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#FreedomLobster, #FreedomPineapple: new food alliance driven by China’s trade wars
Lobster sales across Australia have continued to surge as restaurants and pubs put them on the menu. Taiwan says it wants to work together as it weathers a trade strike on its pineapple growers.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
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North Korea launches ballistic missiles after Biden dismisses first attempt
North Korea has a history of testing new US administrations with missile launches aimed at forcing the Americans back to the negotiating table.
- by Kim Tong-Hyung
India reports new coronavirus variant as daily deaths reach year’s high
The new variant found in India has two mutations in the spiky protein that the virus uses to fasten itself to cells, which might help the virus spread more easily.
- by Aniruddha Ghosal
Shot in her father’s arms, seven-year-old the youngest victim of ‘crackdown on anarchy’
Of all the tales of brutality and heartache out of Myanmar over the past seven weeks, few could be more shocking than that of Ma Khin Myo Chit.
- by Chris Barrett
‘Nothing much has changed’, says Biden after North Korea missile launches
The launches came days after the sister of Kim Jong-un threatened the United States and South Korea for holding joint military exercises.
- by Trevor Hunnicuttt
At least 15 dead, including children, after Bangladesh Rohingya camp fire
At least 400 people were still missing and around 560 were injured after a devastating fire that destroyed thousands of shelters at a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh.
Philippines all at sea over arrival of 220 Chinese ships at disputed reef
The shipping fleet’s presence in a contested South China Sea zone is a litmus test for US President Joe Biden following America’s frosty Alaskan talks with China.
- by Chris Barrett
Several dead, thousands of homes burnt as fire sweeps Rohingya camp
A huge fire has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southern Bangladesh, destroying thousands of homes and killing several people, officials and witnesses said.
- by Ruma Paul and Poppy McPherson
‘Tormented by karaoke’: Vietnam’s biggest city cracks down on noise
Having withstood the worst effects of COVID-19, Ho Chi Minh City authorities have their sights on an epidemic of a very different kind.
- by Chris Barrett and Yen Duong
‘Terrible situation’: Ex-ambassador decries ‘targeting of Australians’ in Myanmar
Matthew O’Kane and Christa Avery are the latest Australians detained by Myanmar’s military regime since the February 1 coup.
- by Chris Barrett
Canadian faces espionage charges in China, in closed-door trial
The trial of Michael Kovrig, who has been held in China for more than two years on espionage charges, has begun in Beijing in a closed courtroom.
- by Yew Lun Tian