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27 May 2012 - 12:12 am NZ time
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Sunday, 12 February 2012: China, the US & New Zealand
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As China's economic and military power grows, the United States is again focusing its attentions on the Asia-Pacific region, both militarily and in trade.
An arm wrestle between the two powers for influence in the region is underway.
Radio New Zealand’s Economics Correspondent, Nigel Stirling, asks what it means for New Zealand. Can this country keep its historical ties with Washington without jeopardising its increasingly important economic relationship with China?
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8:12 am Sunday 27 May: Insight: Is it time to legalise cannabis?
Sometime during 2012, 385,000 New Zealander adults will smoke cannabis, eat it, inhale its vapours, drink it as a tea or use it as a compress. United Nations figures show the country has among the highest rates of cannabis use in the world. Does that mean the law prohibiting its use is not working? And if so, what should replace it?
Reporter Penny Mackay talks to New Zealanders who vehemently oppose any relaxing of cannabis laws, those who say its use should be a health rather than criminal justice issue, those who want it decriminalised, those who want it legalised, and those who want at least medical marijuana freely and officially available.
8:12 am Sunday 3 June: Insight: China's Aging Population
China's natural ageing process has been accelerated by the one child policy.
The BBC reports from Shanghai on its rapidly ageing population.
Mukul Devichand tells the stories of an ageing city and asks whether China's rapid economic growth could be undermined.
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