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"China is a victim of extremist, terrorist activities, and our support for fighting terrorism in this region is beneficial to us, too. As a result, China and those countries are in a closely knit community of shared interests."

Wu Sike, China's special envoy for the Middle East, saying China would do all it could to help Middle Eastern countries fight terror as this was also in China's best interests.

"I suggest passengers keep a close eye on their mobile phones, as we will send them text messages on changes."

Zhu Mei, spokeswoman for Air China, saying after the Civil Aviation Administration of China announced that factors including stormy weather and routine military exercises are expected to affect flights to and from cities including Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan, Zhengzhou and Qingdao in coming weeks.

"We will cooperate with countries such as the United States and Canada on intelligence sharing, case investigation and fugitive extradition to try to recover the ill-gotten gains."

Xu Jinhui, director of the Supreme People's Procuratorate's anti-corruption and bribery department, announcing it was setting up a special task force to hunt down corrupt officials who have fled overseas and to confiscate their illegal gains.

(China Daily Africa Weekly 08/01/2014 page3)