New Zealand PM to chair Apec leaders meeting on Covid-19
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced in a statement Monday that she will chair a July 16 meeting of Apec (the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) leaders focusing on the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic effects. “This is the first time in Apec’s history that an extraordinary meeting has been held at the leaders’ level, […]
New Zealand says new Covid-19 case is South African variant
WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s first case of coronavirus in the community for more than two months has been identified as the more contagious South African variant, prompting Australia to suspend quarantine-free travel from the neighbouring country for at least 72 hours. A 56-year-old New Zealander, who recently returned from Europe, tested positive on Saturday to the infectious […]
New Zealand to open borders with Australia next year
ANKARA: New Zealand on Monday announced that the country’s Cabinet has agreed to open borders with Australia early next year, according to state-run media. The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, has agreed in principle to establish a travel bubble with Australia early next year, Anadolu Agency quoting the Radio New Zealand reported. […]
New Zealand announces new virus case day after ‘Covid’ election
WELLINGTON: New Zealand confirmed a new community case of Covid-19 Sunday, two weeks after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared that the South Pacific nation had “beat the virus again”. Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the latest case involved a port-side worker who returned a positive test on Saturday afternoon. “Because the person was tested […]
New Zealand’s victorious Ardern vows to deliver reform
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern vowed Sunday to “crack on” with delivering her vision following a landslide election victory, after a string of disasters frustrated reform in her first term. Ardern won a historic outright majority in Saturday’s poll — the first since New Zealand adopted proportional voting in 1996 — allowing her […]
Christchurch mosque shooter sentenced to life without parole
MOSCOW: The Christchurch shooter who in 2019 killed 51 people in attacks on two New Zealand mosques, Brenton Tarrant, has been sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, Russia’s Sputnik news agency reported according to the New Zealand Herald newspaper. According to the newspaper citing a court ruling, this was the first time in the country’s […]
Singapore to allow visitors from Brunei, New Zealand
SINGAPORE: Travellers from Brunei and New Zealand to visit Singapore starting in September, in a “small, cautious step” by the virus-hit aviation hub to restart air travel, officials said Friday. The city-state closed its borders in March to tourists and short-term visitors and later implemented a partial lockdown as coronavirus outbreaks swept through dormitories housing […]
New Zealand PM delays election after virus return
WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Monday delayed New Zealand’s looming election by four weeks to October 17 after a renewed coronavirus outbreak hampered campaigning. Ardern was under pressure from political opponents and her coalition partners to shift the original September 19 vote following the shock discovery of Covid-19 in Auckland last week, […]
New Zealand’s Ardern sacks minister over office affair
WELLINGTON: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern sacked a senior cabinet minister Wednesday over an affair with an ex-staff, amid heightened scrutiny on lawmakers’ behaviour ahead of a general election in September. Ardern dismissed Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway after discovering he had an affair with a former colleague who was working at a government organisation […]
#ReachOut campaign displays true spirit of Malaysians abroad
KUALA LUMPUR: #ReachOut, a campaign mooted by a Malaysian senior tax counsel based in New Zealand to help fellow Malaysians who are stranded due to the month-long lockdown in the island country, is an evidence of the true spirit of Malaysians helping each other out during these challenging times. A brainchild of the president of the New Zealand Malaysia […]
