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Negotiations for Testing Lab Contract Begin
The Minister of Health Hon Pete Hodgson says negotiations for Auckland’s community testing labs started on Friday and will continue next week.
Speaking to interviewer Lisa Owen on TVOne’s “Agenda” programme today, Mr Hobson said more meetings will be held on Monday to discuss the testing lab contract.
“There are negotiations going on at the moment. There were meetings yesterday and there will be more meetings on Monday”.
Mr Hodgson said a number of groups are writing bids this weekend for the contract.
“There are people writing bids on the weekend”.
However, Mr Hodgson said a big-budget contract like the Auckland lab test would always attract a large number of bidders.
“Frankly, we have a contract of approximately half a billion dollars. People are going to reach for their queens councils, are they not?”
Mr Hodgson said he would not reveal any further details about the contract negotiations.
China does not want to
overshadow the US
Singaporean Senior Minister Lee Kwan Yew says China will not become the world’s premiere superpower by 2050.
Speaking to interviewer Lisa Owen on TVOne’s “Agenda” programme today, Mr Yew said it China does not want to overtake the US in power and wealth.
“I don’t think China wants to overshadow the US. I don’t think by 2050 they can overtake American technology or American capabilities”.
Mr Yew said China’s main priority is to create good trade relations with the US.
"Their preoccupations are maintaining a good relationship with the US, so that American markets are open and American investments flow in with their new technologies”.
Mr Yew said China also wants to strengthen its good economic relations with Japan.
He also said the ANZUS Treaty has been instrumental in retaining peaceful relations within the Pacific.
“Without the American connection, anchored in ANZUS in the South Pacific, and Korea and South Japan in the north, with the Philippines in middle, we might have had a different Asia pacific”.
Mr Yew says ANZUS has ensured an American interest in the security and economy of the Asia-Pacific region
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