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Australians are spending $12 billion a year on their pet animals
Australians are spending $12 billion a year on food, grooming, vets and insurance for their animals, making the pet care industry one of the major growth hot spots of the country’s business sector. → Read More
China objects to US ‘risk’ after Darwin port polling
China insists the 99-year lease of Darwin’s port is a normal commercial operation that poses no security risk to Australia and claims that allowing the US to exercise its B-1 bombers in the Top End is a risk to regional stability. → Read More
North Korea bomb: US set to unleash show of force
South Korea was last night in talks with the US about a show of force that could see the arrival of shynuclear-powered submarines and warplanes to the Korean peninsula, a day after the North claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb. → Read More
China to build new aircraft carrier, move likely to inflame tensions
China has confirmed it is building a second aircraft carrier in a move that is likely to further inflame tensions with its regional rivals over the South China Sea. → Read More
China may split PLA into five regions
China’s People’s Liberation Army could be broken up into five special regions, with a renewed focus on North Korea and Xinjiang as part of a military shake-up. → Read More
One-child policy horrors live on in those destroyed by forced surgery
Zhang Wenfang was dragged from her home to endure a forced abortion when she was nine months pregnant for breaching China’s one-child policy. → Read More
Hong Kong leader ‘determined to restore social order’ as pro-democracy protests continue
HONG Kong is facing a final showdown, with the city’s leader vowing to clear anti-democracy protesters from the streets by tomorrow. → Read More
HK govt denies it used triads after violent protest attacks
HONG Kong’s top police official has rejected claims the government and authorities worked with dangerous triads to engineer violent attacks on pro-democracy movement supporters. → Read More
Chinese fund to splash $3bn on Australian agriculture
CHINESE investment in Australian agriculture is set to boom, with the Chinese-government owned Beijing Agricultural Investment Fund yesterday committing to spend $3 billion on Australian dairy, beef, lamb and aquaculture assets. → Read More
‘Red envelopes’ guarantee positive coverage for Chinese firms: journalists arrested in crackdown
CHINA’S anti-corruption campaign has reached the media sector, with journalists arrested for allegedly blackmailing corporations to pay for positive coverage in a newspaper read by millions. → Read More
China to ramp up gas use to cut pollution
THE Chinese government has launched an ambitious program to almost double its gas consumption in the next six years, as it steps up the fight against the nation’s worsening pollution crisis. → Read More
Palmer’s apology to China a good move but FTA may still be affected
CLIVE Palmer’s apology to Chinese people for calling them “mongrels” who “shoot their own people” should have been made last week. → Read More
Beijing lashes ‘absurd’ Clive Palmer
THE Chinese government has officially condemned Clive Palmer’s racist outburst, in which he claimed Chinese people were “mongrels” and “bastards’’ who “shot their own people”. → Read More
CBA to open county bank in rural China
THE Commonweath Bank will today open a new county bank in rural China as its attempts to build an extensive network to capitalise upon the nation’s next phase of regional economic growth. → Read More
Chinese government calls Clive Palmer attack absurd
THE Beijing government has officially condemned Clive Palmer’s outburst in which he claimed Chinese were “mongrels” who “shot their own people”. → Read More
Business counts the fallout from Clive Palmer China tantrum
LONG-serving business leader Kevin Li believes Clive Palmer’s racist outburst could hurt Australia’s ability to compete with the rest of the world to benefit from China’s future economic growth and international development. → Read More
China state media calls for Palmer to be punished for ‘mongrels’ insult
CHINESE state media has called for Clive Palmer to be ‘punished’ for his racist outburst against “Chinese mongrels” which many experts fear will hurt the investment, business and political relationship between Australia and its largest trading partner. → Read More
Australian business leaders in China urged to ignore Palmer diatribe
AUSTRALIAN business leaders in China have urged their counterparts to ignore the racist outbursts of Clive Palmer and Jacqui Lambie and called for stronger political and diplomatic ties between the two countries. → Read More
China declares 100-day drug war: cracks down on methamphetamine, crime epidemic
THE Chinese government has ordered a 100-day crackdown on drugs in Beijing as it battles to control a growing epidemic of methamphetamine use and an associated spike in crime. → Read More
‘Earthquake baby’ has become a poignant symbol of hope for rescuers
A CHINESE woman who gave birth to “earthquake baby” after she was trapped under her collapsed home in a remote part of Yunnan has become a symbol of hope for rescuers who yesterday admitted the “golden hours” to find survivors were fading. → Read More