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Australia
‘Asia’s El Chapo’: Alleged leader of multibillion-dollar drug cartel extradited to Australia
Tse Chi Lop, 59, dubbed as “Asia’s El Chapo,” has been extradited from the Netherlands to Australia after a nearly two-year legal battle ag...
Carl Samson
‘Suspicious death’ of Chinese man leads Sydney police to seek identities of 2 men captured on CCTV
Tao Cheng, 25, was found dead in a fire escape in Sydney’s Central Business District on Dec. 7. The Chinese national was last seen enterin...
Senior Asian Australian protestor sustains brain bleed, neck injury during arrest
Danny Lim, a well-known street activist in Australia, has been released from the hospital after sustaining injuries during a police confron...
‘Australia’s worst pedophile’ sentenced to 129 years in prison for child sex abuse in Philippines
On Nov. 3, Peter Gerard Scully, known as “Australia’s worst pedophile,” was sentenced to 129 years in prison in the Philippines for chil...
Michelle De Pacina
Melbourne brothel manager who prostituted 16-year-old girl avoids jail time
Cheng Li, the 35-year-old former manager of the Heidelberg Angels brothel in Melbourne, Australia, escaped a possible 15-year jail sentence...
Bryan Ke
Melbourne Chinese-language driving school apologizes for ad calling female teachers ‘timid and weak’
Number 1 Driver School, a driving school for Chinese speakers in the inner-city suburb of Carlton in Melbourne, Australia, sparked outrage ...
Asian Australian YouTuber stands up against casual racism during a boat show in Sydney
Asian Australian YouTuber John Lee, who shares fishing videos on his channel JYL Fishing TV, was recently subjected to racist insults while...
Ryan General
Aussie woman who woke up with an Irish accent last year says she still can’t pronounce some words
Dentist Angie Yen, 29, said she developed a foreign accent syndrome, a very rare speech disorder that can cause a rapid change in one’s man...
MP candidate refuses to apologize after mixing up Asian Australian opponent with another politician
Liberal MP Fiona Martin has refused to apologize to her Reid seat opponent, Federal Labor candidate Sally Sitou, after the latter accused h...
Sydney activist sparks outrage over ‘F*ck Xi Jinping’ sign in Asian market
Drew Pavlou, a 20-year-old activist running for Queensland’s Senate, incensed crowds at a shopping area in Sydney when he showed up with a ...
Thai chef in Australia faces deportation after failing citizenship English test more than 15 times
A Thai chef working in Australia for a catering business since 2015 may be deported after failing to pass her citizenship English exam more...
Rebecca Moon
Solomon Islands sign security pact with China, alarming US, Australia over South Pacific threat
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare announced on Wednesday that the government had signed a security agreement with China the ...
Jane Nam
Singaporean woman, 82, fears for her future after moving overseas to be with daughter who stopped caring for her
An elderly woman claims that her daughter refused to take care of her after she and her husband sold their Singapore home and moved to Austr...
Filipino fast food chain Jollibee to open first branch in Australia
Filipino fast-food restaurant chain Jollibee will open its first Australian branch in Campbelltown, Sydney. As of this month, an opening d...
Australian supermarket called ‘racist’ for sign showing Asian and pet food in the same aisle
A Coles supermarket in Melbourne came under fire for an aisle sign indicating Asian food items in the same section as cat and dog food. A ...
Opera Australia sparks criticism over traditional use of ‘yellowface,’ Chinese stereotypes in ‘Turandot’
Vietnamese writer Cat-Thao Nguyen and her Chinese husband walked out of Opera Australia’s performance of “Turandot” during the first act af...
Chinese woman in Australia filmed ripping down Tiananmen Square posters, denying Uyghur ‘camps’ claim
A Chinese woman was filmed tearing down several posters that were created to support Hong Kong’s democracy from the Lennon Wall at the Univ...
Hong Kong denies Australia access to dual citizen facing life imprisonment under national security law
Australian consular officials have reportedly been barred from accessing a Hong Kong-born Australian man detained under the city’s national ...
Australian pro-democracy writer imprisoned in China since 2019 says he’s being ‘tortured’
Dr. Yang Hengjun, 56, was arrested after arriving at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in 2019 during a trip to China with his wife an...
Australian couple who bonded through boba marries in Gong Cha shop
An Australia-based couple delighted social media users after sharing their recent wedding at a bubble tea shop in Brisbane on December 8th. ...
Survivors of Korean internment camp being described as real-life ‘Squid Game’ press for justice
Survivors of an internment camp in Busan that has been likened to Netflix’s “Squid Game” are still fighting for justice 30 years later as th...
Australian man claiming to be Japanese Bitcoin inventor wins $27 billion court case
Craig Wright, an Australian computer scientist who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin, has been cleared of six out of se...
‘My loyalties have only ever been to Australia’: Labor Party candidate slams racist messages
Sally Sitou, the Australian Labor Party’s candidate for the seat of Reid, has spoken out about racist messages telling her not to run in the...
Queensland woman who boasted of running down Asian cyclist gets 10-year jail sentence
An Australian woman who boasted about leaving an Asian cyclist to die on a rural highway following a road rage incident in 2012 has been sen...
Study: Common plant used in Samoan traditional medicine dismissed as superstition could rival ibuprofen
New research offers scientific evidence on the healing properties of a common plant used in Samoan traditional medicine. Beyond superstition...
Youngest-ever mayor-elect of Melbourne suburb delivers victory speech in Vietnamese and English
Maribyrnong, Australia, has elected its newest and youngest-ever mayor on Tuesday. History in the making: Anthony Tran, 22, formally accepte...
Jiselle Lee
PwC diversity executives mocked Chinese accents, dressed as ‘bat from Wuhan’ during company trivia event
Two human resource executives at PwC, Australia’s largest consulting firm, are accused of racist behavior at the firm’s trivia event last Th...
Grace Kim
Pedophile who ‘wrote the Bible on child abuse’ deemed to be at low risk of reoffending by Australian judge
On Friday, an Australian court sentenced Geoffrey William Moyle, who sexually assaulted multiple children while filming the acts, to eight y...
‘I will kill it if I meet it again!’: Australian man demolishes sign blaming China for COVID-19
A video of an Asian man wrecking a sign that blamed China for the spread of COVID-19 in Melbourne, Australia, has gone viral on social media...
Australian reporter and former ‘The Bachelorette’ star apologizes for cat-eating Asian joke
Melbourne 7News reporter Georgia Love has apologized after making a racial joke targeting Asians on her Instagram Story on Monday. What happ...
Aussie sports presenter files defamation suit against Daily Mail, denies Asian accent mimicry, racial jokes are racist
Australian television sports presenter Erin Molan defended her frequent use of Asian accents and racial jokes during Tuesday’s defamation tr...
Three Asian Students Brutally Attacked by ‘Gang’ of Teens in Australia
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to include that the original Reddit video was locked by a moderator “due to ‘...
64-Year-Old Asian Man Collecting Cans Receives Racist Abuse, Death Threats in Australia
A man, 50, and a woman, 51, allegedly subjected an Asian man, 64, to verbal abuse and threats on Sunday evening after finding him sifting th...
‘It is just a joke’: Australian Restaurant Sparks Outrage After ‘Two Very Annoying Asians’ Receipt
A restaurant in Queensland, Australia is facing backlash after its owner shared a photo of an order slip that referred to two customers as “...
‘Piss Off Back to China!’: Racist Rants on Asian Couple Waiting for Pregnancy Scan in Australia
An Asian couple received a “rampage of racial slurs” from a woman while waiting for scans of their unborn child in Australia last week. The ...
Thai Family Attacked With a Machete During Home Invasion in Australia
A Thai family in Australia is searching for answers after two individuals barged into their home and attacked their 17-year-old son with a m...