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Asia’s fried-chicken king takes $2b hit with US gamble

Bloomberg If 2019 was a bad year for Tony Tan Caktiong, the Philippine tycoon who built a fast-food empire that trounced McDonald’s in his home market, 2020 is shaping out to be worse for his company’s stock. After wooing millions of Filipinos for decades with its signature fried chicken, Tan’s Jollibee Foods Corp set out on an expansion in the ...

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Cathay to temporarily suspend Japan flights

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd will suspend flights to and from Japan for three weeks after the Japanese government tightened quarantine rules on people arriving from Hong Kong. Flights to and from Hong Kong and four Japanese airports and cities — Tokyo’s Haneda airport, Fukuoka, Nagoya and Sapporo — will stop from Monday until March 28, and halted for Narita ...

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UK to leave EU aviation regulator in 2021

Bloomberg The UK will withdraw as a member state of the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) after December 31, Aviation Week reported, citing an interview with Transport Secretary Grant Shapps. “We will leave EASA,” Shapps said in the interview. “A lot of the expertise they have is UK expertise, in fact. A lot of the key leading lights were ...

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