IBT Staff

Based on Kevin Kwan’s entertaining novel, Crazy Rich Asians boasts an Asian director, screenwriter and a cosmopolitan, super-talented Asian cast.

Sep 05, 2018

Children differ widely in how well they do at school. In recent years, researchers have shown that around two-thirds of differences in school achievement can be explained by differences in children’s genes.

Sep 05, 2018

Australian home prices have risen 60% in the past five years. That’s great news for the 7 million households who own one.

Sep 05, 2018

Negotiations for a revised North American Free Trade Agreement have been ongoing for more than a year, but now it’s crunch time — especially for Canada.

Sep 05, 2018

Google added two innovations: highly efficient processes for crawling webpages to index their text, and a new way of ranking a page’s relevance based on the number and quality of pages that linked to it.

Sep 05, 2018

Earthquakes in the central and eastern United States have increased dramatically in the last decade as a result of human activities.

Sep 01, 2018

Cybercriminals have just been given yet another route to get malicious software (malware) onto your personal mobile devices.

Sep 01, 2018

For a brief moment last week, US President Donald Trump served a useful purpose. He reminded us how important race is as an economic and political issue on much of the planet.

Sep 01, 2018

The Democratic Party shouldn’t count on Latinos swinging many midterm races their way this year.

Aug 31, 2018

Two’s company, three’s a crowd. The third wheel. There’s no good term for someone who jams a couple, seemingly invited in out of pity.

Aug 30, 2018

It’s not surprising then that dogs are now the most commonly used animal in therapy. Our canine pals are being increasingly used as participants in a variety of mental health programmes – offering companionship, happy associations and unconditional love.

Aug 30, 2018

By far the biggest health fear in people over the age of 50 is Alzheimer’s disease and the catastrophic loss of personal memory it entails.

Aug 30, 2018

The court has accepted that it is arguable police could owe a common law duty of care to specific victims of domestic violence to protect them from preventable harm.

Aug 30, 2018

Period pain (also called dysmenorrhoea) can be divided into two main types – primary or secondary dysmenorrhoea – depending on whether there’s an underlying problem.

Aug 30, 2018

No more chocolate by 2050? Several articles have pointed recently that we are heading to a major chocolate crisis.

Aug 29, 2018

Uber’s dramatic rise has been accompanied by criticism, including allegations of predatory pricing and flouting of safety and employment laws.

Aug 29, 2018

Julia Banks, the Liberal member for the highly marginal Melbourne seat of Chisholm, has announced she will quit at the election, calling out bullying within the party and saying her constituents backed Malcolm Turnbull.

Aug 29, 2018

President Donald Trump on Aug. 27 announced an agreement that he said would replace NAFTA, an almost 25-year-old deal that allows most goods produced in North America to move duty-free across the continent.

Aug 29, 2018

Elon Musk shocked the world on Aug. 7 when he tweeted that he had the “funding secured” to take Tesla private. A little more than two weeks later, the billionaire entrepreneur abruptly called the whole thing off.

Aug 29, 2018

The study was conducted to examine the effectiveness of two very different approaches to improving mental health in collegiate athletes.

Aug 28, 2018

The U.S. and Qatar have been key allies for decades, with close military and economic ties. Qatar is home to the United States’ biggest base in the region, and in turn the U.S. has pledged to protect the small, oil rich country that juts out into the Persian Gulf.

Aug 28, 2018

Donald Trump’s former personal attorney and “fixer”, Michael Cohen, has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of fraud, among other crimes, and has implicated the president himself in wrongdoing.

Aug 28, 2018

Tax Day is finally here once more. If you’re getting a refund, lucky you. But if you owe the government money, you may be worried that you have to pay the amount due by the filing deadline of April 17 – even if you asked for an extension.

Aug 27, 2018

A recent survey by Griffith University has found Australians’ trust in government is sliding. Trust and confidence in government fell in the last year to 46% at the federal and state levels.

Aug 27, 2018

A black Bond? It’s an apparently unproblematic and straightforward question, right? Well, not quite. When suggested quite quizzically by a colleague, it sparked a series of reactionary positions in the staff room, especially from the 007 traditionalists.

Aug 27, 2018

After Donald Trump caused a debacle at the recent NATO summit and started a trade war between the United States and most of its partners, one would imagine he would be highly unpopular.

Aug 26, 2018

Ugandan singer turned politician Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, known as Bobi Wine, is at the centre of a storm in the East African nation. Ssentamu has been arrested and charged with treason in a civilian court.

Aug 26, 2018

Arizona Sen. John McCain – scion of Navy brass, flyboy turned Vietnam war hero and tireless defender of American global leadership – has died after a year of treatment for terminal brain cancer.

Aug 26, 2018

Crazy Rich Asians is a ground-breaking moment for Asian representation in Western film, with the first all-Asian cast in Hollywood in 25 years - an industry where Asian actors constitute 1% of lead roles.

Aug 25, 2018