Chinese boycott Malaysia over missing jetliner

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http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-chinese-boycott-malaysia-over-missing-jetliner-20140328,0,1705643.story





Captain Peter Moore is silhouetted against the southern Indian Ocean aboard a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion aircraft searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 over the southern Indian Ocean on Thursday.

Chinese boycott Malaysia over missing jetliner
By Barbara Demick
March 28, 2014, 10:46 a.m.

BEIJING – From beach vacations to entertainers, all things Malaysian are being boycotted in China in protest of the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 and what many consider the bungled investigation that has followed.

Major Chinese ticketing agencies this week banned sales of airplane tickets to Malaysia, with one of them, eLong, saying it will maintain the stricture “indefinitely until the Malaysian government and Malaysia Airlines release every piece of information they have in order to find out the truth of the missing flight as soon as possible.’’

On Friday, family members of the missing, who have been gathered in Beijing’s Lido Hotel since the flight’s disappearance March 8, boycotted a regular press conference held by Malaysia Airlines, leaving airline personnel in a conference room with just journalists.

Even a popular singer, Fish Leong — an ethnically Chinese Malaysian who is pregnant – has been beset by threats on her microblog, with angry Chinese cursing her unborn child.