MH370 search: Families vent anger over inquiry
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Relatives of those missing on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have vented anger at apparent mixed signals over whether part of the plane has been found.
Malaysian PM Najib Razak said experts in France had "conclusively confirmed" the wing part found on an island in the Indian Ocean was from the aircraft.
But French investigators stopped short of confirming the link, only saying it was highly likely.
Chinese relatives staged a protest outside the airline's Beijing offices.
The Boeing 777 was travelling from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March 2014 when it vanished from radar. It had 239 people on board, most of them Chinese.
'It's getting worse': China's liberal academics fear growing censorship
Professors are being banished from the classroom apparently for subscribing to ‘mistaken ways of thinking’, as Xi Jinping shatters hopes of political reform
It has been a year since Qiao Mu last set foot in the classroom; a year since officials banished the outspoken journalism professor to the library of the Beijing university where he had taught for more than a decade.
“They didn’t give me any reason,” said Qiao, who believes the move was a form of punishment for his support of ideas such as multi-party democracy and freedom of speech.
Unable to teach, he spends his days writing English summaries of textbooks and daydreaming of running for a Chinese parliament in free elections. “My colleagues and I believe that in maybe 10 or 15 years China will begin democratisation,” he said. “In 15 years I’ll be 60 – it’s still a good age for a politician.”
Isis executes 19 women in Mosul 'for refusing to take part in sexual jihad'
Opinion: The end never justifies the means
The dropping of nuclear bombs on Japanese cities 70 years ago was a crime that transformed the country from a perpetrator into a victim. For the sake of peace, Japan must face up to its past, says DW's Alexander Freund.
Hiroshima is a midsize port city located in the far west of Japan's largest island, hundreds of kilometers away from the capital Tokyo. Nagasaki is also a midsize port city, located even further to the west. Both are beautiful towns, bustling with people, but the places have no real strategic significance.
That's the present reality of these two cities, and it was no different 70 years ago. This probably also explains why the towns managed to escape the initial wrath of US bombers during World War II.
Unfortunately, that also became the reason why they were targeted later on as an ideal testing ground for the US military's new wonder weapons 70 years ago. The cities enabled the American military and scientists to precisely assess the destructive power of nuclear weapons.
Malaysian palm oil producers renew expansion push into Philippines
Malaysian palm oil producers are seeking fresh opportunities in the Philippines, aiming to build plantations in the country's southern region, where a historic peace deal has been forged between the government and Muslim rebels.
Mindanao, home to the Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group - the Moro Islamic Liberation Front - can offer land to palm oil producers looking to expand but who face a scarcity of new growing areas at home, Malaysian Palm Oil Council Chairman Lee Yeow Chor told journalists in Manila.
"In order for Malaysian planters to expand ... they have to look outside and certainly the Philippines, especially the southern Philippines, is one of the areas to look at," said Lee,who is attending a Malaysia-Philippines palm oil trade fair.
2015 is the year the old internet finally died
by Todd VanDerWerff on August 6, 2015
Here are five stories that couldn't be more different but are, at their base, animated by the same basic fears.
- After Gawker's managing partners pulled a widely derided post outing an executive at a media company who was being blackmailed by a man he had solicited, two of the publication's senior editors and many other writers resigned out of fears that the company's business side had too much influence over its editorial side.
- Just shy of its second birthday, the film criticism site the Dissolve ceased operations in mid-July 2015. Its end prompted renewed concerns for the future of film criticism as a profession.
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