JAKARTA: Indonesia’s government appears willing to discuss prisoner swap deals with Australia and other countries, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa reportedly said. She was also reported by local media as saying the transfer of people “is a good thing.” Natalegawa told Australian journalists during an interview in Jakarta that the country was in talks with Australia, [...]
Australians want blood. And they want a lot of it after four people on Australia’s west coast were killed by sharks in the past 7 months. The idea is that these attacks are the work of one shark who has developed a taste for human flesh. However, as Australia’s continue to mount a witch hunt [...]
Sydney (dpa) – Australian officials Wednesday defended a decision to bar Chinese telecommunications company Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from bidding on national broadband network contracts. China’s biggest private company was sidelined over concerns it could engage in hacking into sensitive networks at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party. Huawei has also been cut out [...]
Sydney (dpa) – Apple Inc offered refunds Wednesday to customers in Australia who thought their new iPad was compatible with the superfast 4G network offered by dominant local carrier Telstra Corp. The offer came after Australia’s consumer watchdog took legal action over what it said were “misleading” advertisements for the latest in the US company’s [...]
Sydney (dpa) – Australia’s consumer watchdog Tuesday threatened legal action against Apple Inc for advertising its new iPad as being 4G capable, even though it is not compatible with Australia’s 4G network. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it would apply to the Federal Court in Melbourne on Wednesday for orders against Apple [...]
Sydney (dpa) – Rio Tinto Ltd on Tuesday hung a For Sale sign on its diamond mining interests in Australia, Zimbabwe, Canada and India. “We have a valuable, high-quality diamonds business, but given its scale we are reviewing whether we can create more value through a different ownership structure,” Rio’s diamonds spokesman Harry Kenyon-Slaney said [...]
Wellington (dpa) – New Zealand’s third-ranked cabinet minister apologized Tuesday for derogatory comments about Finland after a Finnish comedian responded with a vitriolic televised attack. “If I have offended people I am sorry about that,” Gerry Brownlee, transport minister and the center-right government’s leader of the House of Representatives, told reporters at parliament. On Monday, [...]
Wellington (dpa) – New Zealand police are hunting a thief who stole two 123-year-old feathers of an extinct bird worth thousands of dollars each from a museum exhibit, a news report said Tuesday. The white-tipped tail feathers were taken from one of two stuffed huia birds in a glass case at the Gallery of History [...]
Cape Town/Sydney (dpa) – A consortium of eight African nations, led by South Africa, is competing against a joint bid from Australia and New Zealand for the right to construct the world’s biggest radio telescope. Both bids insist the competition to build the 2-billion-dollar Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope is a purely scientific one, but [...]
Wellington (dpa) – Tonga’s King George Tupou V, who died aged 63 in a Hong Kong hospital last week after fewer than six years on the throne, was laid to rest in the royal tomb on Tuesday, news reports from the capital Nukualofa said. The late king was taken to his final resting place by [...]
CAIRO: The Australian government has announced a new plan to deliver 15 scholarships to Egyptian students. Egypt’s Minister for International Cooperation and Planning Faiza Abul-Naga signed with the Australian government an agreement on short and mid-term scholarships program to Egypt in the fields of agriculture, livestock management, land reclamation, public administration and development of technical [...]
Wellington (dpa) – Finnish diplomats have asked New Zealand for an explanation after Wellington’s third-ranked minister made derogatory comments in parliament about the Scandinavian country, officials said Monday. The Finnish embassy in Canberra, which is accredited to New Zealand, sent a “please explain” letter to the Foreign Ministry about the remarks made Wednesday by Gerry [...]
Wellington (dpa) – A crisis has hit New Zealand breakfast tables: The Marmite is running out. And if you don’t know what Marmite is, you’re not a New Zealander. As the Sanitarium Health Food Co, which has made the sticky brown breakfast spread for three generations shamelessly boasts on its website, “If you’re a Kiwi, [...]
Sydney (dpa) – Hardly any children are put up for adoption in Australia these days. If you want a child, you have to look abroad. It was not like that in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, when each year thousands of unwed mothers were pressured by well-meaning midwives and social workers into giving up their [...]
Sydney (dpa) – Relying on mining for income and coal for power is keeping Australia from reshaping its high-emissions economy to prosper in a carbon-constrained world, the head of an environmental lobbying group said Wednesday. John Connor’s Climate Institute released an index that ranks countries on their ability to thrive when carbon emissions have to [...]
Sydney (dpa) – Australia on Wednesday promised to investigate the death of a Brazilian student on a Sydney street after police used a Taser gun to subdue him. Police said 21-year-old Roberto Laudisio Curti was resisting arrest early Sunday when they used the Taser and capsicum spray. Security video footage showed up to six police [...]
Sydney (dpa) – A town in northern Australia was declared a disaster zone Tuesday after a tropical storm left 60 buildings damaged but no one seriously injured. Dozens of roofs were torn off, cars flipped over, power lines brought down and trees uprooted in an early morning storm described by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh as [...]
Sydney (dpa) – A former volunteer fireman in Australia was found guilty Tuesday in the deaths of 10 people in an arson timed to make the most of bushfire conditions described at the time as “catastrophic.” The blaze set by Brendan Sokaluk, 42, on what has become known as Black Saturday in February 2009 also [...]
Sydney (dpa) – A new salt-tolerant wheat variety is increasing yields by up to a quarter in field trials in saline soils in Australia. The breakthrough is buoying hopes that farmers can harness technology to keep up with the rapidly rising global demand for food. More than a decade ago researchers at the University of [...]
Wellington (dpa) – Tongan King George Tupou V, a reformist who introduced democracy to his Pacific island state after 130 years of feudal monarchy, has died at the age of 63. The king, who died Sunday in a Hong Kong hospital, was monarch for less than six years but gave his nation of 106,000 people [...]
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