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VENUS91 USAF 98-0001 C-32 departed JBA-this is the other AC that is used as AF2 and on fly over duty at Bangor, ME Int'l Airport
VENUS32 USAF Clipper se aafter a few fly bys at Grand Rapids, MI Gerald Ford Int'l
GRZLY50 C-560 departs MCAS Miramar nw-this is the same AC that had a late night trip up to Long Beach Int'l for a touch and go and return to Miramar.
SAM738 G5 from Peterson AFB is now in front of VENUS32 Clipper heading for JBA
VENUS62 G5 sw from Portland, ME
VM767 C-560 departed JBA sw
GRZLY50 C-560 departs MCAS Miramar nw-this is the same AC that had a late night trip up to Long Beach Int'l for a touch and go and return to Miramar.
German Chancellor Merkel Says Lufthansa Bailout Deal Is Close
Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany is close to finalizing talks on a bailout deal for Deutsche Lufthansa AG. “The government is in intensive talks with the company and the European Commission. A decision can be expected shortly,” she said, declining to go into details. “I would give this advice: wait for the talks to end.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-20/german-chancellor-merkel-says-lufthansa-bailout-deal-is-close?srnd=markets-vp
Bayer's Vietnam chief fined for South China Sea 'nine-dash' map
HO CHI MINH CITY – The CEO of Bayer Vietnam faces up to 70 million dong ($3,000) in fines for disseminating a map of the South China Sea that included the so-called nine-dash line, which China uses to demarcate its claims on the waters.
The Ho Chi Minh City government summoned Bayer's local chief Lynette Moey Yu Lin on Friday to inform her that she will be fined for violating Vietnam's regulation banning the spread of illegal information and images regarding Vietnam's sovereignty through a personal email.
According to Ho Chi Minh City's Department of Information Technology and Communications, Lin admitted that she had emailed a document named, "COVID-19, lesson from China," containing the nine-dash line to nine people in the company.
The final fine has yet to be determined and will be announced within seven days. It will range from 25 million to 70 million dong.
The summoning and fine reflect Vietnam's stronger resolve against the dissemination of the nine-dash line map of South China Sea better known as East Sea in Vietnam amid heightened tensions in the region. In recent years, maps of the South China Sea with the nine-dash line had been presented at various events, including conferences and trade or tourism fairs. But the Vietnamese authority's responses were mainly to reprimand the action and to ask the distributors to withdraw the documents.
These soft-handed approaches had stoked public anger, with citizens criticizing the government for not standing up to China's aggressive sovereignty claims. They pointed out that Hanoi was losing the propaganda campaign against Beijing.
A turning point came last year when Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation's movie "Abominable" showed the nine-dash line map on the screen, having escaped the Vietnam's strict censorship. South Korean CJ CGV, the film's distributor, had to stop screening the film and was fined 170 million dong.
At a motor show last year, a Volkswagen Touareg CR745J was confiscated after it was found installed with a GPS navigation software that used a map that included the nine-dash line. The importer was fined.
Earlier this year, Hanoi announced a new regulation, which allows local authorities to suspend business licenses of any auto makers or traders that import apps that run maps with the nine-dash line.
Meanwhile, many Chinese enterprises working in Vietnam use maps and images containing the nine-dash line for online games and cultural products. Vietnamese authorities have asked the public to report on these "illegal actions."
China's claims sovereignty over about 80% of the South China Sea, almost all the energy-rich waters of the sea where it has established military outposts on artificial islands, but neighboring countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia also have overlapping claims.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Bayer-s-Vietnam-chief-fined-for-South-China-Sea-nine-dash-map