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Most Sydneysiders sought refuge in air-conditioned offices or shopping centres on Friday when the temperature hit 45 degrees. Instead, I joined a sweaty, swarming crowd of 50, 000 music fans at the Big Day Out. With a bottle of sunscreen and a …

The rhythmic patter of rain on the tent wakes us before our alarm: 3:30a.m. Whose idea was this again? We step out into the pitch black and are met by our smiling guide, Made, who hands us torches and ponchos. How can …

China has paid for its long-term air pollution with an unprecedented haze shrouding Beijing and sparking mass panic over the past three days. On January 12, the Beijing Municipal Environmental Monitoring Centre (BMEMC) announced that the official measurements of PM2.5 fine particulates had reached 993 …

The Chinese media is fed up with censorship has been punished for advocating political reform. On January 4 the Beijing Communication Administration (BCA) shut down the official website of outspoken magazine, Yan Huang Chun Qiu (YHCQ). Before the denial of service, YHCQ had …

The 22nd Flickerfest international short film festival opened at the Bondi Pavilion last night on a perfect balmy Sydney evening. The audience was in a party mood as they enjoyed a selection of the 100 films chosen this year from 2300 entries …

Billed as one of the world’s most sustainable, small footprint events, the Peats Ridge Sustainable Arts & Music Festival, is so much more than your run-of-the-mill music festivals. Jessica de Boer gives it a whirl this New Year’s. Call me crazy but I can’t think of …

It may be rubbish in most people’s eyes but for Beijing-based artist Dong Song these items are valuable family heirlooms because of the memorable stories they tell. On December 13, Dong Song brought his latest work Waste Not to Sydney for an …

“Mind the smell,” calls Isabella. “It’s a combination of poo, wee and dead rat.” Tim Da-Rin, the photographer, and I tentatively follow her through the back entrance to Hibernian House. The stench uncoils itself in our nostrils, sour green paint curls fingers …

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 …