JERUSALEM : Israel launched a ground operation in Gaza late Thursday to stamp out rocket attacks, the army and the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
SINGAPORE: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has expressed shocked and is sad to hear about the crash of a Malaysian Airlines plane in Ukraine, near the Russian border.
KUALA LUMPUR : Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered his condolences to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in regard to the Malaysian Airliner crash over the Ukrainian territory.
SEPANG: It will be a bleak Hari Raya Aidilfitri for Noraini Md Noor and her family as her elder sister is one of the 280 passengers on board a Malaysia Airlines (MAS), which had crashed at Donestk in the Southern Ukraine, last night.
PARIS: European airlines steered clear of Ukraine’s airspace after a Malaysia Airlines plane crashed on Thursday in the restive east of the former Soviet state.
GEORGE TOWN: Pensioner Mohamed Salleh Samsuddin thought nothing when he received a text message requesting for copies of his and his wife's MyKad on Wednesday from his daughter Nur Shazana.
KIEV : A social media site attributed to a top Ukrainian rebel commander said the insurgents had shot down an army transporter at the location where a Malaysia Airlines plane crashed Thursday near the Russian border.
ABIDJAN , Ivory Coast : At least four French nationals were on board a Malaysia Airlines flight that crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.
SEPANG: Family members of at least three passengers on board Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH17 flight which crashed near Donestk in the Southern Ukraine, have started to gather at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) here to check on the fate of their loved ones.
WILMINGTON: President Barack Obama said on Thursday the crash of a Malaysian jetliner on the border of Ukraine was a “terrible tragedy” and the United States would offer any assistance necessary to help determine what happened and why.
KIEV : A Malaysian passenger liner flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed in insurgency-wracked east Ukraine, regional officials said Thursday, as Ukraine’s president said the jet may have been shot down.
BURSA Malaysia Bhd is planning generous dividend payout totalling 36 sen for the first half of this year, on the back of a slight drop in earnings.
 KUALA LUMPUR: Being the eighth company to be listed on the Main Market of Bursa Malaysia this year has proven to be fortuitous for palm oil plantation player and property developer Tanah Makmur Bhd, as its shares debuted at an impressive RM1.60 on market opening at 9am yesterday, 35 sen higher than the offer price of RM1.25.
PROPERTY developer Tambun Indah Land Bhd will be offering a retirement village within its flagship integrated mixed project “Pearl City” in Simpang Ampat on Penang mainland.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Embassy in Ukraine has in the last few hours been tracking updates on the unnerving Malaysia Airlines plane crash near Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.