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AUSTRALIA

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Rugby
Oct 20, 2015
Wallabies receive better news on injured players
Australia is growing in confidence that it will be back to full strength for Sunday's Rugby World Cup semifinal against Argentina after getting better news on its injured players.
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Rugby
Oct 19, 2015
Australia, Argentina reach Rugby World Cup semis in Southern Hemisphere clean sweep
The Rugby World Cup will once again be won by a team from south of the equator as the semifinal line-up was confirmed Sunday with Australia and Argentina joining New Zealand and South Africa in the last four.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 14, 2015
Nippon Life seeks to seal deal this month to buy Aussie bank's insurance business
Nippon Life Insurance Co. aims to strike a deal this month to buy National Australia Bank's insurance business by next March, sources close to the matter said.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 9, 2015
Australia, Philippines negotiating deal on transfer of asylum seekers
Australia is negotiating a deal with the Philippines to transfer asylum seekers being held indefinitely in controversial detention centers on remote impoverished islands, Australia's immigration minister said on Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 7, 2015
Australians should follow India's presidential model
As Australia grapples with whether to become a republic, it should look to India for guidance.
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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 6, 2015
Japan offers to build subs in Australia 'from day one'
The Japanese consortium bidding for a $35 billion project to build submarines for Australia said Tuesday it is confident it can build the boats in Australia from the outset should the Australian government request it.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 5, 2015
Nauru opens gates at Australian camp for asylum seekers
The tiny South Pacific nation of Nauru unexpectedly announced Monday that all 600 asylum seekers held at a controversial Australian detention center will be given freedom of movement on the island, and that all their asylum applications will be processed this week.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 1, 2015
Japan, Australia urge North Korea not to engage in provocation
Japan and Australia on Wednesday pressed North Korea to abstain from provocative acts amid growing speculation that it may test-launch a long-range ballistic missile soon.
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 30, 2015
Senior official says Japan ready to build all submarines for Canberra in Australia
Japan is ready to match European rivals and build a fleet of submarines for Canberra entirely in Australian shipyards, a senior Japanese official said Tuesday, after stumbling in its effort to win a contract worth 50 billion Australian dollars or $34.76 billion.
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BUSINESS
Sep 30, 2015
Australia, New Zealand risk losing share of Chinese tourist dollars as infrastructure ages
Australia and New Zealand risk losing a global arms race for big-spending Chinese vacationers unless they improve their services and infrastructure, jeopardizing hopes that tourism will fill the economic hole left by the downturn in commodity prices.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2015
Australia should embrace the humanitarian focus on nukes
Australia has been steadfast in holding to the strength of its convictions, but it should end its opposition to the nuclear weapons humanitarian consequences movement.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 22, 2015
Australia announces first female defense minister
Australia on Monday swore in its first female defense minister, Sen. Marise Payne, who will oversee open-ended military engagements in two countries and some of her nation's most important defense contracts in a generation.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 17, 2015
Australia can no longer afford complacency
Malcolm Turnbull's new government must be more attuned to how Australia risks getting left behind by globalization and implement necessary reforms.
EDITORIALS
Sep 17, 2015
A coup in Canberra
Australia and the region are best served by stable and enduring leadership in Canberra.
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 16, 2015
Japan waits to see whether new Australian leader will rock the boat on defense
Japan watches anxiously after one of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's closest Asia-Pacific allies in ousted in a party leadership vote.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 7, 2015
Nuclear waste dump is one option for Australia's faltering rust belt
South Australia, a rust belt state that's 60 percent desert, is staring into the abyss.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 6, 2015
Australia would risk much with air raids on IS in Syria
Australia's security is best enhanced by upholding international law governing the use of military force, not by ignoring it and setting a dangerous precedent.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 4, 2015
Sleep-deprived Tokyo gets an Australian wake-up with granola
Thinking about Tokyo's morning rush hour is enough to make anybody want to crawl back into bed. After working late in the office or attending an obligatory drinking party with coworkers, the last thing anyone wants to do is squeeze themselves onto a packed morning train for a somber repeat of the day before.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2015
Is it Australian Border Security Force or farce?
An operation by the Australian Border Force to check visas on the streets of Melbourne is met with scorn by a public with no interest in accepting 'fascist nonsense.'
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 2, 2015
Australia's secretive refugee camps hampered by ethical investors
Investors in the company that runs Australia's secretive refugee camps are starting to flex their muscles in a way that may achieve what refugee advocates and politicians have failed to for years — greater transparency and oversight.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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