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Taiwan appealed to people to avoid panic buying of items such as instant noodles and toilet paper as new curbs on gatherings and movement took effect to rein in the spread of COVID-19 during a spike in domestic infections.
Taiwan raised its coronavirus alert level in the capital, Taipei, and the surrounding city, on Saturday, imposing two weeks of restrictions that will shut many venues and limit gatherings. It reported 206 new domestic infections on Sunday.
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Read more: Taiwan urges no panic buying as new COVID-19 rules kick off
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/05/coronavirus-taiwan-urges-no-panic-buying-as-new-covid-19-rules-kick-off.html
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- Author: Luke Malpass
ANALYSIS: When Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg handed down the Australian Federal Budget on Tuesday, it marked a step-change: Instead of the job of Treasurer being to try and balance the books, it was now going to be using taxpayer money to drive unemployment down.
Principally, the Aussies are now going to throw down $74.6 billion over the next two years on tax cuts and business while lavishing tax breaks in sectors such as health, aged care and mental health: traditionally low wage industries, dominated by women.
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Read more: Is New Zealand on the eve of a new brain drain to Australia?
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/125142382/budget-2021-is-new-zealand-on-the-eve-of-a-new-brain-drain-to-australia
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- Author: Jamie Ensor
The British High Commissioner believes the United Kingdom and New Zealand are "very much on the same page" when it comes to China, pushing back on speculation Aotearoa is splintering from one of its traditional partners.
New Zealand's relationship with other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing group - Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States - was thrown into the spotlight in April after comments from Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/british-high-commissioner-laura-clarke-doesn-t-believe-united-kingdom-new-zealand-splintering-insists-nations-on-same-page-on-china.html
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- Author: Checkpoint for RNZ
A 'Robin Hood'-style policy, redistributing the big salaries of public service chief executives to lower paid workers, would be more effective than the Government-ordered pay freeze, according to a leading business academic.
The directive, which essentially means those in the public sector earning more than $60,000 will only get a pay rise in exceptional circumstances for the next three years, has infuriated some workers.
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Read more: Expert calls for top-paid bureaucrats' pay to be cut and given to the working poor
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/05/expert-calls-for-top-paid-bureaucrats-pay-to-be-cut-and-given-to-the-working-poor.html
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- Author: Martin Van Beynen and Hamish McNeilly
Staff and shoppers scrambled for safety from a stabbing frenzy in central Dunedin’s Countdown supermarket. Some were caught in the melee and some risked their lives to protect others. HAMISH McNEILLY and MARTIN VAN BEYNEN report.
By 2.30pm on May 10, a warm sunny Monday in Dunedin, the Countdown supermarket at 309 Cumberland St had already been open for eight hours.
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Read more: Shock, devastation as carnage unfolded at a Countdown supermarket
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/125116566/stabbing-in-dunedin-shock-devastation-as-carnage-unfolded-at-a-countdown-supermarket
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- Author: Motherboard
Rocket Lab, the private space company best known for launching small payloads into orbit, is poised to become the first private company to ever explore another planet. Founder Peter Beck shares his plans to put a probe into the atmosphere of the hottest planet in the solar system.
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Read more: The First Private Space Mission to Venus
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- Author: Nick Lee-Frampton
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The New Zealand Defence Force has issued a request for information on design and build solutions for an eventual ice-strengthened offshore patrol vessel that the Royal New Zealand Navy would operate in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic’s Ross Sea for at least four months per year.
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Read more: New Zealand is seeking industry info to build Antarctic patrol vessel
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2021/05/13/new-zealand-is-seeking-industry-info-to-build-antarctic-patrol-vessel/
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- Author: Dan Satherley
A Kiwi group that's made headlines for spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines has denied it's planning to launch a multi-level marketing business.
But an expert in social media influencers and conspiracy theories says they'd be stupid not to cash in.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/05/coronavirus-kiwi-covid-misinformation-group-voices-for-freedom-removes-page-promoting-essential-oils.html
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