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Our Travel Adventures The first leg of out 10 month journey .....SE Asia. The trip we have been talking about about is here! We wil fill you in on the good and the bad!
bioethics.com (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
A biotech entrepreneur seeking ministerial approval of Auckland experiments to implant pig tissues in diabetes patients is ramping up its production of piglets to kill for transplant tissue. (3news)
Whenua Fenua Enua Vanua (Free subscription) | yesterday
23 Jul 2008 by AIMC US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is arriving in Auckland this Friday night and will be having meetings in Auckland on Saturday with Winston Peters, Helen Clarke and John Keys among other friends. A protest will be held to tell her that she is NOT welcome here. She provides the soft public face for a host of aggressive, immoral policies to expand the US empire. For example...
Spare Room (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Shihad, Luger Boa, The Mint Chicks, Ak Town Hall, 19 July By Ben Eldridge I scored a ticket to Shihad’s "Beautiful Machine Tour" Auckland gig at the last minute on Saturday night. After rendezvousing with my posse of two in Aotea Square, we traipsed on over to the Town Hall. But getting into the gig was a perplexing affair in itself...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
The Welsh family of one of two men fatally stabbed in Auckland on Saturday say they are devastated by his death. The man, 43, was originally from Caernarvon in North Wales. He and another man died of multiple stab wounds, police...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
The last time Auckland played North Otago for the Ranfurly Shield the record book took one hell of a clobbering. So did North Otago. Auckland's 139-5 win in 1993 remains the biggest in Shield history. John Kirwan's eight tries...
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Aroha chats with Cut Off Your Hands lead singer Nick Johnston on the evening of their one off Auckland gig at the Kings Arms. They chat about the new album "You & I" which is due for release in October, working with producer Bernard Butler and their plans to come back for a more extensive NZ tour in the not too distant future.
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Once Were Warriors author Alan Duff is today facing bankruptcy proceedings in the High Court at Napier. Court documents show proceedings were issued against the Havelock North-based writer by an Auckland financier for money he...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Auckland University researchers say they have discovered why underwater ambient noise around New Zealand's coast gets louder twice a day. Craig Radford and Andrew Jeffs recorded the sounds made by reef animals, then compared them...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Septuagenarian protesters greeted Social Development Minister Ruth Dyson at an Auckland Grey Power meeting yesterday with placards demanding their rights to foreign pensions. Frank Dunn, 75, of Albany, and Willy Bocxe, 79, of Glenfield,...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Taiwanese primary schoolboy Chi Yung Hsun is excited at the possibility of learning to speak Maori and perform the haka. Chi, one of 26 Taipei students who arrived in Auckland yesterday as part of a "city diplomacy mission", had...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Rising costs of housing, rent and food have catapulted New Zealand's biggest cities up a global cost of living ranking. Mercer's 2008 Cost of Living Survey has Auckland in 78th place and Wellington 93rd, up 21 and 18 places respectively. But...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Briton has been stabbed to death in New Zealand in a double murder. David Roberts, 43, from North Wales, was found dead with an Indonesian man in a central Auckland flat.
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Historic sex charges including the rape of a young girl 20 more than years ago will be defended by an Auckland doctor. The 58-year-old doctor, who is not allowed to practise, appeared in a brief depositions hearing in the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wellington - New Zealanders take their coffee very seriously - so seriously the national team is taking its own barista to Beijing for the Olympics, news reports said on Wednesday. Julianne Frith, 21, an Auckland hotel food and beverage supervisor, e...
