Last week, the shareholders of popular Australian news and media outlet Fairfax agreed to a merger deal with Nine Entertainment. The agreement was reached with “overwhelming support” from both parties, and is expected to be a multi billion dollar merger. While it will most likely to bring lower media prices to Australian residents, it is unclear on how much it… Read more »
The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit usually ends with a joint communiqué, and a family photo.
A Chinese writer has been given a 10 year sentence for writing and selling a novel which featured gay sex scenes.
A 42-year-old man has died after a suspected stingray attack off the Tasmanian coast, Australian police say.
Australia’s Fairfax has got the green light from its shareholders to merge with television network Nine Entertainment in a massive shake-up of the nation’s media industry.
Last week, data miners were able to uncover security spending reports in the Xinjiang region of China, which showed a massive increase in funding. This is of concern to the global community because of the alleged Muslim internment camps that are stationed there and the potential meanings of the term “security spending”. Credible reports coming out if China suggest brutal… Read more »
A freight train was deliberately derailed after hurtling through Western Australia at high speed for 50 minutes without its driver. The 268-wagon train, owned by mining giant BHP, travelled for 92km (57 miles) with no-one on board in the outback Pilbara region on Monday.
Facebook has said it agrees with a report that found it had failed to prevent its platform being used to “incite offline violence” in Myanmar. The independent report, commissioned by Facebook, said the platform had created an “enabling environment” for the proliferation of human rights abuse.
North Korea has unveiled what’s thought to be the first official painting of Kim Jong-un, lifting the leader to a new level of personality cult.
China massively increased security spending in 2017 in the far-western region of Xinjiang, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims are alleged to have been detained, a new report says. Spending in areas “that explain nearly all security-related facility construction” rose by 213% between 2016 and 2017, said the US-based Jamestown Foundation.