Asia Pacific: Here is a summary of significant articles published on ForeignAffairs.co.nz on June 4, 2025.
MIL-OSI Security: Pacific Partnership 2025 Kicks off with urban rescue training in Virac, Philippines, June 2, 2025 [Image 6 of 9]
Source: United States Navy (Logistics Group Western Pacific) Issued by: on VIRAC, Philippines (June 2, 2025) – Hawaii National Guard Spc. Jayeson Laga, instructs Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel, local emergency responders, and civilian authorities how to tie different knots to perform urban rescue operations in Virac, Philippines, June 2, 2025. This effort is […]
MIL-OSI Security: Pacific Partnership 2025 Kicks off with urban rescue training in Virac, Philippines, June 2, 2025 [Image 6 of 9]
Source: United States Navy (Logistics Group Western Pacific) Issued by: on VIRAC, Philippines (June 2, 2025) – Hawaii National Guard Spc. Jayeson Laga, instructs Armed Forces of the Philippines personnel, local emergency responders, and civilian authorities how to tie different knots to perform urban rescue operations in Virac, Philippines, June 2, 2025. This effort is […]
MIL-OSI Security: Pacific Partnership 2025 Conducts Mission Stop in Philippines, June 2025 [Image 1 of 9]
Source: United States Navy (Logistics Group Western Pacific) Issued by: on VIRAC, Philippines (June 1, 2025) – Hawaii National Guardsmen and personnel from the Armed Forces of the Philippines construct a platform used to conduct urban rescue training with local emergency responders and civilian authorities in Virac, Philippines, June 1, 2025. This effort is part […]
MIL-OSI Security: U.S. Army Demonstrates Multi-Modal Mobility of HIMARS in Support of Salaknib 25
Source: United States INDO PACIFIC COMMAND ZAMBALES, Philippines — U.S. Army soldiers from the 1st Multi-Domain Task Force’s 5th Battalion, 3rd Long Range Fires Battalion, working alongside the U.S. Air Force’s 374th Airlift Wing, 5th Air Force, and the Philippine Navy successfully demonstrated the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) multi-modal mobility throughout northern Luzon […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Police BUS-ting out a new recruitment campaign
Source: New Zealand Police Police’s newest recruitment advertising campaign is now mobile across Tāmaki Makaurau with five double-decker buses wrapped in Police livery. Commissioner Richard Chambers says: “This campaign represents another positive step toward delivering our target of 500 additional officers. “These newly decorated double-decker buses seat 500 people, which is exactly the number we […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Tasman Targets Anti-Social Road Users
Source: New Zealand Police Attributable to Tasman District Road Policing Manager, Acting Inspector Nathan Snell. From Wednesday 28 May to Sunday 1 June 2025, Tasman Police delivered an operation focused on anti-social road users. This was in response to an increase in complaints from the local community. Two search warrants were executed, resulting in a […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: SH29 Kaimai Range overnight closures in June
Source: New Zealand Transport Agency State Highway 29 (SH29) Kaimai Range will be closed for 4 nights, from Sunday 15 June to Thursday 19 June, between 8pm and 3.30am each night. These closures are necessary to complete routine maintenance, including drain clearing, sign maintenance, road marking and surface repairs. “We occasionally close SH29 for essential […]
MIL-Evening Report: Ship runs aground in Fiji – then its rescue vessel capsizes
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Maritime Safety Authority has launched an investigation into Goundar Shipping Limited following two incidents involving its vessels. Late last month, one vessel ran aground on the reef of Ono-i-Lau, and villagers had to step in to ferry stranded passengers to nearby islands using small boats. On Monday, the Lomaiviti Princess II was […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Release: Reserve Bank predicts more job losses
Source: New Zealand Labour Party The Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Statement predicts a sluggish economy with higher inflation and more job losses. “Just days after Nicola Willis slashed women’s pay in order to deliver her so-called ‘Growth Budget’, growth is now predicted to slow,” Labour finance and economy spokesperson Barbara Edmonds said. “The Reserve Bank […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Release: Govt continues to undermine women
Source: New Zealand Labour Party The Government is continuing its attack on women, this time targeting the pay of early childhood education (ECE) teachers. David Seymour’s changes will mean new ECE teachers being at the whim of their employers who will choose what they’re paid, regardless of any higher qualifications. “It wasn’t enough that the […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Release: Charter school failures clocking up
Source: New Zealand Labour Party Public schools aren’t converting to charter schools at the rate David Seymour claimed they would. Due to low demand over the past year, $4 million was taken out of the money set aside for charter schools to be used on other things. Despite that, the Government is still funding ACT’s […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Release: Govt driving away Kiwi innovators and scientists
Source: New Zealand Labour Party The Government continues to obliterate science and innovation in New Zealand. “New Zealand’s world leading crown research institutes are being left to dwindle, and New Zealand’s best scientists are losing their jobs and leaving the country,” Labour science and innovation spokesperson Reuben Davidson said. “National’s decision to cut Callaghan Innovation […]
MIL-OSI China: Dragon boat races spark rise in tourism spending during ancient Chinese festival
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News Villagers compete during a dragon boat race at Xixi National Wetland Park in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on May 31, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] In the watery maze of Diejiao Village in Foshan, south China’s Guangdong Province, dragon boat teams race through S-curves, L-bends and tight C-turns […]
MIL-OSI China: Lee Jae-myung elected S. Korea’s president
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News Lee Jae-myung of South Korea’s majority liberal Democratic Party was elected president, the ongoing vote count by the National Election Commission showed on Wednesday. With 94.4 percent of the votes counted after midnight, Lee won 48.8 percent and his major rival Kim Moon-soo of the conservative […]
MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: Inaugural edition of Kung Fu Film Festival successfully concluded in Toronto (with photos)
Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region ​The Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Toronto) (Toronto ETO) supported the inaugural edition of the Kung Fu Film Festival (Festival), which has presented six screenings of martial arts movies across the Greater Toronto Area from May 31 to June 1 (Toronto time) to celebrate the 50 years […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Prolific shoplifter sentenced to two years’ imprisonment
Source: New Zealand Police A prolific Tauranga shoplifter has been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of 37 shoplifting charges dating back to 2024. Police Commissioner Richard Chambers said it was the result of outstanding investigative work by an officer in the Tauranga Retail Crime Unit. The officer began his investigation based […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Ruakura four-lane road to boost Hamilton’s economic growth
Source: New Zealand Government The NZ Transport Agency’s Board has endorsed the detailed business case for a new four-lane road in Hamilton which will deliver economic growth for the region, and approved $4.1 million for the next stage of design work, Transport Minister Chris Bishop says. The project, which is cost-shared between Hamilton City Council […]
MIL-OSI Global: Ukraine’s drone attacks on Russian airfields could derail Russia’s war efforts
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By James Horncastle, Assistant Professor and Edward and Emily McWhinney Professor in International Relations, Simon Fraser University The drone attacks by Ukrainian Operation Spider’s Web forces on Russian airfields have called into question Russia’s supposed military strength. Russian authorities have acknowledged damage from the June 1 attacks — an […]
MIL-OSI New Zealand: Surprise kiwi encounter rewards safe driver
Source: NZ Department of Conservation Date: 04 June 2025 Campbell Hutchings nearly sped up the car when he saw something brown and vaguely possum-like on the road, but he’s glad he didn’t. He slowed down on the road near Ōtanewainuku and was rewarded with a kiwi encounter many New Zealanders dream of. In a video sure to […]
MIL-OSI China: Chinese premier meets Japanese business delegation
Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with a delegation led by Yohei Kono, president of the Japanese Association for the Promotion of International Trade (JAPIT), at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, June 3, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] BEIJING, June 3 — Chinese Premier […]