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  • Critics decry Formula 1 governance changes

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    Sport
    13 Jun 2025
    President of the FIA Mohammed Ben Sulayem chats with Red Bull driver Max Verstappen during the Formula 1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, 2024.

    Formula 1's governing body has approved statute changes that critics say will make it harder to challenge FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem's bid for re-election.

    Critics decry Formula 1 governance changes
  • Red Bull's Arvid Lindblad granted F1 licence ahead of 18th birthday

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    Sport
    11 Jun 2025
    Arvid Lindblad after Formula 2 Sprint Race at Jeddah Corniche Circuit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on April 19, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto) (Photo by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via AFP)

    Formula One's governing body has granted Red Bull junior driver Arvid Lindblad a super licence ahead of his 18th birthday in August after the team requested a dispensation.

    Red Bull's Arvid Lindblad granted F1 licence ahead of 18th birthday
  • UFC: Ulberg beats Swiss rival to climb inside top 10

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    Sport
    24 Nov 2024
    New Zealand's Carlos Ulberg (L) fighting Volkan Oezdemir of Switzerland in a UFC Fight Night event in Macau.

    New Zealand mixed martial arts fighter Carlos Ulberg has enhanced his status with a hard-fought win over a Swiss rival at a UFC fight night event in Macau.

    UFC: Ulberg beats Swiss rival to climb inside top 10
  • CNMI tennis team set to take on first Davis Cup tie

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    Pacific
    20 Nov 2024
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From left, Team NMI's Davis Cup team Colin Sinclair, Robbie Schorr, Tomas Abel, and Colin Ramsey pose for a group photo in Bahrain last Monday.

    A total of 15 teams will play for two slots up for grabs for promotion to Asia/Oceania Group 3.

    CNMI tennis team set to take on first Davis Cup
  • Driver kills 35 people in ramming attack on crowd in China

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    World
    13 Nov 2024
    A police car is seen at the Zhuhai Sports Centre, a day after a car rammed through the site killing dozens in Zhuhai, in south China's Guangdong province on November 12, 2024. - A driver has killed 35 people and wounded 43 others in southern China, police said on November 12, a day after the car ploughed down people exercising in a sports centre in the city of Zhuhai (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)

    More than 40 people were injured when a driver rammed his car into a crown in Zhuhai.

    Driver kills 35 people in ramming attack on crowd in China
  • Our groceries are officially more expensive than Australia, UK and Ireland

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    New Zealand World
    1 Oct 2024
    Close-up detail of a woman shopping in a supermarket

    The study looked at a basket of groceries in the four countries earlier this year, New Zealand was also the most expensive when adjusted for wages.

    New Zealand groceries more expensive than Australia, UK and Ireland - research
  • How bids to build casinos in New Zealand and Australia saved Donald Trump's career

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    World money
    31 Aug 2024
    Cheng Yu Tung and Donald Trump.

    An unlikely partnership between the self-promoting New York tycoon and the publicity-shy Hong Kong billionaires was forged decades ago in bids to build casinos in north Queensland and New Zealand.

    The untold story of 'dangerous' Australian casino connections that saved Donald Trump from financial ruin
  • China surrounds Taiwan with massive military drill

    Audio 24 May 2024

    Asia correspondent Per Elinder Liljas speaks to Susana Lei'ataua about an expo in Macau showcasing futuristic technology, China launching a massive military drill around Taiwan and the Thai government… Audio

  • Fast Favourites: Kiwi Actor Yoson An in modern Aussie rom-com

    Audio 3 Mar 2024
    Yoson An

    Yoson An’s career (Mulan, The Luminaries, Dead Lucky, Creamerie)  has been steadily on the rise and impressively, he’s played a wide range of characters. But until now he’s never been a rom-com lead.

    …
  • CNMI's youngsters get taste of Oceania soccer in loss to Fiji

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    Pacific
    21 Nov 2023
    The CNMI men’s national soccer team got a rude awakening when it lost to Fiji 10-0 on 18 November in their debut at the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara, Solomon Islands.

    The CNMI men's national soccer team got a rude awakening when it lost to Fiji 10-0, on Saturday in their debut in the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara.

    CNMI's youngsters get taste of Oceania soccer in loss to Fiji
  • Typhoon Saola makes landfall in Guangdong after slamming Hong Kong, Macau

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    World natural disasters
    2 Sep 2023
    Workers clean up around a fallen tree caused by Typhoon Saola in a village in Lei Yue Mun in Hong Kong on 2 September, 2023. Typhoon Saola swept across southern China on 2 September after tearing down trees and smashing windows in Hong Kong, although the megacity avoided a feared direct hit from one of the region's strongest storms in decades.

    At least one person is dead after Typhoon Saola made landfall in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong.

    Typhoon Saola makes landfall in Guangdong after slamming Hong Kong, Macau
  • Flights cancelled, businesses closed in Hong Kong, Guangdong as Typhoon Saola nears

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    World weather
    1 Sep 2023
    A woman sits outside a convenience store with windows taped up for protection on Lantau island in Hong Kong on September 1, 2023, hours before the expected arrival of Super Typhoon Saola. Hong Kong grounded flights, shut down its stock market and closed schools on September 1 as Super Typhoon Saola barrelled towards China's southern coast. (Photo by Peter PARKS / AFP)

    Hundreds of flights were cancelled in China's Guangdong province and Hong Kong as Super Typhoon Saola moved closer to the mainland on Friday, forcing authorities to raise a strong storm advisory and…

    Flights cancelled, businesses closed in Hong Kong, Guangdong as Typhoon Saola nears
  • China reopens borders to foreign tourists for first time since Covid erupted

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    World Covid-19
    15 Mar 2023
    (230219) -- BEIJING, Feb. 19, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This aerial photo taken on Feb. 19, 2023 shows snow scenery of the Simatai section of the Great Wall at sunrise in Beijing, capital of China. (Xinhua/Cai Yang) (Photo by Cai Yang / XINHUA / Xinhua via AFP)

    From today, foreign offices can process applications for Chinese visas for the first time since the Covid pandemic broke out three years ago.

    China reopens borders to foreign tourists for first time since Covid erupted
  • 'Hundreds of thousands of deaths' - China's Covid death surge likely underreported

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    World Covid-19
    15 Jan 2023
    Patients are treated with intravenous infusion in a community healthcare institution in east China's Shanghai, Jan. 4, 2023.

    China has announced nearly 60,000 people with Covid-19 have died in hospital, a huge jump from previously reported figures, but a NZ expert says the real figure is likely much higher.

    Covid-19: China reports huge rise in Covid-related deaths after data criticism
  • Australia's chief medical officer advised against mandatory Covid-19 testing for China travellers

    News
    World Covid-19
    3 Jan 2023
    The passenger flow increased significantly at Xi'an Xianyang International Airport in Xi'an City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, 14 December, 2022.

    Australia's chief medical officer explicitly advised the Albanese government not to introduce mandatory Covid-19 testing on travellers from China a day before the measure was announced.

    Australia's chief medical officer advised against mandatory Covid-19 testing for China travellers
  • Covid-19: NZ 'assessing health risk' after Australia announces China traveller testing

    News
    World
    1 Jan 2023
    A health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to test for the Covid-19 coronavirus in the Jing'an district in Shanghai on December 22, 2022. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP)

    From 5 January, travellers from China to Australia will be required to have a negative pre-departure Covid-19 test, and New Zealand says it is now assessing the health risks as several countries move…

    Australian government announces mandatory Covid-19 testing for China travellers
  • Covid-19: More countries impose restrictions on travellers from China

    News
    World Covid-19
    31 Dec 2022
    Workers wearing protective masks and suits help Chinese travellers leaving the arrival hall of Rome–Fiumicino International Airport, near Rome, on December 29, 2022 after being tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus.

    Authorities around the world are imposing or considering curbs on travellers from China as Covid-19 cases in the country surge.

    Covid-19: More countries impose restrictions on travellers from China
  • US considers new restrictions on travellers from China

    News
    World world politics
    29 Dec 2022
    A health worker takes a swab sample from a man to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at a hospital in Beijing on December 26, 2022.

    American officials say there is a lack of transparency surrounding Covid-19 in China, as cases surge.

    Covid-19: US considers new restrictions on travellers from China
  • NZ's richest man big backer of Wayne Brown's election

    News
    New Zealand money
    8 Dec 2022
    (AUSTRALIA OUT) Graeme Hart from Burns Philp, 22 July 2004. AFR NEWS Picture by TANYA LAKE (Photo by Fairfax Media via Getty Images via Getty Images)

    Billionaire Graeme Hart was behind the biggest single donation to Auckland mayor Wayne Brown's winning $470,000 election campaign.

    Billionaire Graeme Hart big backer of Wayne Brown's election
  • Chinese astronauts board space station in historic mission

    News
    World space
    30 Nov 2022
    A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft with three astronauts to China's Tiangong space station, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China’s Gansu Province late on 29 November 2022. - China launched the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft on November 29, 2022 carrying three astronauts to its space station, where they will complete the country's first-ever crew handover in orbit, state news agency Xinhua reported.

    Three Chinese astronauts have arrived at China's space station for the first in-orbit crew rotation in Chinese space history.

    Chinese astronauts board space station in historic mission
  • China sanctions Taiwanese 'independence diehards'

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    World
    16 Aug 2022
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    China has sanctioned seven Taiwanese officials and politicians it says are "independence diehards", in its latest angry reproach of the democratically governed island.

    China sanctions Taiwanese 'independence diehards'
  • Gambling hub Macau shuts casinos over Covid-19 outbreak

    News
    World Covid-19
    11 Jul 2022
    Neon signage for the Landmark Casino (C) is seen in Macau on January 22, 2020, after the former Portuguese colony reported its first case of the new SARS-like virus that originated from Wuhan in China. - Macau on January 22 reported its first confirmed case of the new SARS-like coronavirus as authorities announced all staff in the city's bustling casinos had been ordered to wear face masks. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP)

    Macau has shut all its casinos for the first time in more than two years, sending shares in gaming firms tumbling as authorities struggle to contain the worst Covid-19 outbreak yet.

    Gambling hub Macau shuts casinos over Covid-19 outbreak
  • Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

    Audio
    movies
    22 Sep 2021
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    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings draws on Chinese myths and legends, as well as the all-conquering Marvel Comics country. Featuring Chinese superstars Tony Leung and Michele Yeoh, and popular… Video, Audio

  • Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

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    At the Movies movies
    22 Sep 2021
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    Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings draws on Chinese myths and legends, as well as the all-conquering Marvel Comics country. Featuring Chinese superstars Tony Leung and Michele Yeoh, and popular…

    Video, Audio

    Review: Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
  • Calling Home: Rebecca Kennedy in Macau

    Audio
    politics travel
    4 Jul 2021
    New Zealander Rebecca Kennedy in her Macau office.

    Rebecca Kennedy splits her time between Hong Kong and Macau, but over the past 12 months she's been more or less stuck in the latter location due to the restrictions imposed because of Covid-19. She's… Audio

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