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Malaysia: 2 more pieces ‘almost certainly’ from Flight 370

May 26, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By EILEEN NG ASSOCIATED PRESS KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government said May 12 that two more pieces of debris, discovered in South Africa and Rodrigues Island off Mauritius, were “almost certainly” from Flight 370, bringing the total number of pieces believed to have come from the missing Malaysian jet to five. The aircraft […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Australia, Beijing, France, Indian Ocean, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines Boeing, Mozambique, Reunion Island, Rodrigues Island, South Africa, Transport Minister Liow Tiong Lai, VOL 35 NO 21 | MAY 21 – MAY 27

Sister says don’t make missing Flight 370 pilot the fall guy

March 12, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eileen Ng Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Time has not eased the pain for the family of Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the senior pilot of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Nearly two years after the plane disappeared, they must cope not only with his loss but with the theory that he was to […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2016, Anwar Ibrahim, Associated Press, Beijing, Dark Ages, Fariq Abdul Hamid, France, Indian Ocean, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines Boeing, Malaysia Airlines Flight, Mozambique, Philippines, Reunion Island, Sakinab Shah, Vol 35 No 11 | March 12 - March 18, Zaharie Ahmad Shah

MH370 report: Locator beacon battery had expired

March 14, 2015 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Eileen Ng Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) —The first comprehensive report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 revealed Sunday that the battery of the locator beacon for the plane’s data recorder had expired more than a year before the jet vanished on March 8, 2014. The report came as Australian Prime […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2015, Anne Daisy, Associated Press, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Beijing, China, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Christopher Bodeen, First Officer Fariq Abdul Hamid, Grace Subathirai Nathan, Indian Ocean, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Airlines Flight, Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak, Prime Minister Abbott, Vol 34 No 12 | March 14 - March 20, Zaharie Ahmad Shah

Behind jet’s passenger list is rich human tapestry of life

March 29, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Rod McGuirk and Stephen Wright BANGKOK (AP) – Numbered 1 to 227, the passenger manifest for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is an outwardly unremarkable document.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2014, Australia, Beijing, Chandrika Sharma, Chinese, Daniel Liau, Hadrien Wattrelos, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Ju Kun, Malaysia Airlines Flight, Malaysian Airlines, Meng Gaosheng, Sina Weibo, Stephen Wright, Vol 33 No 14 | March 29 - April 4, Weinstein Co, Zhao Yan

Chile tsunami reaches Japan, Pacific damage small

March 3, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

TOKYO (AP) — The tsunami from the deadly earthquake in Chile hit Japan’s main islands and even reached the shores of Russia last Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves didn’t cause significant damage.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2010, Asia, Chile, Geophysics Agency, Gerard Fryer, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Mali, Meteorological Agency, NHK, National Disaster Coordinating Council, National Disaster Office, Russia, San Diego, South Pacific, Vol 29 No 10 | March 6 - March 12, japan

Indonesia’s Aceh to allow stoning for adulterers

September 17, 2009 By Northwest Asian Weekly

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — Lawmakers in a devoutly Muslim Indonesian province voted unanimously that adulterers can be sentenced to death by stoning, just months after voters overwhelmingly chose to throw conservative Islamic parties out of power.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2009, Aceh Vice Governor Muhamad Nazar, Afghanistan, Associated Press, Democrat Party, Indian Ocean, Iran, Iraq, Muslim Indonesian, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Vol 28 No 39 | September 19 - September 25

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