Author: Rod Mcguirk
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Taylor Swift struck a deal with Singapore not to perform in any other Southeast Asian country
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Taylor Swift is stealing the show at an Asian summit where Singapore’s leader has been forced to defend his tiny country’s lucrative and exclusive concert deal with the singer that could cause bad blood with neighboring nations
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Singapore’s prime minister says a South China Sea code of conduct will take time
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Singapore’s prime minister says Southeast Asian countries’ quest to reach agreement with China on a code of conduct in the contested South China Sea will take time, with difficult issues yet to be resolved despite recent efforts to accelerate the process
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China and Myanmar likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia
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An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia for a rare summit this week
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Australian Parliament wants WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back home, not sent to US
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he hopes for an amicable end to the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after lawmakers pssing a motion calling for the Australian citizen to be allowed to return to his home country
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Proposing on Valentine’s Day, Albanese becomes Australia’s first leader to get engaged in office
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Anthony Albanese has become first Australian prime minister to get engaged in office
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Australia to ban doxxing after pro-Palestinian activists publish information about hundreds of Jews
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The Australian government says will outlaw doxxing – the malicious release online of personal or identifying information without the subject’s permission – after pro-Palestinian activists published personal details about hundreds of Jewish people in Australia
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Australia’s most powerful cyclone in 8 years to cross coast
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CANBERRA, Australia • A tropical cyclone nearing Australia is forecast to be the most powerful storm in eight years to hit the country, bringing wind gusts of up to 196 mph as it crosses the northwest coast, meteorologists said Thursday. Cyclones are common along the sparsely populated Pilbara coast of Western Australia state and fatalities…
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Thousands evacuate in worst Australian floods in a decade
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BRISBANE, Australia • Tens of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate their homes by Tuesday and hundreds of thousands more were told to prepare to flee as parts of Australia’s southeast coast were inundated by the worst flooding in more than a decade. At least 10 people have died. New South Wales Premier Dominic…
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Firefighting plane crashes in Australia, killing 3 Americans
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SYDNEY • Three American firefighting airplane crew members were killed Thursday when the C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker they were in crashed while battling wildfires in southeastern Australia, officials said. New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed the deaths in the state’s Snowy Monaro region, which came as Australia grapples with an unprecedented fire season…
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Australia: Wildfire smoke stokes health fears in cities
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CANBERRA, Australia • Fire alarms have been sounding in high-rise buildings across downtown Sydney and Melbourne as dense smoke from distant wildfires confuse electronic sensors. Modern government office blocks in the Australian capital Canberra have been closed because the air inside is too dangerous for civil servants to breathe. The sun has glowed an eerie…