Former New Zealand PM to Open Symposium of Peaceful Nations Helen Clark, Administrator of the UN Development Program and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, will give the keynote address at the November 1-3 Global symposium of Peaceful Nations. Our Symposium will serve as a pillar to support further peacebuilding efforts Washington, DC October 7, 2009 -- Helen Clark, the Administrator of the United...
I have just seen BBC News: New pressure for TV leader debate which reports that the prospect of the next election featuring a debate between the party leaders is getting stronger because Sky News is willing to go ahead with one even if any one leader refuses to take part. Such debates are most familiar from US Presidential elections, but they take place in many countries around the world, including...
Helen Clark's Government wanted New Zealand to be a "world leader" in cutting emissions of greenhouse gases. Now the new Prime Minister has surprised supporters by taking on the same ambition. The National Party campaigned on a...
Vox Day interviewed Ian Wishart, author of Air Con: The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming , on August 9th, 2009. VD: How did you end up deciding to write a book about the science of global warming? You're in New Zealand, after all, which few would consider to be at the forefront of the debate. Sheep aren't particularly polluting, are they? IW: If this interview’s going to start...
If there is one thing that keeps me in the UK and which frustrates and angers me the most about the idea of returning to New Zealand (or even to Australia), it is how journalism almost does not exist in the mainstream media. At least with the Times, the Observer, the Telegraph, FT or even (cough) the Guardian, there are journalists – people not afraid to research a topic and ask hard questions,...
Yes, someone once again shows how all too many New Zealand “journalists” are not up to the mark. You see much of this report is quotes from Helen Clark, but the imbecile who reported it (remember journalism isn’t about quoting verbatim what someone said, but actually interpreting it) starts the article with “Former prime minister Helen Clark has called for world leaders who...
...as the world wakes up to the reality of overblown, oversold green/left disinformation on climate change, the post Kyoto conference looms on the horizon... Remember Kyoto? It would have required us ( the USA) to reduce our national emissions of carbon dioxide to 7 percent below 1990 levels. Europe, Canada, and pretty much the rest of the developed world had similar “obligations.” Kyoto...
Wellington - Former United Nations diplomat David Shearer easily retained the parliamentary seat held by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark for the opposition Labour Party at a by-election on Saturday. Shearer had a majority of 9,187 votes...
Wellington - Fifteen candidates will contest a by-election for the seat in parliament vacated by former New Zealand Labour prime minister Helen Clark on June 13, the Electoral Office announced on Tuesday. Clark held the Mount Albert seat in Auckland ...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's indulgent beam spoke volumes as he assured John Key that China's relationship with New Zealand was the "very, very best it had ever been." When Helen Clark used to come to Beijing, Wen's body language...
The Maori King plans to invite US President Barack Obama to visit New Zealand when he leads a Tainui delegation to New York next week. King Tuheitia is to join former Prime Minister Helen Clark for her welcome next week as United...
Former New Zealand prime minister and Labor MP Helen Clark said on Wednesday that she will endeavor to do New Zealand proud in her new role with the United Nations. Clark leaves New Zealand shortly to head the UN Development Program, a top-ranking position based in New York. Delivering her valedictory speech at the Parliament on Wednesday afternoon, Clark said she had no regrets at leaving Parliament,...
New Zealand's former Prime Minister has "no regrets" after her remarkable nine-year term as leader of the country, she said today. Helen Clark was addressing a packed parliamentary chamber in her valedictory speech. The most...
The General Assembly today confirmed the appointment of former Prime Minister Helen Clark of New Zealand as the new head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).UNDP is the largest of the independently funded UN agencies and, under its special General Assembly mandate, leads the world body’s work on eradicating extreme poverty and promoting good governance in the developing world.Miss...
New Zealand's former Prime Minister Helen Clark was confirmed as the new head of the United Nations' Development Program. Clark was nominated to the job by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week and it was approved by the UN General Assembly Wednesday morning, said the New Zealand Time. Clark, prime minister from 1999 to 2008, is due to start her new job in New York on April 20. Clark said there...
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