Details
Category: News
Category : News
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.

Hits: 538

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/06/hong-kong-police-arrest-former-apple-daily-journalist-at-airport-local-media.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive

Details
Category: News
Category : News
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.

Hits: 710

Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/chinese-communist-party-spies-infiltrating-nz-universities-lecturers-suspect
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive

Details
Category: News
Category : News
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. 

Hits: 1293

Article: https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/govt-phase-single-use-plastic-items-late-2022
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Bryan Leyland

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

Hits: 566

Article: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=4822960944384967&set=a.1085113091503123
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive

Details
Category: News
Category : News
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.

Hits: 586

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/125505747/big-banks-close-more-than-460-atms-and-bank-branches-over-18-months
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive

Details
Category: News
Category : News
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.

Hits: 518

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/125562852/covid19-nz-transtasman-bubble-paused-wellington-waits-for-alert-level-decision
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive

Details
Category: News
Category : News
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.

Hits: 480

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/06/covid-19-top-epidemiologist-michael-baker-quite-surprised-with-govt-s-decision-to-pause-trans-tasman-travel-bubble.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

 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...
Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive

Details
Category: News
Category : News
Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand is pausing quarantine-free travel with all Australian states and territories from 10:30pm on Saturday night to 11:59pm on Tuesday.

It comes as the outbreak in Sydney worsens and cases are being detected elsewhere in Australia, including in Victoria and Northern Territory. New Zealand officials received new advice on Saturday evening. 

Hits: 507

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/06/new-zealand-pauses-quarantine-free-travel-from-all-australian-states-territories.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive
  1. Too fat for NZ: Mum can't lose weight fast enough for immigration officials
  2. No community cases, 4 in managed isolation; NSW records more local cases
  3. Lockdown extended to Greater Sydney as Delta variant proves to be 'formidable foe'
  4. US govt's long-awaited UFO report reveals 143 unexplained sightings, some of craft with 'some sort of advanced propulsion or advanced technology'

Subcategories

Politics

General Politics

Defence

General Defence Articles

Science

Sciencey stuff

 

World

World News

Instagram