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Earlier this year, Stuff reported that New Zealand and the United States had been on the cusp of starting talks on a free trade agreement in 2020– a top policy goal for New Zealand since the 1930s.
Newly released documents show just how close those talks came – before coming unstuck at the final hurdle.
In a meeting room, somewhere in New York City in 2019, Donald Trump turned away from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to speak to his officials with a look of urgency.
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Read more: Winston goes to Washington: New Zealand's hunt for an elusive US trade deal
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300342444/winston-goes-to-washington-new-zealands-hunt-for-an-elusive-us-trade-deal
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Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says she raised the human rights situations in Xinjiang and Hong Kong "in a very general nature" with her Chinese counterpart during a virtual meeting on Tuesday.
The dialogue came as New Zealand signed a statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council expressing grave concern about the abuses and calling for "immediate, meaningful and unfettered access" to Xinjiang for independent observers.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/06/nanaia-mahuta-raised-xinjiang-hong-kong-concerns-in-very-general-nature-with-chinese-foreign-minister-as-new-zealand-signs-critical-statement.html
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Hong Kong police arrested a former senior journalist with the Apple Daily newspaper at the international airport on Sunday night on a suspected national security charge as he tried to leave the city, according to local media reports.
Fung Wai-kong would be the seventh staffer at the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper to be arrested on national security grounds in recent weeks. He was an editor and columnist at the now-closed paper, local media reported.
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Read more: Hong Kong police arrest former Apple Daily journalist at airport
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/06/hong-kong-police-arrest-former-apple-daily-journalist-at-airport-local-media.html
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Chinese Communist Party spies are infiltrating New Zealand universities, three lecturers in Chinese politics and history suspect.
Auckland University lecturer Dr Stephen Noakes said people who were not enrolled in his course had attended his lectures and appeared to be gathering intelligence.
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Read more: Chinese Communist Party spies infiltrating NZ universities, lecturers suspect
- Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/chinese-communist-party-spies-infiltrating-nz-universities-lecturers-suspect
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The Government will phase out hard-to-recycle food packaging and some single-use plastics from late next year as part of its promise to rid the country of problem plastics by July 2025.
The plastics to be phased out include hard-to-recycle food and drink packaging made from PVC and polystyrene, and some degradable plastic products.
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Read more: Govt to phase out single-use plastic items from late 2022
- Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/govt-phase-single-use-plastic-items-late-2022
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Bryan Leyland is a very respected engineer, hence this article is very important.
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Read more: REALITY vs POLITICS.
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The big five banks closed 84 branches and 249 ATMs in one year, a report from KPMG shows.
Overall, the entire banking sector, including smaller banks like TSB and SBS, went from 934 retail bank branches at the end of September 2019 to 850, and from 2465 ATMs to 2216 at the end of September last year.
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Read more: Big banks close more than 460 ATMs and bank branches over 18 months
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125505747/big-banks-close-more-than-460-atms-and-bank-branches-over-18-months
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The Government has paused quarantine-free trans-Tasman travel for three days, as Australia is hit by multiple cases and outbreaks of a contagious new strain of coronavirus.
The pause to the trans-Tasman bubble comes as Wellington waits to hear whether life will return to normal on Sunday evening. One expert says it will only be down to good luck if it does.
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Read more: Covid-19 NZ: Trans-Tasman bubble paused, Wellington waits for alert level decision
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/125562852/covid19-nz-transtasman-bubble-paused-wellington-waits-for-alert-level-decision
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