Officers drag away relatives of missing passengers who had gathered to mark six months since plane's disappearance Relatives of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet MH370 gathered at a temple in Beijing to mark the six-month anniversary of its disappearance, as a small band of plainclothes police pressured them to disperse. While the family members ostensibly gathered on Monday morning to...
Signals came from manmade source unrelated to missing jetliner, expert says, but navy counters that verdict is premature A US navy official said four acoustic pings at the centre of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which disappeared in March, are no longer believed to be from the aircraft's black boxes, according to a report by CNN. Australian search authorities narrowed the search...
Senior officer was 'premature' in claiming pings probably came from a search ship or pinger locator itself, says US military The United States Navy has backtracked from comments made by a senior officer that it no longer believed four pings detected in the Indian Ocean were from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane. The deputy director of ocean engineering, Michael Dean, told CNN on Thursday the best...
Government announces plane is not in part of Indian Ocean where searchers previously reported 'pings' from black box The missing Malaysia Airlines plane is not in the Indian Ocean search zone where underwater pings were detected, the Australian search authorities have announced, after a US navy officer cast doubt on whether the signals were from a plane's black box flight recorder. On a day of dramatic...
Hazelnut and roast almond bars came up positive for pig DNA during testing for non-halal substances Chocolate maker Cadbury has recalled two products in mainly Muslim Malaysia after traces of pig DNA were found during a routine check for non-halal substances. "Cadbury has voluntarily removed two of its products from the shelves," said the Malaysian health minister, S Subramaniam. Continue...
Malaysia's civil aviation authority releases raw satellite logs to public following calls from relatives of those on board Satellite data used to narrow down the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, MH370, has been released after demands from relatives of the passengers. Continue reading... ...
Opposition immigration spokesman calls it the 'single most effective' way to prevent lives being lost at sea Labor would continue the policy of offshore processing for asylum seekers if it won the next election, its immigration spokesman, Richard Marles, has said. In a speech to the National Press Club on Tuesday, Marles described offshore processing as the single most effective policy to prevent...
Malaysian government and Inmarsat announce details on last signals sent by plane will be made public 'for transparency' Malaysia has said it will publicly release satellite data used to narrow down the search for the flight MH370, the Malaysia Airlines jetliner missing in the southern Indian Ocean. The Civil Aviation Department and British company Inmarsat in a joint statement said they would do this...
Can we have our cake and eat it? Sustainability guidelines based on scientific research can offer confidence that biodiversity is being protected The Royal Society has supported science in the rainforests of Sabah, Malaysia and Borneo since 1985. For much of that period, our rainforest research programme simply acted to support excellent science focusing on rainforests and their recovery after disturbance...
Riots spread from south the central part of Vietnam as crowds set fire to industrial parks, sparked by rig in disputed territory At least 21 people were killed and nearly 100 injured in Vietnam on Thursday during violent protests against China in one of the deadliest confrontations between the two neighbours since 1979. Crowds set fire to industrial parks and factories, hunted down Chinese workers...
Warren Truss, the deputy prime minister, said the new phase of the search for Malaysian airline flight MH370 would focus on intensifying the ocean floor search over a much larger area. In a joint media conference with Malaysia's transport minister, Hishammuddin Hussein, he said the governments involved planned to launch a tender process to gain access to specialised equipment Continue reading... ...
Information 'audit' announced after meeting of Chinese and Malaysian officials in Canberra The interpretation of satellite data underpinning the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will come under fresh scrutiny on Wednesday, while authorities seek equipment to look deeper in the southern Indian Ocean. Australias deputy prime minister, Warren Truss, flagged the information audit after...
Service to be held for Australian couple, as Malaysian minister urges relatives to 'face reality' and leave support centres The first memorials for passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines jet will be held this weekend, relatives have said, as a Malaysian official on Friday urged relatives of those presumed dead to "face reality" and leave support centres. Despite the most intensive...
Passengers' relatives in Beijing hotel say they are being ousted before airline's deadline to close family assistance centres Relatives of Chinese passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have expressed anger after being told they must leave their Beijing hotel a day after the airline said it would stop providing accommodation. "I'm very angry," said Steven Wang, whose...
The final words spoken between air traffic control and the cockpit of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been released. A radio message instructing the aircraft to switch to the Ho Chi Minh air zone was met with the response 'Goodnight Malaysian three seven zero'. The flight disappeared without a trace with 239 people on board on 8 March Continue reading... ...
Air traffic controllers took four hours to launch search and rescue operation, according to files released by Malaysian government It took 17 minutes for air traffic controllers to realise that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared from their screens - and four hours to launch a rescue operation, according to documents issued on Thursday night by the Malaysian government. The report, which...
Resource survey company says multispectral images show potential wreckage thousands of miles from search area The countries searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 are investigating a claim by a resource survey company of possible plane wreckage in the northern Bay of Bengal, Malaysia's defense minister said. The location, about 190km (118 miles) south of Bangladesh, is far from where...
Companies involved in illegal logging, forced evictions and child labour have been backed financially, report claims Australias biggest banking institutions have provided financial support to companies involved in illegal logging, forced evictions and child labour, according to a new report from Oxfam Australia. A new report released on Monday says ANZ, Westpac, National Australia Bank and the Commonwealth...
US navy's robotic submarine scours Indian Ocean seabed off Western Australia for missing aircraft's black box A robotic submarine scanning the floor of the Indian Ocean off Western Australia for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is to begin searching outside the original designated area, where it has failed to find any trace of flight MH370. The US navy's Bluefin 21 has been creating a three-dimensional...
US president to hold talks with prime minister Najib Razak Obama will not meet opposition leader Opening the first visit to Malaysia by a US president in nearly half a century, Barack Obama looked ahead Saturday to economic and security talks with the prime minister, Najib Razak, who leads a south-east Asian nation with an important role in Obama's efforts to forge deeper ties with the region. Stepping...