Audrey Young: Blessings, bad news and plan B in Aussie election campaign
Week 2 wrap: Crushing egg-shells and catching Covid on the Australian campaign trail.
Week 2 wrap: Crushing egg-shells and catching Covid on the Australian campaign trail.
Financial Times: Clearly, cute and approachable were not part of the design brief.
Australian PM Scott Morrison accused the opposition of 'taking China's side'.
Lockdowns of Chinese truck drivers and factory staff hitting production, orders.
Financial Times: Emigration inquiries surge amid harsh Covid restrictions.
The city has reported more than 300,000 cases since late March.
Calculating pandemic deaths led to the 'cruellest Covid joke on the world'.
The country continues to pursue a strict policy of Covid elimination.
Solomons govt confirms China's security request, condemns misinformation.
Shanghai has been forced to rethink its brutal Covid-19 strategy.
Financial Times: Covid lockdown in China will have global economic reverberations.
Financial Times: Small businesses have scoured the globe for important strips of land.
China's largest city has been under lockdown since April 5.
Disturbing video shows Shanghai residents rioting and screaming from apartment blocks.
Lockdown is curbing Chinese demand for fuel and putting downward pressure on oil prices.
The costs of zero-Covid may be outweighing the risk of getting sick in China.
Lockdowns in Shanghai as Omicron infections rise above 10,000.
New York Times: Heavy-handed restrictions set off chaos in China's commercial heart.
New York Times: Outrage erupted after images circulated of children isolated from parents.
New York Times: Some are now asking aloud whether the country is on the wrong track.
New York Times: The story of one shipping container shows the global supply chain trouble.
New York Times: Chinese authorities won't say what charges the business reporter faces.
World Health Organisation releases report outlining how pandemic is expected to play out.
State-owned media in China has more influence and power over social media platforms.
The treaty could allow China to deploy police and military personnel in Solomon Islands.
Financial Times: China is spending up large on space and high-tech weapons.
Questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation's 'zero-Covid' strategy.
The government is yet to decide if it will withdraw the Defence Force from the Solomons.
Jacinda Ardern has walked the talk this week.
Ardern says there is no need for China to station military vessels near Solomon Islands.