The city’s leaders have long proclaimed, “Hong Kong is back!” It has taken a while for that to be fully reflected on the ground after the pandemic restrictions on top of the 2019 protests. But the latest tourism figures leave no doubt, no matter whether they are down to the number of visitors, where they…
Volatility has gripped global equity markets this year — and according to some asset managers, now could be the perfect time to rethink emerging markets. Developing economies were hit particularly hard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called “reciprocal tariffs” plans when he unveiled them in April, with Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Vietnam slapped with tariffs…
LONDON: Fugitive diamond merchant Mehul Choksi is suing the Indian govt and five other people in the London high court for orchestrating what he refers to as his “kidnapping” from Antigua in 2021 in an alleged honeytrap plot.Choksi has claimed in the preliminary hearing that five people working for R&AW kidnapped him in Antigua and…
Jun 19, 2025 01:35 PM IST India plans to send the black box from the recent Air India plane crash to the U.S. for analysis, as damage from a post-crash fire makes data extraction impossible locally. The crash resulted in 241 fatalities and is being investigated by various agencies, including the NTSB, while India’s Aircraft…
US President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 13, 2025. Andrew Caballero-Reynolds | Afp | Getty Images Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi used his first conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump since the early May…
One of the outstanding young Hong Kong leaders chosen to visit Manchester United next month has set himself the long-term goal of unearthing talent for the city the way Barcelona discovered Lionel Messi. Jacky Cheung Lok-hei was one of six ecstatic teenagers who discovered they were bound for the UK at the 10th Jockey Club…
NEW DELHI: A Ranchi-bound Air India Express flight was diverted back to Delhi on Monday after technical issue was suspected. This is the fourth such incident in the last 36 hours when a flight faced emergency issues mid-air.The flight was scheduled to land at Birsa Munda Airport at 6.20pm.“One of our flights returned to Delhi…
An Air India flight was forced to make a U-turn due to a technical scare soon after takeoff Monday, just days after another of the airline’s Boeing Dreamliners crashed, killing at least 270 people. Flight AI315 took off from Hong Kong at 12:20 p.m. local time, bound for New Delhi, when the aircraft began an…
Black box found after Air India plane crash Investigators search for answers after Air India plane crash; black box found 02:40 Hong Kong — An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after takeoff due to a midair “technical issue,” the airline said, just four days after another one of the company’s flights…
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