Nobel prize laureate Liu Xiaobo released from Chinese prison, after cancer diagnosis
Nobel prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from a Chinese prison on medical grounds, after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.
Kirsty Needham is China Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age
Nobel prize laureate Liu Xiaobo has been released from a Chinese prison on medical grounds, after being diagnosed with terminal liver cancer.
Crown staff have been handed shorter than expected jail terms.
Crown staff including executive Jason O'Connor are expected to plead guilty when their court case is heard today in Baoshan District Court, outside Shanghai.
Billion-dollar hotel developments in Sydney and Queensland, a shareholding in Virgin Australia, and the Australia's biggest cinema chain will come under the scrutiny of Chinese regulators trying to rein in a US$215 billion ($284 billion) overseas buying spree by Chinese companies.
Australian tourism marketers and sporting events use social medial platform Sina Weibo.
Australia is the third most popular destination for ultra-rich Chinese to invest wealth offshore, a new report shows.
There has been a power shift in policymaking on China, with defence officials who don't understand China now dominant, a former top diplomat has told Chinese media.
Frustration with being continually late convinced Donald Tang that Sydney needed to embrace Asia's digital bike sharing boom.
The streets of Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen are a rainbow of yellow, blue, teal, green, orange, red and more, as up to 20 rival bike sharing start-ups vie for the attention. Australia seems to be next.
The suspect in the explosion outside a kindergarten, a 22-year-old identified as Xu, is among the dead, the Xuzhou city government said.
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