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Fake vaccines claiming to be made from the blood of recovered coronavirus patients being sold online

Researchers found fake vaccines were being sold with a median cost of $575, but some allegedly sourced from China were priced at $15,300 with the most expensive being sold for $24,598.




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How Chinese investors could save Australia's housing market despite ambassador Cheng Jingye's threat

China expert Professor James Laurenceson predicts cashed-up Chinese investors will continue having an interest in Australian property - despite diplomatic tensions over coronavirus.




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Coronavirus: Children just as likely to catch infection, study says

A study by the Shenzhen Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that the virus's attack rate among children was 7.4 per cent, on par with the 6.6 per cent seen in the general population.




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Experts cannot find a single child under 10 who has passed on coronavirus to an adult

A review of paediatric coronavirus evidence revealed 'the China/WHO joint commission could not recall episodes during contact tracing where transmission occurred from a child to an adult.'




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Austrian village Hallstatt that inspired Frozen and begged tourists to stay away now wants them back

The Frozen link has been responsible for lots of visits in Hallstatt, along with a view that gained renown in Asia thanks to a South Korean TV series filmed there and a partial replica of it built in China.




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How a Chinese boycott of Australian education would cost $12 billion a year in edcuation exports

Australia's first Hong Kong-born federal MP Michael Johnson has warned a Chinese boycott of Australia exports would have consequences lasting for at least a decade.




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Hard times for Durex as condom sales plunge amid coronavirus lockdown

Laxman Narasimhan, chief executive of Reckitt Benckiser, the maker of Durex condoms, said sales of condoms had been hit particularly hard in UK and Italy.




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More than 128,000 people in US have RECOVERED from coronavirus - double the number who died

At least 128,141 Americans have been confirmed to have recovered from coronavirus, which is double the number who've died from the illness, which sits at 62,547.




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FTSE 100 opens down 2.2% by 144 to 5757 points as data shows slump in UK housing market

The FTSE 100 was down by 144 to 5757 points, wiping out much of the strong gains it had seen this week after signs of several countries easing lockdown measures.




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Coronavirus: China's state media claims Trump 'publicly lying'

Hu Xijin, the outspoken head of Communist propaganda outlet the Global Times, has launched an astonishing attack on Trump, accusing the US president of 'publicly lying about China'.




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Coronavirus US: Dow drops 400 points as Trump threatens China

Trump said late on Thursday his trade deal with China was now of secondary importance to the pandemic, as his administration crafted retaliatory measures over the outbreak.




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China censorship deleted critical coronavirus articles and social media posts written in Morse code

One deleted article about the situation in Wuhan (pictured) that caused particular outcry was typed out again and re-posted by dozens of social media users in 10 languages to test out censorship levels.




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'Once upon a virus': China mocks the US response to the coronavirus crisis with Lego-like animation

In the animation posted online by China's official Xinhua news agency, a warrior Lego figure wearing a face mask warns a Statue of Liberty figure of the dangers of the virus.




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HARRY COLE: MPs and journalists asking claim to be victims of suspicious hacking 

HARRY COLE: One MP who says he's a victim of attempts to trick him into giving information over the internet is Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat.




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Three Australian men are accused of buying sex dolls depicting children from China

The men were arrested over two days in Grafton and Turramurra in Sydney after Australian Border Force intercepted intercepted sex dolls being imported into the country in March and April.




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China academic accuses Australia of 'stabbing Beijing in the back' over coronavirus inquiry calls

An influential academic who writes for a Chinese Communist Party newspaper has accused Australia of 'stabbing China in the back' over its calls for an international coronavirus inquiry.




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China covered up the severity of COVID-19 and how contagious the virus was, say intelligence reports

Intelligence reports show China covered up the impact of COVID-19 to hoard supplies needed to battle the pandemic, which President Donald Trump says proves he wasn't late in addressing the crisis.




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Fears China will create coronavirus vaccine first and try to extort world for access

The United States and China are locked in a race to develop a coronavirus vaccine as fears mount that the latter country would use its success as economic and diplomatic leverage.




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Chinese investors are preparing to buy up cheap Australian property once restrictions are lifted

Chinese property investors are lying in wait to snap up cheap real estate deals in Australia when coronavirus travel restrictions are lifted.




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Ministers were 'fully aware' China had covered up the true scale of coronavirus, MI6 source claims

A senior former MI6 official says that UK Ministers were told 'not to believe Beijing's claims' from the beginning and to pour cold water on all information coming from Chinese officials on the virus.




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Australian billionaires have been 'groomed' by China to be 'megaphones' of Communist Party policy

Mining magnate Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest and media mogul Kerry Stokes drew widespread outrage for calling on Prime Minister Scott Morrison to dump an inquiry into the origin of coronavirus.




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Ben Wallace warns China it has questions to answer over its handling of the coronavirus outbreak

The Defence Secretary reignited a war of words over whether China suppressed information about the virus which prevented other countries from taking steps to save more lives.




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China reports the lowest number of active coronavirus cases since Wuhan was put under lockdown

Mi Feng, a spokesperson from China's National Health Commission, said Monday that the number of active infections in China dropped to 481, the lowest number recorded since January 23.




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3.5million confirmed coronavirus cases have now been recorded around the world

At least 3,506,729 people have been sickened by the virus since it emerged in China late last year, according to Johns Hopkins University figures.




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China and Australia tensions mount over coronavirus inquiry after diplomat's 'outrageous behaviour'

China's 'bullying' responses to Australia's calls for an international coronavirus inquiry were slammed as 'outrageous' as experts rethink the diplomatic relationship.




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London markets open flat on 5,763 points amid US-China tensions over origin of Covid

The index of Britain's biggest firms dropped by nine points to 5,763, with further losses in the eurozone markets which were 3.5 per cent lower at close today.




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Australian politician slammed for sharing anti-America tweets and saying 'China is our future'

A tweet posted by Mark Buttigieg flashed on screen during Q and A on Monday night, where Mr Buttigieg claimed Australia's relationship with the US is biased.




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Dr Fauci says there's 'NO evidence' coronavirus leaked from Chinese lab - contradicting Trump claims

Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, panned the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was accidentally leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology on Monday.




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Trump says China made 'horrible mistake' and covered up coronavirus outbreak

President Donald Trump suggested that the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe is the result of a 'horrible mistake' made by China, during a Fox News virtual town hall on Sunday.




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Coronavirus UK: Failure to quarantine arrivals led to spread

Sir Patrick Vallance told MPs.a large number of cases in early March were from Europe and 'seeded right the way across the country' because Brits arriving back were allowed to return home.




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Iranian airline 'fuelled Middle East's coronavirus crisis by continuing flights to China'

Mahan Air, a private company linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is accused of lying about these flights after Tehran barred all flights to China on January 31.




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The Sage Files: UK scientists believe coronavirus cases in China are TEN TIMES higher than claimed

Documents released today from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) show that UK scientists believed that the number of cases was vastly higher than admitted by Beijing.




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Starbucks to reopen 85% of its US stores by the end of the week

The Seattle-based coffee chain is aiming to have 90 percent of its cafes opened by June. It temporarily shuttered half of its 8,000 US stores in late March after the COVID outbreak.




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Video shows middle-aged woman racially abusing Chinese woman in Melbourne

A middle-aged woman has been filmed telling a Chinese cafe worker to 'go back to China and keep your disease over there', in a vile racist attack in Melbourne.




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Children CAN spread coronavirus, studies claim as NIH launches trial to track pediatric infections 

One Chinese study found school closures can lower a peak in coronavirus cases by 40% to 60% and a Germany study found children carry as high levels of the virus as adults can.




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Australia ramps up push for inquiry into coronavirus origins

Scott Morrison said a 'proper assessment' into the deadly virus is necessary.




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COVID-19 Australian film Cooped Up predicted coronavirus three years before pandemic outbreak

An Australian film about a man with coronavirus in home quarantine predicted the COVID-19 pandemic more than three years before the outbreak. 




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Plane carrying produce heads to Asia in first flight from South Australia since pandemic

The first scheduled international flight out of South Australia left with 30 tonnes of fresh seafood, meat and other produce destined for Asia.




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Shanghai Disneyland is 'set to open in mid-May' after a nearly four-month coronavirus shutdown

Preparations for the opening are underway as the theme park in China is set to welcome visitors again in mid-to-late May, a source revealed to the Chinese media on Monday.




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Paralysed mother, 79, miraculously survives after being 'buried alive by her son'

Police in north-western China's Shaanxi province rescued the paralysed mother, known by her surname Wang, on Tuesday after the woman's daughter-in-law reported her missing.




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Did European athletes catch coronavirus while competing at World Military Games in Wuhan in OCTOBER?

Elodie Clouvel, a world champion modern pentathlete, said she believed she and her partner - another athlete - caught the virus while at the competition in Wuhan from October 18 to 27.




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Mike Pompeo launches new attack on China accusing it of still refusing access to its labs

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched a new round of attacks on China, accusing Beijing of covering up coronavirus outbreak and charging them with providing faulty medical equipment.




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Trump says he believes the U.S. coronavirus death count but 'not China's'

President Trump said he believed the American coronavirus death toll was accurate - but not China's - amid reports that he planned to start sowing doubt about the U.S. totals.




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Australia's proposed 'coronavirus travel bubble' with New Zealand could be expanded

Neville Power, the chairman of the government's COVID-19 recovery taskforce, has suggested resuming travel ties with China. He used to run iron ore exporter Fortescue Metals.




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How Beijing-backed investment Down Under plummeted by more than $10BILLION in just a year

The Foreign Investment Review Board's annual report shows the value of Chinese investment approvals across all sectors fell from $23.7 billion in 2017/18 to $13.1 billion in 2018/19.




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Man causes a pile-up in an expressway tunnel in China

CCTV footage shows the man stop his car in the overtaking lane of the Qinyuanling tunnel, Zhejiang Province, China, causing a three-car pile up and a near-fatal accident as he tries to escape.




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Wuhan doctors save a critically ill coronavirus patient, 65, by giving him a double-lung transplant

The patient, named as Cui An, tested positive for COVID-19 in early February and had been hooked to a life-support machine for more than two months when surgeons performed the operation.




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Coronavirus: Nations hit hardest had most international travel

Brazilian researchers found nations hit hardest by the killer disease were ones accepting the most international flights. It may explain why the US (73,431) and UK (30,150) have the most deaths.




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Coronavirus: Trump twice ignored aides' advice over China

President Donald Trump turned down suggestions by aides who encouraged him to press Chinese President Xi Jinping on transparency.




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Coronavirus US: Mike Pompeo says China hasn't provided samples

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says China is holding back essential information about the coronavirus, although a whistleblower says a top U.S. official failed to ask for it in January.