March 11, 2016 Sichuan Hanlong Group insider trader jailed in Australia An Australian court has sentenced a Chinese former executive to more than eight years in prison for insider trading in 2011 when his privately-owned energy conglomerate Sichuan Hanlong Group subsidiary was preparing takeover bids for two Australian mining companies.
March 9, 2016 Australia hopes to return Iranian asylum seekers under deal An Australian official says Australia hopes to send thousands of Iranian asylum seekers back to their homeland under a new deal with Tehran.
March 9, 2016 Australian leader dismisses concerns about Chinese company Australia's prime minister has dismissed public concerns revealed by a U.S. poll about a Chinese company leasing a strategically important Australian port.
March 8, 2016 Iranian couple in Cambodia resettlement deal return home Cambodia says an Iranian couple who were resettled in Cambodia under an expensive program funded by Australia to keep asylum-seekers from its soil have returned to their homeland.
March 8, 2016 Australian leader leaves open option of early July election Australia's prime minister has left open the possibility of a national election as early as July.
March 7, 2016 Australian navy says it seized weapons headed for Somalia The Australian navy says one of its warships has seized a large weapons cache from a fishing boat headed for Somalia.
March 7, 2016 Gary Braasch, photographer and climate change activist, dead at 70 An award-winning American photographer and climate change activist died while snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef on Monday.
March 7, 2016 1 dead, 2 injured in shooting at business in western Sydney One person was killed and two others injured in a shooting at a business in western Sydney, police said Monday.
March 7, 2016 Two dead, including gunman, after Sydney shooting and standoff A gunman shot three people, one of them fatally, and took three hostages inside a signage business in a suburb southwest of Australia's largest city Monday, beginning a six-hour standoff that ended with the gunman's death and the release of the unharmed hostages.
March 6, 2016 Australian officials say MH370 debris could reach Mozambique Debris that washed ashore in Mozambique that may be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 turned up in a spot that matches investigators' theories about where wreckage from the plane would have ended up, Australian officials said Thursday.
