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Malaysia: Stolen passport passenger was Iranian asylum seeker
By AP News Tue, Mar 11, 2014 3:43PM UTCKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian police say one of the passengers using a stolen passport on a missing jetliner was an Iranian asylum seeker....
Search widens for missing Malaysian passenger jet
By AP News Tue, Mar 11, 2014 12:35PM UTCKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The search area for a missing jetliner has expanded with Malaysian Airlines saying the western coast of the country is now the focus of the hunt....
Obama discusses Ukraine with Chinese leader
By AP News Tue, Mar 11, 2014 12:12PM UTCWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed on the importance of upholding Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity....
Malaysia Airlines shares rally after heavy losses
By Asian Correspondent Mon, Mar 10, 2014 7:42PM UTCAfter losing almost 18% of their value in early trading, Malaysia Airlines shares rallied in afternoon trading to close down 4pc at 23 sen per share (US$0.07). Monday morning's dramatic losses came as trading resumed after news broke early Saturday that the airline lost contact with flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing....
Contaminated water still troubles Japan nuke plant
By AP News Mon, Mar 10, 2014 7:17PM UTCOKUMA, Japan (AP) — The radioactive water that has accumulated at Japan's crippled nuclear power plant remains the biggest problem hampering the cleanup process three years after the disaster....
WORLD: Powerful earthquake strikes off California coast
By AP News Mon, Mar 10, 2014 1:57PM UTCEUREKA, California (AP) — Officials say a powerful magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck Sunday night off the coast of northern California, but there were no early signs of a tsunami. The U.S. Geological Survey says the temblor struck at 5:18 GMT about four miles (6 kilometers) beneath the Pacific seabed and about 50 miles (80 kilometers) west...
LIVE: Search continues for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
By Asian Correspondent Tue, Mar 11, 2014 11:40AM UTC View CommentsAt 2.40am local time Saturday Malaysia Airlines lost contact with flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The Boeing B777-200 aircraft was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members. It is believed the plane went missing just after entering Vietnamese airspace. We'll be updating with text, tweets, images and video throughout the day. ...
3 years on: Events, questions mark Fukushima anniversary
By Graham Land Tue, Mar 11, 2014 6:00AM UTC View CommentsThree years ago an earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale struck off the east coast of Japan. The Tōhoku quake was the fifth most powerful earthquake ever recorded and the strongest ever to hit Japan. The resultant tsunami triggered the world’s most severe nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Three reactors at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Powerplant experienced level 7 meltdowns, “major incidents” according to the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES)....
Insensitive coverage of missing jet sparks Twitter backlash
By Asian Correspondent Mon, Mar 10, 2014 10:46AM UTC View CommentsThe flood of pictures of grieving next-of-kin awaiting news of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 jet has triggered a backlash on Twitter....
Malaysia sodomy case flawed from Day One
By Asia Sentinel Sat, Mar 08, 2014 9:56AM UTC View CommentsAnwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II trial, which ran almost two years before ending in 2012, was built on flawed evidence, procedural mistakes, tainted witnesses and reports of political collusion with the current prime minister, and was condemned internationally by legal scholars and human rights activists. ...
Contrasts and paradoxes: Beijing’s expat artist scene
By Michele Penna Fri, Mar 07, 2014 11:51AM UTC View CommentsThe walls are brilliant white at Today Art Museum, a contemporary art center on the eastern side of Beijing. On one Saturday in late February the sis a lively atmosphere on the second floor of the building. Sitting on plastic chairs, a few tens of people joined a talk about art and environment held by Guillermo Munro, a Mexican artist....
Violence flares in India as election race heats up
By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Thu, Mar 06, 2014 12:01PM UTC View CommentsOn Wednesday this week, almost two hours after India’s official election body announced the details of a nine-phase mammoth general election to elect 543 lawmakers to begin on April 7, nouveau-politician Arvind Kejriwal was stopped by the Gujarat police as he staged a road show. The leader of India’s Aam Aadmi Party embarked earlier in the morning on a campaign trail in what can be euphemistically called the lion’s den: the political bastion of Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJ{) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi....
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