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HESTA, Vision Super divest Israeli securities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2025
... imposed sanctions," she told Financial Standard. "New Zealand has not imposed sanctions on Israel. And the UN Security Council will not be ever imposing sanctions on Israel. Without either of those two things being triggered, they don't have any ...

Industry veterans join global commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... industry. The commission is part of the Liechtenstein Initiative, which responds directly to calls from the UN Security Council for states and the financial sector to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking. The project was developed by the Government ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... to the United Nations Nikki Haley's remark that Kim Jong-un is "begging for war" as she urged the 15-member UN Security Council to slap the "strongest possible" sanctions against Pyongyang. But without China's backing and Pyongyang having hardly anything ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... Policy at the National University of Singapore and former Singapore Ambassador to the UN and President of the UN Security Council. Kishore Mahbubani said a transformation of Asia, which is seeing a 10,000% improvement in the standard of living in the ...

Wen again gets what Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
... Australia. No not because, for A$24 million (according to The Age), it has bought a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council but because, contrary to the gloom and doom predictions that China is gonna land hard, fresh data suggests that Premier ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... record low of 76.25 yen on Thursday. The local unit earlier lost more than a third of a US cent, after the UN Security Council voted to approve a no-fly zone over Libya. Currency traders were soon heartened after a joint statement from G-7 officials ...

Happy Americans, happy world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... shockwaves to the international community after it test fired a total of five missiles over the past two days. The UN Security Council unanimously condemned Kimmy's action. The loud boom only briefly unsettled financial markets and then went on its merry ...
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