"IndiGo has suspended its Kolkata-Hong Kong services from November 6, 2019 due to poor commercial results affected by the ongoing Hong Kong situation," the airline spokesperson said.
In a leaked e-mail to Apple employees, CEO Tim Cook has defended the decision to remove the Hkmap.live from its app store
In his tweet, the Pakistan prime minister said the ongoing protests in Hong Kong have gained international relevance, while the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is being ignored in headlines.
Quartz received a notice from Apple saying the app was being removed "because it includes content that is illegal in China."
The MTR Corporation on Monday suspended the through-train services to several mainland Chinese destinations, including Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai.
Police fired tear gas in several areas amid confrontations between officers and protesters that have become a regular occurrence during the 4-month-old protest movement.
Hong Kong police shot an 18-year-old protester at close range in the chest on Tuesday, in a dramatic escalation in violence as tens of thousands joined anti-government demonstrations across the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.
Hong Kong police shot a protester at close range, leaving him bleeding from his shoulder and howling on the ground, in a fearsome escalation of anti-government demonstrations that spread across the semi-autonomous Chinese territory on Tuesday.
Radical protesters blocked roads and threw petrol bombs outside the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government offices on Saturday evening.
In the lead-up to the clash, some hardcore demonstrators threw what appeared to be Molotov cocktails in the direction of the government headquarters.
Transit authorities closed the two intermediate stations on the airport express train to guard against a possible disruption of transportation to the transportation hub. Separately an afternoon protest has been called at a shopping mall in the outlying Shatin district.
China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang made the remarks in response to reports that the US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a news conference on Wednesday with House members as well as Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong Chi-fung and Denise Ho, to back the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019, Xinhua news agency reported.
Under the "one country, two systems" formula, Beijing agreed to allow the former British colony to retain a semi-independent status - including certain legal rights not contained in the mainland Chinese system - until the pact's expiration in 2047.
Hong Kong police and the Airport Authority warned against such acts by the anti-government protesters, saying any deliberate obstruction or attempts to use fake boarding passes could have legal consequences.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam announced Wednesday the withdrawal of an extradition bill that sparked months of demonstrations, bowing to one of the protesters’ demands in the hope of ending the increasingly violent unrest.
According to a Bloomberg report, the company in a post on its official Weibo account, a social media platform like Twitter, on Monday said “Zara has never made any comments or undertaken any actions related to a strike in Hong Kong."
The students, most of them wearing black T-shirts over their uniforms, were expected to head to the city centre for a rally in Edinburgh Place against the now-shelved extradition bill, which would have allowed the transfer of fugitives to jurisdictions with which Hong Kong lacks an extradition deal, including mainland China, the South China Morning Post reported.
Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) said: "With a lot of concerns around the ongoing large-scale protest/unrest in Hong Kong and its possible impact on trade, we would like to assure that we have not seen any downtrend in business."
Hong Kong police arrested well-known activist Joshua Wong and another core member of a pro-democracy group Friday in a mounting crackdown on people involved in this summer’s protests.
The day’s main showdown took place on a major drag in the outlying Tsuen Wan district following a protest march that ended in a nearby park. While a large crowd rallied in the park, a group of hard-line protesters took over a main street, strewing bamboo poles on the pavement and lining up orange and white traffic barriers and cones to obstruct police.
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