Crystal Wu

1 week ago | scmp.com | Crystal Wu

South Korea will hold its presidential election on June 3 and the political divide among young first-time voters appears to be widening along gender lines. Young women are expected to lead a broad political backlash against the main conservative party after months of upheaval, but their male counterparts seem likely to side with the conservative camp.

1 month ago | skynews.com.au | Crystal Wu

New South Wales Police Inspector Amy Scott has given emotional testimony on day two of the inquest into the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing attack, saying she had accepted that she was going to die. Inspector Scott, who has been hailed a hero for her swift actions, admitted she felt "nauseous" as she entered the shopping centre alone. "I actually felt nauseous as I ran in," she told the coroner on Tuesday.

1 month ago | scmp.com | Crystal Wu

Thai farmer Daeng Donsingha was already worried for her family of nine when rice prices crashed this year as the world’s second-largest exporter of the staple faced a resumption of Indian exports. Now, she is also worried about tariffs unleashed by US President Donald Trump that could slash demand for Thai rice in the nation’s most valuable foreign market and create turmoil in an export industry worth billions of dollars.

1 month ago | skynews.com.au | Crystal Wu

Joel Cauchi had bookmarked pages about serial killers and mass killings in the days before the Westfield Bondi Junction stabbing attack, an inquest has heard. Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured 10 others in a mass stabbing at the Sydney shopping centre on April 13, 2024. The inquest will examine Mr Cauchi's schizophrenia diagnosis and why he remained unmedicated and unsupervised for five years before the attack.

1 month ago | skynews.com.au | Crystal Wu

The Sydney electorate of Banks was once a safe Labor seat, until Shadow Foreign Minister David Coleman won it for the Liberals in 2013. Now, Labor is vying to take it back, as shifting demographics, cost of living pressure and infrastructure issues dominate conversations among voters. The seat of Banks covers parts of Canterbury-Bankstown and a majority of the St George district. Once considered a working class electorate, it's now seen as a middle class area.