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FIBA (Free subscription) | yesterday
AUCKLAND (FIBA U19 World Championship) - The first round of competition has been completed, and 12 teams - Argentina, Australia, Canada, Croatia, Egypt, France, Greece, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Puerto Rico, Spain and the USA - have advanced to the second round. Angola, Iran, New Zealand and Syria will play off for positions 13-16 in classification ...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, July 4 -- World Energy Research and Blue Energy Canada have signed a joint agreement in which World Energy Re...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
A couple of infrequent visitors to New Zealand waters were spotted off Auckland's Milford Beach this week. Steve Barham photographed this southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) and her calf on their way to Whangaparaoa. Massey...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
New Zealand's biggest supplier of tissue products is to close its Auckland factory, putting the jobs of 118 workers at risk. SCA Hygiene, which produces material for the brands Sorbent, Purex, Handee and Treasures, told employees...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Vitaco Health Ltd, a health products business owned by Australian private equity firm Next Capital, opened a refurbished facility in East Tamaki in Auckland today. Vitaco is the merged business of Healtheries of New Zealand Ltd...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
An Auckland family rescued from a dismasted yacht north of New Zealand has arrived back in the city. Charles Bradfield, his wife Joy, and their children -- Josh, 18, Matt, 16, Emma, 14, Tom, 13, Abby, 10, and Rebekah, six -- were...
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FIBA (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
TORONTO (FIBA U19 World Championship) - Canada Basketball has unveiled the official roster for the 2009 edition of the Junior Men’s National Team (JMNT) that will compete in the FIBA U19 World Championship July 2-12 in Auckland, New Zealand. The talented lineup includes elite players Mangisto Arop (Edmonton) and Kelly Olynyk (Kamloops, B.C.) from ...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
Genesis Research and Development says it is confident it can close a deal with an overseas investor to help fund its research into gene silencing technology. The Auckland-based biotechnology company informed the New Zealand stock...
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Butler Bulldogs Insider (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
This blog has been on a prolonged break, but it appears that will not be the case for the rest of the summer. Too much Butler basketball news. (As loyal blog readers know, I have been working on a major project while using vacation days allotted by The Star.) Anyway, this will be the online place to go for overseas Butler news. The Bulldogs' Gordon Hayward and Shelvin Mack are with the U.S. team at...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
Two economists are calling for a fundamental rewrite of New Zealand's welfare system because of the numbers of people being made redundant who can't get the dole because their partners are still working. Dr Susan St John of Auckland...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
Australian imports Scar and Goldie are settling in to their new home at Auckland Airport and can even be convinced to put on a show. The two saltwater crocodiles - the only ones in New Zealand - arrived from Australia in April...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
Mortgagee sales in Auckland are the highest in New Zealand, with more than four times as many forced sales than a year ago. The sheer volume of residential housing in the city, high median house prices and people being laid off...
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New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
Two economists are calling for a fundamental rewrite of New Zealand's welfare system because of the numbers of people being made redundant who can't get the dole because their partners are still working. Dr Susan St John of Auckland...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Wellington - Two men died, two others were injured and one was reported missing after a house collapsed at Manurewa, South Auckland, on Friday, a news report said. Workmen were said to be stabilising the single-storey timber house after it had been m...
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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