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Skymark flight delayed after pilot tested positive for alcohol
Published on 14/11/2018
» TOKYO: Skymark Airlines said on Wednesday its 8.40am flight from Tokyo's Haneda airport to Sapporo in northern Japan was delayed for 23 minutes after alcohol was detected on the breath of the plane's American pilot.
Kansai airport resumes domestic flights after typhoon
Published on 07/09/2018
» OSAKA: Domestic flights at Kansai international airport resumed on Friday with the first air service in three days departing for Niigata, after the main gateway to western Japan was closed due to a powerful typhoon earlier this week.
'Strongest typhoon in 25 year' aims at Japan
Kyodo News, Published on 04/09/2018
» TOKYO: A powerful typhoon is headed towards Japan's southern Pacific coast and is likely to rip through western Japan on Tuesday, with the national weather agency warning it may be the strongest typhoon to make landfall in 25 years.
AirAsia X plane makes emergency landing
Kyodo News, Published on 26/02/2018
» NAHA, Japan: A plane operated by Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia X made an emergency landing at Naha airport early Monday due to engine trouble, but no one was injured, the transport ministry said.
Tokyo experiences coldest day in 48 years
Published on 25/01/2018
» TOKYO: Temperatures in central Tokyo dropped as low as minus 4°C on Thursday morning, the lowest in the capital for 48 years.
Police nab Pakistani passport forger with IS links
AFP, Published on 19/01/2018
» A Pakistani passport forger whose fakes may have been sold to Islamic State operatives has been arrested in Thailand, police said Friday, ending a career that helped people slip into Europe illegally.
Malaysia Airlines flight shakes violently, lands safely
Associated Press, Published on 19/01/2018
» SYDNEY: A Malaysia Airlines plane landed safely in an Australian Outback city after the plane started shaking violently in mid-flight and passengers braced for a hard landing.
Six dead, transport cancelled by huge Europe storms
Published on 19/01/2018
» BERLIN: Violent gales battered northern Europe and beyond Thursday, snapping air and train links and leaving six people dead.
Second giant panda cub born in Malaysia
AFP, Published on 17/01/2018
» A giant panda loaned to Malaysia from China has given birth to a second cub during its stay in the Southeast Asian country, zoo officials said Wednesday.
'True artist' O'Riordan, Cranberries vocalist, dies at 46
Associated Press, Published on 16/01/2018
» LONDON: Dolores O'Riordan, whose urgent, powerful voice helped make Irish rock band The Cranberries a global success in the 1990s, died suddenly on Monday at a London hotel. She was 46.