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The nightmare scenario for China's leaders as they try to wean the country off a diet of easy credit and breakneck expansion is a local government buckling under the weight of its own debt. Few provinces fit that bill quite like Jiangsu, home to China's most indebted local government. Hefty...
Jono Donker is lucky to be alive after the car he was travelling in flipped on to its roof on State Highway 1 about 1.5km north of Hikerenui. Dazed but unscathed, he and another passenger climbed out of the overturned BMW sedan before fire crews arrived to cut out the driver, who was airlifted to...
A painstaking excavation of an old mine in Australia has resumed as crews search for the remains of a teenager who went missing 23 years ago in an outback town. Karen Williams, 16, was last seen in...
Macquarie Group has affirmed its guidance for stronger profits in the year ahead, saying its first...
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An anti-China protest outside the Chinese diplomatic mission in Manila on Wednesday fell short of expectations, with only a few hundred people attending, rather than the 5,000 expected by the organizers. The protest was arranged by the West Philippine Sea Coalition, a coalition of non-governmental...