Eleven Asia-Pacific nations agree to salvage free trade deal
Eleven Asia-Pacific nations, including Australia, agreed on Sunday to salvage a massive free trade deal that US President Donald Trump pulled out of days after taking office in January.
Lindsay Murdoch is a three-time winner of the Walkley Award, Australia's top award for journalistic excellence. Lindsay is a former correspondent based in Singapore, Jakarta and Darwin. In 1999 he covered the tumultuous events in East Timor, and in 2003 he covered the Iraq war while embedded with US Marines.
Eleven Asia-Pacific nations, including Australia, agreed on Sunday to salvage a massive free trade deal that US President Donald Trump pulled out of days after taking office in January.
Australian nurse and surrogacy broker Tammy Davis-Charles shook her head in dismay when a court postponed a verdict at her trial.
Police have arrested a 62-year-old American in a widening crackdown on $1 billion-a-year child cyber porn and torture industry in the Philippines.
A Queensland man has been arrested after authorities in the Philippines rescued four girls through information partly provided by Australian Federal Police.
Police in Myanmar have moved to arrest ultra-nationalists backed by Buddhist monks amid a resurgence of mob-violence aimed at the country's Muslim minority.
Thai authorities have given Facebook a four-day deadline to remove web pages they deem violate Thai laws.
At least 56 people, including children, were wounded when two huge bombs exploded at a busy supermarket in Thailand's south.
The underworld's upper-crust will be officially able to buy their way out of the jails and into the luxury of a privately run facility.
More than 35,000 children and young people are living in the country's residential care institutions, including some run and financed by Australians.
Blasts ripped through shops and pavement stalls on Saturday night in the historic Quiapo district near the Golden Mosque, a well known landmark in the city.
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