Malaysia

Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia will continue to push boats holding thousands of migrants back to sea, a senior Thai official said on May 134, despite a U.N. appeal for a rapid rescue operation to avoid a humanitarian crisis. 

The hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has uncovered a previously uncharted shipwreck, leading officials to say May 13 that if the plane is in their search zone they will find it.

Thailand and Malaysia may set up camps and detention centres to shelter hundreds of refugees arriving on their shores, officials said on May 12, as a leading inter-governmental agency said about 7,000 boatpeople were still adrift in the Bay of Bengal.

The search zone for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be doubled if nothing is found in the huge undersea area now being scanned for wreckage, Malaysia, Australia and China announced Thursday.
      

Malaysian police detained a prominent publisher and a website editor on sedition charges March 31, the latest targets in a mounting tally of arrests that a senior opposition politician compared to an infamous 1987 political crackdown.
      

Does democracy in Malaysia really depend on Anwar Ibrahim? If it does, Malaysia's 30 million people are in trouble. Anwar is back in jail: at least five years' imprisonment, and another five years' ban from political activity after that. He says he doesn't care: "Whether it's five years or ten it doesn't matter to me anymore. They can give me twenty years. I don't give a damn."

Malaysia declared on Jan. 29 the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 an accident, clearing the way for the airline to pay compensation to victims' relatives while the search for the plane goes on. 

A missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said on Monday, as countries around Asia sent ships and planes to help in the search effort.
   

An AirAsia passenger jet with 162 people aboard lost contact over the Java Sea while en route to Singapore on Sunday and is missing, according to airline officials.

A French writer has said the US Air Force downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 because the military feared it was about to be used in a 9/11-style attack, international media outlets have reported.

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