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In a national first, one of New Zealand’s newest and most misunderstood communities is the focus of a social photography
project due to open at the Waikato Museum on December 3.
Increasing restrictions on the freedom of movement of United Nations peacekeepers following an Eritrean ban on
helicopter flights has made it harder to warn the international community of any new outbreak of hostilities on the
tense frontier with Ethiopia, ...
The late Dr John Hayward introduced me to hydrology. John had a big impact not just through his science but through the
many students that he taught and inspired. I know. I was one of them.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is coming under opposition pressure to release a memo which reportedly show that he
dissuaded President Bush from ordering the bombing the Head Quarters of Al Jazeera TV in Qatar, an ally of the United
States.
Continuing his two-year-old investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson's identity as a covert CIA agent,
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will present evidence to a second grand jury this week that could lead to a
criminal indictment ...
Clouds can have ‘silver linings’ the adage goes, and Bird Flu seems to be no exception. While much of the world trembles
in panic and fear over an as-yet-non-existent human-to-human mutation of the Avian Flu or H5N1 virus, and while most
worry what to do to protect ...
The First Law of Holes says "stop digging". It applies, universally, to anyone who's in a hole. And Dr Alan Bollard,
Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand certainly is in a hole.
This fall has been a trying time for the Bush administration, both at home and around the world, but in no arena is its
reputation more compromised or the contempt with which it is held is greater than throughout Latin America. In the midst
of the most ...
DEPARTMENT Secretary Rice and Deputy Secretary Zoellick Upcoming Travel to Europe Secretary Rice's Visit to Germany
/Meetings and Agenda Issue of Reported Secret Prisons and Possibility of Topic Being Raised During Secretary's Travel to
Europe
1. This is to inform you that the death sentence passed on Nguyen Tuong Van will be carried out on 2 Dec 2005.
Somebody served me a long black without a crema last week. In Wellington. The café had everything else: nice décor,
convivial company, Cafenet connectivity, that capital city buzz. But no crema. Certainly, I am a bit of a nut about this
sort of thing...
Dr. Harlan L. Watson, Senior Climate Negotiator and Special Representative and Alternate Head of the U.S. Delegation
An unverified document discovered by the UK tabloid The Daily Mirror claiming to have been leaked from Downing Street
has been reported to contain a statement from US President George W. Bush about wishing to bomb the headquarters of
Arabic TV station ...
Two weeks ago, the Chicago White Sox, led by manager Ozzie Guillen (Oswaldo Jose Guillen Barrios as he is known in his
home town of Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela), swept the Houston Astros to win their first World Series since 1917. As
popular as baseball ...
The European Union and the United States are illegally subsidizing their production of corn, rice, sorghum, fruit
juice, canned fruit, tomatoes, dairy products, tobacco and wine, according to new research published today by
international agency Oxfam.
Returning to America after a recent trip to Costa Rica, I could practically smell the fear in the Phoenix airport.
Welcome to the Terrified States of America, folks. Kindly remove almost every item of clothing and check all common
sense at the gate.
The best beachwear proposals enrolled to Mittelmoda will be exhibited in Cannes once again during the Salone 100%
Beachwear Maredimoda, dedicated to beachwear fabrics and accessories, which will take place from 29 November to 1
December 2005, Cannes.
ASIO raids on the homes of Melbourne’s Sri Lankan Tamil community last week highlight serious concerns held by ICJ
Australia that counter-terrorism laws may ensnare innocent charitable donors in their net, and may be used by foreign
governments to pursue ...
Audio courtesy of L.A. Sound Posse - Robert Fisk: Report From The Middle East, U.C.L.A. ....in association with an
introduction of his latest book "The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East".
Toa Fraser's debut feature No.2 has been selected in competition for the USA's most famous film event, the top ranking
Sundance Film Festival founded by Hollywood star, Robert Redford. The film is one of only 16 films from around the world
selected for ...
Promotion is a milestone in anyone's career, but for the New Zealand Army's newest Brigadier it is particularly
significant. Brigadier Anne Campbell became the first woman to reach the higher echelons of military office when the
Chief of Defence Force, ...
As Starbucks in the United States faces a hearing over allegations that managers dismissed employees for promoting
unionisation, New Zealand fast-food workers are facing similar problems.
A growing number of professionals in the health care field are reporting that a relationship exists between the epidemic
in neurodevelopmental disorders of autism, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, and speech or language delay all
across the country, ...
Massive Election Day irregularities are emerging in reports from all over Ohio after the introduction of Diebold's
electronic voting in nearly half of the Buckeye State’s counties. A recently released report by the non-partisan General
Accountability Office ...
After defecting from the Communist Party, my grandfather worked the Golden Triangle with a fleet of trucks as an opium
smuggler. When the family got to Singapore from Burma, the PAP tried to hire him as a political strategist - Nguyen
Tuong Van's not ...
The First Law of Holes says "stop digging". It applies, universally, to anyone who's in a hole. And Dr Alan Bollard,
Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand certainly is in a hole.
The holy grail of a diagnostic test for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) could be discovered through
interdisciplinary collaborations set up at a University of Otago conference on the neurobiology of ADHD.
-One of the positive steps in international law in recent years has been the establishment of the International Criminal
Court , a permanant standing court to try cases of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Unfortunately,
since its inception, ...
Brussels, 28 November 2005 (ICFTU OnLine): A pioneer of the trade union struggle in Haiti, Yannick explains how the
complex strategy combining local action and international mobilisation was organised. As one of the key players in the
birth of Haiti's first ...
The finalists have been chosen for the 2005 Roger Award for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in
Aotearoa/New Zealand. There are eight transnational corporations (TNCs), equalling the highest number ever (from 2003).
They are (in no particular ...
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