Australia bars entry to Vietnamese woman for failing to declare raw pork
SYDNEY – Australia has refused entry to a Vietnamese woman for failing to declare 10 kg of raw pork, seafood and poultry on arrival in Sydney, its first expulsion under…
Vietnam pulls DreamWorks’ ‘Abominable’ film over South China Sea map
HANOI – Vietnam has pulled DreamWorks’ animated film “Abominable” from cinemas over a scene featuring a map which shows China’s unilaterally declared “nine-dash line” in the South China Sea, state…
Australia to invest $1b in dams for drought-stricken region
MELBOURNE – Australia will invest $1 billion to revamp water infrastructure in rural and regional communities in the drought-stricken New South Wales. The federal and the New South Wales governments…
Senior Australian minister says China is behaving badly, draws rebuke
SYDNEY – A senior Australian government minister has said China was behaving in a way that was inconsistent with Australian values by targeting political parties and universities in Australia, drawing…
Vietnam urges restraint amid maritime tensions with China
HANOI – Vietnamese President and Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong has called for restraint in the disputed South China Sea amid a tense months-long standoff between Chinese and Vietnamese ships, state…
Choke point: Vietnam skilled labour squeezed by Sino-US trade war
HO CHI MINH CITY/HANOI – A new front has opened in the US-China trade war as companies shifting manufacturing to Vietnam engage in a fierce battle for skilled labour, aggravating…
Top Israeli court nixes house arrest for Australian sex-crime suspect
JERUSALEM – Israel’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court order that a former Australian school principal suspected of sexual assault, and who Australia is seeking to extradite, be released…
Elderly couple become first fatalities of early Australian bushfire season
MELBOURNE – The remains of an elderly couple have been found in a burned-out home in rural New South Wales state, police said, as Australia comes to grips with an…
Netherlands, Australia vow to pursue convictions for downing of MH17
SYDNEY – Australia and the Netherlands say they will pursue criminal prosecutions for those responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 that killed 298 people even if it…
Australian prosecutors argue no grounds for ex-Vatican treasurer’s final sex crimes appeal
MELBOURNE – Prosecutors have urged Australia’s High Court to refuse to hear a final appeal by former Vatican treasurer George Pell against his convictions for sexually abusing two 13-year-old boys…
