Exco says indigenous community welfare boosted with education, healthcare programmes

Anwar says true strength of a country lies in joint preservation of heritage

WELLINGTON, June 6 — New Zealand’s Parliament agreed on historically lengthy suspensions for three Indigenous lawmakers who last year performed a haka, a traditional Maori dance, disrupting the reading of a controversial bill.

BRASILIA, April 20 — Brazil should not explore oil reserves in the Amazon region, because of the dangerous impact on local communities, Indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, of the Kayapo people, told Reuters during the country’s largest Indigenous gathering last week.

WELLINGTON, Nov 11 — Hundreds of people today set out on a nine-day march to New Zealand’s capital of Wellington in protest over legislation that would reinterpret a treaty at the heart of race relations in the Pacific country.