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The 'flaperon' was found on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean

Recovered plane debris brought to France

Airplane debris that washed up on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion and may belong to the vanished Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 has been brought to France for investigators to study its origin.

News • 01 Aug 15

18 people were killed following the earthquake which struck Mount Kinabalu

Tourists detained for naked mountain memento

Malaysian authorities have detained four tourists - two Canadians, a Briton and one Dutch national - for allegedly stripping naked on Mount Kinabalu, an act some locals say angered tribal spirits and caused a deadly earthquake, officials said.

News • 10 Jun 15

Malaysian rescue team members wait for victims to be evacuated

11 dead on Malaysian peak after earthquake

A strong earthquake that jolted Malaysia's Mount Kinabalu has killed at least 11 people and left another eight missing on Southeast Asia's highest peak.

News • 06 Jun 15

Around 2,600 migrants from Burma and Bangladesh are still stranded in the Andaman sea

US demands rescue of Asian migrants adrift at sea

The United States has said thousands of vulnerable migrants adrift in southeast Asian seas needed urgent rescue, as Burma told a regional meeting on the crisis that it was not to blame.

World • 29 May 15

Malaysian police said earlier this week that a total of 139 grave sites had been found

Malaysia believes 139 bodies in migrant graves

Malaysia has said it believes 139 people are buried in graves at remote detention camps used by people-smugglers on the border with Thailand, which were discovered on the weekend.

News • 28 May 15

A Malaysian policeman mans an armoured vehicle a day after the government announced the discovery of camps and graves

Graves and trafficking sites found in Malaysia

A total of 139 grave sites and 28 human-trafficking camps have been found in a remote northern Malaysian border region, the country's top police official said.

News • 25 May 15

Rescue workers at a site where shallow graves containing 26 bodies were found near Padang Besar in the southern Thai province of Songkhla

Mass graves discovered in Malaysia

Mass graves and suspected human trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand.

News • 24 May 15

A migrant woman holds her crying child as she rests in Julok village in Kuta Binje, Aceh Province

Hundreds rescued as migrant deal reached

Hundreds of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants have been brought ashore in Indonesia's northwestern Aceh province, according to an Indonesian search and rescue official.

News • 20 May 15

The migrants are believed to have come from Myanmar and Bangladesh

Nearly 800 migrants reach land in Indonesia

Nearly 800 migrants have been brought ashore in Indonesia after being abandoned in the Andaman Sea, but other vessels crammed with migrants were sent back to sea.

News • 15 May 15

A Royal Malaysian Navy ship patrols along the Thai-Malaysia border looking for boats containing migrants

Rohingya migrants found on boat off Thai coast

A boat crammed with scores of Rohingya migrants, including many young children, has been found drifting in Thai waters.

News • 14 May 15

Malaysian police escort Zulkipli Abdullah (R) to the courthouse in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Man sentenced to death for murder of UK students

A Malaysian court has convicted and sentenced a man to death for the murder of two British medical students in Borneo last year.

World • 31 Mar 15

A young girl during a gathering to mark the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of the plane

Beacon battery on MH370 had expired - report

The battery of an underwater locator beacon had run out more than a year before Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared, a report has said.

News • 08 Mar 15

Family and friends of the missing passengers have held numerous candlelit vigils

Malaysia declares loss of flight MH370 an accident

Malaysia has formally declared missing flight MH370 an "accident" and its passengers and crew presumed dead.

News • 29 Jan 15

Ukrainian personnel remove a body from the crash site

Malaysia quietly worked back channels on MH17

As Western leaders increasingly pointed the finger of blame at pro-Russian separatists, and Moscow itself, over the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine, the government in Kuala Lumpur said little.

Special Reports • 22 Jul 14

A search and rescue team returns from the rescue mission on the outskirts of Banting

Dozens missing after boat sinks off Malaysia

Thirty-two people are missing after an apparently overloaded boat carrying Indonesian migrants sank in rough waters off Malaysia's west coast.

News • 18 Jun 14

An extensive search has turned up no sign of the MH370 wreckage so far

MH370 families to offer reward for information

Several families of those aboard Flight MH370 have launched a drive to raise $5m to reward any insider who comes forward and resolves the mystery of the plane's disappearance.

News • 08 Jun 14

Bluefin-21 has been scouring the seabed in an area where undersea transmissions were detected

Australia to host meeting on MH370 search

Australia will host a meeting with Malaysia and China next week to determine the way forward in the frustrating search for flight MH370, officials said in Kuala Lumpur today.

News • 02 May 14

The search for MH370 is already set to be the most costly in aviation history

Malaysia seeks study on real-time plane tracking

Malaysia's Transport Ministry is recommending that the ICAO examines the safety benefits of introducing a standard for real-time tracking of commercial air transport aircraft.

News • 01 May 14

The protest followed a chaotic meeting yesterday between airline staff and relatives

Malaysia Airlines says staff 'held' by families

Dozens of relatives of passengers aboard missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 held an overnight protest outside the Malaysian embassy in Beijing demanding information from officials.

News • 25 Apr 14

The Bluefin-21 mapped the search area on its third attempt (Pic: EPA)

Mini-sub scans Indian Ocean search area

A mini-submersible has completed its first full scan of the seabed in the remote Indian Ocean as part of the search operation for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane.

News • 17 Apr 14

Flight Lieutenant Timothy McAlevey of the Royal New Zealand Airforce during the search

Oil slick spotted in search for missing plane

An oil slick has been detected in the Indian Ocean within the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

News • 14 Apr 14

Tim McAlevey of the Royal New Zealand Air Force flying a P-3 Orion during a search to locate missing Malaysia Airways Flight MH370

Claims Malaysia co-pilot tried to make phone call

Investigators probing the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 suspect the co-pilot of the jet tried to make a phone call after the plane was diverted from its scheduled route, according to a newspaper report.

News • 12 Apr 14

A Royal Australian Air Force plane conducts a low-level fly in the search for Flight MH370

Abbott confident over missing plane signals

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he is "very confident" that signals detected in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 were from the aircraft's black box.

News • 11 Apr 14

Navy personnel search the ocean for debris of the missing flight

Search for missing jet regains recorder signal

Australian officials said that two new "ping" signals had been detected in the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, boosting confidence after more than a month of fruitless searching for the missing jetliner.

News • 09 Apr 14

Australian ship Ocean Shield is towing along the pinger detector looking for missing Malaysian Airways flight MH370

Hunt for MH370 'pings' to continue for days

The hunt for underwater signals from missing Flight MH370 is likely to continue for days before a robot submersible is deployed to comb the seabed, according to the Australian search chief.

News • 08 Apr 14