Erik Pineda

Cambodian authorities have confirmed over the weekend the arrest of Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, who has been in hiding since his popular file-sharing site started encountering legal woes in 2009.

Australia will be among the most elite educational system by 2025, according to Prime Minister Julia Gillard as she is scheduled to outline her government’s official response on the Gonski Review Monday.

Another load off the shoulder of Internet giant Yahoo as China finally freed a dissident partly jailed when the company gave out information that led Chinese police officials to Wang Xiaoning.

Thai-owned PTTEP Australasia has accepted full responsibility for the August 2009 oil spill that led to thousands of barrels of oil gushing for weeks on territorial seas between Western Australia and Indonesia.

Qantas Airways is all set to finalise a code-sharing agreement with Emirates Airlines, which reports said would provide a wider gateway for the national carrier to secure more profitable routes in Europe.

Gay marriage could soon gain the protection of New Zealand laws as the country’s Parliament voted this week in favour of the same-sex union bill authored by opposition Labor MP Louisa Wall.

Heartbreaking losses in the past two days will not break the resolve of Australia to complete its Afghan Mission, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Thursday following the deaths of five diggers on Wednesday, three of them killed by ‘green-on-blue’ assault.

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has given its nod for the wider circulation of abortion pill RU486, effectively nudging the country to the circle of 46 nations worldwide that allow the controversial drug’s commercial availability.

Osama bin Laden was killed by members of an American commando team without clear indications that he posed a threat, according to a new book authored by one former operative of the famed U.S. Navy SEALs.

Three Australian soldiers were reportedly killed Wednesday by a rogue member of the Afghan army though details of the incident were still sketchy and remain under investigation, NATO said in a statement.

Ecuador is working on a deal with Britain that would allow the latter to send WikiLeaks founder Julia Assange to Sweden without fears of being extradited to the United States, reports said.

What Samsung has been up to since losing its U.S. legal battle with Apple last week? It appears the tech giant is far from licking its wound, opting instead to push out two new gadgets that it hopes would soon eclipse the court room disappointments it just absorbed.

Egyptian authorities have agreed to allow an Australian freelance journalist to finally leave the Middle Eastern nation following more than six months of ‘hold departure order’ imposed by Cairo.

Consuming electronic and digital products in and within Australia has remained relatively expensive compared to other markets, with the price mark-ups reaching an average of 50 per cent more, according to a consumer advocacy group.

The Ford brand will continue rolling off on Australian roads but it remains uncertain if the same applies on the carmaker’s local production lines.

Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has pledged to revisit the prohibition imposed by the Labor-led government on giant Chinese network specialist Huawei Technologies.

Samsung has vowed to fight Apple’s efforts to shove its gadgets out of the United States following last week’s jury verdict that labelled most of the South Korean tech giant’s products as less innovative.

The $15 per tonne carbon tax floor price will be dumped by the Gillard Government following the conclusion of a deal with the European Union that would link the economic bloc’s carbon pricing scheme to that of Australia’s.

Prison walls have failed miserably to stem the flow of illegal drugs into Australian correctional facilities, a new council report said on Tuesday.

Blazing wireless internet connectivity will be enjoyed by more than 60 percent of Australians come mid-2013 courtesy of the country’s leading telco Telstra Corporation.

Queensland will likely cut no more than 15,000 public sector jobs, according to Queensland Premier Campbell Newman on Tuesday, yet regardless the exact number Treasurer Wayne Swan cautioned that the Coalition plans to do the same should it wins federal government power.

The diplomatic standoff between Britain and Ecuador over WikiLeaks founder Julia Assange has reached a settlement stage as Quito confirmed on Saturday that “we consider this unfortunate incident over.”

A new HIV-suppressing pill gained the approval of the U.S. Federal and Drug Administration recently, paving the way for its commercial sale in the United States and possibly in other countries soon.

GM Holden has announced Monday the recall of more than 51,000 units of vehicles that the carmaker assembled and marketed in South Korea between 2007 and 2010, pinpointing faulty brake modules as the likely cause of the unprecedented move.

Former Prime Minister John Howard has affirmed earlier this August that the Australian economy is at a solid state as claimed by the Labor-led federal government, according to a report over the weekend by the Australian Financial Review (AFR).

The latest Fairfax-Nielsen survey showed the Labor-led national government collecting considerable gains from its dismal performance for the most part of 2012, inching closer to the likelihood of reversing a rousing Coalition win next year.

The global smartphone market has become more ‘exciting’ as an American jury found Samsung actually infringed on a number of patents exclusively owned by Apple, tech experts said.

They had the chance yet they didn't take it, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said on Friday in direct response to the Coalition demands that more questions need to be answered on the Slater & Gordon affair.

Apple’s iPad has provided much of the leg for the global tablet market to march through incredible growth in the June 2012 quarter, gaining 77 per cent from the overall shipments of the gadget over the past 12 months.