The China-Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) took a giant leap to garnering bipartisan support in Australia's parliament on Tuesday, with the Labor party backing down from changes to the original legislation.
Australia's Treasurer Joe Hockey has warned colleagues that if the opposition blocks the China- Australia free trade agreement, China could walk away from the landmark deal.
Australia's opposition leader is under increasing pressure to support Australia's landmark free trade agreement (FTA) with China.
Voting for Britain's "most unpredictable" general election started early Thursday amid the surge of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and possible prospects of a hung parliament.
Britain officially kicked off its general election campaign after the Parliament was dissolved on Monday.
The number of Americans initially applying for unemployment fell back below the key 300, 000 mark in the second week of February, showing a steadily improving job market, U.S. Labor Department said Thursday.
One of the giants of Australian politics, former Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, died at the age of 98, and current Australian political leaders immediately offered condolences to his family with Prime Minister Tony Abbott describing him as "a giant of his time."
The formation of ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015 is expected to boost Vietnam's Gross Domestic Production (GDP) by 14.5 percent and employment rate by 10.5 percent, according to a study by the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Secretariats of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
The Philippine government ordered Wednesday to verify a report that foreign domestic workers, including Filipino household service workers (HSWs), were being put in display and made available for "purchase" at "discounted prices" in some shopping malls in Singapore.
Myanmar government and UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) are planning to collect the data on child labor as part of a four-year plan for elimination of child labor in the country, according to Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security Wednesday.
The Australian coalition government's carbon tax repeal bill has passed in the House of Representatives due to a majority of the Liberal-National Coalition on Thursday.
Australia's Labor Party on Sunday has elected Bill Shorten to lead it in opposition, after a month-long vote by the party's 40,000 members.
The upcoming federal elections are meant to be an uphill journey for the Australian Greens as the two major parties had announced to prefer other parties over the Greens.
Politicians from Australia's two major parties are preparing for their campaign to win key marginal seats in Queensland ahead of the September 7 federal election, local media reported on Monday.
The surge of voter support for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) since he reclaimed the Labor leadership appears to have stalled, according to the latest Newspoll.
U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Thomas Perez as Secretary of Labor, elevating a Hispanic to President Barack Obama's second-term cabinet.
Kevin Rudd swore in as prime minister of Australia on Thursday following his victory in a ruling Labor party caucus ballot the evening before.
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