World
Asia
Singapore tightens COVID-19 rules despite 80 per cent vaccination rate
Singapore’s latest move to combat COVID-19 appears to shift away from the country’s stated transition toward living with the virus.
- by Philip J. Heijmans
Latest
Build a glass bridge and get over it – if you’re game
Some of China’s most impressive tourist attractions capitalise on the fear factor.
- by Madeleine Grey
Taliban bringing back executions, cutting off hands
People may be permitted to video punishments as a deterrent to others, says Taliban hardliner Mullah Nooruddin Turabi.
- by Kathy Gannon
Evergrande collapse exposes lost world a lightning-fast economy left behind
When the villagers left the Shengsi Islands in the early 1990s, China’s property market was at the start of a boom that would last until this year.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Police investigate terrifying clown prank outside Singapore schools
In one photo, a person disguised as a clown was seen staring at children standing near a bus stop close to a school.
- by Jennifer Hassan
Running on empty: how Evergrande became the world’s most indebted property company
For 25 years Evergrande built its empire on China’s rapid urbanisation. A newly mobile middle class needed units to live in, music to listen to and stadiums to fill.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
Analysis
China relations
Xi goes global as Biden pushes old alliances at the UN
The Chinese President courts those who feel snubbed by American exceptionalism. Joe Biden puts America’s “enduring security and prosperity” first.
- by Eryk Bagshaw
India calls UK vaccine rules ‘discriminatory’, Johnson announces booster
Britain has said it will not recognise coronavirus certificates from India, despite the vaccines being made under licence from a British company.
- by Sheikh Saaliq
Xi says China will not build new coal-fired power projects abroad
Xi provided no details in his announcement, but China has been under heavy diplomatic pressure to put an end to its coal financing overseas.
- by Nick O'Malley
Taliban appoint UN Ambassador and ask to address the assembly
Earlier, an Afghan rapper and activist pleaded with world leaders not to recognise the militants unless they guaranteed rights for women.
- by David Wainer
Opinion
National security
Morrison is making an enemy of China – and Labor is helping him
China does not pose a military threat to Australia, yet this is how the Morrison government is presenting it.
- by Paul Keating