April 04, 2014 6:43 PM SEMPORNA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The kidnappers of the two women from the Singamata Reef Resort off Sipadan were also involved in the abduction of a Taiwanese woman from Pom-Pom Island last year and 21 people from Sipadan Island in 2000. ...
April 04, 2014 8:52 AM LONDON (AFP) - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Friday accused the government of hiding information on missing flight MH370, telling Britain's Daily Telegraph that the country's radar system would have detected any change of course. ...
April 04, 2014 9:26 AM PERTH (AFP) - Australian navy vessel Ocean Shield, which is fitted with a US-supplied "black box" detector, was on Friday expected in the area being scoured for wreckage of Flight MH370 as 14 planes continued the arduous search. ...
April 04, 2014 10:09 AM PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The Chinese tourist who was abducted from a resort off Semporna, Sabah, on Wednesday night had sent an SMS to her mother saying she had just finished taking her bath, minutes before she was kidnapped. ...
April 04, 2014 11:57 AM The search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner has shifted north as experts continue to narrow down the vast area, Australia's lead search authority said on Friday. ...
April 03, 2014 1:01 PM THE Philippines on Thursday proposed holding a "defence dialogue" with Singapore, as the two countries seek to broaden 45 years of bilateral ties. ...
April 03, 2014 3:58 PM YANGON (AFP) - More than 800,000 people lack adequate healthcare in strife-torn western Myanmar after aid workers fled the region, the UN has warned, with children deprived of life-saving treatment. ...
April 03, 2014 4:30 PM PERTH/SEMPORNA - Malaysia is not ruling out the possibility that the latest abductions at a resort off Semporna, Sabah, are a deliberate act to sour the country's relations with China. ...
April 03, 2014 7:24 PM PHNOM PENH (REUTERS) - Scores of garment workers have fallen sick at factories in Cambodia including two that produce clothing for sportswear giants Puma SE and Adidas, police and workers said on Thursday. ...
April 03, 2014 7:26 PM ANGKOR WAT, Cambodia (AFP) - Cambodia's Angkor Wat has been digitally mapped for the first time, allowing people to visit the World Heritage Site from the comfort of their armchair using Google Street View. ...
April 03, 2014 12:16 PM Malaysian and Australian prime ministers on Thursday pledged again to do everything humanly possible to find the lost Malaysian Airlines MH370 jetliner, although they cautioned that they cannot be sure of success. ...
April 03, 2014 11:32 AM KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - A Chinese tourist and a Philippine hotel worker were abducted by armed men at a diving resort in Malaysia's eastern state of Sabah, Malaysian media reported on Thursday. ...
April 03, 2014 11:47 AM PERTH (AFP) - Malaysia will not rest until it can give answers to the distraught families of those on board missing Flight MH370, Prime Minister Najib Razak said on Thursday, admitting the search was a "gargantuan" challenge. ...
April 03, 2014 7:08 AM PERTH/KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - Malaysian police have ruled out involvement of any passengers in the disappearance of a missing jetliner, while Australian officials warned bad weather and a lack of reliable information were impeding efforts to find wreckage from the plane. ...
April 03, 2014 7:50 AM PERTH (AFP) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak is to tour the military base being used as a staging post in the multinational hunt for Flight MH370 on Thursday as Australia said there are no imminent plans to abandon the search. ...
April 03, 2014 9:20 AM WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The United States called on Myanmar on Wednesday to lift travel restrictions on UN and other humanitarian staff to allow them to resume work in the country's Rakhine State, which has been hit by ethnic and religious violence. ...
April 03, 2014 10:31 AM PERTH (AFP) - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak toured the military base being used as a staging post in the hunt for Flight MH370 on Thursday as Australia said are no imminent plans to abandon the search. ...
April 02, 2014 8:39 PM JAKARTA (REUTERS) - Already favourite to become Indonesia's next president, Jakarta governor Joko Widodo's popularity has surged since his candidacy for the July election was announced last month, according to the latest opinion polls. ...
April 02, 2014 1:28 PM KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS/AFP) – Malaysia is focusing its criminal investigation on the cabin crew and pilots of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, after clearing all 227 passengers of any involvement, the country’s police chief was reported as saying on Wednesday. ...
April 02, 2014 2:00 PM MALAYSIAN authorities have had a "very good" meeting on Wednesday with relatives of Chinese passengers on board the missing flight MH370, says the head of Malaysia's department of civil aviation. ...