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A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing lost contact with air control and went missing more than a hour after it took off in the early hours of Saturday, March 8, 2014. The incident triggered an unprecedented international search and rescue operation that spanned from the southern Indian Ocean to Central Asia and involved more than two dozen countries. 

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Ten years after the Malaysia Airlines flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing went off radar screens and disappeared, relatives of the 239 aboard still do not know what happened.

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There was a poignant moment during a BBC news segment last week on the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 when the tearful relatives of a missing couple from New Zealand thanked the many nations that have devoted resources to search for the plane.

Nearly eight days after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Saturday made the first definitive comments on how the Boeing 777-200 carrying 239 passengers and crew had vanished.

  • Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said a decision on resuming search for the wreckage would be taken soon, but relatives of the missing should not expect any breakthroughs
  • Flight MH370, carrying 239 people, disappeared in 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing
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In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we reflect on renewed hope for the resumption of a search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 a decade after its mysterious disappearance.

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Malaysia is set to offer US deep-sea explorer Ocean Infinity a deal to restart the search on a ‘no-find, no-fee’ basis, Transport Minister Anthony Loke said.

Malaysian air crash investigators proposed early on for commercial aircraft to be outfitted with real-time tracking systems to help planes in distress.

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Ten years after MH370, an industry-wide push to rule out a similar case has been stymied by bureaucracy, financial pressure, and a debate about who should have ultimate control of the cockpit.

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Singapore may be small, but its capacity for online drama is surprisingly huge. Read on for the year’s biggest social media stories to set tongues wagging in the city state.

From China keeping its distance from a growing Russia-North Korea alignment to Singapore’s major stories of 2023, here are a few highlights from SCMP’s recent reporting.

French aviation insiders say their research shows renewed hunt could quickly find Malaysia Airlines jet that disappeared nearly a decade ago, prompting relatives of missing Chinese passengers to call for more efforts.

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From India to Singapore, some comics say the business of humour is an increasingly risky one, as the line separating ‘offensive’ and ‘illegal’ becomes blurred.

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Some jokes just don’t land: New York-based comedian Jocelyn Chia has been the centre of global attention after her controversial joke about the missing Malaysia Airlines plane – so who is she exactly?

As row into Singapore-born Chia’s quip about the missing flight refuses to die down, police chief says international help will be sought in quest to locate her.

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The city state’s high commissioner in Kuala Lumpur apologised to Malaysians for Chia’s ‘hurtful remarks’ made at a New York comedy club in a bid to put an end to the simmering controversy.

Malaysian social media erupted in fury at Jocelyn Chia’s skit, performed at a New York comedy club and uploaded to TikTok and Instagram, in which she joked about the missing plane and said ‘f*** you Malaysia’.

Bait 3D, an Australia-Singapore co-production, is a basic shark-attack film that flopped at the Australian box office but was a huge success in China, helped by its action, 3D shots and lack of politics.

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When Malaysia flight MH370 mysteriously disappeared in 2014, it set off a global media circus, and nine years later, the Netflix miniseries explores various theories, but ultimately comes up with nothing new.

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In The Disappearing Act, Hong Kong-based French journalist Florence de Changy presents her theory: that the plane was shot down and the truth covered up.

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AirAsia’s combination of lay-offs, diversification and loans is seen as a viable strategy, but analysts say the future is less clear for Malaysia Airlines.

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Malaysia Aviation Group sets out an alternative plan to divert funds to a sister airline unit if the state carrier’s bailout talks with lessors are unsuccessful.

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Recent bribery allegations could also put paid to a much-discussed merger between Asia’s largest budget carrier and Malaysia’s struggling flag carrier Malaysia Airlines.