News about Australia

KUALA LUMPUR (April 1): News Corp says it will suspend printing of 60 Australian community newspapers in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia from April 9, ABC reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 7): Five cheques worth a total of RM366,000 mysteriously made their way into the proxy account of Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (pictured) in 2016.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 27): AME Elite Consortium Bhd posted net profit RM14.

MELBOURNE (Feb 27): Lynas Corp won a new license, subject to several conditions, to continue its rare earths refinery operations in Malaysia for three years, Bloomberg reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 21): YTL Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust (YTL REIT) posted a 2.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 20): The Malaysian authorities did examine the possibility of a criminal plot behind the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, said the then prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, but did not make the suspicions public as the plane’s recorders had not been found.

PETALING JAYA (Feb 14): Kmart added to the recent surge of Australian store closures by announcing the closure of its branch in the northern Melbourne suburb of Northcote on Nov 22 this year when the store’s lease ends, NewIdeaFood reported on Tuesday.

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 21): The High Court here had today fixed March 25, 2020 to hear the merits of the challenge against the government and Cabinet's decision to grant Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd a six-month extension licence to operate its rare earths separation plant at the Gebeng Industrial Estate near Kuantan, Pahang.

  SYDNEY (Jan 13): The fires that have razed over 2,000 homes, killed 26 people, wiped out an estimated billion mammals, birds and reptiles and scorched some 25 million acres are finally under control in some areas, say firefighters.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 7): MUI Properties Bhd has taken up an associate stake in Nex Metals Explorations Ltd, a gold exploration company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.