PANGKALAN BUN, Jan 3 – Aircraft combed the sea and shoreline off Borneo on Saturday for wreckage from an Indonesia AirAsia passenger jet, hoping to take advantage of a brief break in bad weather that has hampered efforts to find the plane and its black box flight recorders. Indonesia’s search and
PANGKALAN BUN, Jan 3 – UNTIL Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crashed in the shallow sea off the Kalimantan coastline, most outsiders came to Pangkalan Bun as the step-off point to visit orang utans at Tanjung Puting National Park. Now, the area is swarming with journalists and military officials and is a
MIAMI, Jan 3 – US scientists encouraged 20 obese people to eat extra fast food for several months, and found that about a quarter stayed in good health despite the additional pounds they gained. The study in the January 2 edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation was led by a
NEW YORK, Jan 3 – Looking for a safe, affordable place for retirement? With its warm climate, affordable housing and generous benefits, Ecuador was named the best country to retire in by InternationalLiving.com. The South American nation bordered by Colombia and Peru topped the website’s annual global retirement index of 25 best
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 – As he promised, AirAsia chief Tony Fernandes accompanied the remains of Indonesia AirAsia stewardess Khairunnisa Haidar, 22, as they were flown back to her hometown in Palembang today. The body of Khairunnisa, a crew member on board ill-fated flight QZ8501, was returned to her family after
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 2 – Malaysia’s premium short-haul airline Firefly has launched its New Year promotion for domestic destinations at an all-inclusive price of RM50 one-way. The “Now That’s What I Call Flying” sales promotion will start from Jan 5, 2015 until Jan 18, 2015, for travel from Jan 19 onwards,
PANGKALAN BUN, Jan 2 – Indonesian recovery teams narrowed the search area for AirAsia flight 8501 today, hopeful they were closing in on the plane’s crash site, with a total of 30 bodies and more debris recovered from the sea. French and Singaporean investigators joined the hunt for the Airbus A320-200, which disappeared
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 2 – Amid hopes that food prices will fall due to lower petrol price, restaurant and coffee shop operators said it would never happen. Chan Jit Keong, who operates the New Hollywood Restaurant coffee shop in Ipoh, said food bills would only remain unchanged at most, even if fuel
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 2 – Thirty of the Airbus A320-200 aircraft’s 162 passengers and cabin crew were recovered from the Java Sea where the plane was believed to have crashed due to weather issues. Indonesian search and rescue agency Basarnas chief Bambang Soelistyo was quoted by Detik.com as saying that eight bodies have been safely transported to
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 2 – The syariah index has been developed to measure the government’s seriousness in enforcing the principles, values and systems of Islam throughout all sectors in Malaysia. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, in saying this, noted that the initiative was hoped to make the government’s administration closer to the
RANTAU PANJANG, Jan 2 – The Youth and Sports Ministry will let the police to fully investigate the shooting of Malaysian Athletics Federation (MAF) vice-president Datuk Noorul Ariffin Abdul Majid and not make assumptions on the motive, said its minister, Khairy Jamaluddin. “For now we do not know (why he was shot). We cannot suspect
SHAH ALAM, Jan 2 – Selangor Menteri Besar Mohamed Azmin Ali has refuted Selangor Kini’s claims that flood donations made by the state were rejected by the Perak government. Mohamed Azmin said, on the contrary, he had received a note from the Perak Menteri Besar’s office, confirming that the donation of RM100,000 had been
PEKAN, Jan 2 – Those who spread unverified information on the floods via the social media, beware — the cops are coming for you. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the police are working together with the Malaysia Communication and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) to trace and bring those who
SUBANG, Jan 2 – Four sub-centres for the collection of aid for flood victims went into operation today, two of them in Perak and one each in Kedah and Melaka. This was announced by Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein at the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base here
SURABAYA, Jan 2 – Three more bodies from the AirAsia flight QZ8501 search site have been identified, police said on Friday. The bodies of stewardess Khairunnisa Haidar, passengers Grayson Herbert Linaksita and Kevin Alexander Soetjipto, were identified based on fingerprints and medical records, police said at a press conference.
SHANGHAI, Jan 2 – China on Friday mourned the 36 dead from a New Year’s Eve crush on Shanghai’s famed waterfront, as the city government revealed the victims were mainly young women. The incident was Shanghai’s worst since a fire in a high-rise residential building killed 58 people in 2010 and
SURABAYA, Jan 2 – More ships arrived Friday with sensitive equipment to hunt for the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the more than 145 people still missing since it crashed into the sea five days ago. Indonesia’s Search and Rescue Agency chief Henry Bambang Soelistyo said efforts would be
NAIROBI, Jan 2 – Kenyan police have arrested a blogger over alleged inflammatory statements posted on his social media accounts. Allan Wadi Okengo was arrested on Wednesday in Uganda as he applied for Uganda citizenship under the name Alan Wadi Owiji. The arrest comes barely a fortnight after another renowned blogger,
SURABAYA, Jan 2 – There have been little progress at the Disaster Victim Identification centre here as family members of flight QZ8501 continue to wait for latest developments. Family members began trickling into the holding room at the Crisis Centre adjacent to the DVI operations, waiting for word from the police
KOTA KINABALU, Jan 2 – Malaysia Airlines MH2604 flight from Kuala Lumpur to Kota Kinabalu was diverted to Miri Airport due to bad weather, this morning. The flight took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 7.30am and scheduled to land at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport at 10.05am. Kota Kinabalu
