Top Of The Morning News Digest

Monday, 17 August 2015, 8:34 am
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Top Of The Morning News Digest

* NewsRoom_Digest from 14 August 2015 available at Eveningreport.nz - see http://info.scoop.co.nz/EveningReport.nz or http://newsroom-nz.tumblr.com

* RNZ 7am - Top 5 items for 17 August 2015

1. A report by KPMG shows that Canada accounted for 22% of foreign direct investment in 2013-2014, followed by China with 14%. China was the biggest player in dairy, while most of the Canadian investment was in forestry and property.

2. The wreckage of a missing passenger plane in Indonesia has been found in a mountainous region in eastern Papua. The plane had 54 people on board.

3. The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says a radical overhaul of Working For Families is needed to help improve the lives of the country’s poorest children. The amount spent on the scheme and the number of families getting assistance has fallen about 11% in the past 5 years. CPAG spokesperson Susan St John says a result of constant government tinkering Working For Families is becoming more squeezed over time, adding “the work incentive aspect has taken over and become the focal point not the needs of the child”.

4. The Chinese Premier has been visiting Tianjin where massive explosions from stored hazardous chemicals killed more than 100 people last week, with more, including 85 fire fighters still missing. A military officer says hundreds of tons of sodium cyanide have been identified at two locations in the blast zone.

5. Activists in Syria say air raids by the president’s forces have killed at least 80 people in the town of Douma, near the capital Damascus.

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