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People Daily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Pansy Wong, 53-year-old ethnic Chinese member of parliament (MP), was appointed Minister for Ethnic Affairs and Minister of Women's Affairs in the new-look cabinet in New Zealand on Monday. Pansy Wong said her appointment as the country's first Asian Cabinet minister showed New Zealand is an open and tolerant country. She said she had always battled to be treated like any...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
Pansy Wong says her appointment as the country's first Asian Cabinet minister shows New Zealand is an open and tolerant country. The 53-year-old ethnic Chinese MP was appointed Minister for Ethnic Affairs and Minister of Women's...
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The Daily English Show (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
... her, so I think I was interested in English because of her. STICK NEWS Kia Ora in Stick News today Pansy Wong has become New Zealand's first Asian Cabinet minister. Pansy Wong was born in Shanghai in 1955. She was given a Chinese name when she was born, but when she was five her family moved to Hong Kong and it was there that she chose her English name, Pansy....
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
... cabinet have not held ministerial posts before, including New Zealand's first Chinese minister, Pansy Wong, who was born in Shanghai and educated in Hong Kong before coming to New Zealand in 1974. She will be minister for Ethnic Affairs and minister of Women's Affairs. The cabinet includes six women. Key named himself as minister of Tourism, saying the sector accounted for one-in-10...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
... cabinet have not held ministerial posts before, including New Zealand's first Chinese minister, Pansy Wong, who was born in Shanghai and educated in Hong Kong before coming to New Zealand in 1974. She will be minister for Ethnic Affairs and minister of Women's Affairs. The cabinet includes six women. Key named himself as minister of Tourism, saying the sector accounted for one-in-10...
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Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
... make it very hard for Labour to characterise National as heartless. Heatley is as expected, and Pansy Wong becomes the first Asian Cabinet Minister and is an Associate Minister in two of her former portfolios of ACC and Energy. Jonathan Coleman and Kate Wilkinson finish the Cabinet. The years each entered are: 1987 - 1 1990 - 3 1994 - 1 1996 - 4 1999 - 3 2002 - 2 2005 - 5 2008 - 1...
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Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | 16/11/2008
... David Carter Anne Tolley Murray McCully Maurice Williamso Wayne Mapp Chris Finlayson Tim Groser Pansy Wong Steven Joyce Georgina te Heuheu That leaves another six places for the 2005 intake and others to fight over. There will also be three National MPs in Speakerships, two Whips and half a dozen Select Committee Chairs so all up 35 or so baubles to allocate Tags: John Key , Ministry...
