Morning Edition: 27 February 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning, I never ready Manu, and this is your
morning news FIGX for Thursday, twenty seventh of February. In
this update, New Zealand's entered a new era in its
diplomatic relationship with Vietnam. Christopher Luxen has signed the Comprehensive
Strategic Partnership, put in New Zealand amongst the top tier
of Vietnam's diplomatic relationships. The Prime Minister says the deal

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will be of huge benefit to Kii exporters doing business
in Vietnam. It justin five years, New Zealand's trade with
Vietnam has grown forty percent, and we know that there
is so much more that we can do together. Ed
Winston Peters has discussed China's warships in the Tasman Sea
and China's new deal with the Cook Islands. At talks
in Beijing overnight, the Foreign Minister's been meeting with his

(00:49):
Chinese counterpart Pang Ye. The meeting came as Christopher Luxen
was floating the idea of sending a navy vessel to
the South China Sea. During those talks in Vietnam, says
they discussed ongoing by lateral cooperation, a broad range of
regional and global issues and areas where they have differences,
a message that retail workers can't be treated like free cops.

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The government is planning on easing laws on citizens arrests,
allowing people to restrain each other using force when deemed reasonable.
People including security guards, can currently be criminally liable for
detaining a person stealing items worth under one thousand dollars.
First Union General Secretary Dennis Margert says the term reasonable

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force is very vague. It's a sleeper slope. It could
lead to more legal problems rather than solving the problem itself.
A fourteen year old who fatally stabbed a sixteen year
old at Dunedin's bus hub says he was acting in
self defense. Aneeddie McLaren Tana, died of a single stab
wound on Great King Street last May. The boy accused,

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who was thirteen at the time, has pleaded not guilty
to his murder. The trial is set down for three weeks.
A return to form for international tourist spending data shows
it was up sixty percent to nearly seventeen billion dollars
to the year to March twenty twenty four, just under
pre pandemic levels. Total industry expenditure across forty four billion dollars,

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a near fifteen percent rise on the year prior. Tourism
Holding's chief executive Grant Webster told Andrew Dickens it was
bound to happen. It's in our DNA on a global
basis that we want to get out and about and
visit the world. So people have had the opportunity and
you sell them to an attractive destination so that come in.
A private christ Church school has contacted or Unga Tamadiki

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over an incident on a junior school camp. A student
believed to be year six at Saint Andrew's College has
been suspended Following the incident, Rector Mark Wilson says an
external agency has been hired to carry out a thorough
investigation and the school supporting the students and families involved.
Or Unger Tamidiki says it's undertaking the appropriate processes to respond.

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In sport, now, McMillan poised to move from coaching the
Chiefs to mentoring Munster after this Super Rugby season. Red
Bulls Liam Lawson has finished second fastest to Mercedes Kimmie
Antonelli on the opening morning of Formula One testing for
half the drivers in Bahrain. Afghanistan have beaten England by
eight runs and Lahore to stay in contention for the

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champions Trophy semi finals. The one hundred and fourth New
Zealand Golf Open is underway at Melbrook. I'm never ready
man who emin latest news fix. We'll be back with
the next update at midday from the news Dog ZB Newsroom.