The Californian gold rush was in decline in the 1850s and had been known as the Old Gold Mountain, which led the Chinese to name the Australian gold rush, New Gold Mountain. This is how the series ...

Australia has not escaped the threat of increased tariffs on its exports to the U.S. but its gold mining industry is revelling in commodity market uncertainty.

Traveling to the village of Ararat which was established by the Chinese who came to Australia during the gold rush era. Mr. Janaka Weerasinghe, the Queensland state correspondent for SBS Sinhala ...

As part of their federal election campaign, the Coalition announced plans to limit the number of international students able ...

Andrew Liu talks to Tom about the Chinese workers who followed the gold rush to California, Australia and South Africa, the racial stereotypes about them promoted by local politicians, and their role ...

"Thus, Chinese workers in California were able to change jobs every two-three years, and most importantly, they signed their working contracts voluntarily." Between the gold rush and the early ...

"It probably is an unprecedented gold boom." Australia has one of the largest underground gold reserves in the world. Australia's "gold capital" celebrates the metal hitting $5,000 an ounce for ...

Originally from Guangdong, the man one newspaper called a "petty despot" had sailed to San Francisco on a Chinese junk just before the gold rush, when he was approximately 20 years old.