Category : News

Chinese government-controlled media has threatened Australia with further trade strikes after former prime minister Tony Abbott accused Beijing of bullying Taiwan and claimed China could “lash out disastrously” if it was not stopped.

China Daily, which is managed by China’s State Council Information Office and is seen as a forward indicator of Chinese government international positioning, said in an editorial that Abbott’s visit to Taiwan last week was a provocation that had smeared the mainland and risked “dragging Australia deeper into the mess of its own making”.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/300429029/worst-is-yet-to-come-chinese-media-issues-fresh-threats-of-trade-strikes-against-australia
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Category : News
Author: Luke Malpass and Sam Sherwood

Police have been warned that people may be assuming other’s identities and getting Covid-19 vaccinations on their behalf.

Stuff understands police are investigating at least one incident where a person is believed to have got vaccinated for another person.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/126655888/covid19-police-warned-people-may-be-getting-vaccinated-on-behalf-of-others
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Category : News
Author: Elizabeth Culliford

Facebook Inc(FB.O) will now count activists and journalists as "involuntary" public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chief said in an interview this week.

Article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-facebook-change-rules-attacking-public-figures-its-platforms-2021-10-13/
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Author: Reuters

The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday its newly formed advisory group on dangerous pathogens may be "our last chance" to determine the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and called for cooperation from China.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/10/coronavirus-china-tells-who-to-look-in-other-places-for-origin-of-covid-19.html
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Category : Defence
Author: Вчера

An aircraft carrier strike group, consisting of ships of the Navy of Great Britain, the United States, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands and New Zealand, made its passage unhindered through the waters of the South China Sea. This was told by the commander of the international AUG, British Admiral Stephen Moorhouse.

Article: https://topcor.ru/22101-kitaj-sderzhanno-otreagiroval-na-pojavlenie-krupnejshej-aug-u-svoih-beregov.html
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Author: Dan Satherley

Mysterious signals unlike anything ever seen before have been detected coming from the direction of the galactic centre, baffling astronomers. 

The signal "switches on and off apparently at random" and the object it's coming from is invisible, according to a new paper published this week.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/10/astronomers-discover-something-invisible-near-the-centre-of-the-galaxy-that-s-blasting-out-mysterious-signals.html
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Category : Defence
Author: Nighthawk

Well New Zealand is part of the Five Powers Defence Arrangement with the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore the agreement was signed in 1971 whereby the five powers are to consult each other "immediately" in the event or threat of an armed attack on any of these five countries for the purpose of deciding what measures should be taken jointly or separately in response.

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Category : Opinion
Author: Alexander Gillespie

OPINION: The political temperature is rising in the South China Sea, and its effects will be felt in the South Pacific before long.

Recent incursions by the Chinese air force into Taiwan’s air defence zone have ratcheted up already tense relations, with the US and Australia both warning China about undermining regional peace and stability.

Article: https://theconversation.com/taiwan-is-becoming-a-flashpoint-for-china-and-the-west-how-does-new-zealand-respond-169532
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