Wednesday 07 July 2004

NZ Army Supports Thai Prime Minister Welcome To Parliament

The New Zealand Army today supported an official welcome to Parliament for His Excellency Dr Thaksin Shinawatra, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand.

The Prime Minister was met by the Army’s Kapa Haka group on Parliament’s forecourt and then inspected the 50 person Guard of Honour, mounted by 2nd Engineer Regiment, while the Army band played the National Anthem of Thailand and the Thai flag was raised.

Prime Minister Thaksin then presented members of his party to Prime Minister Helen Clark and the Honourable Jim Sutton before being escorted up the main steps of Parliament House.

At the same time a Prime Ministerial Salute of 19 guns commenced at Point Jerningham.

ENDS

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>