Malaysia

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko announced his country is preparing international requests that the Donetsk and Luhansk "republics" be considered as terrorist organizations.

His words come after a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 crashed in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian rebels have held towns and cities under their control since early this spring.

Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean on Saturday said that the difficulties to identify the passenger with double citizenship, Canadian and Romanian, who was on the plane that crashed in Ukraine, were generated by the fact that his name was misspelled on the list of the airline, namely Andre and not Andrei.

Malaysia is to send two C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft to Ukraine in an operation to establish causes of flight MH17 crash, a military official said on Saturday.

Malaysian Prime Minister said that the investigation must be based on firm proof and irrefutable facts, local media cite him as saying.

More than 1,400 people were arrested and nearly $12 million (8.8 million euros) seized in an Interpol-led clampdown on illegal betting networks in Asia during the World Cup, the organisation said Friday.
     
Police officers from China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam conducted more than 1,000 raids on illegal gambling dens in the six-week operation.

President of the National Liberal Party (PNL), Klaus Iohannis offered on behalf of his party condolences and deep compassion to the families of the 298 victims killed in the "terrorist attack" on the Boeing 777 passenger aircraft of Malaysia Airlines.

The Malaysian airliner apparently shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine was flying over airspace that a number of other Asian carriers had already abandoned months ago because of security concerns.
      

Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean announced the activation of the crisis cell at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday night, after the crash of the Malaysian Airlines airliner in Ukraine.

By Nikos Konstandaras

At least two people died and 18 others were missing after an overloaded fishing boat carrying illegal Indonesian immigrants capsized off the coast of southern Malaysia, a maritime official said Tuesday.
      

Further negotiations on issues including geopolitics, technological standards and funding are needed for a high-speed railway China is planning between the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and Eastern Europe, according to experts who were interviewed by China Daily.