Section: Malaysia
Najib shocked over plane crash reports
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has expressed shock by the reports over Malaysia Airlines’s flight MH17’s crash in Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting
UNITED NATIONS, United States : The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday to discuss the crash of a Malaysian airliner in eastern Ukraine, officials said. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Downing of plane unspeakable crime: Aust PM
SYDNEY, July 18 (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said if the downing of a Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine was a criminal act, then “it is an unspeakable crime.” …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: United in grief, full statement by PM
SEPANG : Yesterday evening, I was informed of the terrible and deeply shocking news that a Malaysia Airlines jet went down in eastern Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Sombre moment as PM Najib briefs a distraught nation
SEPANG: As Muslims rose this morning for Sahur ahead of the 20th day of Ramadhan, Datuk Seri Najib Razak was getting ready to officially break a “terrible and shocking” news unfolding several hours earlier in a troubled corner of Ukraine./ …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: UN chief Ban urges full probe over crash
UNITED NATIONS, United States : UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Thursday for a full international investigation of the Malaysia Airlines disaster in east Ukraine. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: US govt believes plane was hit by surface-to-air missile
WASHINGTON: A U.S. official said the United States believes a surface-to-air missile brought down the Malaysian airliner that crashed on Thursday in eastern Ukraine, killing all 295 people aboard. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Did a missile down the Malaysian jet over Ukraine?
WASHINGTON : If a Malaysian airliner was shot down over Ukraine on Thursday as alleged by Kiev, military analysts say a medium-range missile was the most likely culprit. …read more Source: New Straits...
Shocking carnage at east Ukraine airliner crash site
GRABOVE: Body parts strewn through kilometres of debris, luggage littered down country roads, smouldering remnants of a passenger plane in a cornfield: the terrible carnage at the east Ukraine crash site of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17. …read more Source: New Straits...
MH17: Ukraine rebels say ready for temporary truce after plane crash
GRABOVE, Ukraine : A top rebel leader in eastern Ukraine said insurgents were prepared to agree to a short ceasefire to allow a recovery operation for the Malaysian airliner that crashed in territory they control. …read more Source: New Straits...
