March 30, 2014 9:20 AM PERTH/KUALA LUMPUR (REUTERS) - Ten ships and as many aircraft will search a swathe of the Indian Ocean west of Perth on Sunday, trying again to find some trace of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 after more than three weeks of fruitless and frustrating hunting. ...
March 30, 2014 12:29 AM BERLIN - Secret documents disclosed by German newspaper Der Spiegel on Saturday showed former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi's name listed among leaders reportedly targeted by the National Security Agency (NSA) for surveillance. ...
March 30, 2014 3:04 PM BANGKOK (AFP) - Polls opened in Thailand on Sunday to elect the upper house of parliament in a vote that could hold the key to the fate of the prime minister, who faces possible impeachment for negligence after months of street protests. ...
March 30, 2014 2:32 PM Angry family members of Chinese passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 demanded an apology from the Malaysian government as they urged Kuala Lumpur to release all related information. ...
March 29, 2014 2:59 PM BANGKOK (REUTERS) - Tens of thousands of Thai anti-government protesters rallied across Bangkok on Saturday in their latest bid to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, a day before a crucial vote to elect a new Senate. ...
March 29, 2014 3:19 PM BEIJING (REUTERS) - A Chinese aircraft spotted three suspicious objects in a new search area for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet off Australia's west coast, the official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday. ...
March 29, 2014 3:57 PM MALAYSIA'S Defence and Acting Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein had an intimate meeting with Malaysian family members of those on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Saturday morning, reassuring them of his commitment to find the plane's wreckage "no matter how remote" the odds are. But he stopped short of giving a definite answer on the issue of accountability. ...
March 29, 2014 4:09 PM BANGKOK (AFP) - Tens of thousands of Thai opposition protesters marched through Bangkok Saturday calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who faces a possible ban from politics for alleged negligence. ...
March 29, 2014 4:57 PM SYDNEY/PERTH (REUTERS) - Chinese ships trawled a new area in the Indian Ocean for a missing Malaysian passenger jet on Saturday, as the search for Flight MH370 entered its fourth week amid a series of false dawns over sightings of debris. ...
March 29, 2014 5:58 PM SITTWE (AFP) - Myanmar said Saturday that Muslims would not be allowed to register as "Rohingya" in its first census in three decades despite UN assurances, on the eve of a survey that has fanned sectarian tensions. ...
March 29, 2014 6:35 PM AUSTRALIAN pilot Russell Adams, who was captaining the Australian AP-3C Orion plane, told reporters at Pearce air base on Saturday afternoon that while the weather was good and visibility about 4km or more, "the crew had a bit of difficulty discerning the differences between objects and white caps". ...
March 29, 2014 7:16 PM ABOARD A PHILIPPINE MILITARY PLANE ABOVE THE SOUTH CHINA SEA (AFP) - Philippine soldiers aboard a fishing vessel engaged on Saturday in a dramatic stand-off with Chinese coastguard ships near a remote South China Sea reef claimed by both countries. ...
March 29, 2014 8:46 PM PERTH (AFP) - A flotilla of ships was searching on Saturday for more objects identified by military aircraft as possible wreckage of MH370 as efforts to locate the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet stepped up a gear. ...
March 29, 2014 8:56 PM PERTH - Search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane for Saturday have concluded after nearly 252,000 square kilometres were searched. ...
March 29, 2014 10:24 AM JAKARTA (THE JAKARTA POST/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Dry conditions across Riau in the past few days had created more hotspots, sharply increasing the total number from 219 on Thursday to 777 on Friday, an official said on Friday. ...
March 29, 2014 12:19 PM PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - The influential adviser to Malaysian opposition party Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, has nominated himself for the president's post in the upcoming party polls. ...
March 29, 2014 4:15 AM PERTH (AFP) - A multinational fleet of planes and ships raced Friday to a fresh search zone after a "credible new lead" that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was flying faster than first thought before it plunged into the remote Indian Ocean. ...
March 29, 2014 4:59 AM PARIS (REUTERS) - The international police agency Interpol said on Friday that Malaysia's immigration department had not checked passengers' passports against its database at all this year prior to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. ...
March 28, 2014 1:00 PM PETALING JAYA (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A fire broke out at the Malaysia Airlines avionics workshop in Subang. ...
March 28, 2014 1:06 PM BEIJING (AFP) - Relatives of the Chinese passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have demanded China mount its own inquiry into the disappearance, a letter shows. ...