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Chronology of major air disasters in recent years: 2022 * May 30, 2022: A Tara Air DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed in the Mustang region of Nepal, killing all 22 people on board. * March 21, 2022: A China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane crashed in the mountains of Guangxi near Guangzhou, China, leading to the […]

Flight operations at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka were disrupted on Sunday due to dense fog. Four international flights were diverted and operations of eight others were delayed due to dense fog, Group Captain Kamrul Islam, executive director of the airport, told UNB. Flights of US Bangla Airlines, Biman Bangladesh Airlines, Turkish Airlines and […]

The beginning of a new year brings with it an opportunity to take a look at the trends, as well as the new and emerging technologies, which will shape the air transport industry over the next 12 months and beyond, a report said. The report by Future Travel Experience features 10 trends that will play […]

KUCHING, Jan 15 — Parti Bansa Dayak (PBDS) president Bobby William today said the change in status of Sarawak from a state in Malaysia to one of three regions of the federation has little meaning without full compliance of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63). He said matters such as education, health and land transport should […]

The National Unity Government (NUG) U Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s Permanent Ambassador to the United Nations, pointed out that the military junta had created 15 crime zones 40km along the Thaungyin River, deceiving local people from 30 countries in the region and causing most cases of human trafficking. At 10:30 am Friday, there was a […]

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The National Unity Government (NUG) in exile issued a statement calling on countries neighbouring Myanmar to take serious action against the infringement of their airspace by Myanmar junta aircraft. It said that Myanmar junta aircraft are launching attacks on innocent Myanmar civilians from foreign airspace and in the process are endangering the security and lives […]

An image of Russian President Vladimir Putin wearing makeup at Parq Ubud in Bali, Indonesia, which has become a popular place to live and work for the Russians and Ukrainians who have fled, Dec 12, 2022. Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have fled their homelands for Bali. But even in a tropical paradise, the war […]

Shortly after opening its doors on a Tuesday morning in mid-December, the Rolls-Royce showroom in Singapore’s Redhill neighbourhood was already bustling. US-China tensions remain high, financial markets are skittish, the risk of global recession looms heavily: it is the perfect time to put down an $80,000 deposit on a hot pink Phantom. The number of […]

By Iman Muttaqin Yusof and Nisha David The Japan Coast Guard on Friday concluded security drills to train its Malaysian counterpart on how to repel foreign intruders in the disputed South China Sea where Beijing has grown increasingly assertive against other claimant states.  The four-day exercise marked the first time Malaysia was trained in using […]