This week, the President made an historic trip to Thailand, Burma, and Cambodia, attended the East Asia Summit, and pardoned the National Thanksgiving Turkey at the White House with the First Family – and, he http://www.phpaide.com/download.php?langue=fr&id=13 also met John Key. Did the conversation go something like this? Key: “Have the Chinese cut up your credit card yet?”Obama: “Nope”Key: “Cool, me …
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John Key’s China Anniversary Party delayed
John Key will take the political temperature of the administration in 2013. Prime Minister John Key will now have to wait until 2013 to take the political temperature of the new Chinese Administration. The Key Government this week finally postponed plans to celebrate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between New Zealand and China until next year. This is no …
Read More »NZ Government holds course on SOE sales – John Key
Prime Minister John Key today outlined the Government’s next steps to prepare Mighty River Power for its partial sale in the first half of 2013. “I’m pleased to announce today Cabinet made three decisions regarding our shares sales programme,” said Key in a post-Cabinet press statement. “First, the Government will not implement the Waitangi Tribunal’s ‘shares plus’ concept, or engage …
Read More »2012 Recap: Prime Minister John Key
China is well on its way to becoming one of the world’s major superpowers. Prime Minister John Key, speaking at the opening of the China Business Summit in Auckland earlier today, was clear in his sentiment that New Zealand must become a part of this growth story
Read More »NZ PM off to woo Hollywood big boys
5:30 AM Wednesday Oct 3, 2012 It has all the trappings of a hit movie – “Johnnie goes to Hollywood” – in which the Kiwi hero tries to inject more lifeblood into the NZ economy while a Great German Hulk flails about claiming New Zealand is in danger because US moguls are conspiring to capture the hero in their net. No …
Read More »Waiting game for Russian FTA
Vladimir Putin is famously late. He stood-up the Ukraine president for four hours while he stopped off for a catch-up with Russian bikers called the “night wolves”. He’s even reported to have kept the Queen and the Pope waiting. Last week he kept influential international investors – including a big Chinese delegation – cooling their heels at the Apec chief …
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