SYDNEY, May 27 — More than 2,000 people were buried alive by a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea (PNG) last week, the national disaster centre said today, as treacherous terrain and the difficulty of getting aid to the site raises the risk few survivors will be found.

SYDNEY, May 26 — More than 4,000 people were likely impacted by a massive landslide that flattened a village in northern Papua New Guinea on Friday (May 24), humanitarian group CARE Australia said.

SYDNEY, May 11 — Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong has said the country's support for a Palestinian bid to become a full United Nations (UN) member was part of building momentum to secure peace in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 — The Higher Education Ministry (MOHE) will meet with the Australian government soon over Canberra’s move to raise the amount of savings international students need to get a visa.

SYDNEY, May 8 — Australia said on Wednesday it would raise the amount of savings international students will need to get a visa and warned several colleges of fraudulent student recruitment practices, as part of efforts to rein in record migration.

SYDNEY, May 7 — An Australian helicopter surveying North Korea was intercepted by a Chinese warplane in international airspace, Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday, reported German news agency (dpa).

SYDNEY, May 7 — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said it is unacceptable for Australian defence personnel to be put at risk in international airspace by the Chinese military as they took part in an operation to enforce United Nations sanctions on North Korea.

SYDNEY, April 25 — Marine wildlife experts were frantically trying to rescue some 140 pilot whales stranded on Thursday in the shallow waters of an estuary in the southwest of the state of Western Australia.

SYDNEY, April 23 — Elon Musk lashed out at Australia's Prime Minister today after a court ordered his social media company X (formerly Twitter) to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney, saying the ruling meant any country could control "the entire Internet".

SYDNEY, April 16 — At least four people were wounded, including a bishop with a global online following, in a knife attack during a service at a church in a suburb of Sydney on Monday, police and witnesses said, triggering clashes between angry residents and police.

SYDNEY, April 15 — The Australian police have said the attacker who fatally stabbed six people at a busy shopping centre in Sydney's beach suburb of Bondi on Saturday (April 13) may have targeted women, as the country mourned the victims and hundreds of people laid flowers near the scene.

SYDNEY, April 14 — Sydney's police have ruled out terror or ideology as a motive after a man killed six people in a random stabbing attack yesterday in one of the city's busiest shopping centres.

BEIJING, April 11 — China has banned the senior executives of two United States (US) defence companies from entering the country and froze their property in response to their arms sales to Taiwan, said its Foreign Ministry today.

SYDNEY/TOKYO, April 9 — Australia has downplayed reports that Japan could soon join its AUKUS security pact with the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US), saying that any cooperation would be on a project-by-project basis as differences emerge within the pact over adding new members.

CANBERRA, April 5 — World-first research has estimated up to 11 million tons of plastic pollution is sitting on the ocean floor.

NILAI, March 26 — The Royal Malaysian Customs Department (JKDM) busted an international drug trafficking syndicate and seized 380kg of methamphetamine worth RM12.54 million at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport Air Cargo Complex in Sepang on Wednesday (March 20).

KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 — The recent official visits to Australia and Germany have opened doors for potential export sales of Malaysian products, in addition to bringing positive results with investment potentials, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 — Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is expected to explain the impact of the increase in Service Tax from six to eight per cent on the people’s cost of living and also on industrial production costs at today’s Dewan Rakyat session.

SYDNEY, March 19 — Australian business leaders are set to meet China's foreign minister in Canberra, saying their country lacks knowledge of its biggest trading partner and that they will seek insight on how Beijing views Washington, which is "critical" to trade flow.

HAMBURG, March 16 — Malaysia has welcomed Australia’s move to restore funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).