Cathay Pacific Airways said it will offer a voluntary scheme to its Hong Kong-based pilots who are approaching retirement age to leave the group early, in a continued effort to cut costs amid the coronavirus pandemic. HONG KONG: Cathay Pacific Airways said it will offer a voluntary scheme to its […]
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HONG KONG: Gambling revenue in Macau plunged 94.5 per cent in July year-on-year, with casinos reeling from a lack of visitors in the world’s biggest casino hub despite a loosening of quarantine restrictions which have seen only a modest rise in gamblers. July’s figure of 1.3 billion patacas (US$162.9 million) […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Friday (Jul 31) he would sign an executive order as soon as Saturday to ban fast-growing social media app TikTok in the United States, as American authorities have raised concerns the service could be a tool for Chinese intelligence. US officials and lawmakers […]
SINGAPORE: Another S$320 million has been set aside to extend foreign worker levy rebates for firms in the construction, marine shipyard and process sectors, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Saturday (Aug 1). The move follows feedback that the majority of about 15,000 firms in these sectors are still […]
NEW YORK: James Murdoch has resigned from News Corp’s board, citing disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company’s media outlets, the news publisher disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday (Jul 31). While tendering the resignation, Murdoch also cited differences over certain strategic decisions of the company. The […]
MEXICO CITY: Mexico surpassed Britain as the country with the third-highest coronavirus death toll on Friday (Jul 31), as the pandemic reached new milestones in Latin America and threatened to disrupt efforts to reopen the region’s reeling economies. The record places Mexico behind Brazil, Latin America’s largest and most populous […]
RIO DE JANEIRO: Fresh off a bout of COVID-19, President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday (Jul 31) nearly everyone will probably end up catching the new coronavirus, urging Brazilians to “face up to it” and saying there was nothing to fear. The far-right leader’s latest bid to downplay the pandemic came […]
WASHINGTON: A 17-year-old Florida boy masterminded the hacking of celebrity accounts on Twitter Inc, including those of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, officials said on Friday (Jul 31). A 19-year-old British man and a 22-year-old man in Orlando, Florida were also charged under US […]
SANTIAGO: Chilean police are training sniffer dogs to detect the coronavirus in people’s sweat at an early stage, after a similar trial in the UK showed encouraging results. Four dogs have been selected for the initial training, a mix of labradors and golden retrievers who sport green “biodetector” jackets for […]
New Zealand has to decide how best to open air travel including whether it should be restricted to certain types of travellers like foreign students, say two observers. DUNEDIN, New Zealand: Having successfully eliminated COVID-19, New Zealand now faces the option of sitting tight or exploring various ways of loosening […]