Nina Nguyen is a reporter based in Sydney. She covers Australian news with a focus on social, cultural, and identity issues. She is fluent in Vietnamese. Contact her at [email protected].
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing, the first talk between leaders of the two countries in seven years. The two leaders shook hands on Monday night in the Great Hall of the People in China’s capital city, with Mr. Xi saying they had “worked” out some problems […]
Chinese-born Australian journalist Cheng Lei has come back to Australia after spending the last three years behind bars in China. It comes after multiple efforts by the Australian federal government to discuss the issue with Chinese authorities. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed Ms. Lei had arrived safely home in Melbourne and was reunited with […]
A popular standup comedian and YouTube personality has been blacklisted in Chinese social media after he made fun of the Chinese communist regime. Uncle Roger, a Youtube character played by British-Malaysian comedian Nigel Ng, revealed over the weekend that he lost his Bilibili and Weibo accounts, where he had 400 thousand followers. Ng suggested that […]
Australian authorities have found and secured a radioactive capsule missing in the outback of Western Australia (WA) after a frantic one-week hunt. The capsule, which is filled with Caesium-147 which emits radiation equal to 10 X-rays per hour, was located two meters off the Great Northern Highway near Newman on Wednesday morning local time. “I do want […]
Elon Musk said during a live Q&A session following the first batch release relating to the “Twitter Files” that he is not having suicidal thoughts, as some have been suggesting. The comment was a response to a question about whether the new Twitter CEO was “suicidal” because there had been lots of talk about Musk’s mental […]
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has managed to secure several bilateral agreements with Tonga on disaster relief, agriculture, fishery, health and police equipment as he reaches the backend of his ten-day trip around the Pacific. It comes after Beijing vows to continue pushing Pacific nations to join a sweeping regional security and economy deal despite […]
China inked a deal with the Pacific island nation of Samoa on Saturday to deepen diplomatic ties, as China’s ruling communist party (CCP) and democratic nations in the region continued rival campaigns to woo undecided governments into their competing sphere of influence. The China-Somoa agreement is the first deal signed by Chinese foreign minister Wang […]
Labor leader Anthony Albanese will become Australia’s 31st prime minister and the fourth person to lead Labor to government since World War II after outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison conceded defeat on May 21. With 69.9 percent of the votes counted by Sunday 5 p.m., 72 of the 151 House of Representatives seats were called […]
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has declared that the federal election will take place on Saturday, May 21. In his first pitch to Australians, officially kicking off his reelection campaign, Morrison on Sunday asked voters to focus on his cabinet’s performance during the pandemic and its contribution to post-pandemic economic recovery. He stressed that the […]
