Hello Australia!! - History is being made in Myanmar this week - Beijing doesn't admit making mistakes very often, but this one took a boy's life - Aussie voters oppose raising the GST - Hope for the "Tree Man" of Bangladesh - And more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

Australians are not happy with proposals to raise the GST.  The Australian newspaper reports that a new Newspoll finds that 54 percent of those asked were against a higher Goods and Services Tax, and only 37 percent of voters are open to "raising the GST from 10 percent to 15 percent".  The rest were undecided.  Opposition leader Bill Shorten seized on the poll to support Labor's position against a GST hike:  "I agree with the Australian people that a 15 percent GST on everything is wrong, wrong, wrong."  But the same poll shows Mr. Shorten's personal rating is a miserable 20 percent, while PM Malcolm Turnbull is sitting pretty on a 59 percent approval rating.

OMG, did you see this video of the man in Pacific Pines, QLD whose dog tried to warn him there was a deadly Brown Snake slithering beneath his chair?  Man and dog are okay.  Why did it have to be snakes?

Hey, are there going to be telecom opportunities in sunny Cuba?  The Cuban telecommunications agency (ETECSA) announced it is launching broadband Internet service in two Havana neighborhoods.  It's a pilot project aimed at bringing home access to one of the world's least connected nations, and would likely be expanded.  ETECSA director Odalys Rodriguez del Toro also said the government would also begin allowing cafes, bars and restaurants to begin ordering broadband service.

Myanmar's parliamentarians have gathered in a historic session to choose a new government;  it's the first time in 50 years that a democratically-elected body has been allowed to do that.  National League for Democracy (NLD) leader and Nobel Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from being chosen as President, but she has promised to exert influence over whoever gets the job.  The new NLD government formally takes power in April.

Jamaica's first female Prime Minister is ready to defend her government right now.  PM Portia Simpson Miller set elections for 25 February, months earlier than the December deadline.  The opposition is complaining about the high unemployment rate and fears over the spreading Zika Virus.  Ms. Simpson Muller's government presided over massive infrastructure improvements and attracted more than a billion US dollars in foreign investment, a five-fold increase over the conservative government her party replaced.  And let's face it, it can't hurt that her government finally legalized it.

China punished 27 more officials over the wrongful execution of a teenager:  The case is remarkable because criminal defendants are almost never acquitted and overturning convictions is rarer still.  In 1996, the 18-year old who went by the single name "Huugjilt" from Inner Mongolia found the body of a murdered woman and reported it to police - Two months later, he was convicted and executed for the crime.  But a serial rapist confessed to the crime a decade later, and was eventually convicted.  The cop who beat a confession out of Huugjilt was already charged last year.  Today, another 26 were given "administrative penalties, including admonitions and record of demerit", and one more is facing criminal investigation over other activities.

Bangladesh's "Tree Man" will have surgery to remove bizarre growths that make it appear as though he is turning into a tree.  Of course, he's not - but it's an extremely rare condition caused by the HPV virus that produces giant warts weighing five kilograms that look like tree bark which smother Abul Bajandar's hands and feet.  In fact, it's so rare that there were only two other known cases in the entire world:  Debe Koswara of Indonesia, who had surgery in 2008; and Ion Toater of Romania, who was also eventually treated.