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National Anti-Scam Centre warns that fraudsters posing as Mandarin-speaking law enforcement officers are becoming more threatening
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Scammers pretending to be Chinese authorities are increasingly targeting international students in Australia, threatening “serious trouble” and 24-hour surveillance and fleecing them of more than $5m in just five months.
The scammers claim to be Chinese law enforcement officers who demand that personal information or money be transferred to them.

Minister Pat Conroy says Chinese ‘branding’ of multilateral development projects to bolster its influence in the region is a consistent frustration


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China is bolstering its geopolitical influence in the Pacific by “branding” Asian Development Bank projects – funded in significant part by Australian taxpayer dollars – as Chinese projects, the Australian government says.
On the island of Bougainville, an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea to Australia’s north, the state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation has begun work to strengthen the runway at Kieta-Aropa, on the outskirts of the largest city.

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President Trump’s first-term tariffs were a wake-up call for Ryan Bursky’s company. Now, he is working with his Chinese suppliers to move everything to Cambodia.

President Trump’s first-term tariffs were a wake-up call for Ryan Bursky’s company. Now, he is working with his Chinese suppliers to move everything to Cambodia.

Negotiators doubt countries’ financial and environmental commitment as military and trade wars divert attention
“Climate is our biggest war. Climate is here for the next 100 years. We need to focus and … not allow those [other] wars to take our attention away from the bigger fight that we need to have.”
Ana Toni, the chief executive of Cop30, the UN climate summit to be held in Brazil this November, is worried. With only four months before the crucial global summit, the world’s response to the climate crisis is in limbo.

Asian American leaders condemned ongoing ICE raids and stood in solidarity with the Latinos, whom they said “have borne the brunt of the kidnappings.” ...

Asian American leaders condemned ongoing ICE raids and stood in solidarity with the Latinos, whom they said “have borne the brunt of the kidnappings.” ...

Czech intelligence revealed Chinese diplomats allegedly planned staged incident during Hsiao Bi-khim’s 2024 visit
Taiwan’s vice-president has said she will not be intimidated after reports by Czech intelligence that Chinese officials planned to stage a car collision when she was in Prague last year.
Hsiao Bi-khim visited the Czech Republic in March 2024, in the first overseas visit by her and Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, after winning the election in January. It was reported at the time that a Chinese diplomat had run a red light while following her car – under police escort – from the airport.

Mamdani stunned the political establishment when he declared victory in the primary on Tuesday, a ranked choice election in which his strongest competition, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, conceded ...

Mamdani's campaign has piqued the interest of many Indians, South Asian Americans, as well as Muslims — even those who may not agree with him on every issue.

Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign has piqued the interest of South Asians and Muslims in New York City and beyond ...