Smoggy Lunar New Year expected in northern China
BEIJING – China expects a smoggy Lunar New Year in Beijing and its northern industrial heartland just two weeks after it was blanketed in toxic smog which caused traffic chaos,…
Malaysian transport minister to meet with MH370 families in Perth
SYDNEY – Malaysia’s transport minister said he will meet relatives of passengers from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in Perth on Monday, after being lobbied by a group representing families…
Gladys Berejiklian appointed NSW Premier, replacing Mike Baird
SYDNEY – Australia‘s most populous state and biggest state economy, New South Wales, has appointed a new leader who is expected to continue infrastructure investment through privatisation. Gladys Berejiklian, a former…
North Korea nuclear threat means South must not delay anti-missile system
SEOUL – Acting South Korean President Hwang Kyo-ahn said on Monday the deployment of a United States anti-missile defence system can not be delayed in the face of a growing…
China claims success from ‘two-child’ policy as 2016 birth rates rise
SHANGHAI – China’s decision to allow all couples to have two children instead of one has resulted in birth rates rising to the highest level since 2000, a government official…
Singer Madonna defends ‘blowing up the White House’ remark
WASHINGTON – Pop singer Madonna, who said in a profanity-laced speech at Saturday’s Women’s March in Washington, DC, that she had thought about “blowing up the White House,” said on…
Melbourne Park carnage as top seeds topple
MELBOURNE – The whiff of sporting upset hung around Melbourne Park on Sunday after top seeds Andy Murray and Angelique Kerber were handed stunning defeats in the Australian Open fourth…
People missing from avalanche-hit hotel in Italy rise to 24
PENNE, Italy – Twenty-four people are missing from the wreckage of a hotel in central Italy that was flattened by a deadly avalanche, with difficult research and rescue operations still…
Vietnam police arrest dissident for propaganda against state
HANOI – Police in Vietnam have arrested a dissident for posting anti-state material on the internet, as part of an ongoing crackdown on critics of the Southeast Asian country’s Communist rulers.…
Fifth person dies after Melbourne car attack
Australian police say a baby boy has become the fifth person to die after a 26-year-old man drove a car into a crowd of pedestrians on a busy street in Melbourne.…
