NEW YORK, Dec 30 – Air travel advocates are demanding global aviation authorities explain how an AirAsia jetliner with 162 people aboard got lost at a time when satellites and webcams monitor society’s every move. “It should be impossible for an airliner to go missing” in an age when people can
CAMERON HIGHLANDS, Dec 30 – A pregnant woman and her one-year-old child died in a landslide at Tringkap here early this morning. Her husband however survived the 5.29am incident. A spokesman of Fire and Rescue Department said the man was pulled out at 7.13am. “The child’s body was pulled from under the rubble
ATHENS, Dec 30 – Rescue teams evacuated more than 400 people from a car ferry that caught fire off Greece’s Adriatic coast in a 36-hour operation on roiling seas, but 10 people were killed in the disaster. Italian and Greek authorities continued an air search of the sea around the vessel
JAKARTA, Dec 30 – An Indonesian family of 10 said on Monday they had a miraculous escape when they arrived too late to catch AirAsia Flight QZ8501, which went missing shortly after take-off en route to Singapore. Christianawati, 36, said the 10 of them, who included her family, her mother and her younger
BEIJING, Dec 30 – China is looking at signing an agreement with the United States to target assets illegally taken out of China by corrupt officials, a newspaper said yesterday, as the government tightens the screws in its anti-graft battle. China has vowed to pursue a search, dubbed Operation “Fox Hunt,” beyond
BALIK PULAU, Dec 30 – A freak storm battered the west coast of Penang Island late last night, with some 10 houses damaged. In what started as light rain at 8.30pm and progressing into a thunderstorms, wind gusts of 30 km/h were reported to swept across few villages. A man in
WASHINGTON, Dec 30 – Indonesia has requested help from the United States to search for a missing Indonesia AirAsia jetliner, US officials said Monday, amid fears the aircraft crashed into the sea. The State Department also confirmed that no Americans were on Flight QZ8501, which disappeared on Sunday over the Java
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 – Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla said all efforts will be made to find the AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ8501 which disappeared on the way from Surabaya to Singapore on Sunday morning. He said Indonesian President Joko Widodo had also issued a directive to accelerate efforts to search
SURABAYA, Indonesia/JAKARTA – Countries around Asia on Tuesday stepped up the search for an AirAsia plane carrying 162 people that is presumed to have crashed in shallow waters off the Indonesian coast, with Washington also sending a warship to help find the missing jet. Soelistyo, head of Indonesia’s search and rescue
CHINA, Dec 30 – China yesterday sent a warship to help in the search for the missing AirAsia plane, which a top official warned was probably at the bottom of the sea. International crews scouring Indonesian waters for missing Flight QZ8501 had focused on a possible patch of oil for clues. However, the
WASHINGTON, Dec 30 – Indonesia has requested help from the United States to search for a missing Indonesia AirAsia jetliner, US officials said Monday, amid fears the aircraft crashed into the sea. The State Department also confirmed that no Americans were on Flight QZ8501, which disappeared on Sunday over the Java
UNITED KINGDOM, Dec 29 – A Virgin Atlantic plane has touched down at Gatwick Airport after circling southern England for four hours when its right wing landing gear failed to come down. Flight VS43 was captured on a flight radar circling the region after taking off from Gatwick Airport. Virgin
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 – The Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Service (Cuepacs) has appealed to the government to pay bonus to civil servants in early January 2015 to alleviate their financial burden due to floods that has hit several states. CUEPACS president Datuk Azih
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 – The Indonesian Embassy here is prepared to channel information on the search for the missing AirAsia Indonesia aircraft to the family of a Malaysian passenger on the flight. Indonesia Ambassador to Malaysia, Herman Prayitno said the embassy would help put them in contact with AirAsia, if
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 – Four hospitals in Kelantan and two more in Pahang which were affected by the floods, are still functioning, said Director-General of Health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah. He said floods that hit Johor, Terengganu, Pahang, Kelantan, Perak and Selangor had affected 102 health facilities, 38 of
KOTA BAHARU, Dec 29 – The Malaysian Armed Forces (ATM) has mobilised more than 5,000 members and assets to help flood victims in the affected states. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the assets include two Agusta helicopters, 89 three-tonne trucks; 62 combat boats; 27 Land Rover and 19
SINGAPORE, Dec 29 – The search and locate (SAL) operation will resume Tuesday for a missing AirAsia Indonesia aircraft as the operation Monday was halted at nightfall. Despite a report that the missing aircraft is likely to be at the bottom of the sea, the multi-nation SAL operation led by Indonesia,
ALOR SETAR, Dec 29 – For Kedah, 2014 has been a year of unpredictable weather and unexpected tornado-like storms in several areas in the state. Previously, Kedah and other parts of Malaysia had always been considered safe and free from tornadoes but this year, Kedah was struck by at least four
SEOUL, Dec 29 – South Korea’s Transport Ministry vowed to punish eight of its officials Monday after admitting their investigation into a “nut rage” incident involving Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun Ah was unfair. Ms Cho, 40, is facing arrest after being accused of forcing the chief purser off a
