QR payments allow customers to scan a merchant’s unique QR code using their smartphones. The payment app, provided by a bank or financial technology company (fintech) and linked to the user’s account, ...

The International Energy Agency has released its annual “World Energy Outlook 2023”, a report that tracks the global transition to net zero emissions. The report contains the latest trends from ...

Stephen Moran is an independent trade analyst. He was Senior Trade Analyst in the Office of National Assessments from 2010­ to 2021. Before that, he held various trade policy roles in the Department ...

Olena Guseinova is a Lecturer at the Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), Seoul, Korea. Concurrently, she holds the position of Nonresident ...

Cate Sumner is Director of Law and Development Partners and a Senior Adviser with the ASEAN Australia Counter Trafficking program (ASEAN-ACT) and the Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice 2 ...

Rennie Lee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research and ARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course at the University of Queensland.

At the time of the incident, the Australian Department of Defence has said Toowoomba was conducting United Nations sanctions enforcement operations in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Australian ...

Australia should articulate and pursue a disciplined Taiwan strategy that uses the flexibility of its one-China policy to increase engagement with Taipei in service of Australian economic and security ...

Senior US official statements more recently frame it as Xi seizing on 2027, the 100th anniversary of the PLA’s founding, to complete the material preparation required to make major combat operations ...

Despite years of international policy efforts to bring down the cost of sending money home, fees for overseas workers remitting to Pacific Island countries are among the most expensive in the world.

The Mar-a-Lago Accord is an idea floated by Stephen Miran, recently appointed Chairman of the US Council of Economic Advisers. Such a deal, Miran claims, would address the US current account and ...

In July this year, Indonesia officially announced its interest in becoming a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Indonesia’s Minister of Finance reiterated the ...