POLITICS & POLICY

An Australian lady was conned into buying two apple fruits in a box for 1200 dollars, believing them to be Apple smart phones, reported NDTV. Buying from people online can be very tricky, a 21 year old Australian lady learnt firsthand. The lady who was not named, posted an ad online in the Gumtree Web site. She wanted to buy two Apple smart phones. She was contacted by another lady who said she had “two apples” for sale.

A state-run news agency in China has not stopped in delivering sharp attacks about New Zealand in the wake of Fonterra's botulism scare. The Chinese news agency called New Zealand's 100 per cent pure Pure campaign to boost tourism, a "festering sore". The agency also declared that homes in New Zealand were leaky, damp and uninhabitable because of free market ideology.

Ethics Committee chair and LNP’s MP Peter Dowling apologised to family in the wake of his sexting scandal.

Australia’s first day of election campaigning has become a disaster for Liberal Party’s Jaymes Diaz. The candidate for the Greenway district in western Sydney was unable to name his own party’s Coalition policy during a television interview, and his gaffe is going viral online.

Griffith snubbed PM Kevin Rudd during debate with Bill Glasson

Smartphone maker Apple Inc gets tangled in yet another controversy, this time involving its suppliers Foxconn Technology Group and Unimicron Technology, alleged to have been dumping toxic wastewater from heavy metals into China's local rivers.

Bell FX Currency Outlook: The Australian Dollar has opened slightly higher this morning after a relatively quiet session offshore overnight.

After coming under heavy attack by the media, Twitter finally decided to take steps to check online abuse especially towards women. The Twitter Web site will now have a “report abuse” button, which is currently available in the Twitter app in iPhones, allowing users to stem the tide of the growing “trolls” online, reported Reuters.

Directly aimed to avert an aging population crisis, China may possibly implement its new two-child policy on 2014, albeit only on selective couples or family structures.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key promised to investigate Fonterra as the government continues to pressure the country’s premier dairy brand to come out with all the information to reduce the damage to New Zealand’s international reputation due to the botulism scare.

An anti-multiculturalism party, Rise Up Australia Party, gave Aussie voters something to think about

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is now suffering the same plight with ousted Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Trending, viral memes circulating social media channels could soon send netizens to jail. Philippine senator Nancy Binay has proposed the Electronic Violence Against Women (E-VAW) Law of 2013, a bill against "electronic violence." On Facebook, social media users referred to the bill as anti-meme, a retribution to those who had mocked the senator through memes during the campaign.

After visiting with Governor-General Quentin Bryce to discuss the election date in August 4, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd presented an outline of his plans for the future of Australia. The leader of the Australian Labor Party said the upcoming election on September 7 will be all about trust. The decision as to who will lead the country amid new and difficult economic challenges, lies on the people's hands.

World powers U.S. and UK have closed down a number of its global network of embassies and consulates, following an intercepted terrorist message that stipulated the al-Qaeda terrorist group is out to stage yet another massive worldwide attack.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has expressed his disappointment over news of bacterial contamination in Fonterra's baby formula which caused China, the country's biggest importer of New Zealand dairy products, to ban all milk imports from New Zealand.

Australian Electoral Commission says that eligible voters has only one week to enrol for the electoral rolls.

The latest Newspoll revealed that satisfaction rating for Kevin Rudd had fallen while dissatisfaction increase; Tony Abbott’s satisfaction rating remained poor

Bell FX Currency Outlook The Australian Dollar has continued to fall trading at a new three-year low on Friday night as the US non-farm payroll data for July fell short of expectations and a few analysts doubted whether US Fed stimulus would be reduced in September.

Prime Minister Kevin round announced the date for the Federal Election while challenging Tony Abbott for a weekly debate

A female civilian member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) filed on Thursday sexual harassment charges against Inspector Tim Shields, the attorney general of Canada and British Columbia's minister of justice.

Cyber espionage has become a hot subject for debate these days. All the countries deny spying yet at the same time accuse others of doing it. One man wants to put an end to this hypocrisy and wants honest international discussion on cyber espionage. According to itnews.com.au, the shadow communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull made these comments at a community forum on electronic privacy in Paddington last night.

After being holed up at a Moscow airport, Edward Snowden has received asylum papers from Russia. The former National Security Agency contractor thanked Russia for the asylum and criticized the U.S. for having no scruples in breaking international law concerning intelligence information.

Governments around the world are getting more and more panicky over perceived anti-government posts over at Twitter. And this panic, in return, has pressured the microblogging company to unfortunately release its users' very private informations.

Al-Qaeda is back in New Zealand and the U.S.

Hu Yixuan only wanted to help a distressed pregnant get safely to her home to the waiting arms of her husband. Little did she know that her kindheartedness would lead to her untimely death.

The federal government of Canada and state government of Ontario have been reported to have started the necessary steps to divest their remaining collective 10 per cent stake in General Motors Co. Both governments have started to approach investment banks that could help in their offloading plans.

Bell FX Currency Outlook The Australian Dollar has fallen to a fresh three-year low as strong US economic data raised the possibility the Federal Reserve will start winding down its economic stimulus program soon.

Treasurer Chris Bowen will announce the Federal Government’s levy, increase in tobacco excise and more help for the car industry