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Top Stories for Monday 8 March 2021
Covid-19: Are Aucklanders too relaxed?; Covid-19: Ship crew want greater MIQ flexibility; Another 75k tonnes of smelter waste stored at Tiwai Pt; Silver Ferns win Constellation Cup for first time… Audio
Microsoft email users in NZ told to act quickly after mass hack
New Zealanders are being warned to be concerned and act swiftly after a massive email hack that's being blamed on China.
US warns of 'active threat' over Microsoft attack
The US is expressing growing concern over a hack on Microsoft's Exchange email software that the tech company has blamed on China.
Richard McGregor: 'China doesn't want to have to invade Taiwan'
A number of big issues were addressed at the Two Sessions, the major event of the Chinese political calendar which opened during the week. Richard McGregor is a senior fellow at the Lowy Institute in… Audio
Sex, a Pagoda and a new NZ novel
"Taking Pagoda Mountain (by strategy) romps through sex in a pagoda, people-smuggling in a Buddha statue, disguises, Led Zeppelin, Denis Glover’s grandson, a racist talent show, corrupt Shanghai…
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Questions remain over NZ visa application centre in Beijing
Canada's Globe and Mail reported this week that the Beijing visa application centre used by New Zealand has close links to Chinese security police. Asia correspondent Nathan VanderKlippe was part of… Audio
The Panel with Josie Pagani and Bernard Hickey
On the Weekend Panel this morning are Josie Pagani and Bernard Hickey. Among other issues, they take a look at the rates hikes in Wellington, ties (or lack thereof) in our Parliament, and Air New… Audio
Al Gillespie on rising tensions between the US and China
Waikato University's International Law professor Dr Alexander Gillespie is the author of a series of books on The Laws of War and The Causes of War, and the prospect of war is something we want to… Audio
Australian reporter on being forced out of China
In September, seven Chinese secret police officers suddenly turned up at Mike Smith's door in Shanghai.
Writing for the Australian Financial Review, he had been one of the last two Australian… Audio
'Dasgupta Report has caught the world's attention'
The Dasgupta Report was released earlier this week, with study author Partha Dasgupta urging the world's governments to rethink economic growth as a measure of success. Guardian economics editor Larry… Audio
'The Western alliance needs to send a stronger message'
Former US diplomat Brett Bruen looks at the year ahead and why he thinks Joe Biden needs to start forming new coalitions with an eye to the western alliance sending a strong message to the likes… Audio
Financial commentator: 'China is the engine room of growth'
Just as Asia has led the way in coping with Covid-19, financial commentator Jeffrey Haley is also picking the continent -- particularly China, which has never exported more than it did last year -- to… Audio
China 'forcing itself' into the Pacific, warns Taiwanese Foreign Minister
Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu says the international community now understands "what China is about", and that more countries are questioning Beijing's activities in the Pacific Islands region.
Wuhan marks its anniversary with triumph and denial
Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered as a victory, and with insistence the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.
Chinese economy forecast 'to overtake US by 2028'
China will overtake the US to become the world's largest economy by 2028, five years earlier than previously forecast, a report says.
More than half of Chinese adults overweight - study
In China, or more than half a billion people are now overweight, an official report has found.
Chinese project poised to shake up Daru's fisheries scene
A planned Chinese industrial fishing development on Papua New Guinea's southern border garnered the keen attention of Australian media, but what do local people in PNG's town of Daru make of it? Audio
When security and trade clash
Our Five-Eyes spy network has evolved from a surveillance agency to a political tool - and New Zealand is caught between old allies and new trading partners. Audio
When security and trade clash
Our Five-Eyes spy network has evolved from a surveillance agency to a political tool - and New Zealand is caught between old allies and new trading partners.
Audio'China's economic juggernaut is rolling again'
We spoke to New Zealander Lew Dagger several times at the start of this pandemic when China was in lockdown. Lew's lived in China for 20 years and has been honoured for it. His main mission in China… Audio
