In new success for Asian Football Confederation: Australia and New Zealand to host 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup
ZURICH: The world’s biggest women’s football event will return to Asia, after Australia and New Zealand were confirmed as the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup co-hosts on Thursday. The FIFA Council selected the historic joint bid ahead of an application from Colombia by a margin of 22 votes to 13, meaning an AFC Member Association […]
ASEAN, Australia unite to address human-trafficking issues
Bangkok: Australia and Asean today launched an 80 million Australian dollars counter-trafficking initiative to reinforce regional cooperation in combating human trafficking. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the new 10-year programme was another initiative to ensure stringent punishment and protection on the rights of victims of human trafficking in the region. “We (Australia) have […]
Lotte Duty Free enters Australian, New Zealand markets
Lotte Duty Free said Monday that it has opened stores in Australia and New Zealand, making it the first South Korean duty-free operator to make inroads into the Oceanian region. A ceremony to mark the opening of the tax-exempted retail outlet at Brisbane International Airport was held on Monday (local time), the duty-free arm of […]
Australia and South Korea: Strengthening Middle-Power Bonds
Australia-South Korea relations, although strong, have never quite reached their full potential, and it’s time that they did — economically, in people-to-people social and cultural terms, and above all, given the present fraught and fragile regional environment, in political and security terms. That will be the theme of my talk today, taking each of these […]
Media cooperation highlights China-Australia ties
By Bao Jie from People’s Daily China-Australia ties will be further intensified as their media cooperation increases following the signing of a series of agreements in Sydney on Friday. Senior officials from both sides, including Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and Gary Quinlan, Deputy Secretary of Department of […]
Australian sinologists positive on ties with China
By Li Feng from People’s Daily China and Australia should intensify collaboration in politics, economy, culture as well as peoples based on their current sound ties, Australian experts on Chinese studies expressed their optimism over bilateral ties at a symposium held in Sydney on Friday. “Australia-China relations are good overall”, said Jeffrey Riegel, Director of […]
[World Report] Scientists: Indo-Autralian plate boundary may be breaking up
![[World Report] Scientists: Indo-Autralian plate boundary may be breaking up](http://www.theasian.asia/wp-content/themes/city-desk/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theasian.asia%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2FSEQmapFinal_300dpi-reduced-800x670.jpg&q=90&w=160&h=106&zc=1 "[World Report] Scientists: Indo-Autralian plate boundary may be breaking up")
Nature Journal on Wednesday (Sept 26) published three papers on scientists finding of hint of new tectonic plate boundary. A pair of earthquake that occurred in the Indian Ocean on 11 April 2012 signaled the latest step of the formation according to the Nature. Seismologists have suspected since 1980s that the Indo-Australian plate may be […]
[Indonesia Report] Illegal immigrants escape Indonesian detention facility
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Some 20 illegal immigrants from Middle East countries again escaped from the East Java Immigration Detention Center’s temporary detention facility in Madiun, East Java, Indonesia on Friday (Sept 14). They escaped through window, climbed a wall and then moved onto the roof of a house next to the hotel used as the immigration temporary detention […]
Fire Works over the Sydney Harbor Bridge
Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a pyrotechnic show to celebrate the upcoming New Year in Sydney Cove, Australia, Dec. 31, 2011. <Photo: Xinhua/Jin Linpeng> news@theasian.asia
Couple Kisses for the Celebration of X-mas
The shadow of a kissing couple is projected on the wall of the St. Paul’s Cathedral in Melbourne, Australia,on Dec. 24, 2011. <Photo: Xinhua/Bai Xue> news@theasian.asia
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