Heathrow Airport now ‘fully operational’ after fire shutdown, says spokesman

LONDON (AFP): Heathrow Airport is "fully operational", a spokesman says, a day after a fire at a power station shut down Europe's busiest air hub and caused travel mayhem. The electricity substation blaze closed the London airport for most of Friday (March 21) before some flights began to arrive and take-off later in the evening. "We can...

Heathrow shutdown affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers

LONDON (Bloomberg): Heathrow airport suffered its worst disruption in at least two decades after a nearby fire cut power to the hub and brought travel to a standstill for hundreds of thousands of passengers. The airport – the busiest in Europe and fourth most active in the world – will be closed all day Friday (March...

Flood: Over 200 electrical substations shut down in Kelantan

KOTA BHARU: A total of 230 electrical substations in eight districts in Kelantan have had their supply cut off due to flooding as of 6pm on Sunday (Dec 1). The eight districts are Pasir Mas, Machang, Kota Bharu, Tanah Merah, Pasir Puteh, Tumpat, Bachok and Kuala Krai. TNB Careline, via its Facebook page, said it did this...

Lynas to shut down M’sian ops apart from mixed rare earth carbonate plant

KUANTAN: Lynas Rare Earths will shut down its Malaysian operations, aside from its mixed rare earth carbonate (MREC) processing plant, in its December-February financial quarter. The Australian rare earth materials producer said all other operations at its plant in Gebeng here would be shut down starting from mid-November. "During the shutdown, key Malaysian cracking and leaching personnel...