Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 10:47 am
Remember
how, back in the olden days, we had security concerns about
the Chinese firm Huawei? Allegedly, Huawei was to be shunned
as a business arm of the Chinese Communist Party and
supposedly some Huawei products contained security glitches
that would leave potential users vulnerable to cyber
penetration. Well…. The last six months have shown that
Huawei was the least of our problems. The Russians, not the
Chinese, seem to pose more of a cyber security threat.
Moreover, it is the security glitches in the supply chains
for software already in use there that is triggering major
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 11:27 am
Queenstown Lakes District Council’s (QLDC) Economic
Development Unit (EDU) has today announced an exciting
campaign to advance economic diversification in the
region.
The diversification campaign, Home for
Healthier Business, is dedicated to attracting business
leaders, employers, and talent to Queenstown Lakes with an
aim to broaden future economic prospects in the
district.
QLDC Economic Development Manager Peter
Harris said the campaign promotes the advantages of the
unique Queenstown Lakes lifestyle, entrepreneurial community
spirit, and progressive business
attributes.
“Queenstown Lakes district has a global
reputation as a spectacular place to visit and holiday, but
we want to challenge the perception of our district as a
that broke the camel’s back. A
commentary by the Colombian journalist Hernando Calvo
Ospina.
Colombia’s system of government has
been at permanent war with its people since the beginning of
the 19th century.
It began as soon as the Venezuelan
Simón Bolivar left power in Bogotá, when he found himself
betrayed and to be assassinated. Among other things, he had
brought freedom to Colombia, fighting with his troops of
ragged braves, almost all of them Venezuelans, until the
Spanish crown was driven out. Prior to any other state in
Latin America, Colombia’s political leadership and
Catholic Church began to enact repressive laws to persecute
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 1:54 pm
With a lamentable, even disgraceful vaccination rate,
confusion over how best to deal with the AstraZeneca supply,
vague promises about the arrival of other COVID-19 vaccines,
and a degree of complacency, half of Australia found itself
in lockdown conditions earlier this month.
A good deal
of this was occasioned by an outbreak in Australia’s
largest city in June, which saw the state of New South Wales
become the last bastion to yield to the lockdown formula.
For the duration of the pandemic, the state government saw
the blunt approach as unnecessarily harsh to residents,
preferring to rely on fabled common sense. We, the argument
Tuesday, 6 July 2021, 12:06 pm
When the bowel screening programme rolled out in the
MidCentral DHB (MDHB) region, Stephen Paewai paid
attention.
Having his father pass away from bowel
cancer meant he was well aware of the ferociousness of the
disease, which is the second highest cause of cancer death
in New Zealand
So when the kit arrived in his
letterbox, Mr Paewai knew he would be taking
part.
“I wasn’t hesitant to do it but I did
procrastinate a bit. It’s not something anyone would be
jumping out of their seats to do, but it is so important to