Vicky Xu, a Chinese researcher and journalist in Australia known for her reporting on the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang, China, has blamed agents acting on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for releasing a video online about her in an attempt to smear her reputation. Xu has not been accepting media interview […]

A Sydney Falun Gong practitioner is trying to change the hearts and minds of Chinese officials who are arresting people of faith, one phone call at a time. The man, who has taken time each week out of his ordinary life to make international calls to public security authorities, like police, procuratorial organs, and courts […]

ROME—There is a link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots in the brain but the possible causes are still unknown, a senior official for the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said in an interview published on Tuesday. “In my opinion, we can now say it, it is clear that there is an association […]

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has said it would continue to “carefully” monitor trends in housing borrowing after announcing it will hold the cash rate at the current record low 0.1 percent. Following the bank’s monthly meeting, RBA Governor Philip Lowe noted Australia’s economic recovery was much stronger than initially expected. However, despite the […]

TORONTO—Rogers Communications Inc. shouldn’t be allowed to buy Canada’s fourth-largest wireless service, Freedom Mobile, because it would undo attempts improve prices and services through competition, experts in telecommunications policy told MPs on Tuesday. In a third day of hearings into the Rogers proposal to buy Shaw Communications Inc., which owns Freedom and Western Canada’s largest […]

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has been removed from his position as chair of the New South Wales Net-Zero Emissions and Clean Economy Board, only a week after his appointment. Premier Gladys Berejiklian said that while she admired and respected Turnbull, his appointment “unfortunately for everyone concerned … was proving to be a distraction”. The […]

ANKARA—Turkey called in China’s ambassador on Tuesday after his embassy said it had “the right to respond” to opposition leaders who criticized the Chinese regime’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims three decades ago. The politicians, IYI Party leader Meral Aksener and Ankara mayor Mansur Yavas of the main opposition CHP, had marked what they called the […]

KYIV—President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on NATO on Tuesday to lay out a path for Ukraine to join the Western military alliance, after days in which Russia has massed troops near the conflict-hit Donbass region. Zelenskiy’s comments drew an immediate rebuke from Moscow, which said Kyiv’s approach to NATO could further inflame the situation in Donbass, […]

Qantas and Jetstar will soon restart flying to all of their pre-pandemic New Zealand destinations while also launching two new routes direct from Auckland to Cairns and the Gold Coast when the two-way Trans-Tasman bubble opens later this month. The national carrier said this would provide travellers with more options for holidays in Queensland and New […]

News Analysis NEW DELHI—Turkey seeks to gain credibility in its bid for a global caliphate by championing the Muslim cause in Kashmir, a region divided between India and Pakistan. Behind Turkey’s recent Islamist foreign policy is a history saddled between the first world war that saw the rise of a secular, westernized Turkey and the […]