John Sparks

The recovery teams are quickly losing their best opportunity to find the plane. They have to find what is left of it to have any chance of understanding what really happened.

We’re walked to the edge of the runway, where the pilot tells us what he and rest of the crew saw – or in today’s case what they didn’t see.

Last night Malaysia’s transport minister told me flight MH370’s data communication system had been deliberately disabled before the last verbal communication from the aircraft.

Once again, the Malaysian authorities offer little new information about the search for flight 370 at a well-attended press conference in Kuala Lumpur.

The head of Malaysia’s aviation authority called the disappearance of flight 370 an “unprecedented mystery” – on Tuesday the puzzle got even more perplexing.

There wasn’t much that officials from Malaysian Airlines were able to say, other than the fact that flight MH 370, “had gone missing.”

No one gets to decide where they are born, but if people had the power to choose, no one would want to be a Rohingya from north-west Burma.

Human traffickers are selling migrant workers from Cambodia and Burma for a couple of hundred dollars each to the owners of Thai fishing boats.

With the middle classes still on the streets, the embattled Thai prime minister needs a ringing endorsement from rural voters if she is to retain any authority after elections due early next month.

Asia Correspondent John Sparks finds himself in a dual with a flamboyant opposition leader in front of thousands of Thai anti-government protesters.

John Sparks meets some of the growing population of UK pensioners who have headed to Thailand’s seedy seaside resort Pattaya to ‘get busy living’.

Kim Jong-un’s execution of a family member supports claims that factionalism and rivalries are festering at the very top of North Korea’s regime.

Temporarily homeless and dismissed by opponents as a “dim-witted puppet”, Yingluck Shinawatra seems determined to hold on to power in Thailand.

The international community has called on the secretive state to close its gulags, but now it seems they are expanding them.

Traffic is at a standstill, buildings occupied and an arrest warrant has been issued for the protest leader. But no-one seems in any hurry to detain him, writes John Sparks in Bangkok.