that's my colleague monica miller.ustry usually enjoys a boom during the lunar new year period, but this year has been hit hard. tiny travellers are an important source of tourism spending. in 2018 this meant —— they spent nearly 300 billion us dollars, nearly double the amount american tourists spend. earlier, i asked the boss of trip.com what has been the impact. i think the impact is significant. however, as we have seenin significant. however, as we have seen in the sars in control, the pent—up demand was very significant. what kind of business contingencies has trip.com put in place in case this coronavirus goes from bad to worse? we have an $05 this coronavirus goes from bad to worse? we have an 505 global programme where our staff over very well trained to handle crises such as japan's tsunami, the earthquake in the pile or las vegas shootings. this coronavirus is in the magnitude far exceeded any of the last disasters before —— earthquake in nepal, but the team is managing well. our correspondent in india joins

monica miller has more on this.been shy in casting aspersions about the relationship between huawei and ageing officials, saying it is too cosy for their comfort. —— beijing. they have also said they want their allies to also be suspicious of theirs. the us said not too long ago they have banned us companies from using huawei technology in the given indications sector. but it is really tricky to do that right now. huawei is ahead of the game when it comes to sg is ahead of the game when it comes to 5g technology. so when they ask ukfor example, to 5g technology. so when they ask uk for example, not to use it, they decided, look, we can't avoid having huawei being part of this technology. what they decided to do — borisjohnson‘s technology. what they decided to do — boris johnson's administration said we wouldn't use core components of it but we do need to use this to build our 5g system. now, here is the thing, though. the us has never proven why they have cast these aspersions. now us intelligence officials say the

monica miller at the singapore airshow, thank you.as unveiled a folding flip—phone and a range of 56 devices all with price tags of $1,000 or more. the world's leading mobile phone—maker held its major launch event in san francisco, ten days before the industry's annual get together mobile world congress is due to take place in barcelona. many firms have pulled out of that event because of concerns about the coronavirus. as rory cellan—jones reports, samsung is now looking to move ahead of its chinese rivals. here's the new normal for major events. outside, a temperature monitor to screen possible coronavirus victims. inside, facemasks for anyone who is worried. but, at its biggest event of the year, samsung wa nted event of the year, samsung wanted us to focus elsewhere, on 56, photography and a folding phone. when i'm ready to use it, all i have to do is flip it open... the star of the show was the z flip, a smaller but more convincing and elegant folding device than last year's galaxy fold. we've engineered new 56 chipsets. .. far

the bbc‘s monica miller reports. new career into gear as a commercial pilot. the 23—year—old decided to abandon a career in the medical profession and follow her passion, but she initially had her doubts. i thought that this male—dominated industry was too hard on females. and most significantly, i am short, so i did not know if i could fly a plane or even step on the rudders or the brakes. the asia—pacific region has seen a boom in air travel and first—time flyers, but the small pool of qualified commercial pilots is not meeting demand. in fact, boeing said globally airlines will need more than 800,000 new pilots in less than 20 years. roughly one third of those jobs will be in asia. aircraft like airbus's a321 run on autopilot. and normally the trip is fairly smooth, but pilots will have to deal with the unexpected. that's why they spend hours in a simulator like this one, to build up confidence to steer themselves out of trouble. on this test run, i'm seeing how sharp my skills are at flying through a rainstorm in

monica miller is at the changi exibition centre — the event has been scaled back though? r body temperature has been checked quite a few times already this week. twice today. my crew and i could not even enter the facility before getting out of the car and having oui’ getting out of the car and having our temperatures taken. getting out of the car and having our temperatures ta ken. they getting out of the car and having our temperatures taken. they had put extra measures in place, there are medics on the scene with lots of hand sanitiser is. they asked officials at the weekend why they we re officials at the weekend why they were going ahead with this especially when the government escalated its alert rating to orangemen the same level they put into place during the sars epidemic. they said they did a risk assessment and decided there were hundreds but if not thousands, of people coming to this event and they could contain it. they have experience with this and they felt there would not be any problems. they did decide to go ahead. some remarkable people did pull out, inc

monica miller is at the singapore airshow.are the organisers taking in order to keep everyone safe? this is the biggest event in asia of its kind and organisers say that they have put every precaution in place and what that means, as my crew and i found in place and what that means, as my crew and ifound out in place and what that means, as my crew and i found out this morning, is that several miles away from here you enter a medical tent with your vehicle. you get out of the vehicle and the temperature is taken. and then when you get a clean bill of health you go through security, multiple steps, because this airshow is focused on the defence industry so we went through three checks to do that. they also have a no contact wallasey which means no shaking hands which is difficult when this is an event to meet face—to—face to make deals. they are adamant about not shaking hands. you can wave, you can bow but you also need to keep your distance. and there is plenty of sanitiser and all precautions that you can personally take. th

monica miller reports. this cadet is kicking her new career into gear as a commercial pilot. follow her passion. but she initially had her doubts. i thought that this male dominated industry was too hard on females. and most significantly, i am short so i did not know if i could fly a plane or even step on the rudders or most importantly, the brakes. the asia pacific region has seen a boom in air travel for first time flyers and the small pool of qualified pilots isn't meeting demand. in fact, boeing said globally, airlines will need more than 800,000 new pilots in less than 20 years. roughly one third of those jobs will be in asia. aircraft like airbus a320 run on autopilot and normally the trip is fairly smooth but pilots have to learn how to deal with the unexpected, that's why they spend a few hours in the simulator like this to build up confidence to steer themselves out of trouble. major airline manufacturers require 200 hours of flight time but some airlines want to change the rules. but as the boeing 737 max fatal crashes demonstrated, pilots only have a split second