Peoples Times

Understanding China is essential for the future of New Zealand, according to a businessman who has funded a new scholarship at Victoria University.

An Australian-run Trade Training School (TTS), soon set to expand, is teaching young Afghan men valuable carpentry skills in Tarin Kowt, southern Afghanistan.

In an historic move, peak bodies of Trans Pacific trade unions have called for a new and fairer framework for trade and investment agreements. The unions are from countries which are due to begin negotiations in Melbourne this week to extend the Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement.

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The GLOBAL Aids epidemic could be contained within just five years by testing everybody in high-risk regions and immediately treating all those who are found to be HIV positive, according to a leading scientist.

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Scientists have discovered an area of the North Atlantic Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. The region is said to compare with the well-documented "great Pacific garbage patch".

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Standing behind his wooden bar in the low-lit surrounds of the last bistro in Fontenay-Saint-Père, Valéry Letouzey flashes a weak smile of embarrassment when asked about his diminishing stock of pastis.

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Sudan on Tuesday signed a framework peace accord with rebels from the nation's volatile Darfur region, state media reported.

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The United States gave Iraq a bit of its long history back Thursday in the form of ancient golden earrings, an old Roman coin, a rifle emblazoned with Saddam Hussein's image and more.

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The Organisation of American States (OAS) has accused President Hugo Chávez of endangering democracy, intimidating opponents and curbing freedom of speech in Venezuela.

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Men seen as likely to be violent towards their wives could be forced to wear an electronic tag under a law being debated by the French parliament.