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YouTube Pick: Archives New Zealand turns old travel film into a calm way to see Aotearoa

Some YouTube recommendations are useful because they slow the internet down. Archives New Zealand’s official channel is one of those places: public memory,

Public transport should not need an emergency fund to prove it is essential

Opinion: If public transport needs an emergency fund to keep services credible, the emergency is not only financial. It is conceptual. RNZ reported that th

Europe’s defence-spending surge is also a domestic welfare argument

European governments are increasing defence spending as security concerns mount, a trend captured in recent international reporting including Xinhua’s roun

Why the Strait of Hormuz turns every Middle East escalation into an energy-security test

When reports of strikes, air defences and warnings around Iran appear, the world’s energy market looks first to one narrow waterway. Recent regional escala

China’s AI-and-telecom plan is really about control of the next digital layer

China’s latest push to integrate artificial intelligence with the information and communications sector, reported by Xinhua , should not be read as another

The Rangitata rail bridge inquiry shows infrastructure risk is often quiet until it is not

A bridge can look ordinary until a failure reveals how much depends on it. The RNZ report on the TAIC findings into the Rangitata rail bridge collapse matt

New Zealand’s carbon-credit bill is a fiscal warning, not just a climate footnote

A climate target can look abstract until it becomes a line in the public accounts. That is the significance of RNZ’s report on Treasury advice that New Zea