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Written by NighthawkNZ

Category: News

Published: 06 July 2020

Author: Zane Small

A National MP with links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been criticised for not being accessible enough to English media outlets - but his boss Todd Muller disagrees. 

Dr Yang, a list MP who joined Parliament in 2011 and admitted to once training Chinese spies, was recently criticised in a TVNZ report over refusing an interview with a Q&A journalist for more than two years. 

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Read more: POLITICS Todd Muller defends Chinese Communist Party-linked National MP Jian Yang

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/07/todd-muller-defends-chinese-communist-party-linked-national-mp-jian-yang-who-s-accused-of-avoiding-english-media.html

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Parent Category: News

Category: Defence

Published: 05 July 2020

Author: Jane Bowron

OPINION: As the spectre of widespread unemployment looms, the New Zealand defence forces have experienced a sharp increase in recruitment numbers.

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Read more: New defence recruits may be buy into a sea of trouble

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/122026503/new-defence-recruits-may-be-buy-into-a-sea-of-trouble

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 the paragraph where she says "New recruits to the NZ defence forces, who joined up hoping for job security, to learn a trade and develop a skillset, may be in for a nasty shock if asked to take up arms against this sea of trouble." is the dumbest thing I have heard in years, anyone who joins the armed forces knows the risk and knows that they may be asked to actually go to war... to say that they could be in for a shock if asked is just pure and utter crap.

New Zealand has to pick a side...we can not sit on the fence... and the way China has been aggressively pushing its weight around in the south china sea and pacific... we better pick the correct side to that is willing to push back.

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Written by NighthawkNZ

Category: News

Published: 05 July 2020

Author: Lana Andelane

A Rocket Lab Electron rocket has been lost during the company's latest mission, 'Pics Or It Didn't Happen', on Sunday morning.

The aerospace company had planned to deploy seven satellites from the Mahia Peninsula, with Electron launching at 9:20am (NZ time).

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Read more: Rocket Lab Electron rocket 'lost' during 'Pics Or It Didn't Happen' mission

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/07/rocket-lab-prepares-to-launch-satellites-for-new-mission-pics-or-it-didn-t-happen.html

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Category: News

Published: 05 July 2020

Rocket Lab's latest launch this morning hasn't gone to plan, with the company announcing "the loss of the vehicle" after it went into orbit. 

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Read more: Rocket Lab reports loss of Electron rocket after blasting off from Hawke's Bay

Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/rocket-lab-reports-loss-electron-after-blasting-off-hawkes-bay

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