The search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has expanded into a new area, after exhausting the main search zone without finding the plane.
The search for MH370 will enter its final phase this week, more than four years after it disappeared.
Searchers have so far failed to find the plane, despite exhausting a 25,000km “priority area” that had been identified by Australian experts as MH370’s most likely resting place.
The renewed search, conducted by US company Ocean…
Information commissioner’s powers to be enhanced in the UK
Businesses could be forced to hand over information to the UK’s data protection watchdog within 24 hours under new proposed new data protection laws.
Leaders of South Korea, Japan, China to meet and discuss North Korea
Leaders of South Korea, Japan and China will meet next week for a summit meeting expected to focus on North Korea’s nuclear programme and other regional issues.
The three Asian countries have been holding regular trilateral summits since late 2008. Next week’s session, the seventh, comes amid a flurry of high-profile diplomatic meetings aimed at ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons.
Last week, the leaders of North and South Korea met at a border village and agreed on a number…
Myanmar urged by UN Security Council to hold ‘proper’ probe into alleged atrocities against Rohingya
Myanmar must hold a “proper investigation” into alleged atrocities against the Muslim Rohingya, a UN Security Council envoy said on Tuesday at the end of the highest-level diplomatic visit to the conflict area.
Refugees and rights groups say Myanmar’s army and vigilantes systematically raped and murdered civilians and torched villages during “clearance operations” in Rakhine state ostensibly targeting Rohingya militants.
That campaign launched last August in the…
South Korean President Moon Jae-in says Trump deserves Nobel Peace Prize
South Korean President Moon Jae-in said US President Donald Trump deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the stand-off with North Korea over its nuclear weapons programme, a South Korean official said on Monday.
“President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace,” Moon told a meeting of senior secretaries, according to a presidential Blue House official who briefed media.
Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Friday pledged at a summit…
Government publishes guidance to pensions trustees on new bulk transfer rules
The UK government has published guidance to trustees to help them comply with new regulations covering bulk transfers of money purchase rights that do not include guarantees.
Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal inspires anti-graft board game
A Malaysian board game based on “Monopoly” is taking aim at the massive 1MDB scandal before elections, featuring a motley crew of figures central to the controversy and items allegedly bought with looted money.
Designed by an anti-graft watchdog, “Kleptopoly” sees players move tokens round a board and pick up high-end properties, with the richest – but least corrupt – player declared the winner at the end. The US Department of Justice alleges that US$4.5…
Trump’s ultra-hawkish security adviser hails Libya as model for North Korea’s denuclearisation
Libya’s decision to give up its nuclear programme through diplomacy is a model for efforts to have North Korea do likewise, US National Security Adviser John Bolton said on Sunday.
“We have very much in mind the Libya model from 2003, 2004,” Bolton told Fox News Sunday when asked whether North Korea would have to fully give up its nuclear weapons, fuel and missiles before the US makes concessions.
“There are obviously differences – the Libyan programme was much…
Thais protest against officials building homes on sacred mountain
Around 1,000 people protested in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai on Sunday against the construction of homes for officials on forested land flanking a revered mountain, in one of the largest shows of dissent under junta rule.
Public frustration has been mounting over the project since aerial images of several dozen officials’ homes – carved into the green foothills of Chiang Mai’s Doi Suthep mountain – started circulating on social media earlier this year. On…
Japan angry at US after low-flying F-16 fighter jet footage was uploaded to YouTube
The Defence Ministry’s local bureau in northeastern Japan lodged a complaint with the commander of Misawa Air Base after video footage taken from a US fighter jet flying at a very low altitude was uploaded to YouTube, officials said.
The US military at the base in Aomori Prefecture said it has confirmed that the 10-minute footage was taken from one of its F-16 fighter jets during flight training and the aircraft flew below the minimum allowed altitude at several locations, they said. The…