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Member nations of a Pacific regional trade deal agreed Wednesday to allow the U.K. to begin the process to join, Japan’s economy minister said, in a potential boost for the country’s trade following Brexit.
Yasutoshi Nishimura said the move would strengthen economic ties between the U.K. and Japan, as well as making the zone covered by the deal equal to the EU in terms of economic size. He spoke to reporters after hosting an online meeting of ministers and officials from the 11 countries who make up the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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Read more: U.K. to Begin Process to Join Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership
- Article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-02/tpp-members-agree-to-start-process-for-u-k-to-join-japan-says
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Thousands of Kiwis in Melbourne are desperate for information from the New Zealand Government about how to get home.
Victoria is enduring its most intimidating COVID-19 outbreak, battling a variant of the virus their Acting Premier James Merlino says is "quicker and more contagious".
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Read more: Thousands of Kiwis in Melbourne desperate for information on how to get home
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/06/thousands-of-kiwis-in-melbourne-desperate-for-information-on-how-to-get-home.html
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Well, you knew the risk and you took the risk... and now you want us to pay for the flights to bring you home... no... welcome to the new world we live in...
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OPINION: This time I think the alcohol do-gooders have gone too far.
Their ultimate aim is to ban all alcohol sponsorship of sports teams, but the trigger for this has left me gobsmacked.
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Read more: The alcohol do-gooders have gone too far this time - it's woke culture gone mad
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China insists it doesn't want to see a "split between Australia and New Zealand" following a remark from the Australian Prime Minister on Monday noting there are some "far from here who would seek to divide us".
But the Chinese Foreign Ministry is "deeply concerned" about the two countries' leaders expressing concern about the Asian nation's actions in Hong Kong, Xinjiang and the South China sea, describing their comments as "irresponsible".
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The foreign ministry of Malaysia on Tuesday said it would summon China's envoy to explain an "intrusion" by 16 air force planes into its airspace, after the Southeast Asian country's military detected "suspicious" activity over the South China Sea.
Malaysia's air force said it scrambled jets on Monday to conduct visual confirmation after the planes flew within 60 nautical miles off Sarawak state of Malaysian Borneo.
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Read more: Malaysia to summon Chinese envoy over 'suspicious' air force activity
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Prime Minister Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern and Prime Minister the Hon Scott Morrison MP met in Queenstown on 31 May 2021 for the annual Australia-New Zealand Leaders’ Meeting.
The Australia-New Zealand relationship is unique in its closeness; we are partners and allies, and we share a relationship of family, of whānau. Through our single economic market, our people-to-people ties and our shared interests in the region and the world, Australia and New Zealand stand together.
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Read more: Joint statement: Prime Ministers Jacinda Ardern and Scott Morrison
- Article: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/joint-statement-prime-ministers-jacinda-ardern-and-scott-morrison
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Australia and New Zealand on Monday expressed grave concerns over developments in Hong Kong and the human rights situation in the Xinjiang region of China, as the two nations sought to get in lockstep over their biggest trading partner.
In the first face-to-face meeting between heads of both countries in over 15 months, Australia and New Zealand presented a united front on China.
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Read more: Australia and New Zealand unite over China human rights issues
- Article: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/australia-new-zealand-unite-over-china-human-rights-issues-2021-05-31
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A 1000 hectare block of land on the Kaitōrete Spit near Christchurch may become home to a new rocket launch site.
The land has been bought by a joint venture between the government and two local rūnanga, Te Taumutu Runanga and Warewa Rūnanga, called Project Tāwhaki.
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Read more: New rocket launch site proposed for Canterbury aerospace industry
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300320221/new-rocket-launch-site-proposed-for-canterbury-aerospace-industry
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