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Report points to Snowy 2.0 project costs blowing out to $12bn
Nine’s Sydney Morning Herald and the Age are this morning reporting that the cost of Snowy Hydro’s 2.0 giant pumped hydro project has to $12bn.

Royal College of Art student Wang Hanzheng thought a Brick Lane wall was better than a gallery
When Wang Hanzheng, a Chinese student at the Royal College of Art, attended a graduate show in a warehouse on Brick Lane in east London in July, he found the space crowded, unimaginative and unfit for presenting art.
It was with this in mind that at 11pm one night earlier this month Wang and a team of 22 others painted a Chinese political slogan in bold red characters along a nearby wall stretching nearly 100 metres.

Chinese-American singing icon of the 1980s has returned to the limelight in a hit mainland movie, and he has brought his own way of speaking which has caught on big-style on social media.

SINGAPORE, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Asian equities rose on Wednesday for a third straight ... China defended its business practices after U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said American firms had told ...

The minister says the UK can't ignore China, but some call the government's approach incoherent.

Foreign select committee report published as foreign secretary, James Cleverly, travels to Beijing
Britain must take a tougher stance on China over its severe human rights abuses and help Taiwan build its defences to deter a potential attack from Beijing, an influential group of MPs says.With the foreign secretary, James Cleverly, scheduled to land in China on Wednesday , a report from the foreign affairs select committee says ministers have to call out the country’s transnational repression.
China’s behaviour is a threat to world security that cannot be ignored, it says.The Chinese Communist party (CCP) is “seeking to silence criticism of its human rights abuses, and impose its foreign policy and Xi Jinping’s thought beyond its own borders”, the committee, which is Tory controlled, writes. “This is a challenge to the functioning of democracies globally.”

Gina Raimondo, the commerce secretary, emphasized U.S. concerns over harsh treatment of foreign companies and national security issues in a meeting with top officials in Beijing.

As first-degree murder charges are filed against Tailei Qi in killing of Zijie Yan, some in community fear deepening of 'outsider' status Tragedy 'does not help' the US and is 'just another thing that ...

As first-degree murder charges are filed against Tailei Qi in killing of Zijie Yan, some in community fear deepening of 'outsider' status Tragedy 'does not help' the US and is 'just another thing that ...