Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has landed in Bangkok for the final meeting of world leaders in a week of global summits, now overshadowed by the war in Ukraine.
“Everyone recognises that greater tension, greater conflict in our region is good for no-one,” Ardern said, before travelling to Thailand from Vietnam on Thursday.
Read more: Ukraine war looms as Ardern heads to Apec
OPINION: New Zealand is a staunch defender of the liberal international order. This global order was largely created by Western powers in the aftermath of World War I and II. It is defined by liberal values, such as human rights and individual property rights, and by international institutions like the United Nations and the World Bank.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand needs to be able to raise issues with China without “retaliatory acts”.
Ardern will meet China’s ruler Xi Jinping late Friday (NZ time) on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Co-operation (Apec) forum in Bangkok, Thailand.
A brazen shoplifter known around the South Island allegedly took more than $1500 of clothes from a Dunedin store before leaving, and giving the finger to shocked staff.
Read more: Notorious shoplifter gives finger to shocked staff after brazen $1500 alleged theft
Minister of Defence, Peeni Henare, will depart for the United Kingdom tomorrow to meet with Secretary of State for Defence, Ben Wallace, to discuss shared security interests and ongoing defence co-operation.
Read more: Minister to attend defence talks in UK
The largest ship in the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) fleet will visit Solomon Islands on Friday, the last stop on a six-month deployment engaging with regional partners through the Pacific and Asia.
Read more: Navy’s largest ship to visit Solomons
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of an Apec leaders summit in Bangkok, Thailand.
A face-to-face meeting with Xi has been confirmed among the bilateral meetings Ardern has lined up, it is understood, as world leaders assemble in Bangkok for an Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) forum in the coming days.
Read more: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to meet China's President Xi on Apec sidelines
Residents in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson call the two-storey police station "The Hole". Vitalii Serdiuk, a pensioner, said he was lucky to make it out alive.
Read more: Ukraine invasion: Ukrainians describe horrors of Kherson occupation
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