HONG KONG (AP) — Flights resumed at Hong Kong’s airport Wednesday morning after two days of disruptions marked by outbursts of violence highlighting the hardening positions of pro-democracy protesters and the authorities in the Chinese city that’s a major international travel hub.
BEIJING, August 13. /TASS/: New US sanctions against China’s telecommunications companies will not hinder growth of Huawei, which is well prepared for them, Deputy Director at the Institute of Economics and Business Administration, Central China Pedagogical University (Wuhan, Hubei), Zhou Weidi told TASS.
13 August 2019; AFP: When Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam appeared before the press on Tuesday, she appeared to be expecting to deliver a brief statement and move on. Instead she faced a media onslaught.
No sooner were her prepared remarks finished than the full-frontal assault -- in both Cantonese and English -- began.
"You blame your own political misjudgement on others, and refuse to acknowledge your mistakes," one journalist said.
13 August 2019; AFP: Hundreds of flights were cancelled or suspended at Hong Kong's airport Tuesday as pro-democracy protesters staged a second disruptive sit-in at the sprawling complex, defying warnings from the city's leader who said they were heading down a "path of no return".
The new protest came as Beijing sent further ominous signals that the 10 weeks of unrest must end, with state-run media showing videos of security forces gathering across the border.
13 August 2019; DW: A chief Malaysian police officer has confirmed a body was found during the hunt for teenager Nora Quoirin. Malaysian authorities said they are certain the body belongs to the missing girl.
A body was found in southern Malaysia on Tuesday during the search for 15-year-old Nora Anne Quoirin, who has been missing since 4 August while on holiday with her family.
MANILA, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The continued chaos in Hong Kong, created by anti-government protesters and apparently encouraged by foreign hands, must be quickly stopped, a Philippine analyst has said.
Like in the Bangkok protests a few years ago or in France during the Paris riots, the Hong Kong police must now decisively move in to quickly restore order, Wilson Lee Flores, columnist of The Philippine Star newspaper, told Xinhua.
BISHKEK, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- A number of criminal cases were initiated against the associates of former President Almazbek Atambayev and himself, Prosecutor General of Kyrgyzstan Otkurbek Dzhamshitov told reporters here on Tuesday.
He said that the former president is charged with murder of a soldier of special forces, using force against law enforcement officers, organizing mass unrest and hostage-taking.
Atambayev is also suspected of illicit trafficking of weapons and ammunition, Dzhamshitov said.
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets followed Wall Street lower Tuesday amid anxiety the U.S.-Chinese trade war will hurt already slowing global economic growth.
Benchmarks in Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney all retreated.
Investor anxiety has been fed by President Donald Trump’s threat of new U.S. tariff hikes on Chinese goods, protests in Hong Kong and weaker-than-expected data from India, Argentina and Singapore.
BEIJING (AP) — Facing another U.S. tariff hike, Chinese President Xi Jinping is getting tougher with Washington instead of backing down.
Beijing fired what economists called a “warning shot” at Washington by letting its yuan currency weaken in response to President Donald Trump’s latest threat of more punitive import duties on Sept. 1. Chinese buyers canceled multibillion-dollar purchases of U.S. soybeans. Regulators are threatening to place American companies on an “unreliable entities” list that might face curbs on their operations.
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam defended law enforcement actions Tuesday after protesters prompted an airport shutdown with calls to investigate alleged police brutality.
At one of the world’s busiest airports, airlines were checking in passengers for new flights and for those unable to leave Monday when 200 flights were cancelled because thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators had packed into the airport’s main terminal.
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