China's North Airlines has beguna new flight service from Shenyang,capital of northeast China's Liaoning Province,to Tokyo,Japan.

An airline official told Xinhua that the twice weekly international air service would operate between the two cities each Tuesday and Thursday.

The new service,which began on Thursday,uses A300aircraft to link the two Asian cities.

The company will also start Dalian-Tokyo and Dalian-Nagoya flights on Friday.

( eastday.com April 18, 2002)