Category : Defence
Author: NZDF

he Royal New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS Canterbury has left for Raoul Island with MetService and GNS Science staff aboard to carry out essential tasks, including maintenance of critical weather and tsunami warning systems.

Maritime Component Commander Commodore Mat Williams said the re-supply mission, which left on Monday, was delayed a week and scaled back after Auckland went into COVID-19 alert level three.

Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/essential-tasks-raoul-radar-for-hmnzs-canterbury/
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Author: China Uncensored

China declares war on Bitcoin. Inner Mongolia, where a huge amount of bitcoin mining occurs, will be banning it. But the Bitcoin news is part of a broader attempt by the Chinese Communist Party to create a national digital currency that the Party controls.

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZU7qska34
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Author: RocketLAB

The advanced new rocket, Neutron, will transform space access by delivering reliable and cost-effective launch services for satellite mega-constellations, deep space missions and human spaceflight 

Article: https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about-us/updates/rocket-lab-unveils-plans-for-new-8-ton-class-reusable-rocket-for-mega-constellation-deployment/
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Author: Ryan Anderson

A Navy crew is heading to remote Raoul Island, in the Kermadec Islands, to check in on the weather and tsunami warning systems there.

Tsunami warnings were put in place across New Zealand last week, and people evacuated in Bay of Plenty and Northland, following three earthquakes in the Kermadecs.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/nz-earthquake/300248124/navy-ship-heads-to-remote-raoul-island-to-check-tsunami-warning-systems
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Author: Zane Small

The Government has purchased an additional 8.5 million Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines, bringing the total to 10 million - enough to vaccinate every New Zealander. 

The Government's original agreement with Pfizer was for approximately 1.5 million doses, enough to vaccinate 750,000 people. It also ordered 5 million from Janssen, 3.8 million from AstraZeneca and 5.36 million from Novavax. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/03/government-buys-extra-8-5-million-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-doses-bringing-total-to-10-million.html
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Author: Toby Manhire

The royal self-exilers pondered moving to New Zealand, they’ve told Oprah Winfrey. We say: welcome, Hazzer and Megs.

Over recent years reasons cited for moving from the UK or US to Aotearoa are many. The election of George W Bush. Brexit. The election of Donald Trump. To that list can now be added: being made to feel like utter shit by the royal family and the tabloid press. In their little-noticed interview with emerging talent Oprah Winfrey in recent hours, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, formerly known as royal highnesses, said that among the places they considered moving after everything went belly up was New Zealand.

Article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-03-2021/its-not-too-late-to-move-to-new-zealand-meghan-and-harry-haere-mai/
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Author: Michael Morrah

An Air New Zealand crew member is concerned the current COVID-19 protocols for staff don't adequately protect the wider community. 

It follows a crew member testing positive for the virus on Sunday after landing in Auckland from Tokyo, Japan on February 28. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/03/coronavirus-air-new-zealand-crew-member-warns-of-gap-in-airline-s-covid-19-protocols.html
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