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Daiichi Life’s Australian unit last week offered to buy the remaining 79.5% of Challenger.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 26, 2026
Challenger rejects Daiichi Life’s $4.4 billion takeover offer
Daiichi Life’s Australian unit last week offered to buy the remaining 79.5% of Challenger at 11.80 Australian dollars per share.
The Portland Aluminium smelter in Portland, Australia. Closing power plants before replacements are ready has left the country with fewer options, which should serve as a warning to Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
Australia’s energy transition offers a warning to the world
An energy-rich country is spending billions to keep its aluminum smelters operating. Its policy choices help explain why.
An attendee walks past signage for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group in Bangkok on Oct. 14.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 23, 2026
War, rates and a global economy that won’t break
Today’s nominally solid scenario depends on policymakers not making any major mistakes.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the Freedom 250 reception at the Jio World Convention Center in Mumbai on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 21, 2026
With leaders’ summit, ‘Quad’ hopes to breathe fresh life into grouping
U.S. President Donald Trump will join a meeting next month amid concerns that the four-nation grouping is withering on the vine.
Tributes and flowers outside the electoral office of independent Australian lawmaker Helen Haines, who was deliberately struck by a car outside her office on Monday in Wangaratta, Australia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 20, 2026
Threats of political violence soar in Australia’s ‘online echo chamber’
Independent lawmaker Helen Haines was in critical condition after being struck deliberately by a car.
A woman places flowers outside the office of Australian politician Helen Haines in the northern city of Wangaratta on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 20, 2026
Australian lawmaker in critical condition after vehicle attack
Independent Helen Haines was struck outside her office in an incident the country’s prime minister said was a deliberate act.
Western Sydney International Airport has attracted only a handful of airlines and has half a dozen or fewer scheduled flights a day for the next 12 months.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2026
Sydney’s new $4 billion airport set to open with barely any flights
Western Sydney International is already drawing unfavorable comparisons with airports elsewhere that ultimately failed to live up to expectations.
Daiichi Life Group confirmed it has submitted a nonbinding proposal to acquire more shares in Challenger but said no decision has been made on a transaction.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 19, 2026
Daiichi Life offers $4.4 billion to buy rest of Challenger
A deal would give the Japanese insurer control of Australia’s largest provider of annuities in the nation’s fast-growing retirement market.
Bubbles and Arnold, two koalas that arrived from Australia in July, are shown to visitors at Saitama Children's Zoo in Higashimatsuyama, Saitama Prefecture, on Aug. 22.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Oct 19, 2026
Two koalas debut at Saitama zoo, marking first arrivals from Australia in a decade
Bringing in koalas from overseas is considered important for maintaining genetic diversity among koalas in Japan.
People gather at a karaoke box in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo in June 2020. AI tools are making cyberattacks cheaper, faster and easier to scale, exposing 91AV原创 cybersecurity weaknesses, including the hacking of karaoke operators.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2026
Karaoke hack shows cybercrime is routine
The head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s cybersecurity body went so far as to describe it as a “state of emergency in cyberspace.”
AI-enhanced humanoid robots are serviced at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai in July 2025.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2026
When AI acts without orders, national security is at risk
These AI systems are doing what they were designed to do: pursuing goals and finding ways around obstacles.
A construction site for one of the largest data center projects in Japan by Australian property group Goodman Group in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, earlier this month
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 7, 2026
Goodman’s Japanese data center under fire following Sydney site setback
The dispute with residents in Japan is part of a broader global backlash against data centers.
Jason Kwon, chief strategy officer for OpenAI, speaks to the media ahead of an appearance at New South Wales parliament in Sydney on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 6, 2026
OpenAI apologizes for Australia hack amid pushback on data center project
An OpenAI prototype sought access to a government health statistics portal, sidestepping restrictions to breach a section hosting private files.
High living costs and housing shortages are fueling anti-immigration sentiment in Australia.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 6, 2026
Australian opposition vows ‘biggest cut to immigration’ in country’s history
The Liberal-National Coalition’s sweeping proposal comes amid growing anti-immigration sentiment due to high living costs and housing shortages.
Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama (right) and Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers meet at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo on Monday.
BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2026
Finance chiefs of Japan and Australia establish dialogue for economic security
The two nations will share information on investment trends and discuss supply chains, including those in the defense industry.
The Presidential Palace in Hanoi on May 26, 2025. Viet Tan has called on the governments of Norway and Australia, as well as international human rights organizations, to press Hanoi for three people's immediate and unconditional release.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 29, 2026
Vietnam arrests three on terrorism charges, including Norwegian and Australian citizens
Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security said the three men had admitted to being members of Viet Tan, a U.S.-based pro-democracy group.
A Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Australia is the Indo-Pacific inventory hub for parts and maintenance of F-35s flown by allies in Asia.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 24, 2026
China holding sensitive F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
A cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door shipped via UPS from Australia to the U.S. were inexplicably diverted to the Chinese territory.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks at a news conference during the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, revealing that an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI infiltrated an Australian government website in June.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 24, 2026
OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, Albanese says
OpenAI took three months to alert the Australian government about the breach.
The latest proposed social media reforms in Australia follow a law, which took effect in December of last year, banning social media for users under the age of 16 in the country.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 23, 2026
U.S. warns Australia’s social media algorithm reforms risk ‘facilitating censorship’
Under the proposal, platforms would be required to offer a default content feed, with the option to opt out and see posts only from followed accounts.
Three-time Olympic gold medal winner Drew Ginn (center) races as part of Australia's Olympic coxless fours during a training session at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in May 2012.
OLYMPICS / Rowing
Sep 18, 2026
Champion oarsman says Brisbane 2032 rowing risks becoming country regatta
Experienced coaches and former elite rowers remain unconvinced that a venue some 600 kilometers north of the host city is the best option.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
91AV原创 permanent residency reform has a glaring blind spot
Japan's immigration reforms risk creating uncertainty by tying permanent residency more closely to language proficiency before clear assessment standards and supporting infrastructure are in place.
Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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