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With 2012 drawing to a close and the Xmas parties kicking into overdrive, the promise of a new year starts to fill our heads with optimism and lower our levels of productivity at work. Not only does the beginning of the year …

China’s anti-corruption drive through social media received its first triumph when a whistleblower leaked a Chongqing official’s sex photographs on Weibo, Chinese Twitter. Zhengfu Lei, the Party Secretary of the Beipei district in Chongqing, was dismissed on November 23, three days after …

Australia’s Got Talent’s  Matthew Shields shot to fame overnight for his creative Aboriginal dance style on the pole and his performances have encouraged men to get involved in the female-dominated pole dance. But not many people know he now has a dance partner. …

Renowned conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy breaches the divide to the master in this concert version of the Tchaikovsky opera last enjoyed by Sydney audiences in the 1979 Australian Opera production. The chilly despair of Tchaikovsky’s dark masterpiece, set in the aristocratic salons of …

  I was a bit surprised to find myself the winner of a double pass to Triple J’s Unearthed ARIA Music Week Showcase event last Tuesday. Previously, the most significant prize I’d ever won in my life was a yo-yo from a …

While tens of thousands of people headed to Cairns to chase the total solar eclipse on November 14, the Yolngu communities around Gurruwiling, East Arnhem Land, hosted a smaller but magnificent event. Gurruwiling, better known as the Arafura Swamp, is where the …

China’s weak  copyright laws have exposed its young people, at home and abroad, to the scrutiny of powerful corporations, leading the Chinese Government to improve public awareness of copyright protection. On November 16, NBC Universal  sent a warning to a Chinese student studying …

Rising classical music star and guitarist extraordinaire Miloš Karadaglić gave his first public performance in Sydney to what was nearly a full house at the City Recital Hall in Angel Place last night. The charismatic 29-year-old from Montenegro delighted a diverse audience …

Resplendent in purple sequins and high-heeled boots, 65-year-old Sir Elton John still cuts a dashing figure. He is perhaps the only 5’7” gay man capable of inciting mass hysteria by tarting it up atop a piano in top hat and tails. The enigma …

Australia’s Asian Century White Paper was welcomed as a great gift for China’s new president Xi Jinping in the Chinese media which also dubbed Australia a “Reform Vanguard” in the second Industrial Revolution led by Asia. The White Paper, which aims to …