2 BULAN DIPERLUKAN SEBELUM PERALATAN BAHARU MULA CARI MH370

CANBERRA 5 Mei - Australia memaklumkan sekurang-kurangnya dua bulan diperlukan sebelum kelengkapan baharu yang lebih canggih dapat memulakan pencarian pesawat MH370 di dasar laut yang belum pernah dipetakan.
Operasi mencari pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) yang hilang pada 8 Mac lalu itu ketika membawa 239 orang telah dihentikan minggu lalu selepas gagal memperoleh apa-apa petunjuk meskipun pencarian di selatan Lautan Hindi telah meliputi 4.64 juta kilometer persegi.
Australia hari ini menjadi tuan rumah kepada mesyuarat bersama Menteri Pengangkutan Malaysia dan China untuk menentukan langkah selepas ini yang memberi fokus kepada mempergiat pencarian di dalam air.
China turut terlibat kerana dua pertiga daripada penumpang pesawat itu adalah warga China, manakala penerbangan pesawat berkenaan dipercayai berakhir di kawasan operasi mencari dan menyelamat (SAR) Australia.
Timbalan Perdana Menteri Australia, Warren Truss mengakui pencarian itu akan mengambil masa lama memandangkan dasar laut di beberapa zon pencarian mempunyai kedalaman beberapa kilometer, selain tidak pernah dipetakan, justeru peralatan sonar dan kenderaan khas diperlukan. - AGENSI


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JUMPA MAYAT BAYI DALAM BEG KAIN

KOTA BHARU 5 Mei - Hasrat seorang penternak untuk memotong rumput bagi dijadikan makanan lembu yang dibela terbantut selepas dia menemui mayat seorang bayi lelaki cukup sifat di Jalan Dusun Muda di sini semalam.
Dalam kejadian kira-kira 6.30 petang itu, bayi yang masih bertali pusat itu ditemui dalam beg kain berwarna oren di gigi tali air yang penuh dengan semak-samun.
Mayat bayi itu kemudian dibawa ke Hospital Raja Perempuan Zainab II (HRPZ), Kota Bharu untuk bedah siasat. - UTUSAN ONLINE


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KERAJAAN AKAN TINGKAT SESI PENERANGAN GST

PUTRAJAYA 5 Mei - Kerajaan akan meningkatkan sesi penerangan mengenai Cukai Barang dan Perkhidmatan kepada orang ramai supaya semua pihak memahami kebaikan pelaksanaan sistem cukai itu.
Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berkata, pelaksanaan cukai tersebut sudah terbukti berjaya di hampir 90 peratus negara yang melaksanakannya.
"Sistem percukaian yang agresif ini boleh meningkatkan hasil negara kerana kebanyakan rakyat di Malaysia tidak membayar cukai, hanya sejuta orang yang membayarnya.
"Kalau GST sudah terbukti berjaya di negara yang melaksanakannya, sudah pasti sistem ini adil dan diterima oleh rakyatnya. Jika tidak rakyat di 198 negara sudah menolaknya," katanya pada perhimpunan bulanan Jabatan Perdana Menteri di Dataran Perdana Putra di sini hari ini. - UTUSAN ONLINE


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MISSING MALAYSIA PLANE (MH370) : WHAT WE KNOW ?

Mystery continues to surround the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March.

Malaysian authorities, assisted by international aviation and satellite experts, are now battling to piece together the plane's final hours in the hope that they can find its wreckage and explain what happened to its 239 passengers and crew. Some preliminary details were released on 1 May in a short report.

What time did the plane disappear?

00:41, 8 March: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 departed from Kuala Lumpur International Airport on Saturday, 8 March (16:41 GMT, 7 March), and was due to arrive in Beijing at 06:30 (22:30 GMT).

Malaysia Airlines says the plane lost contact less than an hour after takeoff. No distress signal or message was sent.

01:07: The plane sent its last ACARS transmission - a service that allows computers aboard the plane to "talk" to computers on the ground. Some time afterwards, it was silenced and the expected 01:37 transmission was not sent.

01:19: The last communication between the plane and Malaysian air traffic control took place about 12 minutes later. At first, the airline said initial investigations revealed the co-pilot had said "All right, good night".

However, Malaysian authorities later confirmed the last words heard from the plane, spoken either by the pilot or co-pilot, were in fact "Good night Malaysian three seven zero".

A few minutes later, the plane's transponder, which communicates with ground radar, was shut down as the aircraft crossed from Malaysian air traffic control into Vietnamese airspace over the South China Sea.

01:21: The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam said the plane failed to check in as scheduled with air traffic control in Ho Chi Minh City.

02:15: Malaysian military radar plotted Flight MH370 at a point south of Phuket island in the Strait of Malacca, west of its last known location. Thai military radar logs also confirmed that the plane turned west and then north over the Andaman sea.

In maps accompanying its 1 May report, the Malaysian government revised the time to be 02:22and put the position further west.

08:11: (00:11 GMT, 8 March) Seven hours after contact with air traffic control was lost, a satellite above the Indian Ocean picked up data from the plane in the form of an automatic "handshake" between the aircraft and a ground station.

This information, disclosed a week after the plane's disappearance, suggested the jet was in one of two flight corridors, one stretching north between Thailand and Kazakhstan, the other south between Indonesia and the southern Indian Ocean.

08:19: There is some evidence of a further "partial handshake" at this time between the plane and a ground station but experts are still working on analysing this data, the Malaysian transport minister said on 25 March.

09:15: (01:15 GMT) This would have been the next scheduled automatic contact between the ground station and the plane but there was no response from the aircraft.

What happened next?

The plane's planned route would have taken it north-eastwards, over Cambodia and Vietnam, and the initial search focused on the South China Sea, south of Vietnam's Ca Mau peninsula.

But evidence from a military radar, revealed later, suggested the plane had suddenly changed from its northerly course to head west. So the search, involving dozens of ships and planes, then switched to the sea west of Malaysia.

Further evidence revealed on Saturday 15 March by the Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak suggested the jet was deliberately diverted by someone on board about an hour after takeoff.

After MH370's last communication with a satellite was disclosed, a week after the plane's disappearance, the search was expanded dramatically to nearly three million square miles, from Kazakhstan in the north to vast areas of the remote southern Indian Ocean.

Then, on 20 March, Australian search teams revealed they were investigating two objects spotted on satellite images in the southern Indian Ocean and sent long-range surveillance planes to the area, followed by further sightings. An Australian ship arrived in the area and further vessels are on their way.

At 1400 GMT on 24 March the Malaysian prime minister announced that following further analysis of satellite data it was beyond doubt that the plane had gone down in this part of the ocean.

This was based on Inmarsat and UK air accident investigators' analysis of the data relayed between the plane and ground station by satellite.

More potential debris was spotted by satellites but on 28 March the main search area was moved 1,100km (684 miles) to the north-east and closer to Australia, following further analysis of the speed of the plane and its maximum range.

Malaysian officials said that the debris could still be consistent with the new search area as ocean currents may have moved floating objects. However, no debris has yet been verified as being from the plane.

On 5-8 April, Australian and Chinese vessels using underwater listening equipmentdetected ultrasonic signals from the plane's black box flight recorders, in what appears to be the most promised lead so far.

Who was on board?

Muhammad Razahan Zamani (bottom right), 24, and his wife Norli Akmar Hamid, 33, were on their honeymoon on the missing flight. The phone is being held by his stepsister, Arni Marlina

The 12 crew members were all Malaysian, led by pilots Captain Zaharie Ahmed Shah, 53 and 27-year-old co-pilot Fariq Abdul Hamid.

Police have searched their homes and a flight simulator has been taken from the captain's home and reassembled for examination at police headquarters.

There were 227 passengers, including 153 Chinese and 38 Malaysians, according to the manifest. Seven were children.

Other passengers came from Iran, the US, Canada, Indonesia, Australia, India, France, New Zealand, Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan and the Netherlands.

Two Iranian men were found to be travelling on false passports. But further investigation revealed 19-year-old Pouria Nour Mohammad Mehrdad and Delavar Seyed Mohammadreza, 29 were headed for Europe via Beijing, and had no apparent links to terrorist groups.

Among the Chinese nationals was a delegation of 19 prominent artists who had attended an exhibition in Kuala Lumpur.

Malaysia Airlines said there were four passengers who checked in for the flight but did not show up at the airport.

The family members of those on board were informed by in person, by phone and by text message on 24 March that the plane had been lost.

OBAMA DEFENDS MALAYSIA RIGHTS STANCE

Barack Obama (L) and Najib Razak both defended Malaysia's rights record
US President Barack Obama has defended his decision not to meet Malaysia's jailed opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim during his trip to Kuala Lumpur.

Mr Obama said the decision did not indicate a lack of concern, and said that he and Prime Minister Najib Razak had spoken about human rights.

The US had condemned Mr Anwar's sodomy conviction as politically motivated.

Meanwhile, the two leaders have agreed to upgrade diplomatic ties to a "comprehensive partnership".

Mr Najib said this would entail greater collaboration on the economy, security, education, science and technology.

Mr Obama, the first serving US president to visit Malaysia for nearly 50 years, said the two countries are at the start of a "new era of partnership".

'Core belief'

The president was asked during a news conference with Mr Najib why he had not made any comment about Mr Anwar's case.

He said: "The fact that I haven't met with Mr Anwar is not indicative of a lack of concern."

Instead, he stressed that both the US and Malaysia still had work to do on civil liberties and political reform.

Mr Obama, who spent some of his childhood in neighbouring Indonesia, said he had shared with Mr Najib his "core belief" that societies that respect civil rights will be more successful in the 21st Century.

America's national security adviser Susan Rice is due to visit Mr Anwar later in the week.

President Obama toured the National Mosque in Kuala Lumpur

Mr Obama arrived in Malaysia on Saturday following stops in Japan and South Korea and ahead of a visit to the Philippines.

On Sunday morning - in hot and muggy weather - he visited the National Mosque of Malaysia in black socks, removing his shoes in keeping with protocol.

He stopped for a few moments in a prayer room with his head bowed.

Mr Obama will end his visit by speaking to young people from around South East Asia at a town hall meeting.

His visit to the region comes at a tense time as China's assertive stance in territorial disputes has its smaller neighbours on edge.

Ahead of his visit, Malaysia's government-controlled newspapers printed the US flag on their front pages, along with the words "Welcome, Mr President".