Delegates meeting at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) annual gathering in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur have called on governments to do more to ensure that forests are protected from […]
Worker exploitation and human rights abuses in the palm oil industry were the focus of a special workshop held in Kuala Lumpur this week. Trades union and human rights organisations from Malaysia […]
Deforestation in Indonesia (Photo by Roni Bintang) The number of multinational companies that say they are committed to supplying and using only deforestation-free palm oil is growing fast. More than twenty global […]
The United Nations Security Council has demanded a full, independent, and international investigation into the apparent shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine. Council members stood for a minute’s silence in […]
AUDIO CLIP: Audio from MH370 and Kuala Lumpur Air Traffic Control Maps indicating the investigators’ assessments of routes MH370 may have taken. The suggested flight paths differ based on different projections of […]
The Malaysian authorities have released the transcript of the final communications between air traffic control and missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 and say “there is no indication of anything abnormal”. The transcript […]
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority has released its end-of-day statement for March 28. It is included in an updated version of my latest MH370 round-up. Updated article
Five of the reconnaissance aircraft scouring the southern Indian Ocean today for wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 found objects that could be debris from the plane. The objects were sighted […]
There has been another satellite sighting of objects that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. This is the fifth satellite lead In the search for wreckage, and this time […]
Correction to yesterday’s article “New satellite images narrow MH370 search” The possible objects are not far from an earlier Chinese satellite sighting. They are spread over an area of ocean measuring about […]
Satellite images, provided to Malaysia by Airbus Defence and Space in France, show 122 potential objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be wreckage from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane MH370. […]
The chairman of Malaysia Airlines, Mohammad Nor Yusof, said today that, based on the new evidence announced by Malaysia’s prime minister yesterday, it had to be accepted that flight MH370 was lost […]
France today provided satellite data about objects that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The French authorities sent the data to Malaysia this morning and Malaysia immediately relayed it […]
A Chinese satellite has detected a floating object in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. The object is 22.5 metres long and 13 metres […]
The Australian-led air search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was called off this evening without anything being found. The search teams are scouring the remote waters of the southern Indian Ocean to […]
Australia’s prime minister, Tony Abbott, announced in parliament today that satellite imagery shows two objects in the southern Indian Ocean that could be debris from missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Military aircraft […]
There were emotional scenes at the Sama-Sama hotel at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport today when relatives of Chinese passengers on board the missing flight MH370 came to the hotel where the press […]
The area of land and sea being covered in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 measures more than 2.24 million square nautical miles – an area the size of Australia. In […]
Graphic about the sequence of events before Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared.
Malaysia Airlines say they believe it was the co-pilot of their missing plane who said “All right, good night” to air traffic controllers before contact with the aircraft was lost. This radio […]
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