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A woman kneels and prays at a flower memorial to shooting victims outside the Bondi Pavilion at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, on December 15 last year. Photo: AP
Australia

Albanese: Canberra to join Australia’s gun buy-back programme after Bondi attack

Australia’ capital territory, home of the capital Canberra, has agreed to a scheme which will tighten checks for gun licences and crack down on hate.

My Life

From Perth to the Pyramids, St Helena to Cheung Chau – 50 years of extraordinary travel

International Property

Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong homebuyers flock to Australia. What drives the rush?

Australia

Vandal demands peanut butter sandwich to end Australian bridge stand-off

Police believe the bridge climber is the serial vandal responsible for the Pam the Bird graffiti appearing across Melbourne.

A man gestures from the top of the eastern pylon of the Bolte Bridge in Melbourne on Tuesday. Photo: EPA
China travel

How China’s visa-free boom is reshaping tourism beyond major cities

A growing number of foreign travellers are taking advantage of looser rules to venture inland, fuelling a shift away from traditional hotspots.

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Hong Kong transport

Cathay Pacific says sorry to actor Wu Chun over 3-day luggage delay ordeal

Online posts by the Mandopop star, who was earlier featured in the airline’s promotional campaign, trigger backlash against carrier.

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Architecture and design

Taichung’s Green Museumbrary: putting civic spaces under one striking roof

Taiwan’s first park-situated library-museum hybrid blends culture, learning and green urban design in a stunning LAM-style landmark.

The entrance to the Taichung Green Museumbrary, a merger of the Taichung Art Museum and Taichung Public Library. Photo: © Iwan Baan
Australia

US military plans permanent war-ready weapons stockpile in Australia

US Navy documents show advanced planning for a large stockpile, with US$30 million allocated to build warehouses and offices in Victoria.

Australia

Inside Australia’s first major new airport in more than 50 years

Western Sydney Airport in Badgerys Creek will operate 24 hours a day, unlike its current counterpart, which is subject to noise regulations.

China manufacturing

Boring China: how Chinese firms are creating a new breed of tunnelling machine

Huge machine is the largest of its kind exported by China and will cut through a complex environment to create a 6.5km six-lane tunnel.

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The “Patyegarang“, an ultra-large diameter tunnel boring machine developed by CR16 Equipment, a subsidiary of China Railway Group Limited, will be used to construct Sydney’s Western Harbour Project. It sets a new record for the excavation diameter of tunnel boring machines exported from China. Photo: Handout
China-Africa relations

Will Zimbabwe’s lithium strategy help it break into the value-adding game?

Arcadia starts processing Chinese lithium in hopes of snapping the ‘digging and shipping’ cycle following Harare’s raw mineral export ban.

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A worker inspects an open cast at the Arcadia lithium mine in Goromonzi, Zimbabwe. Photo: Getty Images
International Property

AI boom fuels US$11.6b data centre investment surge in Asia-Pacific

Adoption remains selective as some landlords are still cautious, especially when tenant credit profiles are less established.

Australia

Melbourne-US Qantas flight diverted after man bites crew member

The disruptive passenger was slapped with a no-fly ban on all Qantas planes.

Aviation accidents

‘Miraculous’ rescue off US coast as 11 survive crash and 5-hour sea ordeal

Rescuers hoist final survivor into helicopter with just minutes of fuel remaining as a thunderstorm approached.

The survivors being hoisted to safety. Photo: US Air Force via AP)
US-China relations

Why today’s ‘unravelled’ international order echoes the lead-up to WWI

Dangerous pre-war conditions are here following raft of unilateral actions taken by Trump administration, ex-senior White House adviser says.

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US President Donald Trump, backed by his Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth (centre) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, has taken a raft of unilateral actions leaving the international order altered. Photo: Reuters
Australia

Islamic State-linked Australian women charged with keeping slave in Syria

The mother and daughter, accused of ‘crimes against humanity’, were arrested in Melbourne after travelling from a Syrian detention camp.

Science

Handle with care: Chinese study finds aquatic virus can infect human eyes

Handling seafood with bare hands or eating it raw said to increase risk of exposure to pathogen first found in shrimp.

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Australia

Australia warns of arrests as 13 people linked to Isis set to return from Syria

The four women and nine children, who had been living in Roj camp in Syria, are expected to land in Sydney and Melbourne on Thursday.

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Members of Australian families at Roj camp prepare to leave for Damascus as part of a second repatriation effort by Syrian authorities on April 24. Photo: AP
China trade

Despite loss of Panama Canal, China investing US$23.9b in global seaports: study

Beijing funds 363 ports outside the Panama Canal to safeguard against East-West decoupling and US bid to curb China’s supply chain influence.

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Cambodia

Opinion | Cambodia’s scam factory survivors find no escape in freedom

A government crackdown freed thousands, but with no passports or support, survivors have simply traded captivity for destitution.

China travel

Japan out, Australia in? China’s tourists heading down under for Lunar New Year

Bookings projected to surge on new flights, flexible itineraries and ease of payment.

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Chinese tourists are projected to visit Australia in increasing numbers over the extended Lunar New Year break, with China Trading Desk expecting a 20 per cent increase over the same period in 2025. Photo: Reuters
Australia

Australia demands answers from Laos over methanol poisoning ‘injustice’

While 10 were convicted of destroying evidence, not a single person has been charged in connection with the deaths of two Melbourne teens.

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Bianca Jones (left) and Holly Morton-Bowles were among six tourists who died after drinking tainted cocktails in Laos in 2024. Photo: Handout
Australia

Australian drug lord Tony Mokbel walks free: ‘I don’t regret anything’

The court dropped a planned retrial for the Melbourne mobster, who inspired the ‘Underbelly’ TV series, after the police informant scandal.

Australia

Record heat in Australia, as temperatures near 50 degrees Celsius

Authorities urge caution as temperatures soar, fuelling out of control fires.

Australia

Manhunt under way after deadly shooting in Australia leaves 3 dead

Shooting comes on a National Day of Mourning as Australia remembers 15 people shot dead in Sydney at a Hanukkah celebration on December 14.

Emergency services were called to a Lake Cargelligo address, a town of about 1,500, after reports of a shooting, police said. Photo: ABC News Australia
Australia

Australia probes after car with Hanukkah sign torched in Christmas Day attack

The vehicle was scorched by the ‘suspicious fire’ while parked in a house driveway in Melbourne.

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Australian police officers patrol near beachgoers at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Thursday. Photo: AFP
Asia housing and property

The View | Asia’s housing affordability squeeze shows no signs of slowing

Some of the sharpest increases in property values are in economies facing major headwinds or those suffering from an acute shortage of affordable housing.

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Australia

Australian TikTokker gives widowed US cashier, 88, gift of retirement

Ed Bambas took a cashier job at 82 to cope with grief and bills after his wife’s death, but a stranger’s kindness has changed everything.

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