Bloomberg The travel bubble for Hong Kong and Singapore could start with one daily flight between the two financial hubs, according to Hong Kong Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Edward Yau. The number of dedicated flights under the agreement may change depending on the coronavirus situation in the cities, Yau said at a briefing on Tuesday, without elaborating. The ...

Bloomberg The virus-ravaged airline industry reached a milestone, carrying more than 1 million passengers for the first time in seven months. US airport security checkpoints processed 1,031,505 people, or 39.6% of the equivalent day in 2019, according to a tally by the Transportation Security Administration. Several of the busiest days since mid-March have occurred in the past two weeks and ...

Bloomberg Student groups across Indonesia resumed protests against a landmark labour law passed earlier this month that opponents say will erode workers’ rights and dismantle environmental protections. The renewed protests come after police detained thousands of people last week as demonstrators in Jakarta clashed with officers, hurling rocks and bottles and setting alight bus shelters. Labour unions plan to challenge ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump demanded that Attorney General William Barr open an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, just two weeks before Election Day. “We’ve got to get the attorney general to act,” Trump said in a phone interview with the TV show “Fox & Friends,” in response to a question about whether a special prosecutor should be ...

Bloomberg Russia bolstered its offer to the US for a one-year extension to their last remaining nuclear arms treaty on Tuesday by saying it’s ready to freeze its current arsenal. President Donald Trump’s administration rejected a Russian proposal to prolong the New START treaty for 12 months without conditions before it expires in February. It said doing so without capping ...

Bloomberg China criticised a meeting between the US’s new Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Robert Destro and Tibet’s president-in-exile Lobsang Sangay, accusing America of trying to destabilise the region. Destro “violated the commitment and the policy stance of the US side on not supporting Tibet’s independence and not acknowledging this government in exile,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told ...

Bloomberg The first trials to deliberately infect people with the coronavirus to accelerate the development of vaccines could occur in the UK next year as part of an agreement reached by the government. Britain signed a contract with Open Orphan Plc and its London-based unit, hVivo, that paves the way for human challenge trials, the company said on Tuesday. The ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi said his government will ensure that all 1.3 billion Indian have access to a Covid-19 vaccine as soon it is ready and asked citizens to exercise caution ahead of the country’s traditional festival season to check a spike in infection in the world’s second-worst affected nation. “We have covered a long distance in the fight ...

Bloomberg The European Union’s (EU) first offering of social bonds was said to receive orders of more than 233 billion euros ($275 billion), a record in the euro area. The bloc looks set to raise 10 billion euros from the sale of 10-year debt via banks, according to a person familiar with the matter. That alone drew orders above 145 ...

Bloomberg The European Union (EU) plans to remove Canada, Tunisia and Georgia from its list of countries whose residents should be allowed to visit the bloc amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to EU officials familiar with the matter. The EU intends at the same time to reopen its doors to travellers from Singapore as a result of improved virus trends ...