(Reuters) - Package holiday provider On The Beach ( OTB.L ) said on Monday it would book a one-time charge for the year as it makes alternate arrangements for passengers affected by the collapse of travel firm Thomas Cook ( TCG.L ). On The Beach, which did not specify the amount of the charge, had already warned on profit in August as it was hit by
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Scores of airlines wrote jointly to the Hong Kong government earlier this month to seek airport fee waivers as they struggle to deal with the financial fallout from anti-government protests that have led to a sharp drop in traveler demand. The Board of Airline Representatives (BAR) of Hong Kong, which represents more than 70 airlines
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s top technology hub Hangzhou plans to assign government officials to work with 100 private companies including e-commerce giant Alibaba, according to state media reports, in a move likely to raise concerns over the growing role of the state. The step underscores how Chinese government and party authorities are growing more
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Indonesian Lion Air’s Malaysian subsidiary Malindo Air said on Monday that two former employees of its e-commerce contractor were responsible for its passenger data breach. Malindo Air said in a statement that two former employees of e-commerce services provider GoQuo (M) Sdn Bhd in their development centre in India were found
LONDON (Reuters) - The world’s oldest travel firm Thomas Cook ( TCG.L ) collapsed on Monday, stranding hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers around the globe and sparking the largest peacetime repatriation effort in British history. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged to get stranded British travelers home and revealed that the government
"Work on the sixth generation is already underway. The main difference from the fifth generation will lie in the fact that the basic version of the sixth-generation fighter is expected to be unmanned. The possibility of pilot control will be optional. All the other characteristics represent a further development of the already existing ones. [The sixth-generation
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices rose more than 1% on Monday on doubts over how fast Saudi Arabia can bring back its full crude output after an attack earlier this month on its largest processing facility and as tensions in the Middle East remained at high levels. Brent crude futures LCOc1 increased to as much as $65.50 a barrel. The front-month contract
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britain believes Iran was responsible for an attack on Saudi oil facilities and will work with the United States and European allies on a joint response, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday. The United States and Saudi Arabia have already blamed Iran for the Sept. 14 strikes that initially halved Saudi oil output. Yemen’s
Centrelink has dramatically ramped up its seizure of tax refunds to target past welfare recipients over robodebts and other welfare overpayments, new figures reveal. In a response to a Senate question on notice, the Department of Human Services confirmed it recovered $63.4m in 2018-19 by asking the Australian Tax Office to reclaim a person’s tax refund
HAMILTON, Ontario (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will forge ahead with his re-election campaign on Monday after blackface photos of him emerged and shifted voter support toward his Conservative rivals. The ruling Liberals were knocked off course when Time magazine published a picture of him in brown makeup at a 2001 “Arabian Nights”
