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Author: Jamie Ensor

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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Author: Reuters

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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Author: Guyon Espiner

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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Author: TVNZ

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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Author: Bryan Leyland

Bryan Leyland is a very respected engineer, hence this article is very important.

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Author: Rob Stock

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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Author: Virginia Fallon

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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Author: James Fyfe & Ella Prendergast

A leading epidemiologist says he's "quite surprised" with the Government's decision to pause all quarantine-free travel with Australia. 

COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins announced on Saturday night the trans-Tasman travel bubble would be suspended for three days.

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 Damned if they do and damned if they don't... make your mind up they are to slow to close the boarder... now you are surprised that they have...
  1. New Zealand pauses quarantine-free travel from all Australian states, territories
  2. Too fat for NZ: Mum can't lose weight fast enough for immigration officials
  3. No community cases, 4 in managed isolation; NSW records more local cases
  4. Lockdown extended to Greater Sydney as Delta variant proves to be 'formidable foe'

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