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Australia taking China to WTO over wine duties

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 19 08:04 AM

Australia is lodging a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization over China's imposition of anti-dumping duties on Australian wine exports, the government announced Saturday. Read more »

Australia may list east coast koalas as endangered

Reuters
Posted at Jun 18 01:11 PM

Scientists and academics have warned that the iconic Australian mammal could become extinct by 2050 in New South Wales. Read more »

Sydney reinstates masks to contain Delta COVID-19 variant

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 18 11:18 AM

SYDNEY - Australia's New South Wales (NSW) reverted on Friday to making the wearing of masks mandatory on public transport in Sydney, as a cluster of the highly-infectious coronavirus Delta variant expanded to a fourth person. Read more »

Nabalot sa sapot

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 17 07:00 PM

Nabalot sa sapot ang ilang bahagi ng Victoria matapos ang mga pag-ulan sa lugar.  Read more »

Major Australian banks report online outages

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 17 02:54 PM

Australia's major banks reported online outages affecting their websites and apps Thursday, and said they were urgently investigating the matter. Read more »

Major powers to welcome expansion of ASEAN security hotline

Kyodo News
Posted at Jun 15 09:50 PM

SINGAPORE - Defense ministers from the United States, China, Japan, Russia, India, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea are expected to jointly welcome ASEAN's invitation to join the group's ministerial-level hotline to help defuse regional tensions, official sources said Tuesday. Read more »

‘Worst’ mouse plague devastates farms in latest disaster to hit Australia

Andrew Leeson, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 15 06:03 AM

Plagues caused by the feral pest are not uncommon in Australia, but numbers this year have been "just astronomical," says one grain producer. Read more »

Dinosaur na kasinghaba ng basketball court!

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 10 08:22 PM

Natagpuan ang fossil ng dambuhalang dinosaur sa Queensland, Australia.  Read more »

Two Australian states on COVID-19 alert after infected woman's interstate travel

Renju Jose, Reuters
Posted at Jun 10 01:06 PM

SYDNEY - Two Australian states are on COVID-19 alert after an infected woman and her husband traveled from Victoria, the epicenter of country's latest outbreak, through the states of New South Wales and into Queensland, visiting dozens of sites enroute. Read more »

Problema sa daga

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 09 08:43 PM

Libo-libong daga ang dumagsa sa New South Wales, Australia.  Read more »

Japan, Australia raise concerns about reported abuses in China

Reuters
Posted at Jun 09 07:13 PM

TOKYO - Japan and Australia voiced "serious concerns" on Wednesday over reports of human rights abuses against Uyghur and other Muslim minorities in China's far western region of Xinjiang, but Beijing dismissed the remarks as a malicious smear. Read more »

US says to work with allies to help Pacific islands amid China rivalry

Reuters
Posted at Jun 09 07:29 AM

The US policy chief for the Indo-Pacific said on Tuesday the United States aims to work with Japan, New Zealand, Australia and others to assist island nations in the Pacific, a region of increasing strategic competition with China. Read more »

Global crackdown on organized crime after high-tech US-Australia sting

Colin Packham, Reuters
Posted at Jun 08 04:07 PM

US and Australian authorities hacked into an app used by criminals to read millions of encrypted messages, leading to hundreds of arrests of suspected organized crime figures in 18 countries, Australian officials said on Tuesday. Read more »

Australia's largest dinosaur identified as new species

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 08 03:26 PM

A gigantic dinosaur discovered in Australia's outback has been identified as a new species and recognized as one of the largest to ever roam the Earth, according to palaeontologists. Read more »

Australian police free entangled young whale off east coast

Reuters
Posted at Jun 07 03:59 PM

Australian marine police cut free a juvenile humpback whale entrapped in fishing ropes and buoys off the coast of Sydney late on Sunday. Read more »

Pope picks Filipino archbishop as new apostolic nuncio to Israel, Cyprus

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 03 10:17 PM

Pope Francis has chosen Filipino Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana as Apostolic Nuncio to Israel and Cyprus and Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine.  Read more »

Australian economy recovers to pre-pandemic levels

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 02 11:02 AM

Australia's economy has rebounded to pre-pandemic levels after growing a faster-than-expected 1.8 percent in the first quarter of the year as coronavirus restrictions eased.   Read more »

Virus lockdown in Melbourne, Australia extended

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 02 11:00 AM

MELBOURNE - A coronavirus lockdown of Australia's second-biggest city will be extended by another seven days, authorities announced Wednesday, as they attempt to stamp out a cluster of cases in Melbourne.   Read more »

China rejects torture allegations by Australian academic

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 01 08:40 PM

China on Tuesday denied an Australian academic's claims that he had been tortured in custody during his two-year detention on espionage charges. Read more »

Australian writer says 'tortured' in Chinese prison

Andrew Beatty, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 31 06:35 PM

An Australian academic on trial in China for espionage has told supporters he has been tortured in detention and still does not know which country he is accused of spying for. Read more »