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From March 1, South Korea tightened rules for all South Korean airlines, including keeping power banks and e-cigarettes with passengers and not in luggage bins, and not charging devices onboard.

Airlines in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong ... chargers within arm’s reach and out of overhead bins. The government implemented the rule to ease anxiety about ...

and Singapore are implementing stricter guidelines. For instance, South Korean airlines now require passengers to keep power banks and e-cigarettes with them rather than in overhead cabin bins.

and e-cigarettes. These batteries have the potential to malfunction and produce smoke, heat and even fire. Below is a table of all the airlines so far confirmed to be changing the use of power banks ...

Singapore Airlines has similar rules ... It has extended the ban to storing e-cigarettes in overhead luggage bins. Elsewhere, a Hong Kong Airlines flight from the Chinese city of Hangzhou was ...

Firefighters used a bucket of water to cool down a bin in Wellington that was set on fire by a discarded cigarette. Crews were sent from Wellington Fire Station to Crown Street at around 11.37am ...