Asia Pacific Jul 30, 2021
Sydney readies for the army as lockdown fails to squash delta outbreak
Sydney's poorest neighborhoods on Friday braced for military enforcement of the city's toughest and longest lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asia Pacific Jul 23, 2021
Sydney's fast-growing coronavirus outbreak has become a "national emergency," state leaders said Friday, as Australia's largest city reported another record number of new infections. Admitting a monthlong lockdown had so far failed to stop a delta-variant outbreak, the state of New South Wales pleaded for ...
Asia Pacific Jul 17, 2021
The city ordered a shutdown of building sites, banned nonessential retail and threatened fines for employers who make staff come into the office.
Asia Pacific Jul 14, 2021
Australia extends New South Wales lockdown as COVID-19 spreads in Sydney
The harbor city of 5 million residents entered an initial two-week lockdown in late June, as the delta variant took hold in a country that has otherwise largely avoided mass infections.
Asia Pacific Jun 25, 2021
Downtown Sydney to enter lockdown after spike in delta variant cases
Authorities have struggled to contain a spike in the highly contagious delta COVID-19 virus variant in the city.
Asia Pacific Jun 23, 2021
Sydney residents banned from leaving city as coronavirus cluster grows
Australia's largest city of Sydney re-introduced "soft touch" COVID-19 curbs on Wednesday to contain a widening outbreak of the highly infectious Delta variant, mandating masks in offices while neighboring states closed their borders. New Zealand raised the alert level in its capital of Wellington over ...
Culture Jun 3, 2021
Exhibition commemorating Japanese A-bomb sites opens in Australia
The displays include one of four paper cranes made by U.S. President Barack Obama on his visit to Hiroshima in 2016.
Asia Pacific Dec 16, 2019
Sydney's wildfire smoke declared a 'public health emergency'
The smoke blanketing Sydney is a "public health emergency," according to a coalition of Australian doctors and researchers who say climate change has helped fuel the wildfires that have produced the unprecedented haze. Air pollution across Australia's most-populous city and parts of the eastern state ...
Asia Pacific Dec 9, 2019
Australian firefighters burn grasslands to minimize looming wildfire risk
Thousands of firefighters burned grassland in eastern Australia on Monday in a desperate bid to starve an anticipated new front of wildfires of fuel before forecast searing temperatures Tuesday. More than 100 fires are ablaze in New South Wales and Victoria states, many of which ...
People | WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN? Nov 23, 2019
Akira Isogawa: Australia's darling of fashion
by Jane Kitagawa
"I understand how such rules are necessary and help Japan to function as efficiently as it does. But I'm a rule breaker, and that's permitted here in Australia. It's a real relief." — Akira Isogawa, fashion designer
Asia Pacific Nov 22, 2019
Sydney gasps for air as smoke from Australia's bush fires reaches record levels
The Australian state of New South Wales is gasping amid its worst levels of air pollution on record as smoke from bush fires causes a spike in hospital visits and reduces visibility for drivers. Sydney, the country's most populous city, woke up to a thick ...
Business / Corporate Sep 25, 2019
MUFG to cut brokerage staff in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is planning to cut about half of its 150-strong workforce at its securities business in Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, people with knowledge of the matter said. Japan's biggest bank will focus the reductions on sales and trading, the people ...