2026-08-13 - 'Most challenging of recent times': SIS warns of intensified threats to NZ's security and 9 more stories
This episode includes 10 news blocks. Non-public information is being increasingly sought by foreign states, including policy insights, intellectual property and data sets, warns the SIS. A number of Pacific Islands countries have joined the United States in effectively accusing China of skirting the rules after Beijing's recent nuclear-capable missile test in the Pacific. Thirteen seats are needed for a majority to form a government. The much smaller Whāngarei Hospital is already struggling wi…