Spectators at the opening ceremony will be capped at 20,000.
The price of bananas is $65/kg.
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The Asia NZ findings show that sentiment towards China deteriorated sharply in 2020, writes Geoffrey Miller.
Reports abnormal levels of radioactive gas had leaked from the plant were being investigated.
Xi Jinping's push for a "loveable and respectable" image doesn't appear to be working, at least on Kiwis.
Here's the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic.
He's calling for a "high-alert posture" against the "recent fast-changing" situation on the Korean Peninsula, KCNA said.
Luo Huining said the Communist Party was "the creator, leader, implementer and defender of one country, two systems".
One outlet reports the North Korean leader has lost a "significant amount of weight".
Case numbers are actually on the rise.
Flaming containers laden with chemicals tumbled into the sea.
The Chinese planes did not contact regional air traffic control.
"How come there are a group of people who have been here 180 years and you still say - 'well, immigrants'?"
New Zealand's loyalties to both Australia and China will be addressed in their meeting today.
The PM said she doesn't want to "play too much into what is a perception rather than what we know to be happening on the ground".
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Orphans, soldiers, students and children have apparently "volunteered" for coal mine and construction work.
Aotearoa's total population could reach 6 million in 20-30 years.
"In some countries they're not getting sufficiently high vaccine coverage to interrupt transmission."
