Race on to develop pill to fight COVID-19 symptoms, but experts say it's not likely to be used in NZ
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The Ministry of Health is not yet convinced New Zealand is ready for a pill to fight COVID-19 symptoms.
Australia's federal government is understood to be days away from signing a deal with a drug company to supply an antiviral pill, but officials here still want more evidence.
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Myanmar's military ruler Min Aung Hlaing has taken on the role of prime minister in a newly formed caretaker government, state media reported on Sunday, six months after the army seized power from a civilian government.
In a speech on Sunday, Min Aung Hlaing repeated a pledge to hold elections by 2023 and said his administration was ready to work with a future regional envoy on Myanmar.
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Read more: Myanmar military ruler takes power six months after coup
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A housing lecturer is encouraging the government to look into rent controls to keep rentals more affordable.
Research by the Massey University Real Estate Analysis Unit showed rents increased nationally by 4.8 percent in a year.
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Read more: Rents rise 4.8 percent in a year, affordability declines in six regions - study
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An Otago woman is shocked to find she's facing a 360km drive each way to get her electric car serviced.
Jenny Kerr needed to get her Model 3 Tesla repaired after hearing a strange noise whenever she turned the steering wheel. After calling Tesla, she found out she'd have to drive from her home in Mosgiel up to Christchurch to get it fixed, but she wasn't comfortable driving a faulty car that far.
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Read more: OTAGO Otago woman faces 360km drive to repair Tesla in Christchurch
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For the first time since her historic election result, the glow from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's gold medal win has tarnished.
Labour has hit hurdle after political hurdle and it's hurt badly, in the latest Newshub-Reid Research Poll. But National and Judith Collins won't be cracking the champagne - they don't even make the podium, because an old ally has become her greatest threat.
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Read more: ACT soars to 11.1 pct, Labour plummets to 43 pct and National still not cracking 30s
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A leading medical expert has criticised authorities' decision to allow a COVID-19 patient from Fiji to be transferred to New Zealand for treatment, saying "it's a pity" health workers here have been put at risk.
The patient, who arrived in New Zealand earlier this week, is a senior official for Fiji's United Nations (UN) Development Programme and is currently being treated at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.
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Read more: Transfer of Fiji COVID-19 case to NZ 'a risk we didn't need to take'
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The International Space Station (ISS) was thrown briefly out of control when jet thrusters of a newly arrived Russian research module inadvertently fired a few hours after it was docked to the orbiting outpost, NASA officials said.
But the malfunction prompted NASA to postpone until at least 3 August its planned launch of Boeing's new CST-100 Starliner capsule on an uncrewed test flight to the space station.
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Read more: ISS thrown out of control by misfire of Russian module - NASA
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Britain is nearing an agreement in principle on a free trade deal with New Zealand, its trade ministry said on Saturday (local time), as London looks to bolster its post-Brexit trade ties with non-EU partners.
The European Union is Britain's single largest trade partner and the two sides have signed a post-Brexit trade pact, but business groups say they still face extra red tape dealing with European customers and suppliers as a result of Brexit.
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Read more: UK 'closing in' on free trade agreement with New Zealand
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