December 2024
‘Once in a lifetime’: Khuda ends stellar 2024 with $18m penthouse sale
AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda’s passion for luxury property development is proving a lucrative side hustle, with his Manly penthouse selling for a suburb high.
September 2024
The five most powerful Australian tech leaders in 2024
The biggest deal of the year, the end of an era at Atlassian and the rising influence of super funds helped to shape the list of technology’s most powerful in 2024.
Just how naughty was AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda?
Let’s meditate on the businessman of the year’s fantastic origin story: his use of super to pay employees.
AirTrunk’s $23.5b AI pay day
Blackstone emerged as the winning bidder in the year’s biggest merger and acquisition deal, netting its founder Robin Khuda a $1 billion-plus payday.
Robin Khuda is the ringleader of this year’s biggest M&A deal
The founder of AirTrunk has cashed in on the inexorable rise in demand for processing power and built a vast fortune on the rise of cloud computing.
August 2024
Bangladesh protesters back Nobel laureate for government role
Protesters have called for Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to be named chief adviser of a new interim government after PM Sheikh Hasina fled the country.
Bangladesh protesters to march on government after deadly clashes
At least 91 people were killed and hundreds injured on Sunday in a wave of violence in the country of 170 million, as police fired tear gas and rubber bullets.
July 2024
China’s low-tech manufacturers hanging on by their fingernails
China is shifting more to high-tech and EV manufacturing as its clothing, toy and furniture factories struggle against anaemic orders, trade restrictions and competition.
June 2024
Why Hong Kong ‘is still good’ for commercial lawyers
Australian lawyers are missing out on opportunities in Asian markets, says a newly promoted partner at King & Wood Mallesons.
August 2023
India key in recipe to avoid global food crisis
Rice and wheat shortages now threaten a world food emergency to rival the last one in 2007–08
The data that signals ‘students’ are coming for work, not uni
Universities are bleeding money as thousands of international students enrol in dodgy colleges as a means of accessing paid work.
April 2023
Southern Asia swelters as Bangkok hits 54 degrees
Recent extreme heat in Thailand smashed electricity consumption records there as Bangladesh and India also suffer.
October 2022
Europe faces ‘unprecedented risk’ of gas shortage, IEA says
The IEA says in its quarterly gas report that EU countries will need to reduce use by 13 per cent over the winter in case of a complete Russian cut-off amid the war in Ukraine.
August 2022
Is China finally hitting the economic wall?
Globalisation is heading into a perfect storm – and for China in particular it could not be coming at a worse time.
January 2022
Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to another four years in prison
Monday’s guilty verdict on three counts comes on top of her December 5 conviction on charges of inciting public unrest and a separate count of breaching COVID-19 protocols.
December 2021
Human progress unexpectedly stumbles on during pandemic
Even during a health emergency, the capitalist system delivered enough growth to lift people out of poverty.
What South Africa and omicron tell us about inequality
There is still much to learn about omicron, but one thing is clear. Stark inequality, both within nations and between them, is good for pathogens.
October 2021
In the developing world, the chat about climate change is different
No one can do much about climate change if they are trapped in poverty already. Australia can help to fix both challenges.
September 2021
Xi pledges to stop building coal-fired plants outside China
China is by far the biggest producer of coal domestically and the largest financier of coal-fired power plants abroad.
July 2021
What remained of the Surfside condo is levelled with explosives
Demolition was initially thought to be weeks away – until the increasingly urgent forecasts that said Tropical Storm Elsa could lash the area with strong winds and heavy rain.