Southeast Asia News

Many Malaysians are invoking the power of prayer to aid the massive, multination search operation for the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared without a trace early Saturday.

With the official name of the country The Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace , the leader of the oil-soaked country is on the cusp of incorporating the harshest aspects of Islamic Sharia Law into the civil and criminal legal code, as reported by the right-of-center Cybercast News Service on March 10, 2014.

Flight MH370 vanished from radars early on Saturday, an hour into a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

Greenpeace has suggested that security forces in a palm oil concession linked to the supply of Wilmar International might have been complicit in the death of a member of the Sumatran indigenous community that has been fighting for the recognition of their land rights for more than two decades.

Missing plane A military personnel looks out of a helicopter during a search and rescue mission off Vietnam's Tho Chu island March 10, 2014.

New Zealand has joined into the fray of search and rescue operations for the ill-fated Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 that went missing on Saturday early morning.

The wife of a Perth man on board a missing jet is praying for a miracle that he will return home safely.

In a satirical "Communist rally" aimed at mainland Chinese shoppers, about 100 Hong Kongers marched through the city on Sunday wearing Maoist costumes, yelling "love your country, buy Chinese products!" A protester in a Communist costume holds a sign reading "If you don't drink Chinese milk, are you still Chinese?" To the left, an image of Hong ... (more)

An Indonesian court charged a former sports and youth minister in a multimillion-dollar graft case on Monday, one of several which hit the president's party ahead of upcoming elections next month.

Vietnam scrambled helicopters to check reports of a floating "yellow object" that rescue teams suspected could be a life raft from the plane, but it was unclear whether the sighting would prove to be the first big breakthrough or merely the latest in a series of false alarms.

Sam Rainsy, leader of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, gestures as he speaks to The Nation's Chairman Suthichai Yoon.

Growing despair ... a relative of a passenger on-board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 cries at Lidu Hotel in Beijing, China.

Pena House Group, a leading garment company, sees tourism gaining in Cha-am, as it opened Premium Outlet several years ago followed by Santorini Amusement and Water Park.

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After spending Saturday in a desperate wait for a plane and news that never came, relatives of Chinese passengers said Sunday that Malaysia Airlines staff were providing more information about search efforts, and had told them to prepare passports for a future visit to the plane's location, once that is established.

As the hunt for the missing Malaysian Air jumbo jet gained momentum Sunday in the South China Sea and Malaysian intelligence agencies were investigating potential terrorism, hopes were all but gone for the 239 passengers and crew.

This image courtesy of Flightradar24, shows the flight track of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 on March 7, 2014.

Romano Bico shakes hands with Zaldy Patron, the Deputy Consulate General at the Philippine Consulate General of New York, after taking his oath of citizenship for the Republic of the Philippines at an annual outreach event hosted by the Catholic Action of Mary and the Philippine Consulate General of New York at St. Mary's Church Hall in Jersey City ... (more)

U.S. officials told NBC News on Saturday they are investigating terrorism concerns after two people listed as passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines jet were reportedly not to on the plane and reported their passports had been stolen - one a year ago and the other two years ago.

Surely the extensive and consistent global media coverage on the re-jailing of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is not in vain.