https://www.scmp.com/rss/522489/feed The latest news and top stories on Griffith University. A prominent South East Queensland, Australia-based public research university, Griffith University is dedicated to transforming lives and advancing human knowledge for a future that benefits all. Established in 1975, it pioneered Australia’s first degrees in environmental science and Asian studies. Its main areas of activity encompass diverse academic programmes across business, health, law and arts, alongside high-impact research focusing... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Maria Siow Maria Siow Australia’s decision to send a surveillance aircraft and air-to-air missiles to the Gulf highlights the difficult position the country now faces: supporting US and regional partners while trying to avoid being drawn deeper into the widening conflict. Analysts said the government was “walking a very fine line” with the deployment, signalling support for partners under Iranian attack while stopping short of committing Australia to offensive operations. At the same time, they said Canberra was... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3346459/australia-walks-very-fine-line-gulf-deployment-amid-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3346459/australia-walks-very-fine-line-gulf-deployment-amid-iran-war?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:39:28 +0000 Resty Woro Yuniar Resty Woro Yuniar The faint outline of a hand in a cave in Indonesia’s Sulawesi has been recognised as the world’s oldest known rock art, shattering a long-held scientific theory that human artistic expression first flourished in Ice Age Europe. Dating back at least 67,800 years, the faded stencil was found hiding beneath a more recent chicken sketch in Metanduno cave on Muna Island. Researchers say the finding, which was published in the scientific journal Nature on January 21, proves that ancient humans in... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3342713/indonesias-68000-year-old-handprint-birth-human-art?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3342713/indonesias-68000-year-old-handprint-birth-human-art?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 08 Feb 2026 05:00:09 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A red stencil of a hand pressed against the wall of an Indonesian cave is the oldest rock art ever discovered, scientists said on Wednesday, and sheds light on how humans first migrated to Australia. The cave art dates back at least 67,800 years, according to research published in the journal Nature by a team of Indonesian and Australian archaeologists. “We have been working in Indonesia for a long time,” study co-author Maxime Aubert of Australia’s Griffith University said. This time they... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3340753/worlds-oldest-cave-art-discovered-indonesia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3340753/worlds-oldest-cave-art-discovered-indonesia?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:51:55 +0000 Sam Beltran Sam Beltran Asean has signed its first region-wide extradition treaty, a move observers see as a long-overdue step to close legal loopholes that have allowed fugitives to slip across borders and evade arrest. Analysts say the Asean Treaty on Extradition will plug a major gap in cooperation by creating uniform rules across a region struggling with cybercrime, human trafficking and online scams that increasingly operate across jurisdictions. Member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3333326/asean-unifies-under-single-extradition-treaty-fight-organised-crime?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3333326/asean-unifies-under-single-extradition-treaty-fight-organised-crime?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:30:09 +0000 William Yiu William Yiu Two universities in Australia will directly admit students from Hong Kong’s semi-private schools based on teachers’ predictions of their grades in the city’s university entrance examinations and principals’ nominations under an unprecedented arrangement. The Hong Kong Direct Subsidy Scheme Schools Council said it hoped the new initiative would ease students’ uncertainties by helping them secure universities’ offers before the exams and giving them a chance to pursue higher education abroad. The... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3332930/2-australian-universities-admit-hong-kong-students-based-predicted-grades?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/3332930/2-australian-universities-admit-hong-kong-students-based-predicted-grades?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:00:34 +0000 Maria Siow Maria Siow India is keen on tariff talks with the United States, but it is expected to stand its ground even as their bilateral relations sour on issues ranging from trade to foreign policy. In the face of the 50 per cent tariff imposed on Indian goods, Delhi is neither “desperate nor cornered”, according to analysts. Signalling a hardening of America’s position on the tariff issue, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Friday that he expected New Delhi to say “sorry” and cut a deal with... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3325181/not-desperate-why-india-remains-firm-us-tariff-talks-it-seeks-deal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3325181/not-desperate-why-india-remains-firm-us-tariff-talks-it-seeks-deal?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:29:48 +0000 Reuters Reuters Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and Australia, the earliest known humans in the Wallacea region. Archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found the small, chipped tools, used to cut little animals and carve rocks, under the soil in the region of Soppeng in South Sulawesi. Radioactive tracing of these tools and the teeth of animals found around the site was dated... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3321397/15-million-year-old-stone-tools-found-indonesia-rewrite-human-history?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3321397/15-million-year-old-stone-tools-found-indonesia-rewrite-human-history?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:44:16 +0000