King River jags shallow high-grade Murchison gold

Housewife May and her three children were overjoyed last September when they moved into a 200 sq ft subdivided flat in Kwai Tsing, a Hong Kong district with one of the city’s lowest average monthly household incomes. For years, the 50-year-old single parent had lived in a squatter hut with her son and two daughters, where they had to climb hundreds of stairs daily. They later moved into a 100 sq ft subdivided flat before securing their current place. Located on the 15th floor of a lift-equipped...

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A teenager has suffered life-threatening burns after two cars were set alight outside a home in Melbourne’s west.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is looking to secure more laboratory space in the Northern Metropolis university town to expand its research capacity and attract talent, its new vice-president for research has said. Professor Anderson Shum Ho-cheung, who took up the vice presidency in August, also called for more government funding, saying grant applications took time and returns on investment could be slow. Shum said the university’s research development would align with the government’s...

Donald Trump just made a desperate move to lower fuel prices ahead of the US midterm elections. The relief, however, is likely to be short-lived.

As thousands of older apartment blocks across Melbourne try to ditch gas and introduce electric vehicle charging, complex rules and significant costs are throwing up more problems than solutions.

The fitness influencer has not appeared in court in Queensland and will remain behind bars until Thursday as his business empire issued a statement about the allegations.

Hong Kong refrained from setting overly rigid economic indicators in its first five-year plan to avoid fuelling concerns that it was moving towards a planned economy, according to the city’s constitutional affairs minister. The current priority should be hitting targets instead of dwelling on accountability mechanisms for potential shortcomings, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Janice Tse Siu-wa said. Tse also emphasised the government’s efforts to explore administrative...

The proposed square is an “elegant resolution of a complex space” and should be built.

The Australian sharemarket has made a positive start to the week after Wall Street indexes climbed near their all-time high on Friday in New York after the latest update on the US job market

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