Shangri-La Group Debuts ‘Dragonbeat’ with Resounding Success | News

Shangri-La Group (“Shangri-La” or the “Group”), title sponsor of the Shangri-La Stanley International Dragon Boat Championships, successfully presented its inaugural Dragon Boat Festival programme, Dragonbeat, yesterday at Stanley Main Beach. Blending sport, culture, gastronomy and entertainment, the programme featured the highly anticipated dragon boat races, the Shangri-La Taste of Hong Kong Food Fair, and the…

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Western Australian poultry farms locked down after H5N1 bird flu discovered in wild birds | Bird flu

Poultry farms in Western Australia have gone into lockdown after confirmation the deadly H5N1 bird flu has arrived on the country’s mainland. On Monday, the Ingham’s Group – Australia’s largest poultry producer – announced a “complete lockdown” in WA, despite no commercial detections of H5N1. It came after a brown skua, found on a remote…

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Iran Soccer Escalates Tensions With U.S.

Iran’s soccer federation hit back hard with a statement, calling Mullen’s remarks “FAKE” and an “outright and undeniable lie.” The statement said Mullen’s comments “represent a clear attempt to cover up discriminatory behavior and unreasonable restrictions imposed on the Iranian national team delegation.” (Eleven members of the team’s traveling party were denied U.S. visas for…

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FE News | Deirdre Hughes: “Young People Have Lost Their Line of Sight to Opportunity”

We catch up with Deirdre Hughes, Associate Professor at the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research and founder of DMH Associates, at the recent Breaking Barriers collective, a collective intelligence event in partnership with Edge Foundation and FE News, which was looking how to support youth engagement, youth employment and crack the NEET puzzle….

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The winter break is coming, but before then Labor wants deals with the Greens on tax and the Coalition on the NDIS | Josh Butler

Things get a little frantic during the final parliament sitting before a long break. Not quite “silly season”; it’s more like settlement season, or “let’s make a deal” season. A thumping lower-house majority gave Labor the confidence to throw up contentious tax changes it hadn’t taken to last year’s election. But a rockier path through…

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