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By LiveNews Publisher / December 5, 2018 / 24-7, 24/7 News, AM-NC, China, China-New Zealand FTA, DJF, Economic Statistics, Economics, Export Statistics, exports, Free Trade Agreement, FTA, Import Statistics, Imports of Capital Goods, KB, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, MIL-Submissions, New Zealand, Statistics, Terms of Trade, Trade, Trade Statistics, Trade Weighted Index, TWI, Two Way Trade, Wholesale Trade Statistics / Comments Off on Two-way trade tops $160 billion for the first time – Stats NZ Information Release: Goods and services trade by country: Year ended September 2018
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions Two-way trade tops $160 billion for the first time – 4 December 2018 Increased exports and imports helped push New Zealand’s two-way trade of goods and services to $160.7 billion for the year ended September 2018, up $16.7 billion from the year ended September 2017, Stats NZ said today. Two-way trade, which measures […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / November 28, 2018 / 24/7 News, Academic Analysis, AM-NC, Analysis Assessment, Analysis-Reportage, Asia Pacific, Asia-Pacific Human Rights, Bryce Edwards, China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese influence, Critical Politics, DJF, Editor's Picks, Evening Report, Free speech, freedom of expression, Freedom of speech, Intelligence, Intelligence agencies, KB, KB, Lead, leadership, Legal issues, Media, Media Intelligence, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, News Media, NZ Politics, Peoples Republic of China, Political freedom, Political Integrity, political protest, Politics / Comments Off on Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Navigating allegations of illegal foreign state meddling in New Zealand
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Navigating allegations of illegal foreign state meddling in New Zealand Dr Bryce Edwards. One of this year’s most potentially explosive and dangerous political issues has been allegations of foreign meddling against the University of Canterbury’s Prof Anne-Marie Brady because of her role as a critic of Chinese state political interference. It’s […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / November 27, 2018 / 24-7, 24/7 News, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, China, China-New Zealand FTA, Commodity Exports, Consumer Goods Statistics, Consumer News, Dairy Sector, DJF, Economic Statistics, Economics, Export Statistics, exports, farming, Forestry Sector, Free Trade Agreement, FTA, Horticulture Exports, Import Statistics, Imports of Capital Goods, Information and Communication Technology, Information Technology, Internet Technology, KB, Lamb Exports, Manufacturing Statistics, Meat and Dairy Statistics, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, MIL-Submissions, New Zealand, Pacific,, Peoples Republic of China, Polynesia, Produce Statistics, Producer Output Prices, Retail Spending, Sales Values, Statistics, Technology Sector, Telecommunications, Trade, Trade Deficit, Trade Statistics, Two Way Trade, Vegetables, Wholesale Trade Statistics / Comments Off on Monthly goods imports from China rise a record $430 million – Stats NZ Information Release: Overseas merchandise trade: October 2018
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions Monthly goods imports from China rise a record $430 million – 27 November 2018 Goods imports from China were up $430 million, reaching $1.5 billion in October 2018, Stats NZ said today. This is the largest dollar value increase for monthly Chinese imports on record. China is New Zealand’s largest trading partner. It […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / November 27, 2018 / 24-7, 24/7 News, AM-NC, Asia Pacific, China, China-New Zealand FTA, Consumer News, Crude, Crude Oil Statistics, DJF, Economic Statistics, Economics, Free Trade Agreement, FTA, Import Statistics, Imports of Capital Goods, KB, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, MIL-Submissions, New Zealand, Oil Prices, Pacific,, Peoples Republic of China, Petroleum, Polynesia, Statistics, Trade, Trade Statistics, Two Way Trade / Comments Off on Monthly imports top $6 billion for first time – Stats NZ Information Release: Overseas merchandise trade: October 2018
Source: MIL-OSI Submissions Monthly imports top $6 billion for first time – 27 November 2018 Monthly imports hit a record $6.2 billion in October 2018, Stats NZ said today. This is the first time imports have hit $6 billion. The previous high was in September 2018. “The value of goods imports has been at a generally […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / November 22, 2018 / 24/7 News, AM-NC, Analysis-Reportage, APEC, APEC 2018, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Censorship, China, DJF, Evening Report, Featured, Global, KB, KB, Media, Media censorship, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Papua New Guinea, PMC Reportage, Reports, Security / Comments Off on RSF condemns Chinese exclusion of journalists at APEC side events
Chinese President Xi Jinping in Port Moresby … accused over “new media control strategy” in South Pacific. Image: SCMP Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the discrimination practised by the Chinese delegation against local and international media at the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) held last weekend in Papua […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / November 18, 2018 / 24/7 News, AM-NC, Analysis-Reportage, APEC, APEC 2018, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, China, DJF, Evening Report, Featured, Geopolitics, KB, KB, Lombrum naval base, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Military, Naval port, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Papua New Guinea, PMC Reportage, Reports, RNZ Pacific, United States / Comments Off on PNG governor may block Australian naval base bid on Manus
Manus Governor Charlie Benjamin … critical of Port Moresby government’s lack of consultation. Image: RNZ Pacific By RNZ Pacific The governor of Papua New Guinea’s Manus Province has hinted that he could obstruct Australia’s bid to build a naval port on Manus Island. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on November 1 that his country […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / November 17, 2018 / 24/7 News, AM-NC, Analysis-Reportage, APEC, APEC 2018, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, China, Development, DJF, Economics, EMTV, Evening Report, Featured, Geopolitics, Human Rights, KB, KB, Media, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Opinion, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Papua New Guinea, PMC Reportage, Politics, Reports, scott waide, Trade, United States / Comments Off on Chinese officials kick out EMTV, foreign media from APEC events – allow Beijing state media
Some critics say that China’s latest behaviour toward foreign journalists casts doubt over its vow to treat neighbours with “respect”. Image: Natalie Whiting/ABC News/My Land, My Country By Scott Waide Papua New Guinea’s freedoms of speech, expression and access to information were challenged yesterday when Chinese officials barred both local and non-Chinese media from attending meetings at three Asia-Pacific […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / November 17, 2018 / 24/7 News, AM-NC, Analysis-Reportage, APEC, APEC 2018, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, China, Development, DJF, Economics, EMTV, Evening Report, Featured, Geopolitics, KB, KB, Media, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Opinion, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Papua New Guinea, PMC Reportage, Politics, Reports, scott waide, Trade, US / Comments Off on Scott Waide: How China is several moves ahead in Port Moresby
Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) and Prime Minister of PNG Peter O’Neill shaking hands. Image: Solomon Kantha/My Land My Country COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide In November every year, the Papua New Guinean National budget usually takes centre stage. But not this year. This week, the 2019 budget came two days before the start of the biggest […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / October 30, 2018 / 24-7, 24/7 News, AM-NC, Business, China, Delhi, DJF, exercise, Exercise NZ, females, India, KB, Make Lemonade Media, MIL NZ OSI, Mumbai, New Zealand, News, Press Release Service, Richard Beddie, Women / Comments Off on NZ streets ahead of India and China on female participation in exercise
Christchurch – New Zealand is tiny compared to the population powerhouses of China or India, but the Kiwi exercise culture is streets ahead of those countries in terms of female and male participation, Exercise NZ chief executive Richard Beddie says. China and India’s exercise industry is still male dominated. Over three quarters of attendees to […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / October 27, 2018 / 24/7 News, AM-NC, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, China, Communications, Development, DJF, Evening Report, Featured, Justice, KB, KB, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Political lawsuits, Politics, Princess Pilolevu, Reports, satellite, Supreme Court, Telecommunications, Tonga, Tongasat / Comments Off on Tongasat’s appeal aimed at hindering suing former PMs, says Pōhiva
Tongan Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva … plan to lodge additional legal action to force pay back of the Tomgasat money. Image: Kalino Lātū/Kaniva News By Kalino Lātū, editor of Kaniva News Tonga’s Prime Minister ‘Akilisi Pōhiva says he believes an appeal by Tongasat against a Supreme Court ruling over the illegal payment of millions of […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / October 4, 2018 / 24/7 News, Analysis-Reportage, APJS newsfile, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Asia-Pacific Journalism, China, Chinese Communist Party, Chinese influence, Evening Report, Falun Gong, freedom of expression, Human Rights, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, New Zealand, Organ transplants, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Reports / Comments Off on China isn’t the real threat to liberal democracy – ‘we are’, say academics
Analysing China … Dr Stephen Noakes (from left), Dr David Williams (host), Professor David Matas and Barry Wilson talking to the audience at the University of Auckland last week. Image: Rahul Bhattarai/PMC The Chinese government is accused of illegally harvesting the organs of Falun Gong members. However, a leading academic says that China isn’t the […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / October 2, 2018 / 24-7, 24/7 News, Australia, Business, China, Exercise NZ, fitness, India, kiwis, Make Lemonade Media, MIL NZ OSI, New Zealand, News, Press Release Service, Richard Beddie / Comments Off on Lack of exercise putting pressure on Kiwis’ health
Christchurch – Lack of exercise is putting pressure on the health of many Kiwis, a leading New Zealand exercise expert says. Exercise NZ chief executive Richard Beddie has just returned from China and India where he discussed fitness trends and issues. He says a new World Health Organisation (WHO) report shows a lack of exercise is […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / September 23, 2018 / 24/7 News, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Australia, China, Chinese aid, Development, Evening Report, Featured, Global, History, Jerry Singirok, Lombrum naval base, Manus Island, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Military, Opinion, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Pacific Voices, Papua New Guinea, PMC Reportage, PNG Defence Force, Politics, Reports / Comments Off on Scott Waide: Amid the PNG silence on military aid, calls go out for wide national consultation
Lombrum naval base on Manus Island … a Google’s-eye view. COMMENT: By Scott Waide The global trade war between China and Western powers has reached new heights in the Pacific, and in particular in Papua New Guinea. As the government of Peter O’Neill courts China on the one side of the bargaining table, receiving, aid […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / September 12, 2018 / 24/7 News, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Business, China, Culture, Development, Economics, Editor's Picks, Elections, Evening Report, Featured, Fiji, Fiji constitution, Fiji elections, Fiji politics, FijiFirst, IntJourn Project, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Politics, Reflections, Reports / Comments Off on ‘Flight of the myna’ – behind the smiles in post-coup Fiji 30 years on
OPINION: By Sri Krishnamurthi in Suva When I left Fiji 30 years ago, a week after the first coup in 1987, I planned to write a book titled “The flight of the myna” – a pesky, noisy bird, which can talk if trained and was introduced to Fiji by our forefathers from India. The book […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / September 5, 2018 / 24/7 News, Analysis-Reportage, APJS newsfile, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Asia-Pacific Human Rights, Asia-Pacific Journalism, Balance, China, Civil Society, Evening Report, fairness, Featured, Fiji, Free speech, Indonesia, Media Freedom, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Nauru, Nauru detention centre, Nauru human rights, Pacific Islands Forum, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Papua New Guinea, PMC Reportage, Politics, Press Freedom, Refugees, Reports, Samoa, sexual abuse / Comments Off on Pacific Island leaders tightening the screws on press freedom, dissent
ANALYSIS: The three-hour “detention” of television New Zealand Pacific affairs reporter Barbara Dreaver for “breaking protocols” over interviewing refugees on Nauru. But Josef Benedict reports this is just part of the dismal media freedom scene in the Pacific. At this week’s gathering of key Pacific Island leaders on the Micronesian island of Nauru, conspicuously missing […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / August 15, 2018 / 24/7 News, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Asylum Seekers, China, Evening Report, Featured, Justice, Media Freedom, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Nauru, Nauru detention centre, Pacific Islands Forum, Pacific journalism, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Peace Ark, PMC Reportage, Politics, Reports, Vanuatu / Comments Off on Dan McGarry: Fighting for media freedom and truth in the Pacific
When the host country Nauru banned the pool broadcaster, ABC, from the Pacific Islands summit set for next month, it was condemned widely for an attack on freedom on the media. Lee Duffield recently paid a visit to Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post, who took a lead, declaring his outlet would […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / April 23, 2018 / 24/7 News, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Australia, China, Editor's Picks, Evening Report, Featured, Free West Papua, Global, History, Human Rights, Indigenous, Indonesia, Justice, Melanesian, Melanesian Spearhead Group, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Military, Opinion, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Reports, Vanuatu, West Papua human rights, West Papua self-determination, West Papuan independence / Comments Off on Ben Bohane: China? No, let’s face the elephant in the Pacific room
BRIEFING: By Ben Bohane in Port Vila China … China … China … All the talk is of increasing Chinese influence in our region. But this is to wilfully see past the elephant in the room. Contrary to most commentary, the biggest destabilising player in Melanesia over the past five years is not China but […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / April 17, 2018 / 24/7 News, Aid, Aid policy, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Australia, Australian aid, Balance, Cartoons, China, Culture, Evening Report, fairness, Featured, Foreign Policy, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Military, Military bases, News Media, Opinion, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Politics, Reports, Vanuatu, Vanuatu Daily Post / Comments Off on Dan McGarry: Want to lead in the Pacific? Try listening first
Cathy Wilcox’s Sydney Morning Herald cartoon is a showcase for everything that’s wrong with Australian foreign policy. Cartoon: Cathy Wilcox/SMH/VDP By Dan McGarry in Port Vila The average Australian’s conception of Pacific island nations is so limited it makes some of us wonder if they even want to understand. Our voices—and our reality—have been pointedly […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / April 13, 2018 / 24/7 News, ABC Pacific Beat, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Australia, China, Espiritu Santo, Evening Report, Featured, Global, Luganville, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Military, Military bases, Opinion, Pacific Beat, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, Pacific War, PMC Reportage, Politics, Port Vila, Reports, Vanuatu, World War II / Comments Off on Baseless rumours: why talk of Chinese military base in Vanuatu misses point
How the Vanuatu Daily Post reacted to the Australian “news” of a possible Chinese military base plan. Image: VDP BRIEFING: By Dan McGarry in Port Vila The “news” this week that Vanuatu was to be the site of a Chinese military base caught most people by surprise. Government officials with detailed knowledge of relevant matters […]
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By LiveNews Publisher / March 4, 2018 / 24/7 News, Aid policy, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Australia, China, Climate, Development, Diplomacy, Disasters, Environment, Evening Report, Featured, Fisheries, Forests, Global, MIL NZ OSI, MIL OSI, Multimedia, New Zealand, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Politics, Reports / Comments Off on NZ Foreign Minister questions China’s influence in the Pacific
Foreign Minister Winston Peters flags a stronger NZ Pacific aid policy and prime ministers Jacinda Ardern and Malcolm Turnbull discuss New Zealand and Australia friendship and differences in policies. Video: Qldaah/ABC New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters has again hinted the Ardern government may exit China’s One Belt One Road initiative as Wellington “resets” its […]
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