Christine Gaylican

Australia envisions becoming a world-leading digital economy by the end of the decade by fully realising the benefits of the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Japan can avoid turning the affected Fukushima Prefecture into a dead zone by immediately applying chemicals and planting radiation-absorbing plants at the contaminated soil, scientists said.

A gradual implementation of the carbon tax is the favoured scheme of industry groups led by the Business Council of Australia.

The Malaysian government has announced that an independent investigation on the planned rare earth facility by an Australian company is now being conducted to fast-track the report by next month.

Glencore International Plc's debut in Hong Kong has been graded the world's biggest initial public offering this year that could lure other investors from its competitors with its size and market value, analysts said.

China's economic growth is seen hitting a lower target of 9.4 percent, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in its latest note to clients Tuesday as Premier Wen Jiabao's efforts to curb rising inflation will impact on domestic growth.

Australia's James Packer's Consolidated Press Holdings, Seek co-founder Andrew Bassat and American hedge fund Tiger Global have invested some $80 million in online retail giant called Catch of the Day.

Environment group Greenpeace has warned consumers of the possible dangers pose by children's toys made in China because of the high percentage of a harmful chemical found in them.

A Qantas flight from Thailand to the UK has been forced to return to the Bangkok airport after one of its engines broke down after take-off.

Within the same day that its managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn filed his resignation from the International Monetary Fund, the institution came out with its own official list of code of conduct for its officers and employees to follow.

Lawmakers in the U.S. asked Japanese firm Sony Corp. for additional information about an attack that exposed more than 100 million customer accounts to hackers, an event its chief executive officer described as a 'hiccup.'

Nuclear physicists have announced that that by the end of 2012 they could determine whether a theorised particle called the Higgs boson, which has unleashed a gruelling decades-long hunt, exists or not.

Moderate wage increases in Australia's states have temporarily eased the pressure on a planned interest rate adjustment by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) next month.

The widening social gap between the rich and the poor is clearly emerging in China as plans to make a private elite club comprised of the new rich has been revealed in reports on Chinese dailies in Beijing.

Leading manufacturer British American Tobacco Australia (BATA) on Tuesday launched a national media campaign against the Federal Government's proposed plan to impose plain packaging on cigarettes that could harm marketing and sales.

The leadership of International Monetary Fund is now in disarray with the arrest and detention of managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn by the New York City police.

The Australian dollar jumped and recovered its four-day loss as an impact of the Reserve Bank's hint that benchmark rates may soon rise up at some point.

Australia's Reserve Bank has hinted that higher interest rates maybe inevitable to contain the jump in consumer prices, authorities said.

Japan's Sony Inc has resumed the partial operations of its leading PlayStation Network and Qriocity entertainment services in the U.S. and Europe after more than three weeks that they were attacked by hackers, the company said in a statement.

The United States has been threatened by members of the terrorist Taliban army after their first retaliatory attack since the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.

American pop star Lady Gaga has invaded the virtual farms of Farmville and has her own GagaVille to promote her singles included in her album "Born This Way," online games producer Zynga has announced.

The rare planetary alignment of four planets will be visible to Australia's pre-dawn skies on Friday, the Sydney Observatory has announced.

A New Zealand court has ordered Australian airlines Qantas to pay fines worth NZ$6.5 million for fault of price fixing, records showed.

Critics and business leaders have been disappointed with the proposed federal budget of Australia unveiled last night for fiscal year 2011-2012.

Australia's Treasurer Wayne Swan said the aim of authorities to cut the federal budget in order to return to a surplus by the next fiscal year will be good to tame the country's rising inflation.

Gamers world-wide are in for another visual treat and experience as they can be the ones to lead the assault into the simulation videogame battleground set in the background of the late Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's abode in Pakistan.

A Malaysian has offered an advice for those who are both frivolous on food and sexually adventurous.

In an attempt to restore fiscal balance, the Australian government plans to cut its spending to cope with the recent rise in the Australian currency, Treasurer Wayne Swan said today.

New Zealand's largest city Auckland on Tuesday was hit by a tornado, killing one person and injuring dozens more as the twister lifted the roof off a suburban Albany Megacentre shopping mall.