantined Chinese citizens say life boring, but easy

BEIJING, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Quarantined Chinese citizens said Tuesday that

they understand the medical measures taken to prevent the spread of influenza

A/H1N1, despite the boredom of isolation.

"Quarantine is boring, but easy. We watch TV and read newspapers to kill

time," said a woman surnamed Wen, who is under the seven-day quarantine

period at a hotel in Beijing after returning from Mexico. Full story

China vows to keep killer flu out of border while sending chartered plane to

Mexico

BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice-Premier Li Keqiang on Monday

vowed to keep the worsening global epidemic of influenza A/H1N1 out of

China's border, while the same day the government sent a chartered plane to

Mexico to pick up around 200 stranded Chinese nationals.

"The most important work at present was to strictly check on border

entry" as the killer disease has been mainly reported overseas, Li gave the

direction during a visit to the Ministry of Health. Full story

China's chartered flight arrives in Mexico to bring back nationals

MEXICO CITY, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A chartered flight from China arrived

early Tuesday in Mexico City to bring back some 99 nationals stranded in

Mexico, the epicenter of the A/H1N1 flu outbreak.

The aircraft Boeing 777-200 arrived at about 1:50 a.m. (0750 GMT) early

Tuesday at international airport Benito Juarez to lift 79 Chinese citizens

stranded in the capital. Full story

China hopes Mexico understands its necessary precautions against influenza

A/H1N1

BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday defended its medical

quarantine of some passengers who had traveled on the same flight with a

Mexican man who was infected with influenza A/H1N1.

"The measures concerned are not targeted at Mexican citizens and there is

no discrimination," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu in a press

release. Full story