... After the pilot flew the plane back to Bangkok, the woman was fined 200 baht and had to pay 50,000 baht in compensation to the flight attendant. The other three were fined 100 baht each. When the flig ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-15
... ly if the pilot determines there is an emergency, such as one involving the safety of the aircraft or its passengers. Violators can face up to 10 years in prison. -- Contact us at [email protected] RA/ ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
... ame after pilots decided to stage a work-to-rule action over a long-standing pay dispute with management, RTHK reported Thursday. Pilot members based in Hong Kong, New Zealand and the United States wi ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-04
... ession. A pilot program called Youth Career Navigation Scheme in Elderly Services shows great promise in addressing the situation. Under this "first hire, then train" project, which was launched last ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-02
... instances pilots reported "altering course to avoid an unmanned aircraft," the FAA was quoted as saying. Cases have occurred above the Hollywood sign near Los Angeles, at college football games and at ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-27
... ct from a pilot study. Given maximum winnings of US$200, there was "a considerable incentive to cheat", Fehr's team wrote in the journal Nature. The results showed the control group reported 51.6 perc ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-20
... joined a pilot program launched by IIRC in 2012 to publish integrated reports. These include Volvo Group, Deutsche Bank A.G., SAP S.E., Tata Steel Ltd., Microsoft Corp., ACCA and Hong Kong's CLP Hold ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-12
... k Connect pilot scheme after all necessary regulatory approvals and relevant regulatory operational arrangements were finalized. The two regulators have established innovative and robust mechanisms to ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-10
Cathay Pacific pilots are set to launch industrial action after rejecting a pay offer, raising the specter of a frustrating holiday season for passengers. The pilots voted overwhelmingly for a work-to ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-07
... illed one pilot and left another seriously injured. Even while the cause of the disaster is still being investigated, Virgin Galactic, an offshoot of Richard Branson's London-based Virgin Group, and m ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-06
Why was ex-Royal Air Force pilot Paul Smith posing for photos with aviation bloggers and passers-by in Indonesia in front of a backdrop of a Typhoon fighter jet flying over the country's volcanoes? A ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-05
China will have to train about half a million civilian pilots by 2035, up from just a few thousand now, to meet the growing demand from private and commercial planes, Reuters reported. More than 200 n ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-04
... dent. One pilot was killed and the other badly injured in the crash during Friday's test flight in the Mojave Desert. Whitesides told the Financial Times the new fuel system used in the spacecraft, de ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
China National Building Materials Group Corp. (CNBM) will remain the controlling shareholder of China National Building Material Co. Ltd. (03323.HK) although the listed firm will join a pilot state-ow ...More
EJ Insight2014-11-03
... on, which pilot-drivers can then switch out for a steering stick in the air. Keeping the regulatory perspective in mind, the developer has built in safety measures mandated by both the US aviation and ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-28
... hopes the pilot scheme would later be expanded to cover the commodities market, the newspaper said. The London Metal Exchange, now under HKEx, launched its own clearing house LME Clear last week. The ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-30
The Chinese government will lift restrictions on foreign investment for 27 businesses, ranging from shipping to manufacturing, in the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ). A foreign investor will be a ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-29
... rompt the pilot to divert the flight to the nearest airport where cops, with handcuffs ready, are waiting. A flight attendant named Shawn Kathleen has seen all those horrors and much more, having been ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-19
Hong Kong is set to launch a pilot program that will combine Chinese and western medicine for the treatment of patients in three public hospitals, Sky Post reported on Wednesday. The Hospital Authorit ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-17
... Man Ho, a pilot and member of the Civic Party’s executive committee, said the government’s assessment report on the third runway proposal is ambiguous in many aspects. He said the report uses an old a ...More
EJ Insight2014-09-12
