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Age of the ‘scam state’: how an illicit, multibillion-dollar industry has taken root in south-east Asia
Like the narco-state, a ‘scam state’ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep …
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Indifferent, nostalgic or plain pragmatic: Indonesia Gen Zs react to strongman Suharto’s national hero status
Decision seen by some as ‘blatant whitewashing’ but many Gen Z have responded with indifference and even nosta…
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‘Slipping through our fingers’: New Zealand scientists distraught at scale of glacier loss
Research institute NIWA predicts many of country’s most important glaciers will be gone within the decade The …
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‘Everyone’s pretty gutted’: New Zealanders struggle to pick up pieces after Cyclone Gabrielle
With emergency services stretched, residents are banding together to clean up and guard against looters – and …
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Fears of worsening egg shortage in New Zealand as fire kills 75,000 hens at farm
There are concerns the blaze at the Zeagold facility will exacerbate a dearth of eggs caused by a ban on batte…
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Waitangi Day celebrations struggle to mute politics in heated election year
Questions of sovereignty, inequality and New Zealand history hang in the background as political speeches fore…
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Jacinda Ardern raises Taiwan with Xi Jinping at Apec meeting
New Zealand government statement says PM also asked president of China to help address North Korea tensions an…
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Woman arrested in South Korea over alleged murder of two children found in suitcases in New Zealand
Police in Auckland request extradition of 42-year-old woman from Seoul to face two charges of murderA 42-year-…
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New Zealand tourism minister makes pitch to the rich as he spurns ‘$10-a-day’ travellers
Stuart Nash says NZ to ‘unashamedly’ target wealthy tourists ahead of those who ‘travel around our country eat…
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Australian tourist in serious condition after falling into thermal sinkhole in New Zealand
The 2m-wide hole opened up suddenly on a footpath at Whakarewarewa tourist village in Rotorua, in central Nort…
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100% pure rip-off? New Zealand voted second-worst place to move to
Cost of living too high and pay too low, say survey respondents, though natural environment, climate and sport…
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New Zealand records largest ever bleaching of sea sponges
Researchers say tens of millions of sponges may have been affected by protracted marine heatwaveNew Zealand is…
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More people leaving New Zealand than entering as young flee high cost of living
Thousands head overseas, partly because of economic conditions, with departures accelerating and labour shorta…
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Reader callout: tell us about your encounters with urban birdlife in New Zealand
Research shows that regenerating urban forests draws native bird life back into cities – have you seen more bi…
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New Zealand’s presbyterian church will offer future land sales to Māori iwi first
The major landowner says it has been on the ‘other side of history’ and wants to honour treaty New Zealand’s p…