2013-02-25 09:46:06 // Dwight Whitney
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Beware of ‘geeks’ bearing gifts; the Trans Pacific Partnership could let GE in through the back door.
2012-08-24 12:28:41 // Idealog
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Denmark, Finland, Israel, Singapore. All countries constantly extolled as examples for New Zealand to aspire to.
2012-08-15 17:28:12 // Idealog
New Zealand businesses will get better access to an estimated US$1.6 trillion worth of overseas government contracts, or 2.64 percent of the world’s GDP, by joining the World Trade Organisation’s Government Procurement Agreement (GPA).
2012-06-28 12:32:43 // Vernon Rive
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The essential message from G77 countries: we know how to manage our natural resource but have no plans to be curtailing expansion of our economies for the sake of the environment any time soon.
2012-06-21 10:02:31 // Vernon Rive
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It is now up to the politicians to engage in any further horse-trading, before what looks like an inevitable endorsement of the document towards the end of this week.
2012-06-14 14:54:12 // Vernon Rive
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The divide between developed North and developing South has always been a feature of international geopolitics and this is now more true than ever.
2012-05-14 15:03:37 // Josh Martin
Auckland’s links to China were reinforced on Saturday with the signing of a statement of co-operation between the Beijing Investment Promotion Board (BIPB) and Auckland Tourism, Events and Economic Development (ATEED).
2012-03-20 17:16:21 // Rachel MacDonald
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Many Kiwi primary producers have viewed China as the great land of opportunity as that country has progressively opened itself up to trade with the West. However, rising on the horizon is another economic star: India.
2011-10-26 09:39:19 // Sarah Robson
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Henry Kissinger's definitive account of US-China relations is fascinating, though bogged down in detail.
2011-10-19 10:08:13 // Esther Goh
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New Zealand businesses lack the skills to make the most of Asia’s rapid growth, according to a new report.
2011-09-28 13:30:41 // Idealog
New Zealand business will benefit from five new agreements signed today that further cement the growing relationship between China and New Zealand, deputy prime minister Bill English says.
2011-09-13 10:11:16 // Idealog
New Zealand and the UK are forging new ground in the science and innovation sector with a new working group to be set up following the signing of an agreement yesterday.