https://www.scmp.com/rss/319749/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com If Xavier Andre Justo’s life were an international version of the Monopoly board game, he would have passed Go several times in the past 10 years. The 52-year-old has found himself in the financial hubs of Geneva, London and New York; has had dealings in the oilfields of Argentina, Turkmenistan and Venezuela; and has landed often in Malaysia and Thailand, where he has stayed both at his would-be holiday resort, on Koh Samui, and in a Bangkok jail. When we meet in Kuala Lumpur, at the end of... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2186580/meet-1mdbs-accidental-whistle-blower-his-journey?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2186580/meet-1mdbs-accidental-whistle-blower-his-journey?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Feb 2019 06:02:48 +0000 Four years after the loss of flight MH370, the hopes of the families of the 239 mostly Chinese people aboard the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 are focused anew on an underwater search for the wreck. In a surprising turn of events, in January, a private American underwater surveying company – Ocean Infinity – embarked on a fresh search, at the same time taking on the operation’s huge financial risk. “The whole world, including the next of kin, have [new] hope to find the plane for closure,”... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2138558/mh370-mystery-private-company-behind-renewed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2138558/mh370-mystery-private-company-behind-renewed?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 23 Mar 2018 05:00:45 +0000 The most salient information in Australia’s final report into its search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 was its finding, with a “high degree of certitude” that the Boeing 777 with 239 people on board was not in the searched area. The report also details how the ­US$154 million bill for the search was split between Malaysia (58 per cent), Australia (32 per cent) and China. That China contributed just 10 per cent, even though two thirds of the passengers were Chinese, suggests Beijing had little... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2115300/gaping-holes-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-search-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2115300/gaping-holes-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-search-report?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Oct 2017 05:30:15 +0000 It has been three years and seven months since flight MH370 vanished in the heart of a quiet night above the South China Sea. The Boeing 777 had been travelling northeast from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, where it was scheduled to land at 6.30am on March 8, when the co-pilot signed off from Malaysian airspace with the now infamous words “Good night, Malaysia 370”. That was the last ever heard from the 239 people on board, 153 of whom were Chinese, and the last time the whereabouts of the doomed... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2114940/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-search-why-give-hope-when-there-was?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/2114940/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-search-why-give-hope-when-there-was?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared in the early hours of Saturday, March 8, last year, there have been persistent claims, validated by international media, that a large, very noisy aircraft flying low and spotted by inhabitants of a remote island in the Maldives could have been the missing plane. It's a scenario that has given hope to the families of the 239 people on board that they may at last discover the fate of the Beijing-bound airliner. Kuda Huvadhoo would be hard to find by... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1830548/could-plane-spotted-maldivian-islanders-really-be-mh370?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1830548/could-plane-spotted-maldivian-islanders-really-be-mh370?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 04 Jul 2015 13:15:00 +0000