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Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy supporter Jimmy Lai has been charged with fraud and detained until a court hearing in April next year.
On Thursday a court denied him bail over a charge relating to the illegal use of his company's premises.
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Read more: Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai detained for fraud
- Article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55168823
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Hong Kong pro-democracy leaders were arrested and sentenced to prison on Wednesday following their involvement in a series of protests created in resistance to the Chinese Communist Party’s tightening control of the territory.
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Read more: Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Leaders Sentenced To Prison For Protesting Communist China
- Article: https://thefederalist.com/2020/12/02/hong-kong-pro-democracy-leaders-sentenced-to-prison-for-protesting-communist-china/
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Kiwi MPs from both sides of the aisle are leading hundreds of parliamentarians from around the world in calling for China to be held to account over its "bullying" of Australia.
A diplomatic dispute between the two countries escalated rapidly this week after China's foreign minister Zhao Lijian posted a doctored image of an Australian soldier holding a knife to a young Afghan boy's throat to Twitter.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/the-new-zealand-mps-leading-global-calls-to-hold-china-to-account-over-bullying-of-australia.html
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Beijing has warned Australia that it will face "lasting punishment" over a politician's call to boycott Chinese-made products, the latest development in an escalating diplomatic dispute between the two nations.
On Monday, Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson, the founder and leader of right-wing populist party One Nation, called for a ban on the importation of goods produced in China. It comes after China's foreign minister Zhao Lijian shared a doctored image of an Australian soldier holding a knife to an Afghan child's throat on Twitter - referencing a recent report alleging that Australian special forces unlawfully killed 39 Afghans.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/australia-threatened-with-lasting-punishment-over-pauline-hanson-s-call-to-boycott-chinese-made-products.html
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OPINION: As the diplomatic fallout continues over the digitally altered war crimes tweet sent by China's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, earlier this week, it's important to note this inflammatory and offensive post is not an isolated case.
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Read more: What's behind China's bullying of Australia? It sees a soft target, and an essential one
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/12/what-s-behind-china-s-bullying-of-australia-it-sees-a-soft-target-and-an-essential-one.html
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New Zealand’s economy amid the Covid-19 pandemic is holding up better than many developed countries thanks to its speedy exit from lockdown and people’s large spending, according to ASB.
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- Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/nz-economy-set-end-year-only-3-down-phenomenal-result-compared-most-other-nations
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ACT leader David Seymour says today’s declaration of a climate emergency was a sign that “feelings rather than facts” is driving the Government’s response to climate change.
“Today’s climate emergency was a triumph for post-rational politics,” he said.
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Parliament is urgently debating a bill that will make law a new top tax rate of 39 per cent – one of Labour’s key campaign promises.
The tax hike will only apply to the top 2 per cent of income earners.
But a regulatory impact assessment from IRD has said that the tax will only have a tiny impact on inequality in New Zealand.
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Read more: Labour's big new tax makes 0.2 percentage point dent in inequality
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300173110/labours-big-new-tax-makes-02-percentage-point-dent-in-inequality
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