Esther Tanquintic-Misa

Air New Zealand has announced it will be extending its flight services to Australia's Sunshine Coast for a third consecutive year, effective 2014.

Canada has formally joined in the fray of nations laying territorial sovereignty over the North Pole. On Monday, the country announced it had filed before the United Nations an application seeking to expand its Atlantic sea boundary.

Air Canada is mulling to buy more aircraft to support its fleet and is just reportedly close to deciding which from Airbus or Boeing it will enter the deal with.

Australian internet service provider TPG Telecom Ltd has entered into a binding agreement with Telecom New Zealand to purchase the latter's Australian unit AAPT for AU$450 million.

China has been enveloped in smog again over the weekend.

German President Joachim Gauck flatly announced on Sunday he will not be attending the Sochi Winter Olympics scheduled on February 2014 in Russia. This makes the German leader the first ever major political figure to snub the event.

Two men from Boston who were already supposedly cured from the dreaded HIV AIDS virus after undergoing bone marrow transplants have been infected again by the same virus.

An ultra-thin fault zone loaded with slippery clay was what gave off the mammoth March 2011 Japan quake and tsunami, which killed around 16,000 and injured 6,150 across twenty prefectures in the country.

Shares of tech giant Apple (AAPL) surged on Thursday on reports it has finally entered an arrangement with China Mobile. However, the Chinese operator and the world's biggest wireless at that, denied the existence of any deal.

Local police authorities in Chongqing, China are baffled as to what provoked a 10 year old schoolgirl to maul a defenseless 18 month old baby boy inside an elevator, and then throw him off from the balcony at the building's 25th balcony.

Australia and South Korea has entered into a free trade agreement on Thursday. The deal most advances the plight of meat exporters and agricultural producers.

Canada continued to decelerate in the Forbes' magazine's eighth annual 'Best Countries for Business' ranking, all in just a span of two years. From top five in 2012, Canada has been ranked as only the eighth most favored country for business. In 2011, Canada was number one.

Even as the world's major economies rush to enact laws and implement methods to reduce carbon emissions to minimize overall lashes of global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius.

Canada has fallen out of the global top 10 in international math education standings, sending education leaders scrambling for decorum.

It seems prices of the safe haven yellow metal gold have nowhere to go but further down in the pits in 2014.

China's Yuan, also known as the Renminbi (RMB), has eclipsed the Euro to become the world's second most used trade currency. Global trade continues to be dominated by the U.S. Dollar though.

The dreaded H7N9 bird flu strain has reached Hong Kong. On Monday, health officials confirmed and reported the country's first patient to succumb to the infection.

Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd, the country's flagship carrier, has entered into a code share deal with China Southern Airlines Co Ltd, a first between the two airline firms.

Almost two years after initially receiving in Feb 2012 the temporary operating licence (TOL) of its rare earths plant facility, Australian miner Lynas Corp continues to face resistance from environmentalists in Malaysia.

"She was incompatible with my lovelife." And so without fanfare and much batting of her eyelashes, a French mother decided to permanently stow away the cause of her lovelife's sufferings - by pushing her very own 15-month-old daughter to her death out into the open sea.

A Chinese city is mulling to construct and launch in 2014 a baby dump box facility to accommodate the country's surging unwanted newborns, much to the chagrin of netizens who pointed out it will instead encourage irresponsible parents to just give away their unwanted children.

China has blasted into space on Monday its first ever moon rover mission.

Thousands of motorcycle bikers held protest actions across Australia on Sunday to rally against Queensland's anti-bikie laws, which they claim is a form of harassment against legitimate and law-abiding bikers.

Wana taste flying on top of the dragon Smaug character in the second part of the Hobbit trilogy, 'The Desolation of Smaug'? Then fly Air New Zealand.

With three hovering helicopters, Canada formally signed off its oldest airfield, the Edmonton City Centre Airport over the weekend.

A professor from University of Waterloo observed Canada's anti-smoking campaign has been slipping, all because the government has not curbed the low selling prices of cigarettes in the country.

The A$2.8 billion ($2.6 billion) takeover bid submitted by US foods giant Archer Daniels Midland to acquire Australian grains handling company GrainCorp has been rejected.

Officials of South Africa's Education Department are now embroiled in a nasty controversy after it included in a list of exam questions a scenario on baby rape.

China's crackdown on online rumours has been successful, the country's internet regulator said on Thursday. Buoyed by this progress, local authorities are now mulling to regulate Chinese Internet even more.