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The head of the Hong Kong Cabin Crew Federation, Carol Ng, says the shock resignation of two top Cathay Pacific executives, including CEO Rupert Hogg, is an escalation of the political pressure the airline is facing from China's aviation regulator. The...

The Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, has described the decision to revoke Kashmir's autonomy as a major achievement of his government, within weeks of its re-election. In a nationwide broadcast to mark India's independence day, Modi defended his d...

The government's relief package comes as the tourism trade complains of a massive drop in business over the past several weeks. The Travel Industry Council says the situation is worse now than when the SARs epidemic hit in 2003. Council chairman Jason ...

Labour Party legislator Fernando Cheung says the government's surprise HK$19 billion relief package for local residents and businesses won't do anything to quell the weeks-long anti-extradition protests here. Taxpayers, parents, welfare recipients and ...

Britain's former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has accused government advisers of making it inevitable that Britain will leave the European Union without a deal. He said that insisting that the Irish backstop should go in its entirety wa...

Airport operations returned to a semblance of normalcy on Wednesday as new restrictions imposed on people entering the terminal succeeded in vastly cutting down the number of protesters there. Hundreds of flights were cancelled on Monday and Tuesday as...

Political commentator Joseph Cheng says the Chief Executive has been displaying a very confrontational attitude, which suggests she doesn’t want to open a dialogue and will not yield to protesters’ demands. Cheng was commenting on Carrie Lam’s most rec...