Tag: Australia

• Monday, February 13th 2023 - 09:36 UTC

  Luxury Coffee Experience: Australian coffee shop offers Panamanian coffee at $140 per cup

  

  A café in Melbourne, Australia offers its customers a unique experience by serving a cup of coffee for 140 dollars, 50 times the market price. The city of Melbourne has a tradition of coffee culture, which was fostered by Italian and Greek migration from the 1940s.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2023 - 11:03 UTC

  Republicanism: Australia will honor indigenous cultures in its A$ 5 bill instead of Charles III

  

  Australia's new Five Dollar bill will replace an image of British monarch Charles III with one honoring Australian Indigenous cultures. It is the last banknote in Australia that still bears the head of recently deceased Queen Elizabeth II.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Message from Australia to cruise vessels, “brush your hulls before coming to Australian ports”

  

  The cruise vessel Viking Orion, with some 800 passengers, was denied permission to dock in Adelaide after Australian authorities discovered a “marine growth” on the ship, which is called “biofoul” and is considered potentially harmful.

• Thursday, December 22nd 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Australia patching up relations with China. Aussie foreign minister in Beijing

  

  After years of strained relations, Australia and China have given the first steps to normalization with the visit of Aussie Foreign Minister Penny Wong to Beijing. Ms Wong is the first Australian minister to visit China since 2019 and is leading Canberra's first formal talks in Beijing since 2018.

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 09:11 UTC

  The largest pink diamond in 300 years, was mined in Angola, “Rose of Lulo”

  

  Australia's Lupaca Diamond Company has reported that miners in Angola have extracted a rare pure pink diamond, considered the largest to have been discovered in the world in 300 years. The 170-carat, 34 grams diamond has been dubbed “the Rose of Lulo”, after the mine in northeast Angola where it was extracted.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 08:39 UTC

  Peru eliminated from Qatar football World Cup

  

  Australia beat Peru 5-4 on penalties to advance to the football World Cup finals later this year after a goalless draw.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 02:14 UTC

  Quad leaders agree to further develop Pacific Ocean island nations

  

  Leaders of the Quad countries (United States, Japan, Australia, and India) Tuesday issued a joint statement from Tokyo in which they pledged to up their efforts towards securing peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Climate change election: Labor pledges to make Australia “a renewable energy superpower”

  

  Australia's Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he wants to improve Australia's image abroad after defeating conservative Scott Morrison. Climate change played a pivotal role in the Saturday vote, with voters unhappy with Morrison's government response to deadly fires and floods that hit Australia in recent years and their support of massive coal exports.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2022 - 03:38 UTC

  Brazil again top global beef exporter, followed by India, USA and Australia

  

  Brazil during March exported 203,490 tons of beef, up 28% year on year, and the UN Department of Agriculture anticipated that the country is projected to become once again the largest beef exporter in 2022., with shipments 12,1% higher than in 2021.

• Wednesday, March 30th 2022 - 09:25 UTC

  LATAM resumes flights to Auckland and Sydney

  

  LATAM Airlines has resumed services to Auckland and Sydney following a 24-month interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chilean carrier serves the route from Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez international airport using Boeing 787-900 aircraft three times a week.