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OPINION: International analyst Geoffrey Miller examines the motivations behind Jacinda Ardern's first foreign trip since February 2020 - and says her tour of ...

PM Jacinda Ardern has announced a "refreshed" working holiday scheme with Singapore. During her first international trip since the Covid pandemic began, ...

Watch live: PM Jacinda Ardern speaks to media in Singapore · The number of working holiday scheme visas available to Singaporeans rises to 300 from 200 · The age of eligibility is extended to 18-30 years of age · The visa length is extended to 12 from 6 ...

The prime minister arrives in Singapore for her first overseas trip in two years, eager to tell the country that New Zealand is back open.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's first overseas trip in over two years has already hit a snag with three of the 50-strong delegation testing positive for Co.

What are the motivations behind the New Zealand prime minister's first foreign trip since February 2020?

Since February 24, the world has split across the new geopolitical fault line of Ukraine. And conveniently for Ardern, New Zealand, Japan, and Singapore have found themselves taking remarkably similar positions in response to Russia’s invasion. Fast-forward to today, and the clever branding of Ardern’s trip as a trade mission has kept the spotlight firmly trained on tourism and kiwi fruit, rather than on these more sensitive issues. In fact, in many ways, New Zealand’s relations with Singapore and Japan could not be better. Under the CPTPP, which came into force at the end of 2018, tariffs on most of New Zealand’s biggest export earners in Japan will be heavily reduced or eliminated. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Wellington has inched closer to the West by upgrading its support to Kyiv on an almost weekly basis. Japan’s decision to back the West sounds familiar to New Zealand, which has found itself reshaping its own foreign policy. Ardern’s tour of Japan and Singapore this week is the first trip abroad by New Zealand’s prime minister in 781 days. Japan’s more aggressive positioning has now outlasted several changes of prime minister. Sanctions were the first step. This is far from Jacinda Ardern’s first foreign trip – but it almost feels like one. Few limits or barriers to these invaluable trading relationships now exist. Combined, they represent around NZ$15 billion of two-way trade.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke from the Parkroyal hotel in Singapore on the first leg of her Asia trip. Watch the PM speaking live here:.

Ardern and a 12-strong trade and business delegation are spending this week in Singapore and Japan, where several agreements to boost food exports and develop ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a "refreshed" working holiday scheme with Singapore.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the latest small measure to increase visitors to New Zealand on a visit to a Singapore.

SYDNEY -- New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern left Monday for Singapore and Japan as her first trip overseas since the outbreak of the COVID-19.

Both countries will work on initiatives including energy transition technology, carbon market and sustainable transport. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

SINGAPORE: Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his New Zealand counterpart Jacinda Ardern held a joint press conference at the Istana on Tuesday ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has revealed climate change - including low emissions shipping and flights - to be a new focus of New Zealand-Singapore ...

NEW ZEALAND and Singapore will be working more closely on the green economy and the fight against climate change, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced ...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have added a climate clause to their 2019 partnership agreement, after meeting ...

Ardern attended the ceremony along with Singapore's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong. A pink hybrid orchid named after her was also presented.

The Prime Minister is travelling with her fiancé Clarke Gayford, Trade Minister Damien O'Connor, ministry officials, a 12-strong business delegation and members ...

The two countries will also conduct pilot trials for the deployment of low- and zero-emissions fuel, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who was speaking to ...

SINGAPORE: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern unveiled a Maori carving at Cloud Forest in Gardens by the Bay on Tuesday (Apr 19), as part of her ...

The pare features two tauihu - the prow of a waka or sea vessel. The personified form of sunlight, Tāne is represented in the sculpture by the two figures carved on the left and right of the whakawae, or upright supports. Advertisement

A Singapore-New Zealand partnership in food innovation has been signed this morning as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern looks to help the sector grow and expand globally. Ardern opened a breakfast event in Singapore this morning where two Memoranda of ...

That had been critical in ensuring, for example, the shipping of vaccines to NZ. This agreement had been forged without the other Pacific countries being able to work together on it. She had not spoken directly to China's President Xi Jinping about it: "There are some leaders you simply don't drop a Whatsapp to. Ardern denied New Zealand and other countries had dropped the ball. That was despite high levels of automation. "Every exporting nation and every trading nation is vulnerable to the impacts of anything that affects workforce and anything that affects supply lines."