A Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion flies to drop sonar buoys to assist in the acoustic search of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean. (File photo)

Australia tight-lipped on MH370 jet search funding

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, CANBERRA - Fifty-fifty, a Malaysian official said of how his country and Australia will split the bill for the increasingly massive search for the missing jetliner. Not so fast, an Australian official responded. The two nations discussed cost-sharing this week in Canberra, but Australian Transport Minister Warren Truss declined to say Friday whether his country was even considering an...

Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) pilot Flight Lieutenant Joshua Williams (left) and Flying Officer Daniel Bailey look from the cockpit of an RAAF AP-3C Orion aircraft.

Malaysia releases transcript of last words from missing plane

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, KUALA LUMPUR/PERTH  - The last words from the cockpit of a missing Malaysian jet were a standard "Good night Malaysian three seven zero", Malaysian authorities said, changing their account of the critical last communication from a more casual "All right, good night". Malaysia on Tuesday released the full transcript of communications between the Boeing 777 and local air traffic...