Section: The Borneo Post (Malaysia)
Malaysian team to help identify victims
SEPANG: The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) have deployed eight Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) experts to Indonesia to assist in the search and forensic processes involving AirAsia QZ8501. Bukit Aman CID director Datuk Seri Mohamad Salleh said the team comprising six officers and two personnel were expected to be in Indonesia for a month and...
Thousands of Ukraine nationalists march in Kiev
Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists hold a torchlight procession across Kiev in honour of Stepan Bandera, a World War II anti-Soviet insurgent. (Photo: AFP/Genya Savilov KIEV: Thousands of Ukrainian nationalists held a torchlight procession across Kiev on Thursday (Jan 1) in honour of a 1940s anti-Soviet insurgent branded by Moscow as a Nazi...
118 journalists, media staff killed in 2014 — IFJ
BRUSSELS: One hundred and eighteen journalists and media staff were killed around the world in 2014, with Pakistan and Syria the deadliest countries, the International Federation of Journalists said Wednesday. The IFJ said those killed, 13 more than in 2013, were either targeted for their work or caught in the cross-fire while another 17 died in...
Sydney fireworks set off New Year do
Fireworks light up the Sydney Opera House during an early light show before the new year. — Reuters photo SYDNEY: Australia’s biggest city yesterday led the world in welcoming the New Year with spectacular fireworks over Sydney Harbour, defying terrorist fears days after a deadly siege. From Hong Kong to London, New York to Rio, millions...
Worst fears confirmed
Members of the Search and Rescue Agency SARS carry debris recovered from the sea from missing Indonesia Air Asia flight QZ 8501 at Pangkalan Bun, Central Kalimantan yesterday in this photo taken by Antara Foto. — Reuters photo Bodies and debris found as AirAsia plane believed to be on seabed PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia: The hunt for a missing...
US sends warship as Indonesia expands search for AirAsia plane
Members of an Indonesian search and rescue team prepare to set off to search for missing AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Manggar in East Belitung on December 30, 2014. – AFP Photo JAKARTA: A US warship Tuesday (Dec 30) joined an expanded search for an AirAsia passenger plane missing off Indonesia as the pilot’s last words to air traffic control...
QZ8501 presumed crashed
Multinational search focuses on Java Sea over which AirAsia Indonesia jet with 162 on board disappeared after requesting change of course Family members of passengers onboard missing flight QZ8501 cry at a waiting area in Juanda International Airport, Surabaya. The missing AirAsia Indonesia plane carrying 162 people is presumed to have crashed...
Belarus strongman sacks PM amid economic woes
MINSK: Belarussian strongman Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday sacked his prime minister and several other top officials as the ex-Soviet state reels from the effects of Russia’s economic crisis next door. Lukashenko, who has ruled the country of 10 million with an iron fist for the past 20 years, linked the reshuffle to a presidential vote...
AirAsia aircraft with 162 on board missing
Family members of passengers on board AirAsia Indonesia flight QZ 8501 talk on their phones while waiting for information in a crisis centre at Juanda Airport in Surabaya, East Java yesterday in this photo taken by Antara Foto. – Reuters JAKARTA: Rescuers scoured the Java Sea yesterday for an AirAsia Indonesia plane carrying 162 people which went...
Ukraine secures cheap Russian coal and power supplies
KIEV: Moscow promised on Saturday (Dec 27) to resume shipping coal and provide electricity to Ukraine for the first time in three years despite Kiev’s failure to guarantee energy supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unexpected decision was announced just a day after Ukraine upped pressure on the...
