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‘We are Hong Kong’: can the Olympics sidestep the politicisation of sport in China?
Identity in focus ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics after Hong Kong’s most successful summer Games inflamed old…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian education, Australian foreign policy, Australian universities, Bangladesh, Higher education, South and Central Asia, Universities
International students locked out of Australia by pandemic switch to UK and US
With Australia’s borders all but closed, many young people who long dreamed of an antipodean education are goi…
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Australian Uighur man reunited with wife and son who had been under house arrest in China since 2017
Sadam Abudusalam met his three-year-old son for the first time when he landed in SydneyAn Australian Uighur ma…
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Behrouz Boochani’s book, No Friend But The Mountains, to be made into a film
Kurdish Iranian writer says the film will bring more attention to Australia’s brutal immigration detention reg…
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Peter Singer event cancelled in New Zealand after outcry over disability stance
Venue says Singer’s beliefs – which include that parents should be allowed to euthanise disabled newborns – ‘d…
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Coronavirus latest updates: China cuts death toll after ‘double-counting’ – live news
Statistical error led to more than 100 deaths being counted twice, national health commission saysShare your e…
- Asia Pacific, Australia news, Australian education, Australian universities, China, Coronavirus outbreak
China to relax its internet restrictions for 100,000 students hit by Australia’s coronavirus travel ban
Chinese students unable to travel to Australia will be able to access course materialChina has agreed to relax…
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus outbreak, Infectious diseases, Medical research, Science, World news
Coronavirus: Chinese man under lockdown runs 31 miles in his living room
Pan Shancu, from the city of Hangzhou, completed 6,250 laps of track consisting of two large tables set up ins…
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Coronavirus fallout could leave Australian tourism and retail sector in the doldrums
Economists warn of disruption to electronics supply and say travel ban could damage education and tourism sect…
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Coronavirus: Parents of Australian toddler stranded in Hubei province plead for her evacuation
Exclusive: Chloe Luo had been sent to relatives to escape dangerous bushfire smoke in CanberraThe parents of a…
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Coronavirus: Australians stranded in Wuhan fear they have been ‘swept under the carpet’
Australian government says it might not organise a third evacuation flight for about 100 citizens left behind …
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Sydneysider’s mother barred from returning to Australia from China
Canberra’s new travel restrictions on people who have visited China draw complaints of overly narrow definitio…
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Coronavirus: returning Britons to be ‘safely isolated’ for 14 days, says Hancock – latest news
Hundreds of Japanese and Americans airlifted out of city at heart of outbreak in China, with Australia to foll…
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New Zealand volcano: no survivors on White Island, police believe – as it happened
Police update follows reconnaissance flights over island, as death toll expected to rise from five New Zealand…
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Russia Today puts Japan on the map, where New Zealand should be
New channel apologises to New Zealanders for map mix-up that also labelled Papua New Guinea as South KoreaRuss…