Venkat Raman – venkat@indiannewslink.co.nz From Immigration to Income Tax, members of the Indian community seem to have become the prime target of fraudsters, whose identity is yet to be unmasked. The latest is people applying for Citizenship. Although the Internal Affairs Department has issued a general warning, complaints received at our offices over the past few days were from Indians…
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Hindi film industry star Tusshar Kapoor will be in Auckland on August 20, 2016 to participate in the ‘India Festival of Radio Tarana’ at the Vodafone Events Centre, 770 Great South Road, Manukau. The popular actor belongs to an illustrious family that includes his father Jeetendra and sister Ekta Kapoor, known for several soaps on Indian television channels produced by…
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Sir Anand Satyanand – Many contemporary descriptions of Aotearoa New Zealand focus on the country’s natural beauty, its remoteness and what is thought to be the friendly character of its people. These all add up to presentation of a country which is pleasant to visit as well as to live within. At another level, our country has enjoyed a long…
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David Shearer – I do not think anyone truly expected the United Kingdom to vote to leave the European Union. It was an earth-shattering result that will mean uncertainty for months and possibly years to come. Since that vote, I have been asked many times what Brexit will mean for New Zealand. First, as a small island nation, we rely…
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Phil Goff – Time and again I have heard the argument that cuts in police resourcing are not important because crime is coming down. It was always a poor justification for cutting police funding and not growing police numbers in line with Auckland’s rapidly growing population. However, even the police figures that the government once relied on to say crime…
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Mark Thomas – My Mayoral opponent Phil Goff and I visited Warkworth in the far north of Auckland (Rodney) recently. We spoke about our different plans to empower local communities and give more power to local boards, and of course about Auckland’s housing crisis. Mr Goff talked about lobbying the government to reduce immigration as a way of dealing with…
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John Palino – Auckland has some amazing opportunities. Our population growth is worth gold if we can plan it properly but the growth plan this Council created is a big failure. Earlier this year, the ATAP (Auckland Transport Alignment Project) Report highlighted this failure and demonstrated the need for a new growth plan for Auckland. New Growth Plan I created…
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Vic Crone – While we are distracted with unrealistic and fringe solutions, Auckland’s average house price romps towards a million dollars. Sadly, we are no longer talking squarely about the price of ownership but also rising homelessness. With a 30,000 home shortage in Auckland, we are not seeing clear enough progress in the absolute basics of housing supply. We are…
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Venkat Raman – venkat@indiannewslink.co.nz More than 1000 users across New Zealand will have the benefit of an innovative software, enhancing added value delivery of medical services. Green Cross Health Limited, a primary healthcare provider, has just signed an agreement with Medtech Global Limited to roll out the latter’s ‘Medtech Evolution,’ stated to be state-of-the-art in the medical industry. Green Cross…
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Dr Deborah Russell – PricewaterhouseCoopers Chairman John Shewan’s report on the use of New Zealand foreign trusts for illicit purposes has many excellent recommendations. Mr Shewan, who was appointed to investigate foreign trust disclosure rules following the Panama Papers saga, has recommended that trustees of foreign trusts should report much more information to Inland Revenue Department (IRD). Although New Zealand’s…
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