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
PANGKALAN BUN, Jan 2 – Eight more bodies have been found in the seas of Pangkalan Bun early today, making it 16. However, only two have been picked up from ships anchored some 100 nautical miles from here, due to stormy weather. The two bodies, a man and a woman, arrived in Pangkalan
PANGKALAN BUN, Jan 2 – A specialist multinational team armed with acoustic equipment will arrive at the suspected crash site of a sunken AirAsia jet off Borneo on Friday, bolstering the search for the plane’s black box flight recorders. Bad weather has hampered the search, keeping divers from looking for the
SURABAYA, Jan 2 – More ships arrived Friday with sensitive equipment to search for the fuselage of AirAsia Flight 8501 and the more than 150 people still missing since it crashed five days ago. Rear Marshal Henry Bambang Soelistyo, head of Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency, said the search would
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 1 – AirAsia Group chief executive officer (CEO) Tan Sri Tony Fernandes yesterday said he will accompany the casket of Indonesia AirAsia Flight QZ8501 crew Khairunnisa Haidar Fauzi, 22, to her hometown if her remains is identified. His Twitter account @tonyfernandes, read that he would fly with
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 1 – The drop in petrol prices does not guarantee a drop in the prices of essential goods and the cost of living as most traders are profit-oriented, says Federation of Malaysian Consumer Associations (FOMCA). FOMCA deputy president Mohd Yusof Abdul Rahman who was of the opinion that
SURABAYA, Jan 1 – The first body of victims in the ill-fated AirAsia Indonesia Flight QZ8501 identified was that of Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, from Sidoarjo, Surabaya, said the Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) centre here. East Java DVI head chief, Commissioner Budiyono said the identification of the woman, among 162 people on
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 1 – The National Sports Institute (ISN) is always willing to discuss the doping issue with badminton champion Datuk Lee Chong Wei. ISN chief executive officer, Datuk Dr Ramlan Abdul Aziz said they always provide aid to the country’s athletes and understands what Chong Wei is going through.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 1 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak hopes the four victims of a helicopter crash in Tanah Merah, Kelantan yesterday make a speedy recovery. “Alhamdulillah, all four people survived the PDRM helicopter crash during the mission to send food to the flood victims. “I hope they make
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 1 – The flood situation in Terengganu continued to improve this afternoon as there were lesser evacuees at the relief centres, but the numbers in Kelantan, Pahang and Johor remained. In TERENGGANU, the number of evacuees dropped further to 9,040 this afternoon from 10,051 in the morning, according
GERIK, Jan 1 – Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today began his visit to flood victims in Perak by looking at the flood situation in the remote Orang Asli settlement of Pos Kemar, Temengor, near here. Muhyiddin, who came in a helicopter, arrived at a field called Padang Astaka
SURABAYA, JAN 1 – The crash of AirAsia flight QZ8501 has affected the sizeable community of Christians in Surabaya badly, with reports that one church has lost at least 41 members. Of the 155 people on board flight QZ8501, many were Christians of Chinese descent. A pastor of the city’s Mawar Sharon
BALI, JAN 1 – A pilot on an Indonesia AirAsia flight tested positive for morphine in a test conducted after the plane touched down in Bali, Indonesia’s Kompas website reported on Thursday. The unnamed pilot, with initials F I, took the test on Thursday morning after flight QZ7510 touched down at
PANGKALAN BUN, INDONESIA, Jan 1 — A much needed break in the weather gave searchers a window Thursday to “fight with full force” to find the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, with officials also hustling to locate the fuselage of the plane that crashed in the sea four days ago. Only
SURABAYA, Jan 1 – There was no celebration to welcome 2015 in Surabaya, Indonesia last night, as people mourned the crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501, the BBC reports. The British broadcaster said hundreds of residents and relatives of those on board the jetliner lit candles and observed a minute’s silence for
PUTRAJAYA, Dec 31 – The price of RON95 and diesel for January, 2015 will be cheaper by 35 sen (RM1.91 per litre) and 30 sen (RM1.93 per litre) respectively, said Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Hasan Malek Hasan said in a statement earlier that the pricing for RON97
TANAH MERAH, Dec 31 – A police helicopter crashed in Kursial housing estate here, injuring three police officers and a civilian. They have been rushed to the Tanah Merah Hospital. Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar when contacted confirmed the incident. MORE TO COME…………
SURABAYA, Dec 31 – A body recovered today from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an official with Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said, raising questions about how the disaster unfolded. Rescuers believe they have found the plane on the ocean floor off Borneo, after sonar detected a large,
