2014年CRI 马航MH370水下搜索工作首度展开（在线收听）

An underwater search is now underway for the flight data recorder of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

A Chinese ship is joining an Australian submarine in the first sub-surface search for the flight's so-called black box.

The search itself is taking place in an area about 17-hundred kilometers northwest of Perth, Australia.

It comes just under a month after the flight disappeared on March 8th with 239-passangers and crew onboard.

Black-box batteries generally run out of power after around a month.

This is CRI News.

The Philippine government is now pointing the finger at the Abu Sayyaf militant group as being responsible for the kidnapping of a Chinese national this week in Malaysia.

Philippine authorities say a group of 7-men led by a known member of Abu Sayyaf kidnapped two women at gunpoint Wednesday evening from a popular tourist resort, then eluded Malaysian authorities and made their way into the Philippine Sea.

It's believed the kidnappers and their hostages are now in the southern Philippines.

Phlippine authorities have not disclosed how they've come-by this information, or whether any ransom demands have been issued.

29-year old Gao Huayun from Shanghai was on a scuba-diving trip with a friend when she was taken.