Section: Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia)
US keeps China, India on intellectual property shame list
WASHINGTON: The Obama administration on Wednesday kept China, Russia and India on its annual list of countries with the worst records of preventing the theft of intellectual property and cited Switzerland for failing to curb online copyright infringements. The annual list, released by the US Trade Representative’s Office, carries no threat...
Panama raids Mossack Fonseca property, seizes shredded papers
PANAMA CITY: Panamanian investigators on Friday raided a property used by Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of a massive leak of offshore financial data, removing bags full of shredded documents as evidence, a local prosecutor said. “We have secured a large amount of evidence found in the location,” said organized crime investigator...
Report blames deadly Air Algerie crash on pilot errors
LE BOURGET: The Air Algerie crash that killed 116 people in the Mali desert in 2014 was caused by the pilots failing to activate the plane’s anti-icing system and not responding properly when the plane stalled, investigators said Friday. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 crashed in northern Mali in bad weather, barely half an hour into its flight...
MH17 families mulling lawsuit against Malaysia Airlines
THE HAGUE: Dozens of families of those killed when a missile shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine two years ago are considering suing the carrier for compensation, their lawyer told AFP Tuesday. All 298 passengers and crew — the majority of them Dutch — died when the Boeing 777 was hit by a Russian-made BUK anti-aircraft missile...
Ukraine’s Poroshenko hints at deal with Russia to swap pilot Savchenko
KIEV: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday he and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had agreed a framework for a deal to secure the release of Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko from a 22-year jail sentence in Russia. The sentencing of two captured Russian servicemen in Ukraine on Monday fuelled speculation that they might be...
Defying radiation, elderly residents cling on in Chernobyl
CHERNOBYL: Defying radioactive contamination and a government evacuation order, Yevgeny Markevich returned to his beloved Chernobyl shortly after it suffered the world’s worst nuclear accident 30 years ago this week. The sturdy 78-year-old former teacher is among 158 people still living in the 30 kilometre (19 mile) exclusion zone around...
Russian jets in repeated ‘aggressive’ passes of US warship
BALTIC SEA: A Russian military jet came within 30 feet of a US destroyer in international waters in the Baltic Sea, US officials say, but Russia on Thursday defended the maneuver as safe. Russian aircraft repeatedly buzzed the USS Donald Cook this week, including an incident Tuesday in which a Russian Su-24 flew 30 feet (nine meters) above the...
UN employee ‘captured’ by Ukraine rebels
KIEV: The United Nations said Wednesday that one of its staff members had been captured by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine’s separatist east. The UN is carrying out a humanitarian mission in the war-torn republics of Lugansk and Donetsk. The world body’s office in Kiev said it had mobilised all channels to ensure its unnamed staff...
Panama raids offices of Mossack Fonseca law firm
PANAMA CITY: Panama’s attorney general late on Tuesday raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm to search for any evidence of illegal activities, authorities said in a statement. The Panama-based law firm is at the center of the “Panama Papers” leaks scandal that has embarrassed several world leaders and shone a spotlight on the...
Malaysia’s first sharia-compliant airline suspended
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s first Islamic-compliant airline has been suspended for three months after it failed to adhere to aviation regulations, a senior official said Monday, as the government announced a safety audit of the carrier. “Rayani Air has been suspended for three months,” Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, director-general of the...
