Section: New Straits Times (Malaysia)
MH17: Grieving relatives at crash site as Dutch, Australia ready troops
GRABOVE: The first relatives of victims on the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 arrived on Saturday at the crash site, as Dutch and Australian forces prepared for possible deployment to secure the location in rebel-held east Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Rohani urges employers to be flexible with next-of-kin of victims
PUTRAJAYA: Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Rohani Abdul Karim has urged employers to be flexible with the next-of-kin of passengers and crew who were on board the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH17 aircraft which crashed in Ukraine on July 17. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Ukrainian gov’t assures probe to continue despite PM’s resignation
KUALA LUMPUR: The Ukrainian government today gave the assurance that the investigation into the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in Ukraine would go on despite the resignation of Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk last Thursday. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Human remains still at crash site: Australia PM
SYDNEY: More that a week after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 came down in rebel-held eastern Ukraine human remains are still at the crash site, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said today. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Bodies of Malaysians killed in crash may arrive only next month: official
SEPANG: It may take up to two or three weeks more for the bodies of Malaysians killed in the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) plane crash in Ukraine to be brought to Malaysia, according to one of the Malaysian investigators of the crash. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine lawmakers to hold special session over PM resignation
KIEV: Ukraine’s lawmakers will meet in a special session on Thursday to decide whether to accept or reject the sudden resignation of the prime minister, the presidency said. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: M’sian search and recovery team arrived
SEPANG: Some 65 members of the Malaysian search and recovery team for the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 had returned home after a week-long mission in Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
UN says 230,000 have fled homes in Ukraine crisis
GENEVA: A total of 230,000 people have fled their homes during the spiralling armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, the United Nations refugee agency said today. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: UN urged to tighten control at crash site to prevent tampering of evidence
KUALA LUMPUR: The United Nations (UN) has been urged to tighten control at the Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 crash site in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, to ensure that all evidence in the area will not will not be tampered with so that they can be used in court. …read more Source: New Straits...
“Mass grave” uncovered in Ukraine ex-rebel stronghold
SLAVYANSK, Ukraine: Local authorities say they have uncovered the first mass grave in the former separatist bastion of Slavyansk in eastern Ukraine, containing the bodies of at least four civilians they say were executed by pro-Russian rebels. …read more Source: New Straits...