China s audit of apple export sites over, now we wait as seafood halts continue
3 May, 2021 11:00 PM
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The export apple and pear sector earned just over $900 million last year. China is its third biggest market.
The export apple and pear sector earned just over $900 million last year. China is its third biggest market.
A round of new Chinese government food safety audits which have spooked New Zealand s economic lifeblood primary export sectors have been completed on apple exporters with formal findings expected within a few weeks. The video, or live, audits on processing operations approved to export food to China have already resulted in some seafood exports being halted by Chinese officials. The February suspensions of some Sanford and Sealord products are still in force and unresolved.
Election integrity watchdog lodges formal complaint against Kenosha
Local leaders allege city was part of private scheme to unlawfully alter election rules KENOSHA, WISCONSIN, UNITED STATES, May 3, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ The Amistad Project, the leading election integrity watchdog, filed a complaint today with the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) against the City of Kenosha on behalf of five residents, including a former Alderman and several long-time poll workers with decades of experience helping to run the city’s elections. Documents obtained under the Wisconsin Open Records Act confirm that Kenosha received $10,000 from the left-leaning Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) as an enticement to join four other Wisconsin cities – Racine, Madison, Milwaukee, and Green Bay – in requesting substantial election funding from CTCL. The so-called “Wisconsin 5” ultimately received about $6.3 million, of which $657,000 went to Kenos
US prepares formal acknowledgement of Armenian genocide
22 Apr, 2021 03:05 AM
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Joe Biden pledged as a candidate to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1923, saying at the time silence is complicity . Photo / AP
Joe Biden pledged as a candidate to recognise the Armenian genocide of 1915 to 1923, saying at the time silence is complicity . Photo / AP
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By: Matthew Lee and Aamer Madhani
US President Joe Biden is preparing to formally acknowledge that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in modern-day Turkey more than a century ago was genocide, according to US officials.