Chen Chuanren is the Southeast Asia and China Editor for the Aviation Week Network’s (AWN) Air Transport World (ATW) and the Asia-Pacific Defense Correspondent for AWN, joining the team in 2017.
Prior joining AWN, Chuanren was a regular serviceman in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Air Defense and Operations Command. He now serves the RSAF Air Force Information Center as a reservist. He holds a Bachelor of Mass Communications as well as a Diploma in Mechatronics (Aerospace).
Singapore has become the 18th country and first in Southeast Asia to join the Artemis Accords, multinational commitments aimed at encouraging a peaceful, sustainable and beneficial use of space and its exploration.
Rescuers recovered China Eastern Airlines flight MU5735’s flight data recorder March 27, and investigators are encouraged that damage to the unit will not prevent it from yielding valuable clues that will help explain what brought the aircraft down.
Cebu Pacific is banking on the relaxation of travel restrictions within the Philippines and across the region more broadly as it hopes to bring back pre-COVID levels of domestic capacity during the second quarter of the year.