“Over the course of next year, Putin will likely face mounting domestic problems. Russia’s central bank has forecast economic growth of 0.5 to 1.5 per cent in 2025, down from 3.5 to 4 per cent in 2024, suggesting that the wartime boom may have run its course.”

The top military officers of South Korea and Australia held phone talks Monday and concurred on the need to expand cooperation, such as combined drills and personnel exchange, the South's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.

In a heated Senate confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, Sen. Tammy Duckworth grilled the proposed defense secretary over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, asking him if he could name one m

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Energy Minister Chris Bowen has blasted opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien’s nuclear fact-finding mission to South Korea, labelling the study tour a “last-ditch” attempt to make the ­Coalition’s planned tilt towards atomic energy stack-up.

A giant South Korean pension fund will inject $700m into the country’s largest student accommodation company, Scape Australia, as part of a new global strategic partnership.

Sth Korea is in a dangerous political mess. President Yoon Suk-yeol arrested, but his dismissal and imprisonment are far from certain.

South Korean mega-energy firms are set to enter into an agreement with Pilot Energy to jointly develop the Mid West clean energy project in the Perth Basin.

If energy prices decline as promised by the president-elect, South Korea is expected to increase crude oil imports to alleviate trade pressure with the U.S. Last year, the prices of crude oil and natural gas imported from the U.S. reached $17.3 billion (about 25 trillion won).

Hegseth responded at the heated Senate confirmation hearing that he couldn’t tell Duckworth the exact number of ASEAN nations, but that “I know we have allies in South Korea and Japan in AUKUS (a pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the U.S.) with Australia.”

Yoon Suk Yeol has faced South Korea's constitutional court for the first time, following last month's martial law saga.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attended on Tuesday a Constitutional Court hearing of his impeachment trial where he denied ordering military commanders to drag lawmakers out of parliament during his short-lived bid to impose martial law.