Wanted: high-tech grads to work with Aussie farmers
Parts of Australia‘s farming industry are rushing to recruit a new generation of tech-savvy graduates as the sector swaps its bucolic past for a future of drones, robots and automated…
Australia seizes record 1.4 tonne of cocaine on yacht
SYDNEY – Australian law enforcement agencies have seized a record 1.4 tonnes of cocaine worth $312 million from an Australia-bound yacht during a covert midnight operation last week, the authorities…
Dozens killed as heavy snow blankets parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan
KABUL – Parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan have struggled to dig out from heavy snow, with dozens of people reported killed and some major highways closed. Heavy snow also blanketed…
Vietnam’s freedom status, unchanged from last year
Vietnam has again been ranked as having very little political freedom by the United States watchdog Freedom House. The country’s status as one of the 49 countries graded “not free”,…
Australian army chief to meet Indonesian military leaders after spat
JAKARTA – Australian army chief Angus Campbell will meet Indonesian military leaders in Jakarta on Wednesday, after defence cooperation was suspended last month over “insulting” teaching material found at an…
US moves to resume admitting refugees, including Syrians
WASHINGTON – The US State Department has moved to begin admitting refugees, including Syrians, as soon as Monday after a federal judge blocked a Trump administration temporary ban on refugee…
Hỏi và giải đáp 205: Quá trẻ để làm mẹ? (2)
Cách đây khoảng 2 tháng, TL đã trả lời thư của nữ độc giả U về việc con gái bà (A) đang học đại học đã có bầu với bạn…
Father of Louvre attacker says son is not a terrorist
CAIRO – The father of the machete-wielding man who was shot by a guard as he tried to enter Paris’s Louvre museum has said his son was not an Islamist and…
Philippines govt says church ‘out of touch’ in attacking drugs war
MANILA – The Philippine government has derided Catholic bishops on Sunday as “out of touch” after they used weekend sermons to attack a war on drugs they said had created…
Julie Bishop says US refugee swap proceeding
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Saturday that a controversial refugee resettlement deal with the United States would go ahead, despite US immigration officials postponing interviews with asylum seekers.…
