Anti-Japan protesters assaulted a South Korean employee of the Japanese consulate in Busan in front of the embassy as he tried to take pictures of the protest, sources familiar with the matter said yesterday.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
THAILAND a Hotbed for Fake and Stolen Passports
An Austrian and Italian whose names were on the passenger list of flight MH370 but not on the flight both lost their passports in Thailand, a hotbed for sales of fake identification.
MALAYSIA AIR Flight MH370: Still searching
LESS than three hours after midnight of March 8th, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysian Airlines mysteriously vanished from the skies. En route between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, flight MH370 is still unaccounted for. With 239 souls on board—12 crew and 227 passengers from 14 different countries—it was last heard from about 120 miles of the coast of Malaysia.A big, international search is underway. China, which has put aside controversial territorial claims to the seas around the presumed crash site, is helping. America, too, is sending vessels and investigators, as is Malaysia and Vietnam.What happened? While it is obviously premature to state anything for sure, the few known facts allow us to paint a preliminary picture. There are a some disturbing details: no distress signal or radio call was received by air traffic control stations in Malaysia or Vietnam nor by other aircrafts in the area. This suggest a catastrophic event of some kind or a physical or technical impediment for the crew to communicate. More upsetting is the revelation that at least two of the passengers were not who they seemed to be: their passports turned out to have been stolen in Thailand and their original owners (an Italian and an Austrian) were not on the plane. As other details emerge from the passenger manifest (initially leaked from Beijing Airport, before many of the families have been ...
VIETNAM Says Suspected Fragments of Missing Jet Found
Vietnam says a search plane has found suspected fragments of a missing Malaysian airliner. The fragments, found southwest of Tho Chu Island, are believed to be a piece of an inner door and part of the tail of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
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5 Things to Know About Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight and Air Safety
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, with 239 people aboard, lost contact early Saturday with the airline shortly into the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Here are five things to know about the flight and air safety.
Countries Put Disputes Aside in Search for Jet
A multinational effort to track down a missing Malaysian airliner on the edge of the South China Sea is turning into a rare example of maritime collaboration between countries embroiled in territorial disputes in the region.
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