Hong Kong’s SMEs are more optimistic than their peers in mainland China, Singapore and Australia when it comes to growing their businesses this year, thanks to government support and an increase in online sales, a survey shows.

With 588 rooms, the hotel has suites that wow and an aesthetic that leans into the urban grit of its surroundings – without losing the luxurious touch

The killings have stunned many Australians, who are largely unaccustomed to such violent crime: ‘I feel like this has burst Australia’s bubble a bit’.

Two stabbing incidents involving a man and a teenager have put Australia’s social tensions under the spotlight.

French construction worker Damien Guerot’s work visa was due to expire in July until PM Anthony Albanese intervened with an invitation to settle in Australia.

Emmanuel, who was slashed in the head and chest during the attack at the Assyrian Christ The Good Shepherd Church, said he was recovering quickly.

Washington should offer ‘alternatives to what our competitors are offering’, says Foreign Relations committee chair, referring to Beijing’s advances.

No stranger to controversy on social media, Australia-born Adams is known as ‘Alpha Male’ and regularly speaks about politics and his support for Trump, what it means to be American and his love of meat

The 80-page document unveiled on Wednesday explicitly calls out ‘China’s coercive tactics in pursuit of its strategic objectives’. Australia’s optimistic assumptions for the post-Cold War era ‘are long gone’, the defence minister said.

Geopolitics looms large over the polls in Solomon Islands, where Beijing and Washington have been vying for influence for years. But for voters just struggling to make ends meet, Wednesday’s election may be decided by issues much closer to home.

Australian police said Monday’s attack at an Assyrian Christian church in Sydney was motivated by suspected religious extremism.

Daniel Kritenbrink and Sarah Beran are meeting Chinese officials to maintain ‘open lines of communication’, State Department says.

Social media footage show the man approaching a cleric at the altar identified as the bishop and appearing to stab him repeatedly in the head and upper body.

Bruce Lehrmann, a staff member in a previous government, brought a defamation suit against Australian media company Network Ten after it aired an interview with his accuser in 2021.

The last of Joel Cauchi’s six victims was identified on Monday as Yixuan Cheng, a young Chinese woman who was a student. Police say the killer appeared to target women.

A torrent of Chinese aid and investment has flowed into the Pacific nation during Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare’s five years at the helm. He seeks re-election this week.

The government’s ongoing public-sector job cuts have resulted in the worst-ever employment market, recruiters say.

The archipelago, one of the world’s least-developed countries, is the unlikely focal point of a diplomatic scramble pitting a rising China against Western rivals.

Zero Co’s Mike Smith and his team of volunteers went viral after they scooped up 147,000kg of garbage from the Taguig-Pateros River.

Inspector Amy Scott was in the shopping centre while the attack unfolded and confronted the man after being directed towards him by onlookers.

Some 14,000 Japanese were granted working holiday visas in Australia in fiscal 2022-23, the highest number in Australian government data going back to 2001.

Australian PM Anthony Albanese called the officer who shot the culprit a hero. A nine-month-old baby was reported to be among those targeted, with the infant’s mother said to be among the dead.