According to Canada's Air Passenger Protection Regulations, an airline must pay passengers up to $1,000 when it is at fault for a flight disruption. However, if the delay was 'required for safety,' the airline pays nothing. Some consumer advocates call that a loophole that benefits airlines.
"She effectively shut down the store bakery for a week. It took not one, but two people to replace my 67-year-old mother. She never went back. The department manager was fired."
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned in April that 60% of all mature chips coming into the market will come from China.
American Eagle flight 3921 made the emergency landing on July 3 “due to a disruptive customer," the airline tells PEOPLE
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The European Union is imposing sharply higher customs duties on electric vehicles imported from China. EVs are the latest flash point in a broader trade dispute over Chinese government subsidies and Beijing's burgeoning exports of green technology to the 27-nation bloc.
Rail cars carrying hazardous material derailed and burst into flames Friday in a remote area of North Dakota. Officials said no one was hurt and the threat to those living nearby appeared to be minimal.
Navigating the waves and ripple effects of regional conflicts that have obscured traditional trade routes and weakened Russian influence in the Central Asian region, China is stepping up its engagement there, especially in transport connectivity. The mutual interests and win-win message were highlighted as President Xi Jinping made a state visit to Kazakhstan this week and met President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. In a joint statement on Thursday, the two countries pledged to "improve the level of in
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BEIJING (Reuters) -China announced the next step in its anti-dumping investigation into European brandy imports on Friday, ramping up tension on the day the European Commission's provisional tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles take effect. Ahead of the bloc confirming tariffs of up to 37.6% on Chinese-made EVs on Thursday, a commerce ministry spokesperson told a news conference that Brussels and Beijing should keep negotiating, but kept the prospect of retaliation was alive with a reference to another investigation into EU pork imports.
Vance Kong, 48, has been charged with dangerous and impaired driving causing death and failing to remain at the scene of a collision after a fatal crash on the Gardiner Expressway. As Catherine McDonald reports, a 40-year-old woman was killed in the rear-end collision and 2 others were injured including a toddler.
TORONTO — A man is facing charges after a hit-and-run collision in Toronto that left a woman dead and two others injured and closed a portion of a highway early Thursday morning. Police say two vehicles were involved in a crash on the Gardiner Expressway just after 2 a.m., and one of the drivers fled on foot. They say a black Audi sedan was traveling at a high rate of speed and collided with the rear of a KIA sedan. Police say five people were in the sedan that was hit and three of them were tak
Baidu co-founder and CEO Robin Li Yanhong said China has too many large language models (LLMs) and called for tech leaders to focus more on building real-world applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI). "In 2023, intense competition among over 100 LLMs has emerged in China, resulting in a significant waste of resources, particularly computing power," Li said during a panel discussion at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai on Thursday. Li called on developer
TORONTO — Several North American department stores are joining forces under a deal that will see Hudson's Bay Co. buy Neiman Marcus and spin it out into a larger business along with some of its other prestige retailers.
Samsung Electronics estimated Friday that its second-quarter profits increased nearly 15-fold from a year earlier, thanks to a strong recovery in the memory chip market driven by artificial intelligence demand.
After domestic energy production soared during the pandemic, slowing U.S. growth could lift global prices.
Overseas start-ups and entrepreneurs believe Hong Kong is an attractive place to develop their ventures because of the depth of the city's financial market, availability of capital and its status as an international centre, according to the chief of the government's investment arm. "The international status of Hong Kong is very important for innovative industries and enterprises" because these start-ups need to have a global mindset, international clientele and supply chain, said Clara Chan Ka-c
China's visa-free policy appears to be succeeding in its aim of attracting more visitors as the number of foreigners entering the country more than doubled in the first six months of the year. In total 14.64 million foreigners visited the country in the first half of the year, up 152.7 per cent year on year, data from the National Immigration Administration showed. The number of visa-free entries made by foreigners passed 8.5 million, accounting for 58 per cent of inbound trips and representing
China pledged on Friday to make breakthroughs in emerging industries - including bleeding-edge fields like humanoid robots, 6G mobile technology and atomic-level manufacturing - that could enhance its strength in the high-growth tech arena while preserving traditional sectors as a bedrock. The country's unique system - which can concentrate resources on specific benchmarks - can be marshalled to fill gaps in core technologies created by containment efforts from the United States, said Jin Zhuang
BEIJING (Reuters) -Some foreign companies are considering moving Taiwanese employees out of China after Beijing said it could impose the death penalty on "diehard" Taiwan independence separatists, said four people familiar with the matter. The new guidelines have caused some Taiwanese expatriates and foreign multinationals operating in China to scramble to assess their legal risks and exposure, said the people, who include a lawyer and two executives with direct knowledge of the discussions. "Several companies have come to us to assess the risks to their personnel," said the lawyer, James Zimmerman, a Beijing-based partner at the Perkins Coie law firm.
