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Bankruptcy looms for Garuda, international routes no longer feasible
The last remaining commercial flight route operating between Australia and Indonesia is likely to be axed in the coming weeks.
- 31 mins ago
- Emma Connors
Britain’s NHS sounds COVID-19 alarm but government unmoved
A Boris Johnson lieutenant rules out going back into lockdown, but NHS bosses say it’s time to bring back masks, home-working, and limits on indoor events.
- 33 mins ago
- Hans van Leeuwen
China coal futures drop on threat of state intervention in crisis
Thermal coal futures trading on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, which have hit record levels in recent weeks, fell the maximum 8 per cent for a second consecutive day on Wednesday.
- Hudson Lockett and Primrose Riordan
Supply disruption to China gives hope to Australian beef exporters
China faces a beef shortage if restrictions remain on imports from Brazil and Argentina – which could be good news for Australian farmers.
- Michael Smith
Musk to become a trillionaire, but not from Tesla, says Morgan Stanley
It will be Elon Musk’s space company, rather than his electric-car maker, that lifts his wealth into the stratosphere, according to one analyst.
- Devon Pendleton
A robot server is helping human waiters earn more in tips
The $US1000-a-month cyborg carries plates at a Florida eatery, giving staff more time with customers, the owner said.
- Kate Duffy
Opinion & Analysis
Honeymoon is over for China’s post-pandemic recovery
Growth in China’s industrial and real estate sectors is cooling, meaning long-term pain for Australia’s most valuable exports.
China correspondent
PNG is back on the brink of a delta variant disaster
Complacency and vaccine hesitancy at all levels of society have left PNG wide open to delta infection. The country needs outside help – and very quickly.
Contributor
Supply chain lessons from Long Beach
One of the best things that we could do to avoid port pile-ups in the future is to ensure that no more than 25 per cent of any crucial supply be sourced from one place, or come into one port.
Contributor
Bond geopolitics cut China from the picture
Hollywood’s attitude toward Chinese power is a useful window into the US’s larger failure to see its great 21st-century rival clearly.
Contributor
From the Financial Times
China coal futures drop on threat of state intervention in crisis
Thermal coal futures trading on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, which have hit record levels in recent weeks, fell the maximum 8 per cent for a second consecutive day on Wednesday.
- Hudson Lockett and Primrose Riordan
Powell, a statesman who influenced the course of the Iraq war
Colin Powell, 84, who died COVID-19 complications, rose from humble origins in Harlem to become the US Secretary of State during tumultuous times marked by war.
- Jurek Martin and James Politi
Is the army of lockdown traders here to stay?
As lockdowns hit, a wave of people turned to day trading. But as the world enters post-lockdown life, the question confronting trading platforms is whether any of the surge in trading can outlast the coronavirus crisis.
- Updated
- Joshua Oliver and Madison Darbyshire
More From Today
Britain courts green investment to fuel carbon-cutting plans
Boris Johnson also announces how Britain plans to reach net-zero in politically challenging sectors such as household energy use.
- Jill Lawless and Kelvin Chan
New COVID-19 wave builds in Europe’s unvaccinated regions
Wherever jab rates are low, the virus is on the march again – leading to overcrowded hospitals, new restrictions and more deaths.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Couple sail to their wedding in giant cooking pot after floods
Frontline workers Akash and Aishwarya were determined not to let flash floods and landslides in India stop their wedding.
- Jennifer Hassan
Yesterday
N Korea test fires submarine-launched ballistic missile
The launch came as the intelligence chiefs of the United States, South Korea and Japan were to meet in Seoul to discuss the stand-off with North Korea.
- Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin
Neighbourhood spies help police Uighurs in Xinjiang, report finds
A new report focuses on the role of village volunteers who it says are deployed to gather intelligence and granted police-like powers in China’s Xinjiang province.
- Michael Smith
New Zealand hits virus high, pushes vaccination as way out
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said lockdown rule-breakers were contributing to the spread of infections, and noted that many of the new cases were in younger people.
- Updated
- Nick Perry
Johnson calls on nations to harden climate goals
While the UK expects to welcome about 120 world leaders to Glasgow, it’s contending with some key no-shows.
- Updated
- Emily Ashton
Powell, a statesman who influenced the course of the Iraq war
Colin Powell, 84, who died COVID-19 complications, rose from humble origins in Harlem to become the US Secretary of State during tumultuous times marked by war.
- Jurek Martin and James Politi
Is the army of lockdown traders here to stay?
As lockdowns hit, a wave of people turned to day trading. But as the world enters post-lockdown life, the question confronting trading platforms is whether any of the surge in trading can outlast the coronavirus crisis.
- Updated
- Joshua Oliver and Madison Darbyshire
US TV network ratings dive after prime years of Trump and trauma
After years of skyrocketing ratings, networks face a breathtaking fall back down to earth as the news cycle calms due to the end of Trump’s presidency and an easing pandemic.
- Anna Nicolaou and Caitlin Gilbert
Britain logs ‘concerning’ number of COVID-19 cases
Experts call on the government to ramp up booster jabs and vaccination of children, as hospitalisations also start to climb.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Russia breaks off ties with NATO in retaliation for spy row
Russia has closed the NATO office in Moscow as it reacts to the expulsion of Russian diplomats in Brussels.
- Jim Heintz
Colin Powell dies from COVID-19 complications
The US Army general rose to become his country’s first black secretary of state and styled himself a ‘reluctant warrior’.
- Patrick Oster
This Month
Auckland lockdown extended for at least two weeks
PM Jacinda Ardern said a vaccination target would provide the city, which has already been locked down for two months, a pathway out of restrictions.
- Ainsley Thomson
- Opinion
- GDP
Honeymoon is over for China’s post-pandemic recovery
Growth in China’s industrial and real estate sectors is cooling, meaning long-term pain for Australia’s most valuable exports.
- Updated
- Michael Smith
Japan’s Kishida woos voters with Abenomics critique
Borrowing from the opposition’s policy playbook is a tactic the long-ruling LDP has often used with success.
- Linda Sieg
China yields jump as easing bets fade
The yield on China’s 10-year bond rose as high as 3.02 per cent, crossing the 3 per cent level for the first time since early July.
- Tania Chen
China’s rise prompts NATO to adjust its focus
Secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg reveals significant broadening of the Western alliance’s strategic objectives in response to the perceived threat from Beijing.
- Roula Khalaf and Henry Foy
China growth slows as property, energy crises bite
China’s post-pandemic economic recovery has slowed sharply as concern about the Evergrande debt crisis and power shortages grow.
- Updated
- Michael Smith
