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Hong Kong Airport resumes operations

By Bloomberg
13 August 2019   |   9:11 am
Hong Kong’s international airport resumed operations Tuesday morning after canceling 90 flights the evening before as protesters swarmed the main terminal building for a fourth day. Bloomberg's Stephen Engle reports on "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia."

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