Southeast Asia News

Kuala Lumpur: The captain of a missing Malaysian jet is said to be an engineering buff who assembled his own flight simulator, while friends of the co-pilot are defending his reputation after one report portrayed him as a cockpit Casanova.

The highway that goes through Taroko Gorge in eastern Taiwan was recently named as one of the world's most dangerous roads by a United Kingdom-based website.

Malaysian authorities said on Thursday there was no evidence that a jetliner missing for almost six days flew for hours after losing contact with air traffic controllers and continued to transmit technical data.

Mahamaseng Duaramae, 45, a resident of Moo 3 in tambon Lo Jood, was attacked while walking to his rubber plantation about 3.30am, Pol Col Suthawej Areethai, chief of Waeng police station said.

The chief of the French air force was honoured by Singapore on Thursday for his role in helping to forge relations between the air forces of both countries.

Two Hong Kong men, believed to be triad members hired as hitmen, have been arrested for carrying out last month's cleaver attack on a former newspaper editor - a case that prompted fears of an assault on the city's press freedom.

A Chinese satellite looking into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 "observed a suspected crash area at sea," a Chinese government agency said - a potentially pivotal lead into what has been a frustrating search for the aircraft.

An Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency personnel scans the seas aboard a boat on patrol in the Malacca Strait off Aceh province located in the area of northern Sumatra island on March 12, 2014 during the continued search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

AS the mystery surrounding the MH370 jumbo continues, more aircraft safety concerns are revealed.

Noor Jahan rocked slowly on the floor, trying to steady her weak body. Her chest heaved and her eyes closed with each raspy breath.

As remuneration in the British Columbia public sector skyrockets, we bring you our annual database of who is making what in B.C.'s public service.

Malaysian authorities have been accused of holding back information about why a plane carrying 239 people vanished in Southeast Asia.

A woman writes a message for passengers aboard a missing Malaysia Airlines plane on a banner at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Sepang, Malaysia, Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

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Malaysia's military believes a jetliner missing for almost four days turned and flew hundreds of kilometres to the west after it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country's east coast, a senior officer told Reuters on Tuesday.

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.