Risiko tinggi misi mencari

Risiko tinggi misi mencari

Risiko tinggi misi mencari

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 04:07 PM PDT

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ANGGOTA TUDM melepaskan satu daripada enam boya untuk mengukur arus Lautan Hindi ketika misi mencari MH370, semalam. - Foto Effendy Rashid

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PERDANA Menteri Australia, Tony Abbott, diiringi oleh Komander Kumpulan RAAF, Craig Heap, ketika tiba di Pangkalan RAAF Pearce untuk bertemu dengan petugas operasi mencari pesawat MH370 Penerbangan Malaysia di selatan Lautan Hindi, pagi semalam. - Foto Effendy Rashid

Perth, Autralia: Pelbagai tuduhan dilemparkan terhadap Malaysia mengenai usaha mencari MH370. Namun tidak ramai tahu atau faham betapa sukar dan kompleks usaha itu.

Mencari sebuah pesawat yang terhempas di Lautan Hindi, yang terbentang luas dan ganas, bukan semudah yang disangka.

Semalam, wartawan bersama rakan media Malaysia, mengharungi sendiri ruang udara lokasi pesawat malang itu dilaporkan hilang membabitkan kawasan seluas 319,000 kilometer persegi di selatan lautan ketiga besar di dunia.

Penerbangan pesawat C-130H Hercules TUDM dari Pangkalan Tentera Udara Diraja Australia (RAAF) Pearce di sini, mengambil masa tiga jam.

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Kewibawaan kita tangani tragedi dipuji

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:58 PM PDT

Kewibawaan kita tangani tragedi dipujiNajib bersalam dengan Gusmao ketika menerima kunjungannya di Dataran Perdana, Bangunan Perdana Putra, di Putrajaya, semalam.

Putrajaya: Timor Leste dan Indonesia memuji cara Malaysia menangani tragedi MH370 yang menurut mereka, dilaksanakan secara berkesan.

Perdana Menteri Timor Leste, Xanana Gusmao, berkata Malaysia harus menerima 'tepukan' kerana mengetuai pencarian membabitkan pelbagai negara bagi mengesan pesawat terbabit.

"Keupayaan Malaysia ini lahir daripada kepimpinan dan kerjasama erat Malaysia dengan masyarakat antarabangsa selama ini," katanya pada sidang media bersama Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, di Bangunan Perdana Putra di sini, semalam, sempena permulaan rangka lawatan rasmi beliau ke Malaysia.

Indonesia puas hati operasi mencari

Penasihat Khas Menteri Luar Indonesia, Wiwiek Setyawati Firman pula menyifatkan gerakan oleh Malaysia amat sistematik dan memuaskan hati dalam operasi mencari pesawat yang turut dinaiki tujuh rakyat negara itu.

"Malaysia berjaya mempamerkan kewibawaan menangani saat yang begitu kritikal walaupun pada masa sama, berdepan kecaman pihak lain. Kami berpuas hati kerana Malaysia memberi semua kerjasama dan perkembangan yang diperlukan. Kerajaan kami sentiasa bersedia menyalurkan apa saja aset diperlukan misi mencari ini," katanya selepas kunjungan hormat kepada Pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein di sini.

Diminta mengulas dakwaan panggilan telefon dibuat penumpang Indonesia ketika kejadian, beliau berkata, ia tidak dapat disahkan.
Berhubung penerimaan keluarga penumpang negara itu, Wiwiek berkata, walaupun masih berduka, mereka jauh lebih tenang berbanding minggu pertama kejadian.

Najib ke Perth tinjau operasi cari MH370

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:57 PM PDT

Kuala Lumpur: Datuk Seri Najib Razak akan ke Perth, Australia esok bagi meninjau operasi mencari MH370 di negara itu.

Pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, berkata Perdana Menteri memutuskan melakukan lawatan kerja ke Pangkalan Tentera Udara Pearce bagi melihat sendiri operasi.

"Ia juga sebagai tanda terima kasih Kerajaan Malaysia terhadap semua pasukan dan negara yang terbabit dalam misi pencarian multinasional, termasuk petugas Malaysia," katanya.

Misi mencari pesawat MH370 sejak dilancarkan, disertai 26 negara dengan pelbagai aset canggih, termasuk pesawat P8 Poseidon milik Amerika Syarikat.

Dalam perkembangan berkaitan, Hishammuddin yang juga Menteri Pertahanan ke Hawaii untuk menyertai United States Pacific Command selepas sidang media, semalam.

Kongsi maklumat terkini
"Saya akan menghadiri mesyuarat Menteri Pertahanan ASEAN bermula hari ini hingga 3 April yang diadakan oleh Setiausaha Pertahanan Amerika Syarikat, Chuck Hagel.

"Bagi pihak kerajaan, saya akan berkongsi dengan rakan ASEAN dan kerajaan Amerika Syarikat mengenai perkembangan terkini MH370. Saya juga akan menyampaikan setinggi-tinggi penghargaan kepada rakan ASEAN dan Amerika Syarikat untuk bantuan mereka yang tidak ternilai dalam usaha pencarian" katanya.

Abbott sokong penjelasan Najib mengenai pesawat

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:50 PM PDT

Abbott sokong penjelasan Najib mengenai pesawatHishammuddin (tengah) bersama Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif MAS, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya (kiri) dan Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Penerbangan Awam (DCA) Datuk Azharuddin Abdul Rahman pada sidang media MH370 di Pusat Dagangan Dunia Putra, Kuala Lumpur, semalam.

Kuala Lumpur: Perdana Menteri Australia, Tony Abbott menyokong pandangan Datuk Seri Najib Razak bahawa MH370 berakhir di Lautan Hindi.

"Berdasarkan bukti dikumpulkan mendapati pesawat itu telah hilang di kawasan selatan Lautan Hindi," katanya di pusat koordinasi pencarian pesawat itu di pangkalan tentera udara Australia di Perth.

"Bukti itu jelas amat kukuh dan saya fikir Perdana Menteri Najib Razak berhak membuat rumusan itu, dan saya fikir sebaik sahaja rumusan dicapai, adalah menjadi tanggungjawab beliau mengumumkan rumusan itu," kata beliau yang dipetik oleh agensi berita AFP semalam.

Pada 24 Mac lalu, Najib mengumumkan berdasarkan analisis maklumat satelit dan siasatan Cawangan Siasatan Kemalangan Udara United Kingdom (AAIB), penerbangan MH370 'berakhir di selatan Lautan Hindi.'

Tak sebut terhempas

Sementara itu, Pemangku Menteri Pengangkutan, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, menegaskan Najib tidak pernah menyebut perkataan merujuk kepada 'terhempas' atau 'tiada yang terselamat' ketika mengumumkannya.
Menurutnya, tuntutan supaya Najib meminta maaf oleh keluarga penumpang di China adalah susulan laporan media yang mendakwa kedua-dua perkataan itu terkandung dalam pengumuman berkenaan.

Sebahagian tuntutan antara lain mendesak Malaysia meminta maaf kepada keluarga penumpang dari China atas kenyataan yang mengguris hati mereka.

"Laporan itu antara lain menyebut Perdana Menteri dan kerajaan ada menyebut pesawat terhempas dan tiada penumpang atau anak kapal terselamat. Ini sama sekali tidak benar. Tidak ada sekalipun ada disebut perkataan terhempas atau tiada yang terselamat ketika pengumuman dibuat," katanya menjawab soalan wakil media asing semalam.

‘Saya tidak pernah beri kenyataan’

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:49 PM PDT

Shah Alam: Naib Presiden Persatuan Juruterbang Malaysia, Kapten Abdul Manan Mansor, tidak pernah dihubungi oleh The Daily Mail atau memberi kenyataan mengenai juruterbang Penerbangan MH370, Kapten Zaharie Ahmad Shah.

Beliau juga menafikan ada memberi kenyataan bahawa Zaharie, 53, mengalami gangguan psikologi ekoran masalah rumah tangga seperti yang disiarkan MailOnline iaitu portal online The Daily Mail.

"Saya tidak mengenali Zaharie secara peribadi, apatah lagi mengetahui jika beliau mengalami masalah rumah tangga.

"Ada ramai juruterbang berdaftar di Malaysia, lebih 4,000 dan tidak mustahil untuk ada antara kami tidak pernah bertemu," katanya ketika dihubungi, semalam.

Portal berita antarabangsa berpangkalan di United Kingdom itu melaporkan, Manan dalam satu sesi temu bual bersama MailOnline mendakwa Zaharie mengalami gangguan psikologi.

Anak luah kekecewaan

Sebelum ini, anak kepada juruterbang MH370, Aisyah Zaharie, 28, menyatakan kemarahan dan kekecewaan dengan laporan portal berita luar negara, MailOnline yang didakwa memfitnah.
Dalam laman Facebook beliau, anak sulung Zaharie itu menulis 'Fitnah itu lebih teruk daripada membunuh. Saya tidak akan memaafkan anda', yang merujuk kepada laporan portal berkenaan.

Aishah bidas laporan Daily Mail

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 03:48 PM PDT

Aishah bidas laporan Daily Mail

Kuala Lumpur: Aishah Zaharie, anak perempuan Kapten Zaharie Ahmad Shah, juruterbang pesawat MH370 yang masih hilang, membidas laporan Daily Mail yang mendakwa bapanya mengalami gangguan emosi beberapa minggu sebelum tragedi itu.

"Kepada Daily Mail, anda patut menimbang untuk membuat filem memandangkan anda memang cekap mengada-adakan cerita dan skrip. Semoga Tuhan merahmati jiwa anda.

"Saya tidak akan memaafkan anda," katanya dalam catatan terbaharunya dalam Facebook. Selain itu, catatan itu juga menerima sokongan rakannya dan seorang daripadanya Izni Disney membalas catatan itu dengan menyatakan bahawa Zaharie adalah seorang yang baik.

Dakwa keliru, terganggu

Semalam, Daily Mail memaparkan tajuk berita 'Anak perempuan akui Kapten MH370 Kelihatan Keliru dan Terganggu'.

Pada 8 Mac, penerbangan MH370 berlepas dari Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur pada 12.41 pagi menuju ke Beijing dengan membawa 239 penumpang dan anak kapal, sebelum hilang daripada radar sejam kemudian. - BERNAMA

Malaysia tidak sembunyi fakta

Malaysia tidak sembunyi fakta

Malaysia tidak sembunyi fakta

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PERTH 31 Mac - Perdana Menteri Australia, Tony Abbott hari ini menafikan dakwaan segelintir pihak bahawa Kerajaan Malaysia menyembunyikan fakta berhubung kehilangan pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370...

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Dua pesawat TUDM sertai misi

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KL sokong Dili sertai ASEAN

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Saifuddin yakin tewaskan Azmin

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Ketua Pembangkang didakwa tipu ahli PKR

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Pindaan akta dikuat kuasa esok

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Kerajaan perlu jawab dakwaan media

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Ketua sindiket, isteri diberkas

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Penyeludup berani guna Bangunan Sultan Iskandar

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Malaysian doctor fighting for life after fall in ravine

Malaysian doctor fighting for life after fall in ravine

Malaysian doctor fighting for life after fall in ravine

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:01 AM PDT

01 April 2014| last updated at 01:27AM
By ALIZA SHAH | news@nst.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: A MALAYSIAN doctor working in Dublin, Ireland is fighting for his life due to severe head injuries after falling into a two-metre deep ravine during a cycling trip on Sunday.

Dr Zekri Hashim, 40, was cycling ahead of four other friends when he lost control of his bicycle near a bend while going downhill at Glendalough valley, located 60km from her during the 3.30pm (Dublin time) incident (10.30pm Malaysia time)

Some Irish cyclists, who were passing by the area, witnessed the incident and helped to pull him out of the ravine. Dr Zekri's four friends, however, only knew about the incident later as they were cycling far behind him.

A spokesman of the Malaysian Embassy in Ireland when contacted yesterday said Dr Zekri suffered severe head injuries and was currently warded at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at St James Hospital, Dublin.

"He was airlifted by a helicopter to the hospital where he is reported to be in coma. His wife and the couple's two children are by his side waiting for him to regain consciousness."

The spokesman added that doctors were conducting more tests on Dr Zekri to ascertain the extent of his concussion and treating him for other injuries.

"Besides his head injury, doctors are saying that he sustained internal injuries as a result of the fall. He suffered bruises and other minor injuries to his face and other parts of his body."

Dr Zekri and his family have been residing in Dublin ever since he began serving as a doctor at one of the hospitals in the city.

Dr Zekri Hashim (fourth fom right) with his cycling team at one of their trips across the country in Dublin, Ireland. (Inset) Dr Zekri Hashim.

Najib 'did his duty'

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

01 April 2014| last updated at 01:41AM

KUALA LUMPUR: AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister Tony Abbott has backed his Malaysian counterpart's view that Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370's final flight path ended in the remote Indian Ocean.

    Abbott said he agreed with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak's view that the flight "ended" in the southern Indian Ocean as it was based on evidence which pointed to the conclusion.

    "The accumulation of evidence is that the aircraft has been lost and it has been lost somewhere in the south of the Indian Ocean.

    "That's the absolutely overwhelming wave of evidence and I think that Prime Minister Najib Razak was perfectly entitled to come to that conclusion, and I think once that conclusion had been arrived at, it was his duty to make that conclusion public," Abbott told  reporters at the Pearce Royal Australian Air Force Base, 40km north of Perth.

Abbott also said the search for debris of the aircraft was an "extraordinarily challenging exercise", as the joint  forces were  searching a vast area of ocean on quite limited information.

"Nevertheless, the best brains in the world are applying themselves to this task, all of the technological mastery that we have is being applied and brought to bear here.

"If this mystery is solvable, we will solve it," he said.

Abbot said numerous objects had been spotted in the past days since the new search area was defined but none had been confirmed as coming from flight MH370.

"Searchers need to recover debris to better understand what happened to the plane," he added.

Besides, he said there was no time limit on the search to find the missing jetliner.

"We can keep searching and we will keep searching for quite some time to come," he said, adding that the intensity and magnitude of their search were increasing.

"We owe it to the families, we owe it to everyone that travels by air, we owe it to the governments of the countries who had citizens on that aircraft, we owe it to the wider world which has been transfixed by this mystery for three weeks now," he was quoted as saying.

He said Australia has been coordinating the international search mission for the missing plane, comprising about 100 personnel searching from on board surveillance aircraft and 1,000 sailors in ships in or near the search zone.

Abbott has acknowledged the Royal Malaysian Air Force's (RMAF) tireless efforts as "extraordinary" in the search for MH370.

Meanwhile, Timor Leste Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao commended the government and MAS for their efforts in searching for the missing craft.

Meanwhile, China's Xinhua news agency has quoted Abbott as saying that Australia's regular military cooperation with the United States, New Zealand, Malaysia, China, Japan, and South Korea was heartening.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says Datuk Seri Najib Razak's conclusion is based on evidence, at the Pearce Royal Australian Air Force Base in Bullsbrook, Australia. AFP pic

Humbled by homestay

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

01 April 2014| last updated at 01:17AM
By ALYAA SOFIAH TAJUDIN | news@nst.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: SOME 30 undergraduates from 18 institutions of higher learning took part in a two-week homestay programme by Yayasan Sukarelawan Siswa (YSS) in Santubong, Sarawak.

 They stayed with adopted families in Kampung Beradek.

 The programme which started on March 23 saw participation from Majlis Perundingan Pelajar Kebangsaan (MPPK), Institut Pendidikan Guru (IPG) Kampus Pendidikan Islam (IPGKPI), Kampus Ilmu Khas (IPGKIK), Kampus Bahasa Antarabangsa (IPGKBA) and Multimedia University (MMU).

 Chairman of YSS Datuk Zuraidah Atan said the reception at Kampung Beradek was incredible as the foster families treated the participants like  their own children.

 She said she sympathised with the foster parents because their own children had left their homes to move to bigger cities like Kuching, Sibu and Kuala Lumpur.

  Zuraidah said the Kampung Beradek families comprised slightly more than a hundred families living on an island and their only mode of transportation were rickety fishing boats.

  "Our participants were really worried when they first got on the boats and they were clutching their life-jackets and haversacks but later they got used to it," she said.

 Zuraidah said the boat trip usually lasted up to an hour but was  slightly faster during high tide.

"When the tide is low, you can see crocodiles lurking along the edges of the river," she said.

 She added that she was humbled by the way the folks of Kampung Beradek treated them and that the experience would motivate the undergraduates to contribute to society.

 The homestay programme also involved another 30 undergraduates who were stationed at Kampung Maludam, Batang Lupar, in Sarawak.  In return for their hospitality, the 60 participants focused on teaching English, Mathematics and Science subjects to children as well as counseled them on health awareness and personal hygiene.

Akhbar returns as CFE president

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

01 April 2014| last updated at 01:18AM

He retained his position at the chapter's bi-annual general meeting here last Sunday.

Certified Fraud Examiners are trained to identify the warning signs and red flags, which indicate evidence of fraud and fraud risk.

They also help to protect the global economy by uncovering fraud and implementing procedures to prevent fraud from occurring.

CFE also specialises in fraud prevention, detection and deterrence.

The Malaysian chapter is part of the certified fraud examiners Austin, the United States. It is the world's premier provider of anti-fraud training and education.

Akhbar, who is also the Transparency International Malaysia president and director of Institute of Crime and Criminology, Help University, holds a Master in Criminal Justice Studies from University of Detroit.

The Malaysian chapter of CFE's executive council position's of deputy president, secretary-general, assistant secretary, treasurer and director of training were also filled uncontested. They are Mohd Yunos Yusof, Aaron Lau, Helen Quat, Kanakaraja Muthusamy and Lee Long How, respectively.  

    New general committee members of CFE elected are Raveendra Kumar Nathan, Raymon Ram, Saravanan M. Selvaratnam and Siti Subaidah.

Pilot's daughter angered by 'Daily Mail' report

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

01 April 2014| last updated at 01:42AM

   Aishah Zaharie, 28, took to Facebook on Sunday to vent her anger over the report, which claimed that she had told investigators her father had seemed "disturbed and lost in a world of his own" prior to the Malaysian Airlines' aircraft's disappearance on March 8.

    In a post on her Facebook account, Aishah said:     "Dear Daily Mail, you should consider making movies since you are so good at making up stories and scripts out of thin air.     

"May God have mercy on your souls. You can bet your *** I will not forgive you."

    She also quoted a verse from the Quran, which translated to "And spreading lies is worse than killing".

    The Daily Mail report, published online on Saturday, had also claimed that Aishah's mother, Faizah Khanum Mustafa Khan, told police that her husband had been withdrawn and distracted in the days before the jetliner went missing on its way to Beijing.

    It was not the first time the tabloid's coverage of the missing aircraft, which has been heavily focused on Zaharie and his family, has been questioned.

    Early in the MH370 investigation, the Daily Mail had come under fire for reports that Zaharie, a supporter of opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, had been a political fanatic who was upset over the verdict of Anwar's latest sodomy trial.

    Meanwhile, Malaysian Pilots Association president Captain Abdul Manan Mansor denied a separate report in Daily Mail, which quoted him as saying that Zaharie was "psychologically unstable" following the breakdown of his marriage.

     Manan said he had never spoken to the Daily Mail.

    "You can disregard the entire article," he said yesterday.

   The Aviation Management College chief executive asserted that he did not know Zaharie personally and would not have known of any marital problems he may or may not have had.

Manan also refuted claims that he had pinpointed Zaharie as having flown the aircraft up and down 45,000 feet to give passengers positive and negative g-forces in an attempt to  disarm them.

Activist Fernandez dies at 67

Posted: 31 Mar 2014 09:00 AM PDT

01 April 2014| last updated at 01:18AM

  Her sister, Josie Fernandez, who was former secretary-general of Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M),  said Irene possessed a heart that gave unconditional love and care to anyone regardless of their background.

  "I remember vividly when some 20 years ago on Christmas day, Irene brought home several women who were rescued from traffickers and did not have a place to stay.

  "She celebrated Christmas with all of them, and made them feel happy," Josie said, choking with emotion.

   Irene, who last served as executive director for Tenaganita, has been pursuing causes for human and women rights in the country since the 1970s.

She was considered as the backbone of the movement.

   Irene, 67, died because of heart failure at 10.58am yesterday.

 She is survived by her husband Joseph Paul and three children, Tania Joe, Camvera Jose and Katrina Jorene.

  Josie said despite Irene's dedication to her causes, the latter never failed in her duties as a daughter, sister, wife and mother.

  Josie and her sister Aegil Fernandez had initially made plans to celebrate Irene's birthday on Good Friday on April 18.

  She said the family had hoped that Irene would fully recover from her illness, as she had shown some signs of recovery and was shocked over her sudden loss.

  Six days ago, Irene who lived in Seremban, was rushed to Serdang Hospital after suffering from a heart complication.

Josie said Irene wanted her urn to be buried alongside their parents' grave in Sungai Petani, Kedah.

  The family will conduct a wake for Irene at her family's home at 570, Lorong Jambu, 1/3 Taman Sungai Ujung, Seremban until Thursday morning.

A funeral service will then be held at the Church of Divine Mercy in Shah Alam at 3pm on Thursday.
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