Category : News
Author: Seni Iasona

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has spoken to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky over the phone just days after turning down a meeting with him. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/06/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-shares-solidarity-with-ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-over-the-phone.html
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Category : Defence
Author: Finn Blackwell

The Returned and Services Association is welcoming a plan to support veterans' wellbeing but says it has been a long time coming.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/470073/scheme-puts-focus-on-supporting-mental-health-of-veterans
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Category : Defence
Author: Jessica Mutch McKay
Category : News
Author: RNZ

New Zealand has designated US groups the Proud Boys and The Base as terrorist entities.

Set down in the government's official journal of record - the gazette - last Monday, 20 June, it was published publicly a week later but with no wider dissemination.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/06/new-zealand-designates-american-proud-boys-and-the-base-terrorist-organisations.html
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Category : News
Author: Mike Kilpatrick

A Kiwi CEO has backed calls for social media platform TikTok to be removed from Google and Apple's app stores amid concerns over users' data.

Alex Ford, founder and CEO of Socialike, told Newshub he agreed with US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief Brendan Carr that the app, which is majority owned by the Chinese Government, was a wolf in sheep's clothing.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2022/06/new-zealand-call-for-tiktok-to-be-removed-from-apple-and-google-app-stores.html
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Category : Analysis
Author: Zen Soo

When the British handed its colony Hong Kong to Beijing in 1997, it was promised 50 years of self-government and freedoms of assembly, speech and press that are not allowed by Chinese on the Communist-ruled mainland.

As the city of 7.4 million people marks 25 years under Beijing's rule, those promises are wearing thin. Hong Kong's honeymoon period, when it carried on much as it always had, has passed, and its future remains uncertain, determined by forces beyond its control.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300625409/hong-kong-in-limbo-25-years-after-british-handover-to-china
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