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China ending its zero-COVID policy left Australia facing a conundrum: to test or not to test Chinese travellers. The jury is still out on its decision.

SHANGHAI: For five days the elderly Chinese woman’s corpse lay decomposing in the Shanghai house she shared with her family before a hearse finally arrived to take away her remains.

The recent Who Gets to Tell Australian Stories? report on diversity in Australian newsrooms revealed some grim, but unsurprising figures. The report found most television news and current affairs presenters on major Australian free-to-air networks are Anglo-Celtic. So too were most senior network news editors.

Word of anti-lockdown protests in China spread on domestic social media for a short period last weekend, thanks to a rare pause in the cat-and-mouse game that goes on between millions of Chinese internet users and the country’s gargantuan censorship machine

Beijing flooded streets with police and security personnel while tweaking COVID response after rare nationwide protests.

Opponents of China's anti-COVID measures are resorting to dating apps and social media platforms blocked on the mainland to evade censors, spread the word about their defiance and strategy, in a high-tech game of cat and mouse with police.

Anti-Asian racism and hostility from right-wing media and politicians helped Dan Andrews regain power in Victoria on Saturday.

Chinese censors are scrambling to scrub references to protest codewords and demonstration hotspots like Xinjiang.

Beijing (AFP) - Holding up blank pieces of paper, co-opting the national anthem, complicated wordplays: protesters in China are devising a myriad of creative ways to voice dissent against the government and its zero-Covid policy.