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Maritime New Zealand
Ten sailors whose yacht overturned 80 nautical miles (145km) east of Dunedin today have been winched to safety by three
rescue helicopters and are en route to Dunedin.
New Zealand National Party
National Party Deputy Leader Bill English wants to know why Helen Clark didn’t correct Labour Party president Mike
Williams who claimed Owen Glenn had not given her party any financial assistance since the 2005 election.
New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark today praised the New Zealand Police for their work in ensuring the safe return of the 96
medals stolen from the Waiouru Army Museum last year.
Royal Easter Show
A feline nicknamed the ‘cat in a lamb’s clothing’ is one of several new breeds set to impress visitors at this year’s
Royal Easter Cat Show.
Foundation For Research Science And Technology
A Christchurch entrepreneur has his revolutionary acoustic technology installed in cinemas throughout the world. His
latest coup is a deal to supply sound systems to motion picture imaging giant Kodak for its Los Angeles test studio.
Ministry For Culture And Heritage
A museum has been opened in Arras, France to commemorate the astonishing work of 450 New Zealanders who built a network
of tunnels between Arras and the German front lines during World War 1.
Julian Slade
Julian Slade reports that cannabis activists, who protest prohibition by publicy smoking marijuana at Auckland's Albert
Park, will tour 42 towns in 42 days for daily law reform rallies.
Campaign Against Foreign Control Of Aotearoa
The 2007 finalists are: ANZ; APN News & Media (ANM); British American Tobacco (BAT); GlaxoSmithKline; Independent Liquor; Pike River Coal; Spotless and
Telecom. The criteria for judging are by assessing the transnational (a corporation which ...
Terry Evans
A Burmese ethnic leader has been shot dead at his home near the Thai/Burma border. Pado Mahn Sha Lah Phan, Secretary
General of the Karen National Union, was assassinated last Thursday at his Thai border town home.
Time Target
Manually signing staff in and out each day is to become a thing of the past with the introduction of a new non contact
finger scanner to New Zealand.
New Zealand Police
Specialist investigators including the police Disaster Victim Identification team worked until nearly 3am today
extricating the bodies of the two men killed when their helicopter and a light plane crashed mid-air over Paraparaumu
yesterday.
Cluster Munitions Coalition
Wellington, 18 February 2008 – At the opening of a five-day conference to develop a historic treaty banning cluster
munitions, the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) called on governments to keep humanitarian concerns at the top of the
agenda
Human Rights Commission
The proportion of people who believe Asians, recent immigrants and refugees are discriminated against is the lowest it
has been since tracking began seven years ago, according to a UMR research poll conducted for the Human Rights
Commission.
New Zealand Police
New Zealand Police National News Release 2:41pm 17 February 2008 http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release.html?id=3703
New Zealand Council of Trade Unions
The trade union movement is gathering over the next two days in Rotorua to assess and develop union building
strategies, further develop its political strategy, and hear from the successes of the Australian Work Rights campaign
at their last election, ...
New Zealand Government
Ms Hilde Johnson, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director representing the United Nations, Excellencies, Ambassador Don MacKay,
cluster munitions survivors, members of civil society, ladies and gentlemen.
Fonterra Shareholders Council
The Fonterra Shareholders' Council today said the Fonterra Board of Directors' announcement to its shareholders not to
proceed with a May vote to change the co-operative's structure into two entities was a prudent decision.
New Zealand Police
The pilot of a light plane which was involved in a mid air crash with a helicopter over Paraparaumu today has died in
Wellington Hospital.
Maritime New Zealand
Ten sailors whose yacht overturned 80 nautical miles (145km) east of Dunedin shortly after1pm today have all been
rescued and have now landed safely at Taieri Airfield.
United Nations
The sub-prime mortgage market collapse in the United States, rising oil and commodity prices and other factors could
combine to hamper the economies of developing countries, the President of the United Nations General Assembly said
today.
Massey University
Consumers will feel the pinch if farmers continue to be blamed for New Zealand’s environmental woes, Director of Massey
Agriculture Professor Jacqueline Rowarth is warning.
Robert Half Finance
A leading recruitment consultant has warned young job seekers not to get carried away with their own sense of
importance, or they could find themselves without jobs - despite the skills shortage.
Green Party
The time has come to restrict advertising of unhealthy food and drink to children, Green Party MP Sue Kedgley says.
Maritime New Zealand
Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ) is facilitating the rescue of 10 sailors whose vessel overturned about
80 nautical miles east of Dunedin.
Statistics New Zealand
There were 64,040 births registered in New Zealand in the December 2007 year, the highest number since 1963, Statistics
New Zealand said today. The highest number of births registered in any December year was 65,390 in 1961. At that time
New Zealand's ...
The Marketplace Company Limited
Please find attached the wholesale electricity market summary for the week ending 17 February 2008.
David Swanson
A friend just described to me the scene last weekend in Richmond, Va., prior to the Tuesday Virginia primary in which
Obama trounced Clinton. Both of them spoke at a Democratic Party dinner in Richmond, and a huge crowd outside and inside
cheered.
Word of Mouth Media
New Zealand’s longest running private property sale company Homesell said it was sad that real estate company The
Joneses went under today.
Cr Michael Williams
Manukau City Councillor Michael Williams has asked his fellow councillors to reconsider a 100 metre rail extension
estimated to cost $10 million. Council currently proposes to build the rail platform and station in the Civic Centre
Carpark which involves ...
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
The UN drug policy consultation in Wellington this week will be a big fat expert blowhard session say the ALCP, see
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0802/S00059.htm. Notably it is expected rational observations - eg. that an ongoing
cannabis ban is ...