Lin Evlin

Hundreds of overseas PhD students planning to study in areas critical to Australia’s future economy are waiting as long as three years to have their visas approved. Those impacted include people from countries such as Iran, China, India and Pakistan. Academics say they’re frustrated by the wait…

New South Wales has been warned that a fresh COVID-19 surge is beginning, prompted by the growing prominence of new sub-variants.

New South Wales has been warned that a fresh COVID-19 surge is beginning, prompted by the growing prominence of new sub-variants.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute wants social media companies to broaden their labelling of state-linked accounts so audiences can more easily identify propaganda.

The advertisements have upset Hong Kongers in Australia, who says the billboards misrepresent the true situation in Hong Kong.

Earlier this year, SBS News brought you a story about a cluster of suicides with disturbing similarities among South Asian women in the City of Whittlesea, located in the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne. The Victorian Coroner's court has now acknowledged the concerning trend, urging more…

Social media in Australia is awash with political messaging, and users of the popular Chinese messaging app, WeChat, are also seeing political advertising, and misinformation, on the platform. Experts in Chinese social media believe that unlike the 2019 federal election, much of the misinformation on the app, which is used by an estimated three million people in Australia, is being shared in private groups. “Private groups on WeChat are like Whatsapp group chats - unless you are invited…

With the federal election just weeks away, Chinese social media app WeChat is likely to again be a key campaign battleground as politicians of all persuasions try to win the hearts and minds of Chinese-Australian voters.

After Eden Dessalegn struggled to manage her own natural curls as a child, she taught herself the craft of braiding, now she owns her own braiding salon in Condell Park, located in Sydney's south-west.

In 2018 and 2019, seven suspected suicides in Melbourne's City of Whittlesea left local authorities deeply concerned. The incidents had disturbing similarities and there was evidence some of the women had experienced family violence prior to their deaths. SBS News was the first to report on the cluster in June 2020 and a subsequent coronial investigation into the deaths of four of the South Asian women urged for more to be done to help vulnerable women in the community. As SB…