POLITICS & POLICY

China has issued new rules for its netizens' use of the internet, indicating online rumour mongers and those who post libelous comments stand to face defamation charges as well as jail imprisonment of three years maximum time.

As President Obama pushes his case for an attack on Syria over the use of chemical weapons on civilians, Syrian President Basar al-Asaad tells U.S. TV he has no chemical weapons. Secretary of State John Kerry has denied Assad's claims of not having a chemicals weapons stockpile. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has asked Syria to give up its chemical weapons to international agencies to prevent an attack from the U.S. The new proposal may pause a U.S. led strike on Syria.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened stronger this morning, supported by the stream of strong data out of China.

Bashar al-Assad has warned the Obama government to be prepared for “every” kind of reaction if it decides to launch a military strike against Syria.

The petition drive to legalise marijuana in British Columbia starts on Monday.

Tony Abbott daughters, Bridget, Frances and Louise, were bullied and objectified at various Facebook Pages.

The U.S. has sounded the alarm, giving Syria a one-week deadline ultimatum to turn over all its chemical weapons or otherwise face the wrath of a military strike. As expected, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a counter verbal attack that its government will not take lightly any international intrusion to the country’s civil war. Would doomsday World War 3 occur middle of September 2013?

The countdown to World War 3 may happen soon enough as the US Congress prepares to approve or deny President Barack Obama’s proposal to strike Syria. A video posted on Youtube allegedly produced by the residents of Kafranbel, a village in northern Syria, sent a message for the world to see and called on the United States to strike Syria. Despite the possibility of Syria being Ground Zero of World War 3, the Syrian leader has vehemently denied knowledge of chemical weapons use against opposing ...

Australian Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott had said during the campaign that he would stop the asylum boats from coming to the country's shores. On Monday, he called Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O'Neill that the incoming Coalition government commits to maintain the offshore processing system in Manus Island, also called Rape Island by male asylum seekers.

New Zealand can expect to have a closer relationship with Australia following the election of a new government and prime minister, said Australian Finance Minister-elect Joe Hockey.

In a historic win in the recent Australia Elections 2013, Nova Peris has become the first aboriginal woman in the country to become a Parliament member. The former Olympian who also won a gold medal will occupy a place in the Senate as the representative of the Northern Territory with the Australian Labour Party supporting her.

Despite losing to the Coalition's Tony Abbott in Australia's recently concluded Federal Elections, Kevin Rudd and wife, Therese Rein, still found a reason to smile and laugh amidst the crowd of Labour supporters.For a group of Labour supporters who lost to the Opposition, they were not exactly crying because of Mr Rudd's harrowing defeat. It was a night of festivities in Brisbane on election night as what was supposed to be a campaign wake.

Lives of thousands of children are at risk in Syria, warns Australian aid agency Save the Children saying a President of U.N. Security Council, Australia has “a real opportunity” to help protect these children and ensure they have access to the humanitarian aid they need.

If comments are anything to go by, it is evident that the new Liberal National Coalition Tony Abbott government in Australia will not be too upbeat about punishing the Syrian government, like his predecessor Kevin Rudd was.

Now that Tony Abbott is the new Prime Minister of Australia, the relationship between Australia and New Zealand will remain the same, according to Prime Minister John Key. The New Zealand Labour party had a lot to learn from the Australian Labour party's loss to the Coalition in the recent elections. Shane Jones, David Cunliffe and Grant Robertson who are all in the running to succeed David Shearer after his exit as the party leader, should pay attention to what just happened in Australia.

Treasurer Chris Bowen is not interested in serving as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), left vacant after outgoing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd quit from the post following the party's debacle in the Saturday federal election.

An industry-wide labour strike at South Africa’s gold sector has ended with most mine workers accepting an eight per cent pay increase.

Let’s have a look at the probable important names in the next Australian government.

NBC News has released the Damascus gas attack videos on Saturday, which were shown to senators by the Obama government earlier.

Stephen McNeil said that he, if elected, would introduce legislation to let private power producers sell their products to customers directly.

A closed door meeting was held to discuss greater transparency regarding the expenses of Canadian MPs.

Officials from Israel's customs agency nabbed a French consul employee on Tuesday after the latter tried to smuggle into the country 152 kilogrammes of gold bars plus 500 kilogrammes of tobacco as well as checks amounting to $2 million.

Ex-prime minister Kevin Rudd suffers twitter backlash and now is hiding from the camera

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has started the week over .9200 after touching a three week high on Friday night as the US jobs data fell short of predictions and some analysts felt that the US Federal Reserve's tapering program would be delayed.

Australia’s new Prime Minister elect is Tony Abbott

Australian voters wanted change and ditched the Australian Labor Party. The Coalition got 87 seats, Labor 54, Greens 1 and Others 2. Since the 150-seat Parliament needs 76 seats for a majority, the Coalition becomes the administration and Tony Abbot gets to fulfill his ambition to be Australia's next prime minister.

With almost two-thirds of the votes counted, Australian Labor Party leader and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has conceded defeat to the Coalition led by Tony Abbott.

Pre-election surveys that said a Coalition win were confirmed by exit polls which showed that the Opposition - soon to be the administration - could win up to 100 seats. The number all point to the inevitable - that Australia's next prime minister is probably Tony Abbott.

Australia Election 2013: when is the counting of votes done and when is the tentative announcement of results?