AN AIRLINE has admitted it recently found a missing Boeing passenger jet it lost over a decade ago – and now faces a hefty parking fine. Air India said it misplaced one of its aircraft in Kolkata Airport back in 2012. The jet seemly disappeared from records until the airport contacted Air India to request the Boeing 737-200 be removed. Now the airline has been slapped with a parking fine of nearly 10 million rupees (about £85,000). Air India initially insisted the aircraft was not theirs, according to reports. But…
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ROMAN Abramovich has been ordered to transfer £2.5 billion in frozen assets from the sale of Chelsea football club – or face court action. Sir Keir Starmer said Britain will formally issue a licence for the transfer in a last-ditch bid for the oligarch to comply, with the money going to humanitarian causes in Ukraine. The Prime Minister told MPs: “I can announce that we’re issuing a license to transfer £2.5 billion from the sale of Chelsea Football Club, those funds have been frozen since 2022. “My message to Abramovich…
President Xi Jinping has urged the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions to actively align with the nation’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-30), and better integrate into and serve the country’s overall development. Xi made the remarks on Tuesday while meeting separately with Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region John Lee Ka-chiu and Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region Sam Hou-fai, both of whom are on duty visits to Beijing. During his meeting with Lee, Xi heard a report from the Hong Kong SAR chief…
For decades, the issue of cannabis reform was firmly viewed as a leftist pipe dream. To most conservatives, particularly US Republicans, legalising weed was as realistic as nuclear disarmament, or abolishing national borders. Think of the phrase “war on drugs” and the first people that probably come to mind are Republican presidents Nixon, Reagan and George HW and George W Bush. Although the clampdown reached its harshest levels during the presidency of Mr “I didn’t inhale” Bill Clinton, it always seemed as if the GOP owned the position of being…
Donald Trump has said he wants Chinese leader Xi Jinping to release Jimmy Lai as he voiced sadness over the Hong Kong media mogul’s conviction on national security charges. “I feel so badly. I spoke to President Xi about it, and I asked to consider his release,” Trump told reporters on Monday, without specifying when he asked Xi. “He’s an older man, and he’s not well. So I did put that request out. We’ll see what happens.” The US president had said before he returned to the White House that…
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government has strongly opposed malicious attacks, false statements, and smears against the city by the United States and Western countries, anti-China media, organizations, and politicians, following the court ruling in media tycoon Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s case. The biased statements and malicious smears from external forces totally disregarded the rule of law and “precisely reflect that the national security risks we face are real,” a government spokesman said in a statement on Tuesday morning. The city’s High Court on Monday found Lai, founder of the…