K. Oanh Ha

K. Oanh Ha

Travellers pushing luggage trolley after arrive in Hong Kong inside Hong Kong International Airport on July 7, 2022 in Hong Kong, China. The Hong Kong Government announce that it will suspend the Covid-19 flight ban mechanism which ban flights carrying more than 5 Covid-19 positive passengers to fly to the city for five days. (Photo by Vernon Yuen/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Hong Kong relaxes its COVID travel restrictions for outbound passengers

By K. Oanh Ha and Bloomberg

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American bankers and CEOs are fueling a superyacht rental boom — and it costs $150,000 just to get on the waitlist

By K. Oanh Ha and Bloomberg

ABERDEEN TYPHOON SHELTER, ABERDEEN, HONG KONG SAR, CHINA – 2022/06/14: The famous Jumbo Floating Restaurant is towed away by tugboats after 46 years as a much-loved tourist attraction in Aberdeen, Hong Kong. The largest floating restaurant in the world had been closed since 2020 after the Covid-19 pandemic devastated the tourism and catering sectors. The attractions parent company Aberdeen Restaurant Enterprises announced that the vessel would be taken to a facility outside Hong Kong for storage and repairs. (Photo by Stefan Irvine/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Hong Kong’s iconic floating restaurant sinks in South China Sea after being towed away from dock

By K. Oanh Ha, Hayley Wong, and others

MUGLA, TURKEY – SEPTEMBER 15: 86-metre long luxury Mega yatch ‘Pacific’, owned by Russian art collector and entrepreneur Leonid Mikhelson, arrives at Cruise Port Harbour in Marmaris, Mugla, Turkey on September 15, 2020. (Photo by Sabri Kesen/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

How the second-richest Russian’s $150 million superyacht evaded sanctions on a 7,000-mile journey to safety

By K. Oanh Ha and Bloomberg

MUGLA, TURKEY – FEBRUARY 18: The 106m-long and 18m-high super luxury motor yacht Amadea, one of the largest yacht in the world is seen after anchored at pier in Pasatarlasi for bunkering with 9 fuel trucks, on February 18, 2020 in Bodrum district of Mugla province in Turkey. Amadea, the Cayman-flagged motor yacht, arrived from France and entered in Turkey passing through Greece. Amadeus’s interior layout sleeps up to 16 guests in 8 cabins, including a master suite, a VIP stateroom, with a helipad. (Photo by Osman Uras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Tracking the Russian oligarchs logging the most miles in their multi-million dollar superyachts

By K. Oanh Ha and Bloomberg

MUGLA, TURKEY – FEBRUARY 18: The 106m-long and 18m-high super luxury motor yacht Amadea, one of the largest yacht in the world is seen after anchored at pier in Pasatarlasi for bunkering with 9 fuel trucks, on February 18, 2020 in Bodrum district of Mugla province in Turkey. Amadea, the Cayman-flagged motor yacht, arrived from France and entered in Turkey passing through Greece. Amadeus’s interior layout sleeps up to 16 guests in 8 cabins, including a master suite, a VIP stateroom, with a helipad. (Photo by Osman Uras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

The U.S. is seizing a $325 million helipad-equipped megayacht in Fiji. The question is which Russian oligarch it belongs to

By K. Oanh Ha and Bloomberg

Barrels of motor oil at the Omsk Lubricants Plant. The plant is operated by Gazpromneft-Lubricants, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, in Omsk, Russia, on Aug. 5, 2021.

Defiant dock workers around the world are refusing to unload some oil shipments. Here’s why

By K. Oanh Ha and Bloomberg

QINGDAO, CHINA – DECEMBER 23: Shipping containers are loaded onto trucks after a ceremony to celebrate Shandong Port Group Co Ltd’s annual cargo throughput exceeding 1.5 billion metric tons at Qingdao Port on December 23, 2021 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. (Photo by Yu Fangping/VCG via Getty Images)

Seafarers and truck drivers are quitting due to fears of COVID border controls in the latest disruption to supply chains

By K. Oanh Ha, Ann Koh, and others

QINGDAO, CHINA – NOVEMBER 24, 2021 – Cargo ships load and unload containers at a container yard in Qingdao Port, East China’s Shandong province, Nov 24, 2021. Mofcom said it would introduce a new round of measures to stabilize foreign trade at an appropriate time. (Photo credit should read Yu Fangping / Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)

A 7-week quarantine for returning sailors is just one way China’s COVID zero approach is snarling supply chains

By K. Oanh Ha, Jack Wittels, and others

CARTAGENA, SPAIN – FEBRUARY 25: The ship Karim Allah at the dock of the port of Cartagena after two months sailing through the Mediterranean and carrying around 900 cows, after being rejected in other ports for an alleged disease in cows in Cartagena, Spain. The livestock company, which took on hundreds of male calves at the port of Cartagena in December, said several countries including Turkey and Libya have refused entry due to concerns about the bovine disease bluetongue. (Photo by Alfonso Duran/Getty Images)

‘We don’t look at the cargo or animal welfare’: Grisly deaths of 1,800 shipped cows fuel calls for live animal export ban

By K. Oanh Ha, Kevin Varley, and others

ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – May 6, 2020: Crew members wearing face masks as a precaution against the spread of corona virus, after the ship docked. Cruise ship Regal Princess has docked in Rotterdam with about nine hundred Europeans, at least ten are Dutch. The ship returns crew members from other cruise ships to Europe.

What life is like for more than 90,000 cruise workers that have been stuck at sea for two months

By Bloomberg, Jonathan Levin, and others

The SuperStar Gemini cruise ship docked in Singapore on April 17, 2020, as authorities studied whether to use two ships as temporary accommodation for foreign workers who have recovered from the COVID-19 coronavirus and tested negative for it.

Singapore has a plan for the world’s empty cruise ships

By Philip J. Heijmans, K. Oanh Ha, and others

The global face mask shortage could get much worse than it already is.

‘Most places are not prepared’: Face mask shortage could get much worse as coronavirus spreads

By K. Oanh Ha and Bloomberg

Cambodia Allows Cruise Ship Free of Coronavirus to Dock.

Fears of a global coronavirus contagion rage as 3,000 cruise ship passengers return home

By K. Oanh Ha, Yudith Ho, and others

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A cruise industry crisis: No one wants to be stuck on the next coronavirus-hit ship

By Christopher Palmeri, K. Oanh Ha, and others