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NewsColony Private survey shows China’s manufacturing sector grew in August at fastest pace in nearly 10 years Results of a private survey on Tuesday showed China’s manufacturing activity expanded in August at the fastest pace in nearly a decade. The Caixin/Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) came in at 53.1 for August, compared to  52.8 in July. Economists polled by Reuters had expected Caixin/Markit manufacturing PMI to come in at 52.7. PMI readings above 50 indicate expansion, while those below that level signal contraction. The readings are sequential and indicate on-month expansion or contraction. The expansion in August was the fastest since January 2011, Caixin and IHS Markit said in their joint report. “Manufacturing demand and supply continued to recover, and overseas demand started to pick up,” wrote Wang Zhe, a senior economist at Caixin Insight Group. In August, “the subindices for output and total new orders again hit their highest levels since

NewsColony Irish couple’s trip around the world ended with both of them charged over stabbing in Sydney Irish backpacker Katie Murtagh was enjoying a dream trip around the world before it ended with her being charged over a Sydney stabbing that left a man with a partially severed ear.   Murtagh’s social media pages paint a glamorous life of festivals, trips to Asia and beach days.  But the 26-year-old’s adventure was dramatically cut short when she and boyfriend Patrick Earle, 23, were charged over the brutal attack on Oliver Solan, 30, in a unit on Young Street at Randwick, in Sydney’s east on Saturday night.  Police allege Earle and four other men set upon Solan as he lay motionless on the floor of the apartment, using a knife to sever part of his ear and leaving him with a ruptured spleen.  Officers claim Murtagh allegedly sent a Facebook message to Earle’s friends asking them to come over, at which point she let them in to the unit and hid in her room as they attacked Solan w

NewsColony The HUGE change coming to Victoria’s border with New South Wales Gladys Berejiklian has announced an easing of NSW border permit system with Victoria, as fierce debates rage on about the coronavirus closures.    Ms Berejiklian visited Albury on Tuesday to announce a 50km border buffer zone on either side to allow agricultural workers to cross into NSW more easily. The permits are expected to be available for residents by Friday, making it easier to travel for work and ease ‘angst and frustration’ among locals.  But the same can’t be said for Queensland, where premier Annastacia Palaszczuk revealed her state’s border wouldn’t open until at least October – despite the state economy hemorrhaging $17million a day. The new border region permit will allow residents to pass between Victoria and NSW for neccessary goods and services, care and compassionate reasons and going to work or school.  They are not allowed to leave the 50km border bubble.  Political leaders hav

NewsColony NT wildlife rangers capture enormous 4.4metre, crocodile found lurking at a popular tourist spot  Wildlife rangers have captured a monster crocodile at a popular tourist spot in the Northern Territory. The male saltwater crocodile is 4.4 metres long and weighed in at 350kg when it was caught in the Flora River Nature Park, 120 kilometres south of Katherine in the Northern Territory, on Friday.    Katherine senior wildlife ranger John Burke said the reptile was caught in a spot that visitors frequently walk by.  ‘The tourists walk down to the river in the area where he was,’ Mr Burke told ABC News .    Mr Burke said he did not know of a larger crocodile caught in the Flora River.  A park ranger pours water over a captured saltwater crocodile to cool it down. The reptile is 4.4 metres long and weighed in at 350kg when it was caught in the Flora River Nature Park, 120 kilometres south of Katherine in the Northern Territory, on Friday Pictures and video of