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The tariffs could hit US firms with manufacturing operations based in Vietnam. Photo: EPA-EFE
US-China trade war

Will Trump tariffs open door for China to improve ties with Vietnam?

The ‘very damaging’ move could take a heavy toll on the country and may prompt Hanoi to move to boost economic ties with its neighbour.

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Education in Hong Kong

Australian university takes Hong Kong’s lead, tightens mainland admission checks

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Australia

Australian state orders public servants ‘be physically present’, stop remote work

Icons and Influencers

Meet Matt Dawson – beyond his finger amputation for the Paris Olympics

Aussie field hockey player Matt Dawson is willing to sacrifice his finger for the chance to win gold at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, but what do we know about the man himself?

Aussie field hockey player Matt Dawson is willing to sacrifice his finger for a gold medal at Paris 2024 Olympic Games, but what do we know about the man himself? Photo: @therealmattdawson06/Instagram
Australia

The View | How Australia’s restrictive housing policy turns it into Nimby haven

Unlike in Japan, Australia’s restrictive planning rules and housing policy constrain the market’s ability to respond to rising demand.

King Charles III

King Charles’ first overseas tour since cancer to take in Australia, Samoa

The visit to Australia will be a critical moment for Britain’s king as he tries to shore up support for the monarchy at home and abroad.

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Business of climate change

How Australia is emerging as the world’s leading green hydrogen destination

In the third of a four-part series on green hydrogen, Eric Ng and Yujie Xue look into start-ups that are working on creating the infrastructure and technology to take the low-carbon fuel mainstream.

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International Property

Australia’s tighter immigration policy poses risk to luxury home market

Canberra’s withdrawal of a golden visa scheme and its decision to cap its migrant intake could hurt high-end home sales as Asian buying could shrink.

Profile

His cold-case crime podcasts bring justice for murdered Australian women

Hedley Thomas, investigative journalist and author, tells Kate Whitehead about sleeping beside his police scanner, marrying in Hong Kong, and the power of podcasts such as his true-crime series.

Australia

Shangri-La Dialogue: China-Australia ‘peace’ undeterred by Yellow Sea skirmish

Despite skirmishes, “vast bulk of interactions that the Chinese navy has with Australia’s are safe and professional”, Australia’s defence minister Richard Marles says.

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Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles speaks at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore. Photo: Reuters
Australia

Before marsupials, Australia ‘was a land of furry egg-layers’, scientists find

Scientists have found evidence of what they called an ‘Age of Monotremes’ some 100 million years ago in Australia, according to research published on Monday.

Australia’s platypus and four species of echidna are the only living monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. Photo: Shutterstock
Australia

Ex-US Marine accused of training Chinese pilots can be extradited: Sydney judge

Daniel Duggan was arrested in Australia in October 2022 at the request of the US government, which accuses him of breaking arms control laws, by illegally training Chinese military pilots after he left the military.

Australia

My Take | Friend or foe: Australia should keep China close, not push it away

Blocking or reducing interaction with China or other countries only reduces Australia to a petty, hollow state that is susceptible to misunderstandings.

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Fame and celebrity

Meet Lachlan Murdoch’s glamorous model wife of 25 years, Sarah Murdoch

Lachlan Murdoch’s wife Sarah was one of the fashion world’s most successful models in her heyday, and tried her hand at acting too – here’s what you need to know about her

Lachlan Murdoch and Sarah Murdoch have been married for 25 years. Photo: VF20/WireImage
Fifa

Corruption scandal hits Australian soccer, captain accused of fixing yellow cards

Ulises Davila and fellow players Kearyn Baccus and Clayton Lewis formally charged and granted bail, with Davila scheduled to appear in court on June 24.

Macarthur captain FC Ulises Davila is accused of paying two players to deliberately pick up yellow cards. Photo: EPA-EFE
Australia

Australia under fire for ‘appalling’ handling of the end of investor visa scheme

A total of 110,000 migration places will be cut under new measures announced in Australia’s budget.

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Singapore

Little miracles, large expense: Asia’s multibillion-dollar baby-making industry

From Singapore and Malaysia to Australia, New Zealand and the China-focused clinics of Thailand, would-be parents are finding fertility treatments can take their financial, physical and emotional toll.

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China-Australia relations

Australian wine returns to China, but ‘good old days’ gone and adversity remains

After Beijing’s recent lifting of crippling wine tariffs that had been in effect since early in the pandemic, Chinese customers will need to be convinced to buy new stocks of Australian wine.

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China last month lifted its punitive tariffs on Australia’s wine exports, signaling an end to an extended campaign of trade pressure on Canberra and raising hopes for a revival of the industry. Photo: EPA-EFE
Australia

Sydney bishop stabbed during service backs X’s legal case to share attack video

Musk has accused Australia of censorship, while Australian lawmakers have accused Musk of arrogance and a lack of social responsibility.

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Luxury Hotels

Review | Checking into W Sydney in Darling Harbour, the largest W hotel in the world

With 588 rooms, the hotel has suites that wow and an aesthetic that leans into the urban grit of its surroundings – without losing the luxurious touch

Australia

In Australia, crowds join Bondi Beach memorial for mall stabbing victims

The killings have stunned many Australians, who are largely unaccustomed to such violent crime: ‘I feel like this has burst Australia’s bubble a bit’.

Mourners hold a candlelight vigil on Sunday at Sydney’s Bondi Beach to remember victims of a knife attack at a nearby shopping centre. Photo: AP
Australia

Sydney attacks stoke Islamophobia, antisemitism as social tensions unravel

Two stabbing incidents involving a man and a teenager have put Australia’s social tensions under the spotlight.

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People on Thursday view the floral tributes for victims of the stabbing attacks which killed several people at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney, Australia. Photo: Reuters
Australia

‘You are my son, I love you’: stabbed Sydney bishop forgives attacker

Emmanuel, who was slashed in the head and chest during the attack at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church, said he was recovering quickly.

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Sydney church stabbing was religiously motivated terrorism: police

Australian police said Monday’s attack at an Assyrian Christian church in Sydney was motivated by suspected religious extremism.

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Sydney police arrest man who stabbed bishop in church, injured several people

Social media footage show the man approaching a cleric at the altar identified as the bishop and appearing to stab him repeatedly in the head and upper body.

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New South Wales police guard the perimeter of the Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Sydney’s western suburb of Wakeley, after several people were stabbed in the church premises. Photo: AFP
Australia

Young Chinese student among 5 women killed in Sydney mall knife attack

The last of Joel Cauchi’s six victims was identified on Monday as Yixuan Cheng, a young Chinese woman who was a student. Police say the killer appeared to target women.

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A man reacts near a makeshift memorial outside the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in tribute to the victims of a stabbing spree there on Saturday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Australia

‘Proud of her’: Sydney officer who shot dead mall attacker praised for courage

Inspector Amy Scott was in the shopping centre while the attack unfolded and confronted the man after being directed towards him by onlookers.

Australia

‘Killing spree’: 6 die in Sydney mall stabbing, attacker killed by policewoman

Australian PM Anthony Albanese called the officer who shot the culprit a hero. A nine-month-old baby was reported to be among those targeted, with the infant’s mother said to be among the dead.

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