China says doing best to push Malaysia to coordinate plane search

BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters) - China is doing its best to push Malaysia to coordinate the international search effort for a missing Malaysian aircraft, state news agency Xinhua cited China's special envoy Zhang Yesui as saying on Thursday.

Zhang added that China will also continue to intensify its search efforts for the plane, which went missing on March 8 while on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard)

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Keywords: MALAYSIA AIRLINES/CHINA