Good Morning Australia!! - Are you getting rich off of crypto-currency? Bitcoin reaches new highs - Oz joins its allies to try and calm the churning South China Sea - Chaos is a ladder and the FBI wants to know who has been climbing it - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

Australia, the United States, and Japan have drawn up a proposed "code of conduct" to put a lid on "unilateral actions" in the South China Sea.  This where China has built off-shore military bases on reefs and rocks, and claimed for itself what every other nation on earth considers to be either international waters or territory already belonging to other nations.  Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono announced the plan on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit in the Philippines;  the host nation stands to lose territory if China gets away with it. 

North Korea is threatening to retaliate and make "the US pay a price" for drafting fresh UN sanctions over its banned nuclear weapons program.  Speaking at the ASEAN summit, North Korean spokesman Bang Kwang Hyuk claimed the tensions on the Korean Peninsula "as well as the nuclear issues, were caused by the United States".  Mr. Bang carefully avoided the mention of China, North Korea's only friend in the world, which could have voted against the sanctions in the UN Security Council - but didn't.

Bitcoin has soared to more than US$3,300 each, according to the Coindesk Bitcoin Price Index, and for a time traded at around $3,450.  The crypto-currency's volatile leap comes after last week's rift that created a spin-off crypto called Bitcoin Cash.  That new asset is down around US$350 each, way down from its 2 August peak of $724.54.  Bitcoin Cash's future looks a little better because the major exchange Coinbase announced it will support it by next year.

OMG did that major character survive the dragon attack in the latest episode of Games of Thrones?  The FBI might find out before we do, because the US feds have been called in to investigate the hack at HBO.  When asked for comment, Drogon said:
Ow ow ow ow oouch hot hot hot hot anyone got any aloe?
Episode summaries for all of Season 7 were leaked onto the Internet, and Episode 4 itself was uploaded to pirate sites.  A hacker group claimed to have stolen 1.5 terabytes of data - seven times more data than the 2014 Sony hack - and were threatening to leak even more spoiler content from all sorts of HBO shows. 

Venezuela's army is searching for ten uniformed men claiming to be soldiers who tried to stage a coup at a military base over the weekend.  Only 20 people took part - two were killed, one was injured, and seven were arrested.  The rest turned tail and ran.  The leader was an ex-soldier who spent the past three years in Miami, home of America's anti-Leftist Cuban expat community.  Despite the hopes of the corporate media, Venezuela is calm and no one but no one bothered to listen to these jokers.  Democratically-elected President Nicolas Maduro congratulated the army for its "immediate reaction" in quickly putting down the attack, saying troops had earned his "admiration".

Tunisian fishers blocked racist scumbags from docking at the port of Zarzis, dealing a blow to a far-right attempt to disrupt the flow of migrant boats from Africa to Europe.  It means the French group "Generation Identitaire" can't refuel, and their chartered boat the C-Star will have to look elsewhere.  In their paranoid and hate-fueled delusions, the right-wingers believe that humanitarian aid groups assisting refugees are colluding with people smugglers to bring more not-white people to Europe because Islamo-Communist-Feminist-humanist conspiracies, yo.  F--king imbeciles.

Amnesty International is calling for an urgent, impartial investigation into the death of an Iranian asylum seeker in Australia's offshore detention camp on Manus Island.  "It is not yet clear if his death was a result of self-harm or violence," said Amnesty International refugee coordinator Graham Thom.  "This death is yet another bleak tragedy to arise out of the ongoing suffering and tensions on Manus Island," he added.  Greens immigration spokesman Nick Mckim accuses the federal government of ignoring requests to help the man who was known to be mentally ill.

South African President Jacob Zuma has survived no-confidence votes before - But on Tuesday, MPs will vote in secret in accordance with the ruling from the constitutional court.  There is growing dissatisfaction with Zuma within the ruling African National Congress party over widespread corruption and ineptitude.  The ANC has a huge majority in parliament, and the secret vote may finally embolden some lawmakers to do something about the nation's biggest problem.