Chinese officials and state media predictably set their hair on fire after Lai Ching-te won Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday, extending the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) hold on power to an unprecedented third term.
Australia will not soften its stand against illegal immigrants or refugees seeking asylum and government benefits, a report released on Wednesday shows.
Contents: Australia moves migrant children from Nauru immigration camps to Australia; Officials of Nauru infuriated by the contemptuous remarks by NGOs and politicians
China’s delegation angrily walked out of the Pacific Islands Forum on Tuesday when the host of the meeting, President Baron Waqa of Nauru, refused to allow Chinese representative Du Qiwen to deliver a speech on global warming.
Contents: Australia will pay $100K each to asylum seekers in Manus Island immigration camp; The Manus refugees’ future is still undecided – except for those coming to the US
Contents: Analysts skeptical of ISIS claiming responsibility for London terror attack; US resettlement of refugees from Australia’s detention centers is about to begin
Contents: Trump will honor Australia refugee deal, despite calling it ‘worst deal ever’; Australian politics in turmoil over refugee deal
Contents: Hundreds of Australian migrants to be resettled in the United States; As winter approaches, Syria’s east Aleppo faces mass starvation
Contents: Australia proposes lifetime settlement ban on illegal immigrants; Clinton e-mail media storm shows sudden change in public mood
Asylum seekers who attempt to illegal enter Australia by boat will never be allowed back into the country, even if they legally apply for refugee status or come as a tourist decades later.
Contents: Papua New Guinea Supreme Court bombshell throws Australia’s refugee policy into chaos; Papua New Guinea repudiates refugee agreement after Supreme Court Ruling; North Korea nuclear test expected after three botched missile tests
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia is in talks with Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, among six nations, to resettle asylum seekers detained in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific island nation of Nauru, the Sydney Morning Herald said on Saturday. The
Contents: Australia accused of paying people smugglers to take migrants to Indonesia; Pakistan shuts down ‘Save the Children’ and threatens other NGOs; France’s Dominique Strauss-Kahn acquitted of ‘aggravated pimping’
Nauru’s opposition and refugee advocates have slammed a government ban on Facebook, calling the move an act of “dictatorship”.
