Erik Pineda

Australia's construction activity further weakened in February, notwithstanding the rate cuts introduced late last year by the country's central bank, which failed to boost housing and commercial building projects in the past few months.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has indicated that she intends to maintain harmonious relation with the Australian business community despite the recent backlash spawned by comments aired by a senior member of her government.

Yahoo's woes continue to pile up and the latest difficulty is poised to hit the company's employees as reports emerged that newly-appointed chief executive Scott Thompson plans to axe thousands of workers soon.

All combined, the natural disasters that the world saw in 2011 have amounted to a whopping economic cost of $US380 billion, according to a new report issued by the United Nations on Monday.

Australia's business environment has so far sustained its growth pace, expectedly on the back of the ongoing mining boom, but national data also indicated that regions and business sectors were hardly benefitting from the resources boost.

There were tell-tale signs that Coles and Woolworths were flexing too much muscle in pressuring suppliers to ramp up their production but without the corresponding benefits.

Official dealings with the government must be undertaken with a fully established identity, this according to new laws that will take effect April 30 this year in New South Wales.

The backbone of China's newfound economic might mainly rests on its manufacturing sector, which experts said could face serious skill shortages soon as millions of Chinese migrant workers gradually return to their rural homes.

The global automotive industry needs to deal with likely damning economic realities despite growth projections for the sector this year, according to outlooks furnished by analysts.

The Australian government called on its Libyan counterpart to run after the suspected Islamic militants who desecrated dozens of graves in a Commonwealth cemetery, located in Benghazi, where 48 Australian soldiers killed during the Second World War were laid to rest.

The Australian billionaires apparently the subject of the recent essay penned by Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan have hit back and declared that the senior Labor minister was barking up the wrong tree.

Apple and Samsung scored victories against each other before a German court on Friday but the two tussling tech titans also saw legal setbacks hampering their efforts to assert dominance in the ever-growing global mobile device market.

China is expected to reveal its 2012 military budget this weekend, which U.S. military experts said could exceed the estimated $US160 billion that the world's second biggest economy spent in 2010 for upgrading its military might.

The independent Media Inquiry commissioned last year by the federal government has proposed the creation of a national watchdog that would keep watch on the conduct of all media outlets in Australia - print, broadcast and online.

As Australia wages its campaign that forces tobacco manufacturers to adopt plain packaging on their products, a U.S. District Court ruled against a similar measure in the United States on Wednesday.

Household appliances and other debris picked by tsunami waves and carried off to open seas during the massive quake that hit northeast Japan on March last year could soon reach U.S. territories this year and next year.

A week before its expected launch of the very much anticipated iPad 3, Apple fuelled enough investors' excitement and saw its shares soaring thereby pushing its total market capitalisation beyond the $500 billion mark.

The Australian manufacturing industry appears to be stabilising in the past two months despite the lingering effects of a rising local currency in the sector, according to the latest Australian Industry Group/PriceWaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI).

Prime Minister Julia Gillard flatly denied on Thursday reports that she offered the Cabinet post vacated by Kevin Rudd to Bob Carr, calling media reports about the job offer as "completely untrue."

The ball is now on Microsoft's hands as the company scrambled to eke out a place in a mobile computing world increasingly dominated by Apple and Google.

The patent wars raging between tech firms dominating the mobile device market could spill over in the equally lucrative social networking sphere as Yahoo reportedly sent notice to Facebook this week demanding for licence payments.

Desk-confined employees would be able to ward off considerable health risks if they take a break every 20 minutes and flex some muscles.

Andrew Forrest is in danger of losing the management grip on Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), a mining firm he founded that now holds the distinction as the third biggest exporter of iron ore from Australia.

A new study jointly conducted by researchers at the University of California Berkeley (UCB) and the University of Toronto showed that those who have more were most likely to take advantage of their better status while those who have just enough seemed more content and willing to give way, and even share when necessary.

Bats have been hosting flu virus for many years, according to a new research findings published on Monday by scientists working for the U.S.-based Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Prime Minister Julia Gillard needs to clarify reports suggesting that American authorities appear to have secretly established a case against controversial whistleblower Julian Assange, an Australian national.

Senior Labor leaders have admitted that the leadership showdown between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and former Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd this week drove down a gaping wedge between party members.

Samsung had a sobering admission this week: Apple is getting its way in the ever-expanding tablet market, with one company executive conceding at the ongoing Barcelona Mobile World Congress that the Galaxy Tab product lines were not selling as expected.

Barely a week after Telstra Corporation submitted its revised structural separation undertaking (SSU), the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) gave its approval for the $11 billion deal between NBN Co and the country's dominant telco to go ahead.