The need for a broader understanding between China and Australia beyond the burgeoning trade relationship was a major theme of recent discussions during APJC's first China Australia Journalist Exchange.

One of the Mid West's biggest investors has warned that billions of dollars worth of iron ore developments across the region could be "mission impossible" unless key infrastructure projects are built.

Spotting babies in Chongqing is a beautiful but difficult pastime. This city, one of China’s fastest growing in economic and population terms, is expanding but not on the back of a baby boom.

The giant Sinosteel corporation will hold crucial meetings in Sydney this week to explore ways to solve the multiple-billion dollar infrastructure bottle neck which has stalled development of the Midwest iron ore deposits in Western Australia.

The head of a planned $3 billion Chinese-funded iron ore mine in the State's Mid West has made a direct plea to West Australians to have faith the project will go ahead.

CHINESE metals giant Sinosteel will meet with business partners to revive the perpetually stalled West Australian Oakajee iron ore project.

Although the massive Chongqing Iron and Steel Group includes three steel mills using 10,000 megawatts of electricity annually, executives said there were 30 bigger steels plants in China.

Australians will have greater access to the world's fastest growing city in southwestern China before Christmas.

SELAMAT pagi, Pak Tony Abbott (Good morning, Mr Tony Abbott). Welcome to Indonesia. We hope you like our country - we certainly do. Have you noticed that your refugees almost never come from Indonesia? They come through Indonesia. You worry about boats coming to Australia but these people use Indonesia as a stepping stone to get to you.

While new technology is seen as a threat to traditional cultures the world over it also provides an opportunity to help preserve the cultures for their future generations. Dr Kirsty Gillespie is an ethno-musicologist has studied music and culture in the remote Lake Kopiago region in the highlands and Lihir Island.