Development of Western Australia's biggest gold discovery in a decade is tipped to open up a new gold mining province in inland Australia.
While terror attacks in three different parts of the world on Friday highlight the grave danger the world is facing now, some Western media's bias against Muslims is equally dangerous because such prejudice can only ferment hatred and polarization.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday that Russian anti-sanction measures against Western countries would be extended for one year.
The Western Australian (WA) government will sell one of Australia's main shipping links to Asia in an effort to reduce the state's mounting debt.
French touristsTwo French tourists who filmed themselves burning a quokka, a native Australian marsupial, have each chosen to accept a seven-day jail term, which is expected to cost Western Australian taxpayers thousands of dollars.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he "succeeded to withstand" the nearly four-year-old crisis in Syria thanks for the popular support he enjoys in Syria.
In recent years, the West has conjured up fantastic theories like "neocolonialism", "China is exploiting Africa's resources," etc., effectively throwing mud at China over its win-win cooperation with Africa.
For a century, the Middle East has been a deeply troubled region, and it has never been truer than it is this year when a group of extremely ferocious terrorists formally established their caliphate of Islamic State (IS) in parts of Iraq and Syria, showing the world how brutal and uncivilized it can be.
Western countries' actions during the Ukraine crisis are contrary to democratic principles, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Saturday.
Since British novelist James Hilton introduced the fictional "Shangri-la" to Western readers eight decades ago, foreign minds have often perceived Tibet as a mystical but harmonious paradise.
Shanghai, with its curious fusion of a futuristic skyline and oriental culture, is becoming an increasingly popular location for shooting science-fiction blockbusters.
Moscow hoped a "war of civilizations" in Syria could be avoided, despite the fact Western powers had been moving along that path, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.
When German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen coined the term "Silk Road" in 1877, he may have never imagined that similar roads had existed long before the ancient trade route originated in the 1st century BC.
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