A robust airline industry is essential to the nation’s security and financial system, which is why the trade received federal aid as part of the 2020 fiscal stimulus. But air travel restoration has been slowing down due to rising COVID instances — right now, it’s at about 40% of 2019 […]
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Bangkok bar fights lockdowns with cocktail of creativity
BANGKOK — “Nothing is certain but death and tax,” reads the sign above a dimly lit staircase in a small alley on the edge of Bangkok’s Chinatown. Other certainties of life include birth, sunrise, and, if you are a bar owner in Thailand, a constant battle with the government’s ever-tightening […]
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Fear not, folks! Boris says just another 47 lockdowns to go
The year is 2051. At the age of 86, Boris Johnson is now in his fourth decade as Prime Minister. Unfortunately, however, his premiership continues to be dogged by a familiar problem. On the first Monday evening in January, he instructs a TV camera crew to set up their equipment […]
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Amid virus lockdowns, prison ministry groups had to adapt
Normally Teresa Stanfield spends her days in prisons talking with inmates about how she changed the course of her troubled life, and how they can do the same. But the coronavirus has locked her on the outside. “When COVID came and shut down programming, I was extremely disappointed,” said Stanfield, […]