A young woman in China has died during a live broadcast of an extreme eating challenge. Popular streamer Pan Xiaoting died last week of a suspected stomach tear, The Daily Mail reports, while partaking in a 10-hour binge of 10kg of food, including cake, chicken fingers and seafood. The 24-year-old’sContinue Reading
An angry masseuse took matters into her own hands after a client allegedly repeatedly groped her during a massage appointment. Footage showed the woman pinning a customer down on the footpath in China after initially tolerating the customer’s alleged inappropriate behaviour, which took place on June 22 in Guangdong. However,Continue Reading
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says the best way for Australia to fight off threats to its national security and economy amid the threat of China is to “stick close to America”. In an interview for a Sky News documentary commemorating the 60th anniversary of The Australian, the newspaper he created,Continue Reading
A prestigious private Melbourne school has pleaded guilty to a criminal offence after a diabetic student fell ill while on a school trip to Vietnam. Lachlan Cook, 16, was a few days into the school trip in September 2019 when he began vomiting and having stomach pains. His condition deterioratedContinue Reading
Australia has named and shamed a Chinese government-backed hacking group. The cybercriminals stole hundreds of unique usernames and passwords in one hacking incident in April 2022. It’s the first time Australia has led the charge to identify a notorious group, tracked as APT40, which has acted behalf on the People’sContinue Reading
Australia will continue working with Pacific countries to ensure dirty money from criminal proceeds are not bought into the country and cleaned, while the government works to catch up with dated laws. Brendan Thomas – the head of Australia’s financial crimes watchdog, the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (Austrac)Continue Reading
Australia will move to modernise and tighten outdated laws which have allowed drug traffickers, people smugglers and terrorist to exploit the system to launder dirty money through luxury goods, real estate, domestic banks and casinos. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus will flag reform to the federal Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing ActContinue Reading
The Albanese government has called on major Australian banks to continue operations in Pacific countries, amid fears the withdrawal of services would allow China a way in to increase its influence in the region. The importance of continued operation and multilateral collaboration between Australia and the Pacific will be addressedContinue Reading
Batches of cocaine sold in Australia have been laced with a deadly opioid that’s 100 times more potent than heroin, sparking an urgent health alert. A number of Aussies who recently purchased and consumed what they believed was cocaine suffered “serious” adverse effects due to the presence of synthetic opioidContinue Reading
Australian police are cracking down on deadly drugs that have been cut with the synthetic opioid Nitazene, after four people died from suspected overdoses. Federal Police Commander Paula Hudson wants everyone to be aware of the dangers of consuming Nitazenes, which is 1000 times more potent than morphine. “Nitazenes haveContinue Reading