Vincent Heeringa on Chinese businesses targeting the New Zealand food industry for takeover.
Vincent Heeringa on Chinese businesses targeting the New Zealand food industry for takeover.
Jayson Bryant from Wine Vault TV brings in a New Zealand and Aussie blended Pinot Noir and we name Richard Prebble as the dick of the week.
Does the Green Party co-leader run the risk of being labeled the anti-Chinese politician? We discuss the Crafer Farm sale, boat people and John Key’s Chinese regret.
The Prime Minister is looking at trading a few Kiwi for a couple of Chinese Giant Pandas. How many Kiwi’s for a Panda though?
Russell muses over the farce that was the gang patch protest in Wanganui yesterday, he also gives his verdict on a couple of controversial documentaries screened on Maori TV and he gives Apple’s Snow Leopard a spin. Russell Brown is chief blogger at publicaddress.net.

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow and Michelle Yeoh. John Henderson gives his thoughts on this new flick.
Listen/Download John Henderson on Children of the Silk Road

In the most political week of the year Joe mulls over the state of the American Empire and the dawning of a new dominant economic force in the East. And he’s got a new book out called Laugh? I could have Cried. His most memorable thoughts on dogs, games, language, travel, the idiocy of belief, and the swamping trivia that shape our lives despite our best intentions.
Listen/Download Joe Bennett on Empire Building
