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Author: Jenna Lynch

The Government is preparing a massive carrot stick approach for the hospitality and events sector. 

It's planning a revamped alert level system for life after lockdown. Bars and restaurants will be given a choice: either be a vaccine-only venue or you'll have a customer limit.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/10/government-set-to-revamp-covid-19-alert-levels-with-new-traffic-light-system.html
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Author: Dan Satherley, Lana Andelane & Hannah Kronast

Northland will be moving back to a strict alert level 3 lockdown from 11:59pm on Friday night after a positive case travelled extensively around the region.

COVID-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins confirmed the woman, who is now in an Auckland MIQ facility, travelled to the region on October 2 from Auckland reportedly under false pretenses and was there until the evening of October 6.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/10/coronavirus-latest-on-covid-19-community-outbreak-friday-october-8.html
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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: BENJAMIN FELTON

Air Marshal Kevin Short, New Zealand’s Chief of Defence, visited Dublin over the weekend where he met Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces Lieutenant General Seán Clancy. During the meeting, they discussed ongoing negotiations between the two governments about the purchase of two former Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) Lake-class Inshore Patrol Vessels (IPV) for the Irish Naval Service.

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Article: https://www.overtdefense.com/2021/10/05/new-zealands-cdf-visits-ireland-as-discussion-around-ship-sale-heats-up/
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Category: World
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Author: Reuters

The career diplomat U.S. President Joe Biden named to lead the Central Intelligence Agency is creating a high-level unit aimed at sharpening the agency's focus on China, at a time of tense relations between the world's two largest economies.

CIA Director William Burns said on Thursday that the China Mission Center would cut across "all of the agency's mission areas," noting the CIA's concern was "the threat ...from the Chinese government, not its people."

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/10/united-states-creates-cia-unit-centred-on-china-s-threat-compared-to-focus-on-russia-during-cold-war.html
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Category: World
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Author: RNZ

China seems set to change the way it relates to Pacific nations.

This much is evident from a study showing a dramatic fall in aid spending, in terms of grants and low cost loans, over the past several years.

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Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/10/china-seemingly-set-on-new-approach-to-pacific-influence.html
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Author: Reuters

Small numbers of US special operations forces have been rotating into Taiwan on a temporary basis to carry out training of Taiwanese forces, two sources familiar with the matter said on Thursday, speaking on condition of anonymity

The Pentagon, which historically has not disclosed details about U.S. training or advising of Taiwanese forces, did not specifically comment on or confirm the deployment.

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Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-troops-rotating-into-taiwan-training-sources-2021-10-07/
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Author: Natalie Akoorie,

It's too early to say if amalgamation is on the cards for the country's 78 councils, but the way New Zealand's towns and cities are run is poised for overhaul, to replace an under-pressure local government system.

An independent review has found a swathe of issues in the sector including not enough funding and capacity, poor cohesion and collaboration, low diversity, mistrust between local and central government, and high demands on iwi and Māori without wellbeing outcomes.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/453130/local-government-review-interim-report-sets-out-problems-facing-sector
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Category: World
Category : Opinion
Author: Wen-Ti Sung

ANALYSIS: China has been flying a record number of military aircrafts into Taiwan’s “air defence identification zone” in recent days, heightening regional concerns about the risk of military escalation or even an outright war.

Taiwanese people are largely alert, but not alarmed. So, why are the Taiwanese not losing their minds over what seems to be intensifying “drums of war”?

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300424931/why-taiwan-remains-calm-in-the-face-of-unprecedented-military-pressure-from-china
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