Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. is dangling allowances of up to HK$5,000 ($640) a flight as a sweetener for pilots rostered on to fly in and out of mainland China, with ongoing Covid-19 curbs making it less appealing to work those routes.
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Beleaguered cryptocurrency lender Hodlnaut said there are “pending proceedings” between the company and Singapore police and that it has slashed its workforce.
SBI Holdings Inc., Japan’s biggest online brokerage, said it will shut crypto-mining operations in Russia, adding to the churn in the region sparked by the threat of US sanctions.
Six months after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, efforts to reinforce the Black Sea region have raised questions over why it wasn’t done before.
London’s subway network will largely grind to a halt on Friday as workers go on strike, bringing more labor disruption to Britain’s embattled transport system.
Canberra, Australia (AP) -- Australia's leader said Friday that it's upsetting Indonesia has further reduced the prison sentence of the bombmaker in the Bali terror attack that killed 202 people — meaning the terrorist could be freed within days if he's grant…
The US and China can’t stop sniping at each other even as the world turns into a furnace.As the Biden administration enacted the country's biggest-ever climate law worth some $374 billion, US officials couldn’t resist a dig at Beijing for ending environmental…
Explosions erupted across Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine on Thursday night as Ukrainian forces escalated their weeks-long campaign of deep strikes on Russian logistics and airfields. The blasts, targeting ammunition dumps, airfields and other facilities, could disrupt supply lines and air operations and further isolate Russian troops in Ukraine—especially in the south, where Kyiv has been…
Topline The first of 130 former Starbucks coffee shops resuming business in Russia under the name Stars Coffee opened its doors in Moscow on Thursday — making it the latest rebranding of a Western chain since many exited the country in the wake of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. Key Facts Photos of a Stars…
A-A* attainment fell back to 36.4% from 44.8% last year but remained higher than pre-pandemic levels...