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March 25, 2014 10:15 AM KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Police have so far interviewed more than 100 people in their investigations into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.         ...

March 25, 2014 10:26 AM The front pages of several of Malaysia's major newspapers were in black and white on Tuesday, in memory of the lost MH370 flight that has been confirmed to have ended its journey in the Indian Ocean.         ...

March 25, 2014 11:34 AM CANBERRA (AFP) - Grieving relatives of those on board the crashed Malaysia Airlines jet will be warmly welcomed to Australia if they choose to visit at this "desperately difficult time", Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Tuesday.         ...

March 25, 2014 12:49 AM BEIJING (AFP) - China has demanded that Malaysia hand over the satellite data which led to its judgement Monday that missing flight MH370 crashed at sea and that none on board survived.         ...

March 25, 2014 12:56 AM BANGKOK (AFP) - At least 27 people died and more than 20 others were injured late on Monday when a bus careered off a hillside road and into a ravine in northern Thailand, the police told AFP.         ...

March 24, 2014 3:39 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the Chinese government could not confirm that objects spotted by a Chinese military aircraft earlier in the day were connected with the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner.         ...

March 24, 2014 3:52 PM PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Cyclone Gillian will rage for another two days in the South Indian Ocean, further hampering search and rescue operations for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.         ...

March 24, 2014 4:21 PM The Australian authorities said a US Navy P-8 Poseidon, the most advanced search aircraft in the world, had been unable to find objects spotted earlier on Monday by a Chinese aircraft hunting for clues to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean.         ...

March 24, 2014 4:25 PM KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - More than 30 relatives of passengers on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have had to move hotels to make way for Formula One teams and fans arriving for the Malaysian Grand Prix, staff said on Monday.         ...

March 24, 2014 5:40 PM KUALA LUMPUR - Australian searchers have located two objects, one circular and one rectangular, and may be able to retrieve them soon, Malaysia's Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said.         ...

March 24, 2014 5:48 PM KUALA LUMPUR - The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is still on both the northern and southern corridors, but all assets will be deployed to the southern corridor once any of the sightings of debris is confirmed to belong to the missing plane, says Malaysia's acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein         ...

March 24, 2014 6:02 PM KUALA LUMPUR - Co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was new to Boeing 777 but his training had been very strict and this was his sixth flight on board the Boeing plane, says Malaysia Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya.         ...

March 24, 2014 6:07 PM Malaysia Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein gave an update on the ongoing search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.         ...

March 24, 2014 9:11 AM PERTH (AFP) - Australia said on Monday that French satellite data indicating floating objects possibly linked to missing Flight MH370 related to an area outside the current search zone, while admitting to "clutching" at every piece of new information.         ...

March 24, 2014 9:24 PM KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will be holding a news briefing at 10pm local time on developments related to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.         ...

March 24, 2014 9:24 AM PERTH/KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - The search area for a missing Malaysian jetliner in remote seas off Australia was widened on Monday after French satellite data revealed potential "floating debris" several hundred kilometres north of pictures previously captured by US and Chinese satellites.         ...

March 24, 2014 9:47 AM SYDNEY (REUTERS) - Australian authorities said on Monday they are still examining French radar images showing potential floating debris and have not yet shifted the search for a missing Malaysian jetliner in the southern Indian Ocean further north to look for the objects.         ...

March 24, 2014 9:59 PM KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has informed families of passengers on board missing flight MH370 that the plane is assumed to have crashed with no survivors.         ...

March 24, 2014 10:06 PM KUALA LUMPUR - Many Malaysian families remain in denial following Prime Minister Najib Razak's confirmation that the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had ended its journey in the Indian Ocean.         ...

March 24, 2014 10:22 PM At 10pm Singapore time on Monday, March 24, 2014, Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak said that based on data on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, it was assumed that the plane crashed in the southern Indian Ocean         ...