Mar 24 Watch Malaysian government says Flight 370’s final satellite ping ended over the Southern Indian Ocean By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 23 Watch Turkish and Chinese Social media users bypass crackdowns By PBS News Hour Hari Sreenivasan explores the methods social media users utilize to circumvent attempts to stifle online free speech. He talks with a 16-year-old in Istanbul who is dealing with Turkey’s official ban on Twitter using a VPN, or virtual private network. Continue watching
Mar 15 Watch China demands answers from Malaysia about missing plane By PBS News Hour While relatives wait for news in a Beijing hotel, China is demanding answers from the Malaysian government about the disappearance and search for Flight 370. Orville Schell, who heads the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society talks with… Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch Window may be closing on possibility that Malaysian jetliner disappearance was aviation accident By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 13 New report says Malaysia Airlines jet stayed in air for four more hours By News Desk The Wall Street Journal reported early Thursday that U.S. investigators suspect that the missing Malaysia Airlines jet stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location. The paper reports that U.S. counterterrorism… Continue reading
Mar 12 Watch News Wrap: China spots possible debris in Malaysian jet search By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Wednesday, China reported it had images of possible debris in the South China Sea near where a Malaysian Airlines jet disappeared. Also, President Obama announced a plan to expand overtime pay to millions of salaried American… Continue watching
Mar 10 Watch How does a modern jetliner vanish without a trace? By PBS News Hour There are still many more questions than answers in the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Judy Woodruff asks former NTSB investigator Alan Diehl and former NTSB board member John Goglia to speculate on different known factors and possible… Continue watching
Mar 10 Watch ‘We are racing for life’: Chinese foreign ministry asks for help searching for Malaysian jet By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 08 Malaysia Airlines plane carrying 239 missing at sea By Kayla Ruble Rescue crews from multiple countries were still searching on Sunday for a Malaysia Airlines plane missing off the southern coast of Vietnam -- more than 20 hours after the Boeing 777-200 aircraft carrying 239 people vanished early Saturday morning. Continue reading
Mar 05 China plans to boost defense spending by 12 percent By Andy Swab The Chinese government announced Wednesday that their defense budget will increase by 12.2 percent, nearly 808 billion yuan, for the 2014 fiscal year. In U.S. dollars, China will be boosting its defense budget from $117 billion to approximately $132 billion,… Continue reading