Taiwan, New Zealand Sign Free Trade Agreement

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Lucy Craymer, Obscure Maori Taiwan Connection Pops up in Trade Pact. China Real Time Report, July 11, 2013.
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealti ... s-up-in-trade-pact/

two consecutive paragraphs

"According to the mythology of New Zealand’s first people, the Maori, their ancestors hailed from a place called Hawaiki, which doesn’t appear on any map.

"However, researchers at Wellington’s Victoria University using DNA samples and computer simulation more recently claimed that the Maori arrived in New Zealand after island-hopping across the 5,700 miles of sea between Taiwan and New Zealand around 700 years ago.

Note:
(a) Certain indigenous people (but not others, because languages among indigenous people are diverse) of Taiwan immediately found they, to their surprise, could communicate with Maori--as well as indigenous peoples in other pacific islands.

Language research on this topic is spearheaded by Professor Russell Gray, School of Psychology , University of Auckland, New Zealand.
http://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/ ... ral-evolution-group
(b) Whyte AL et al, Human Evolution in Polynesia. Human Biology, 77: 157 (2005).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16201134
("Approximately 190 (170-230) women are estimated to have been present in the founding waka (canoes)")

(c) One of the latest paper on Maori's origin:

Benton M et al, Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing Reveals Novel Haplotypes in a Polynesian Population. PLOS One,
http://www.plosone.org/article/i ... ournal.pone.0035026
(paragraph 1 of Introduction)