The renewed offer from BHP values Toronto-listed Noront at about $280 million, prompting the miner's chief executive Alan Coutts to back the proposal

Taipei is looking for allies to support its application to join the CPTPP – despite opposition from Beijing which has also applied to be a member

After prime minister denounces online forums as a ‘coward’s palace’, government seeks to tighten grip on likes of Facebook and Instagram

China is releasing Australian coal from bonded storage, despite an unofficial import ban imposed a year ago, as it scrambles to ease a national power crunch caused by a coal shortage

CNN says it withdrew its Facebook page after a court ruled publishers can be liable for defamatory public remarks on such posts and the social media giant refused to help curb comments

Anti-competition watchdog calls for regulations on use of internet data to sell ads, claiming Google's dominance in the sector hurts publishers, advertisers and consumers

Australia will play a key role in supplying critical minerals to other members of the group, which wants to ensure China does not exert control over items essential to modern technology.

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• Takeover of buy-now, pay-later firm seen creating rival to PayPal, Klarna • Australian firm’s popularity soared during Covid pandemic...

The highly contagious form of the Covid virus has forced the region’s nations to bring back new curbs with slow vaccination rollouts aiding its spread

Australian mining company says the Congo and Cameroon governments have granted rights to major iron ore projects it spent years trying...

Beijing-Canberra relations sink further as nations tussle over train wheels, wind turbines and even the kitchen sink (AF) China said...