Australia

Australia will raise a ban on citizens traveling overseas without permission, the authorities announced Wednesday, with the country's border set to open to skilled workers and international students by the year's end. More than 18 months…

MELBOURNE The junior partner in Australia’s coalition governments stated on Sunday it will provisionally help a net zero emissions goal by 2050, giving Prime Minister Scott Morrison a green mild to take the country’s updated climate…

SYDNEY Australian authorities yesterday offered Aus$1 million (US$750,000) for information leading to the discovery of a missing four-year-old girl feared abducted from a remote campsite last weekend. Cleo Smith disappeared from her…

SYDNEY Sydneysiders defied grey skies and drizzle to celebrate the end of almost 4 months of lockdown on Monday, hoping to put behind them a period of "blood, sweat and no beers" in Australia's biggest city. Sydney's more than five…

A recent spate of Chinese military flights off southwestern Taiwan has prompted alarm from the island, which Beijing claims as its own, and is increasing tensions in a region already on edge. The flights are one piece of a complex puzzle…

CANBERRA Australia’s assertion that it could not inform France of its top-secret talks with the United States and Britain to build nuclear submarines is “childish”, the French envoy to Canberra said today. Australia walked away from a…

CANBERRA Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Thursday the return of France’s ambassador to Canberra will help restore relations between the two nations which have been damaged when Australia canceled a US$40 billion (RM167…

SYDNEY A long-planned round of Australia-EU free trade talks have been postponed, a European official confirmed today, after fury over Canberra’s decision to cancel a major French submarine contract. “The FTA trade round has been…

SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday (Oct 1) announced an 18-month ban on Australians traveling abroad is lifted from next month, easing one among the toughest Covid-19 restrictions imposed globally. Reopening the…