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World elections
In India elections are a matter of faith, and criticism is akin to blasphemy
Close to a billion Indians are eligible to vote in a 44-day national election beginning today. It will be the largest democratic exercise in history.
- by Zach Hope
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Inside China
China’s Xi Jinping might have to revise his five-year plan
China’s latest economic data highlights a glut of excess capacity and a flood of cheap exports, which is generating a growing backlash from a number of its trading partners.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Japan’s lower house passes joint-custody bill bringing hope to Australian parents
Dozens of children, including at least 89 with Australian parents, have been abducted in Japan by one parent under a century-old law.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
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Myanmar coup
Rebels celebrate taking key border town, Thailand left scrambling
Concerns of a Myanmar military counter-offensive at the border has drawn neighbouring Thailand closer to the conflict.
- by Zach Hope
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US politics
Why Iran’s latest attack should give Australia pause for thought on AUKUS
Australia is in the thick of the United States’ global alignment, and as a key ally, we will rise or fall by its tide.
- by David Livingstone
A drunk Australian ran ‘amok’ in Bali. Locals locked him in a mini-mart
After allegedly attacking a local, the Australian had to be kept safe from an angry mob at about 3.30am near the Potato Head Beach Club in North Kuta.
- by Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
What is it really like to eat lab-grown meat? I’ve just tried
For a few hundred bucks a head, Singapore diners will get an exclusive seven-course menu featuring cultivated meat concocted in Australia.
- by Zach Hope
China helping Russia’s ‘most ambitious’ war machine expansion since USSR
Some 90 per cent of Russia’s microelectronics and machine tools used to produce missiles, tanks and aircraft, come from China, says the US.
- by Steve Holland and Susan Heavey
Real estate tycoon sentenced to death in $19.1b fraud case
The court found Truong My Lan ran an orchestrated criminal enterprise that had serious consequences, with no possibility of the money being recovered.
- by Aniruddha Ghosal
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Caught at an Indonesian abattoir, this activist says he was beaten, burnt and smeared with blood
Infiltrating the facility to check on humane treatment of cattle, the activist said he was hit by “a mob with a mob mentality”.
- by Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Opinion
Inside China
China blocked my visa. I spent three years getting as close as I could
In the end, its actions amplified voices it had hoped to suppress.
- by Eryk Bagshaw