A further $17.2 billion of Chinese money is expected to start pouring into the New Zealand property market as the Chinese government changes its rules on overseas investment

Property website Realestate.co.nz is expecting Chinese investors to pour US$10.9 billion (NZ$17.2 billion) into this country’s residential and commercial real estate markets as a result of changes being made to overseas investment rules in China. The latest Unconditional newsletter published by Realestate.co.nz this week, said …

Read more

Australia: Anti-Racists Confront Anti-Islam Protest

Far right protesters opposed to a mosque in a small Australian town have faced counter protests from progressive activists. Anti-racist activists held a counter protest in response to far right groups’ opposition to a construction of a mosque in the Australian town of Bendigo Saturday. Hundreds of anti-racist …

Read more

Trump forces immigration debate

Donald Trump is single-handedly forcing the Republican presidential candidates into a wide-ranging debate on immigration that party leaders had hoped to avoid. The dominance of the issue has grown in recent weeks, with the contenders scrambling to respond to Trump’s positions and one-up him when …

Read more