Felda Global Ventures, the world's third-largest palm plantation operator, reported a 35 per cent rise in second-quarter earnings, supported by stronger crude palm oil production following moves to boost fruit yields.The...
Australian shares edged higher on Monday as investors digested a mixed bag of earnings results and the possibility of a United States rate hike before long, while New Zealand stocks continued their ascent to record highs.Companies...
Hong Kong stocks advanced at the open on Friday as gains on Wall Street and a rise in the oil price boosted sentiment, while shares in China dipped slightly.The Hang Seng Index added 0.24 per cent, or 56.4 points, to...
Shares of Malaysia Airline System (MAS) rose as much as 10.4 per cent
on Monday after state fund Khazanah Nasional said it will offer 27 sen
for each share in the company it does not own, amounting to nearly 1.4
billion...
The Netherlands on
Sunday scrapped plans to send an international armed mission to secure
the crash site of Malaysian flight MH17, fearing a deployment risked
being dragged into the conflict in east Ukraine.Dutch
authorities...
The chances of Dutch
and Australian police reaching the crash site of Malaysia Airlines
flight MH17 are not good, and the effort could take days, a senior
Australian official said Monday.An unarmed team of Dutch and...
A senior separatist leader, Aleksander Borodai, handed over two black boxes from an airliner downed over eastern Ukraine to Malaysian experts in the city of Donetsk in the early hours of Tuesday. A room packed with journalists...
Australia's
prime minister voiced deep concern on Monday that Russian-backed
rebels remained in control of the crash site of a Malaysian airliner
shot down over Ukraine, saying the site looked more like a "garden
clean-up"...
President Barack
Obama said on Friday the downing of a Malaysian jetliner in a Ukrainian
region controlled by Russian-backed separatists should be a "wake-up
call" for the West in its drive to hold Russia accountable...
Shares in Malaysia Airlines tumbled almost 18 per cent on Friday after one of its passenger jets crashed in violence-wracked Ukraine, just months after the carrier was hit by the loss of a plane over the Indian Ocean.
The...
There were 298 people, including 154 Dutch nationals, on board the Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in strife-torn eastern Ukraine on Thursday, an official from the carrier said.
"There were 283 passengers and 15...
A Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official was quoted as saying by Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
The aircraft,...
The head of Australia's transport safety bureau has defended the fruitless hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, saying he is confident that search teams are targeting the right area.
Satellite analysis in...
The swathe of Indian Ocean where acoustic transmissions were detected was Thursday ruled out as the crash zone of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 after a lengthy underwater search.
The Australian-led Joint Agency...
Malaysian Airlines earnings set to show financial burden of loss of MH370
Malaysian Airlines will report first-quarter earnings later on Thursday
that are set to provide confirmation of just how badly the already...
The undersea search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is to
be extended beyond the small area identified as its most likely resting
place as the quest for any sign of the missing plane enters its 50th day
on...
A United States Navy deep-sea drone is diving to unprecedented
depths to scour a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean floor for a missing
Malaysian jetliner as the Malaysian government said it may use more
remote control...
MH370 search to be most costly ever at US$100m
The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is set to be
the most expensive in aviation history, analysts...
An oil slick has been detected in the Indian Ocean within the search
area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 but has yet to be
analysed, the Australian leading the operation said on Monday.
"I can report that...
Ships and planes pursued Saturday the search for the missing
Malaysian airliner off Australia after Prime Minister Tony Abbott said
he was "very confident" that signals from the black box had been
detected.
The...