投稿者: Ben Doherty and agencies
Month-long restrictions to come into force as officials warn virus could rip through PNG’s fragile health system ‘like a tornado’ Papua New Guinea will go into a month-long nationwide isolation in an effort to arrest a spiralling Covid-19 outbreak that…
Government claimed accounts of news sites, actors and activists sought to foment violence amid farmer protestsHundreds of Indian Twitter accounts including those belonging to news websites, activists and actors were suspended for more than 12 hours on …
State-run media says defector who alleged Chinese interference in Australia is ‘spouting nonsense’Chinese state-run media outlet Global Times has published a video purporting to show self-declared Chinese spy Wang Liqiang confessing to fraud and pleadi…
Exposto was initially found to be an unwitting drug mule, but prosecutors appealed and she was sentenced to death last yearSydney grandmother Maria Elvira Pinto Exposto has won her appeal against a death sentence for drug trafficking in Malaysia and wi…
Scott Morrison says 15-country Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership would be ‘bigger and better’ with India in itAustralia will sign on to a major free-trade deal involving 15 countries from the Asia-Pacific region, albeit one diminished by Indi…
Three students believed killed in dormitories on Sunday, as video emerges of last week’s clashes in which soldiers fire on peaceful protestsThree West Papuan students have reportedly been killed in their dormitories by militia groups amid growing tensi…
At least one Indonesian soldier and six civilians have been reportedly killed in the restive region Up to six protesters and one soldier have been killed in clashes across the restive West Papua and Papua provinces, although protesters and police dispu…
Spark for the latest unrest related to simmering separatist movement appears to have been detention of scores of Papuan students Protestors in the West Papuan provincial capital of Manokwari have set fire to the local parliament building after a demons…