Category : News
Author: George Heagney

A campaign to have a soldier who died saving others on Mount Ruapehu recognised with New Zealand’s highest award for bravery has been denied by the prime minister.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300960550/pm-declines-request-to-upgrade-bravery-award-for-soldier-who-died-on-mt-ruapehu-helping-others
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Category : News
Author: RNZ

The government has unveiled new legislation to tax multinational companies that provide digital services.

Minister of Finance Grant Robertson and Minister of Revenue Barbara Edmonds said the "increasing digitisation of commerce" internationally has left gaps in the tax base.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/496826/government-unveils-digital-services-tax-aimed-at-multinationals
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Category : Analysis
Author: Clare Sebastian and Hanna Ziady

"We have no funding restrictions," Russia's President Vladimir Putin told a gathering of military top brass in December. "The country, the government will provide whatever the army asks for." Eighteen months into his war in Ukraine, Putin seems to be keeping that promise.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/08/ukraine-invasion-analysis-spiraling-cost-of-war-means-growing-economic-pain-for-russia.html
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Category : News
Author: CNN

Ukrainian forces appear to have stepped up their efforts to weaken Russian air superiority in the war by attacking bases that house supersonic warplanes deep inside enemy territory.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/08/ukrainian-strikes-reportedly-hit-russian-bases-housing-supersonic-warplanes.html
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Category : Analysis
Author: Susie Blann

Russia and Ukraine traded drone attacks early Wednesday, officials said, with Kyiv apparently targeting Moscow again and the Kremlin's forces launching another bombardment of Ukrainian grain storage depots in what have recently become signature tactics in the almost 18-month war.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/300956675/russia-and-ukraine-trade-drone-attacks-as-kyiv-claims-it-took-out-a-key-s400-missile-defence-system
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Category : Defence
Author: Tim Fish

The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) will officially retire the first of its Lockheed C-130H Hercules tactical transport aircraft this week.

Located at Base Auckland the RNZAF’s No. 40 Squadron, which operates a fleet of five C-130H aircraft, will hold a ceremony to mark to occasion on 12 February and a Squadron retirement function in the hangar the day before.

Article: https://www.australiandefence.com.au/defence/air/end-of-an-era-rnzaf-retires-first-c-130h
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Category : News
Author: Eric Berger

Rocket Lab is having a pretty good year with a rising stock price and reaching a monthly launch cadence with its Electron vehicle for the first time. But as ever in the space business, the focus is not so much on what a company has done but what it will do. And for Rocket Lab, its future in the launch business lies with the medium-lift Neutron vehicle.

Article: https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/rocket-lab-pivoting-to-downrange-neutron-landings-to-meet-customer-demand/
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Category : Defence
Author: NZDF

The Royal New Zealand Navy’s maritime sustainment vessel, HMNZS Aotearoa, has sailed today from Auckland bound for South East Asia to participate in the Five Power Defence Arrangements Exercise Bersama Lima in Malaysia, alongside frigate HMNZS Te Mana.

Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/nz-navy-to-participate-in-major-south-east-asia-exercise/
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