Section: New Straits Times (Malaysia)
Asia : Marts mostly up on better Chinese data
HONG KONG: Asian markets mostly rose yesterday as an index of Chinese manufacturing activity hit an 18-month high in July, boosting hopes for the world’s number two economy, as concerns over the Ukraine crisis eased. …read more Source: New Straits...
CNN asks release of journalist in Ukraine
WASHINGTON: CNN said today a Ukrainian journalist working for the US news channel had been abducted this week by pro-Russian separatists, and appealed for his release. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: More bodies arrive in Netherlands
THE HAGUE: Planes carrying more bodies recovered from the MH17 crash site in Ukraine were flown to the Netherlands today, a day after the first of the 298 dead arrived. …read more Source: New Straits...
Ukraine accused of targeting civilians in east
DONETSK: War literally came to Alexander Litvinenko’s living room, when a missile punched a gaping hole into the wall of his ninth-floor apartment. The 53-year-old college philosophy teacher had just stepped into his study to check the news online, barely escaping death. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Russia says will cooperate with probe led by Netherlands
KUALA LUMPUR: Russia will cooperate with the investigation into the downing of a Malaysian airliner a week ago and is satisfied that the Netherlands, rather than Ukraine, is leading the effort, the country’s ambassador to Malaysia said on Thursday. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: ’This is how to honour the dead’: Dutch papers
THE HAGUE: “This is how you honour the dead,” Dutch daily NRC headlined Thursday, contrasting the solemn return to the Netherlands of the first MH17 bodies with the traumatic chaos of the plane’s crash site in rebel-held Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: British experts examine second black box
LONDON: British investigators have started examining the second black box from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which was shot down over Ukraine, the transport ministry said Thursday. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Australia readies 50 police to send to Ukraine
CANBERRA, Australia : Australia has sent 50 police to London in anticipation of deploying them to Ukraine to secure the Malaysian plane crash site as part of a potential U.N. team that’s under consideration, the Australian prime minister said Thursday. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Ukraine fighting rages as EU mulls Russia sanctions
DONETSK: Fighting between Ukrainian troops and rebels raged today near the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17, as experts in Britain begin analysing crucial data from the downed airliner’s black boxes. …read more Source: New Straits...
Russian officials brush off sanctions impact
MOSCOW: Russian officials on Wednesday lined up to dismiss the economic impact of Western sanctions imposed for Moscow’s role in the Ukraine crisis, saying they were “peanuts” compared to what their country had to face during Soviet times. …read more Source: New Straits...
