The Malaysian authorities today poured cold water on speculation that has been rife today about the movements of the Malaysian Airlines plane that has now been missing for nearly six days. They […]
Malaysian officials defend their handling of plane disappearance
Malaysian authorities have defended their handling of the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 and say everything possible is being done to find the aircraft. The country’s acting transport minister and defence […]
Confusion reigns as search for missing Malaysia Airlines plane continues
Five days after Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 went missing, there is widespread confusion about whether the aircraft turned around after take-off from Kuala Lumpur and how far off course it may have […]
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Interpol has named the second suspect passenger on the Malaysia Airlines missing flight MH370 as 29-year-old Iranian, Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza. The secretary-general of Interpol, Ronald K. Noble, said Reza and another […]
Police say suspect Malaysia Airlines passenger has no link to terrorism
Malaysian police have identified one of the two passengers travelling on the missing Malaysia Airlines flight on stolen passports as a 18-year-old Iranian, Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad. Police say they do not […]
Search intensifies for missing Malaysia Airlines plane
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been missing for nearly three days and the already massive search and rescue operation is being intensified all the time. It will be expanded even further in […]
Disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
No trace of the Malaysian Airlines plane that has been missing for more than 48 hours has been found and the search and rescue operation has been intensified. Radar readings suggest that […]
Donuts, deodorants, and deforestation
Updated article A new scorecard that ranks the palm oil sourcing commitments of 30 top companies in the packaged food, fast food, and personal care sectors shows that 24 of them have […]
Fast food companies score worst on palm oil sourcing
The US-based Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has analysed the palm oil sourcing commitments of 30 top companies in the packaged food, fast food, and personal care sectors and found that 24 […]
Landowners in Malay enclave resist high-rise development
Residents of the last remaining urban village in central Kuala Lumpur want their 115-year-old heritage protected. Kampong Bharu is the last bastion against high-rise development in the centre of the Malaysian capital, […]
Palm oil drives deforestation in Indonesia
The palm oil sector was the single largest driver of deforestation in Indonesia between 2009 and 2011, accounting for about a quarter of the country’s forest loss, Greenpeace International has revealed in […]
Melaka – a melting pot of cultures and cuisine
Melaka – or Malacca as it was previously known – is one of Malaysia’s jewels, a small town on the western side of the peninsula that, in 2008, was declared a UNESCO […]
Indonesian fishermen risk life and limb diving for sea cucumbers
Sea cucumbers are a popular delicacy throughout Asia. On the international market, they sell for hundreds of US dollars a kilo, but Indonesian divers who supply them earn as little as 20 […]
Indonesia’s slash-and-burn haze spreads again
The slash-and-burn haze that blanketed areas of Sumatra and also shrouded Singapore and western Malaysia last month is spreading again. Singapore is being spared for the moment, but, in Malaysia, areas of […]
New call from Greenpeace for action on fires
Greenpeace International today released new photographic and satellite evidence of peatland fires in and around the palm oil concession areas of Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) members operating in the Indonesian […]
Smog from Sumatra fires spreads to Thailand
The haze from slash-and-burn fires on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has now spread to southern Thailand. Several districts in Narathiwat, Songkhla and Satun provinces were blanketed in smog this morning (Tuesday). […]
Greenpeace tells plantation companies to accept responsibility for fires in Sumatra
As fires rage on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and the resulting haze continues to blanket large areas of Malaysia, Greenpeace International has called on palm oil and pulp and paper companies […]
Slash-and-burn fires cause pollution haze
Western Malaysia is shrouded in a dangerous haze caused by illegal slash-and-burn fires on timber and oil palm plantations in Sumatra, Indonesia. There is a state of emergency in the worst affected […]
