New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
A company which promised to turn Whangarei into a world centre for superyacht-building has gone into receivership.New Zealand Yachts would continue to trade, receiver and manager Paul Sills, of Auckland law firm Hornabrook Macdonald,...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Student takes nation's first world chess title Angus Hohenboken From: The Australian November 24, 2009 12:00AM A MELBOURNE student has become Australia's first world champion face-to-face chess player after winning the world under 12 titles in Turkey. Bobby Cheng, 12, beat a field of 142 players from 68 countries to win the title at the World Age Chess Championship in Antalya on Sunday. Cheng's coach,...
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday. An Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist said the ice chunks, spotted by satellite photography, had passed the Auckland Islands and were heading towards the main South Island, about 450 kilometres (280 miles) northeast. Scientist...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
More than 100, and possibly hundreds, of Antarctic icebergs are floating towards New Zealand in a rare event which has prompted a shipping warning, officials said on Monday. An Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist said the ice chunks, spotted by satellite photography, had passed the Auckland Islands and were heading towards the main South Island, about 450 kilometres (280 miles) northeast. Scientist...
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Perhaps the Antarctica and Arctic regions are experiencing a natural cyclical warming trend, other regions are not. The temperatures where I live have...
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
MANILA, Nov. 19 (PNA) -- The Department of Education (DepEd) and the University of Auckland (UoA) in New Zealand on Wednesday sealed an agreement that seeks to improve reading among selected public elementary schools in the country.
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A police investigation into fake tertiary qualifications has led to the arrest of three Chinese nationals in Auckland.The forged documentation included degrees, diplomas and academic records reputedly from various New Zealand...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Wellington - New Zealand Prime Minister John Key will not meet the Dalai Lama during his scheduled visit to Auckland next month, a spokesman for the trust organising the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's programme, said on Wednesday. There can be on...
Disgusted with the system (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Ten-year-old twins Brian Thomas, left, and Kevin James Sullivan carry their luggage as they leave London bound for Auckland, New Zealand, in October 1950. Children As Young as 3 Were Sent to the Colonies. CANBERRA, Australia (Nov. 15) - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic apology Monday to thousands of impoverished British children shipped to Australia with the promise of a better life, only...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
New Zealand's High Commissioner to the Cook Islands died yesterday, soon after being flown to Auckland on a medical evacuation flight.Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said Te Rongotoa (Tia) Barrett died in Middlemore Hospital...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
police reporterSmall hidden cameras are to be used in one Auckland district in an attempt to catch criminals.Papakura District Council is introducing the system, developed in New Zealand, which senses movement, takes photos and...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Protests against aerial drops of 1080 poison will be held in Auckland, Wellington, the West Coast, Golden Bay and Te Anau today. They are organised by Poison Free New Zealand who claim that aerial drops of poisons have undesirable...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The families of those who died when Air New Zealand Flight 901 plunged into Mt Erebus received an average pay-out of only $100,000 - and they have been sworn to secrecy all these years.The same year, an Auckland woman who was...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
NEW Zealand Breakers have defeated Perth Wildcats 83-74 in their NBL match at North Shore Events Centre in Auckland.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
New Zealand Breakers have defeated Perth Wildcats 83-74 in their NBL match at North Shore Events Centre in Auckland.
A Pelt, a shrub, a soil sample (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Tim Jones has interviewed David Howard here . In the course of the interview David states, in the context of a scathing indictment of globalisation , that "Following New Zealand's political reorientation, our poetry has turned from British to American (rather than indigenous) models. This is change but not the liberation that many claim."* What? Aside from the criticisms of Bill Manhire (which...
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somuroy007 | 12/09/2008
David Beck ham texted wife Victoria before completing a 134ft bungee jump. The soccer star - who has three sons with former Spice Girls star Victoria - "looked a bit anxious" before leaping off a bridge in Auckland, New Zealand, as his Los Angeles Galaxy teammates watched. A source said: "He looked a bit anxious and I think he was texting Victoria and the kids before he jumped. His friends were all
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