Dr M nyanyi, Siti pun terkesima

KELIHATAN seperti penyanyi pujaan Malaysia, Siti Nurhaliza terkesima selepas mendengar Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad melantunkan suara ketika menyanyikan lagu popular dari Frank Sinatra.

Dalam sebuah majlis 11 September lalu di sebuah dewan, bekas Perdana Menteri tersebut dirakam bersama Siti di atas satu pentas dan menyanyikan lagu 'I did it my way' secara duet.

Kedengaran hadirin juga bersorak riang dan memberi tepukan gemuruh atas kehebatan Dr Mahathir menyanyi.

Rakaman tersebut dimuatnaik ke laman YouTube dan menari perhatian lebih 10,057 penonton.
"Ini bukan duet, tapi sapu bersih. Datuk Siti Nurhaliza jadi penyanyi bantuan pula. Terbaik la Tun M!" kata Ali.

"Tetiba rasa sebak dengar Tun menyanyi. Moga dipanjangkan usia dan ketenangan hari. Akan tiada gantinya seorang pemimpin terulung," kata Anak Malaysia.

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MH370 families still waiting for official statement after Reunion debris find

Selamat Omar, father of a MH370 passenger, says he is not too hopeful the Reunion Island wreckage belongs to MH370. – Reuters filepic, July 31, 2015.Relatives of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 passengers are still waiting for official confirmation from the authorities on the discovery of a debris in La Reunion Island on Wednesday, which could be from the ill-fated aircraft.

For Selamat Omar, 60, father of passenger Mohd Khairul Azmi, he was not too hopeful the wreckage belonged to MH370 as the distance was too far from the search area in the Indian Ocean.
"Nonetheless I am leaving it all to the government and investigators, whatever they say, I accept. If the debris is from MH370, then I am thankful," he said today.

Selamat said MAS has been keeping them informed on each latest development on MH370.
"MAS contacted me on the current development in the search for MH370 including the debris found two days ago."

As for Kelvin Shim, 39, husband of MH370 flight attendant Christine Tan, he was confused whether the debris found could really be part of the ill-fated aircraft since the investigation was still going on.
"Actually I don't know whether the debris found in Reunion Island is part of the aircraft. If it is proven to be part of it, I would really like to go there myself."

He also said that MAS sent him two emails yesterday and today to inform him about the latest development and one of the emails contained a letter said to be from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.

"They called me to check whether I have received the emails or not and they kept updating and said they would try their best to get the first hand news to us."

For the eldest daughter of MH370 chief steward Andrew Nari, Maira Elizabeth Nari, 19, she hoped for something assuring on the latest discovery.

"I am jittery over the outcome of the investigation team on the find."

She described the latest development on MH370, which was disseminated via social websites as something not credible, but she would leave it to the authorities to investigate.

On Wednesday, several images of a wreckage believed to be the flap of a Boeing 777 on social media gave new hopes in the search for the missing MH370 aircraft.

Airlive.net, a website on aviation industry news and information tweeted a picture of a wreckage and uploaded the status "Broken piece of wing found on La Reunion Island, could that be the flap of #MH370?"
Flight MH370 vanished from the radar at about midnight on March 8 last year while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members. – Bernama, July 31, 2015.

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Model pergerakan boleh jadi petunjuk baru pencarian MH370

KUALA LUMPUR: Model pergerakan bahagian pesawat boleh menjadi petunjuk kepada pencarian Penerbangan Malaysia MH370, kata Kapten (B) Rahmat Omar, Bekas Penyiasat Penerbangan TUDM.
Menurut beliau, daripada model pergerakan itu, siasatan mungkin akan dapat difokuskan dengan lebih baik lagi di kawasan pencarian yang ada sekarang.

"Apa yang perlu dilakukan ialah melihat kembali drift model (model pergerakan) berdasarkan kepada bahagian pesawat yang ditemui, berat dan sebagainya, dan lihat berapa lama ia telah hilang serta punca bahagian ini sebenarnya mula bergerak 17 bulan yang lalu," katanya kepada Astro AWANI.
Bagaimanapun katanya, semua pihak perlu menunggu dengan lebih lanjut lagi pengesahan daripada pasukan penyiasat di Perancis.

BACA: Serpihan di Pulau Reunion milik MH370? Apa yang diketahui setakat ini

Pasukan pencarian Australia pada Jumaat berkata mereka 'berkeyakinan tinggi' sisa pesawat yang dijumpai di Pulau Reunion, berhampiran Madagascar pada Khamis adalah dari pesawat MH370 dan proses identifikasi akan diperolehi dalam masa 24 jam.

Timbalan Perdana Menteri Australia, Warren Truss memaklumkan penemuan serpihan pesawat Malaysia Airlines (MAS) MH370 adalah konsisten dengan kawasan pencarian sebelum ini.

Sejak dilaporkan terputus hubungan pada Mac tahun lalu, pasukan pencari tidak menjumpai serpihan pesawat MH370.

Kerajaan Malaysia kemudiannya mengisytiharkan kesemua 298 penumpang dan anak kapal yang berada di dalam pesawat berkenaan telah terkorban.

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Tiga tentera Arab Saudi maut akibat serangan Yaman

RIYADH: Seramai tiga tentera Arab terbunuh dan tujuh pengawal sempadan cedera akibat serangan Yaman hari ini, kata agensi berita Arab, SPA.

Serangan berlaku di Dhahran Aljanoub, daerah Saudi di rantau sempadan Aseer, kata SPA memetik jurucakap keselamatan di kementerian dalam negeri.

Kenyataan itu tidak menyatakan siapa yang bertanggungjawab ke atas serangan, tetapi pemberontak Houthi dan pasukan yang setia kepada bekas Presiden Yaman, Ali Abdullah Saleh pernah melakukan serangan yang sama sebelum ini.

Agensi berita Saba, yang dikendalikan Houthi berkata awal semalam bahawa mereka melancarkan roket di beberapa kawasan sempadan Arab, termasuk Aseer.

SPA berkata tentera darat memberi maklum balas kepada serangan itu dan memusnahkan pelancar peluru berpandu.

Pasukan Arab dan Houthi mula berbalas tembakan merentasi sempadan sejak perikatan Arab mula beroperasi. - REUTERS

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