India New Zealand FTA coverage: Asia Media Centre summary highlights Indian media focus
Asia Media Centre has released a summary for New Zealand readers on how Indian media...
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"...narrative-driven drivel.”
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“a proxy that we use to value how painful a power outage is.”
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A “serious breach of comity”.