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Syed Akbar Kamal
Sri Lanka’s top diplomat in the Pacific region Mr. Kusum Balapatabendi paid a visit to New Zealand recently on the
occasion of Sri Lanka’s 60 years of independence. Incidentally it was his first trip to Auckland at the invitation of
New Zealand Sri ...
Kevin List
Click for big version A Labour Party delegate from New Lynn who may very well have snapped the fifth columnist that
snuck into the Labour Party conference and detonated a fire alarm just at the start of Prime Minister Helen Clark's
affternoon address
NZ Centre For Political Research
The climate change debate is forever shifting as science casts long shadows of doubt on the predictions of global
catastrophe.
Matt Renner
San Francisco, California - A day-long mass gathering intended to protest the running of the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch
ended anticlimactically when San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom decided to cancel the downtown closing ceremony and
instead hold the ...
Aids Foundation
The largest comprehensive national survey into the health and social experiences of people living with HIV in New
Zealand was released today. The study was conducted by Dr Jeffrey Grierson from La Trobe University in Melbourne with
the support of ...
Lyndon Hood
Bollard asks bears not to hibernate - China Responds to Human Rights Concerns
New Zealand National Party
The National Party is going to court to try to get some clarity on Labour's Electoral Finance Act, says National Party
Deputy Leader Bill English.
Emily Kernot - AUT Journalism Student
Emily Kernot writes: Shakespeare’s works are being revamped with some modern day twists this weekend, as Diocesan School
for Girls hold the regional heats for the festival named after the bard.
New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark today expressed sorrow on hearing of the death of former Labour Cabinet Minister Rt Hon
Fraser Colman, who served in both the Third and Fourth Labour Governments.
Manukau City Council
Three city councils for the Auckland region, plus a Greater Auckland Council is the option contained in the Manukau City
Council’s draft submission to the Royal Commission of Inquiry on Auckland Governance.
Siddhi B. Ranjitkar
The historic election for a Constituent Assembly (CA) has been successfully completed. Now, the question is who are
going to influence the making of a new constitution of Nepal. In absence of scientific and even crude opinion polls
before and after ...
Bradblog.Com
Systems Made by Diebold, Sequoia and Hart InterCivic Are 'Still Going to Have Same Viral Vulnerabilities Found' During
California's 2007 Study...
Julie Webb-Pullman
On 10 April, a petition signed by more than 30 New Zealanders was delivered to the Mexican Ambassador to New Zealand,
Angélica Arce, declaiming ongoing human rights abuses of indigenous Mexicans, impunity for the perpetrators, and marking
the 89th ...
M. Shahid Alam
On January 31, 2008, when the Winograd Commission submitted its final report on the Second Lebanese War of July 2006,
this was a first in Israeli history: a report on why the Israeli military had failed in a war.
GE Free NZ
New applications in New Zealand for GE crops to be allowed to flower and seed (1) and for more GE animal experiments (2)
could set farmer against farmer and prompt civil conflict.
New Zealand Government
Land Information Minister David Parker and Associate Finance Minister Clayton Cosgrove have jointly declined the
application by the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board to buy a 40 percent shareholding in Auckland International
Airport Limited.
Trade Me Limited
Online auction website Trade Me has partnered with internet domain name registrar FreeParking to sell “used” domain
names.
New Zealand National Party
The National Party Southern Regional Chair is proud to announce that Michael Woodhouse has been selected as the National
Party candidate for Dunedin North to contest the 2008 Election.
Hamilton City Council
Hamiltonians and visitors to the city are invited to walk the track for the new Hamilton 400 V8 Supercar event on
Thursday 17 April.
New Zealand Government
Finance Minister Michael Cullen says he is disappointed but not surprised to hear of the National Party’s weak position
on strategic national assets.
Ramzy Baroud
When it comes to Iraq, reporters appear intent on omitting or fabricating news. The latest battles in Basra, Iraq's
second largest city and a vital oil seaport, furnished ample instances of misleading and manipulative practice in
corporate journalism today. ...
Certified Organics Limited
Certified Organics has released details of its sales results for the first quarter (January-March 2005) of its new
financial year.
New Zealand National Party
National Party Leader John Key has slammed Labour’s blatantly political decision to scuttle the Canada Pension Plan’s
bid for a stake in Auckland Airport despite the Overseas Investment Office’s recommendation that it be approved.
New Zealand National Party
Last Friday night I got to experience what our police experience every single day. From 4pm until well after midnight, I
went on the beat with the police in Howick. Even though there were times when things got a bit hairy, I always felt safe
in their ...
New Zealand National Party
Four months into Election Year there is only one certainty about the rules under which the 2008 election will be held:
they are in a complete state of uncertainty. Day after day Parliamentary Question Time demonstrates that Ministers have
no understanding ...
The Alcohol Advisory Council
Binge drinking had become an initiation ceremony or 'rite of passage', for teenagers, an Alcohol Advisory Council of New
Zealand (ALAC) speaker told a Nelson conference today.
New Zealand Police
Hamilton Police are working to formally identify a man who's body was found floating in the Waikato River this morning.
Scoop Link
This year, the U.S. will pick a new president using electronic voting machines that can be hacked, security experts said
Thursday at the RSA [Security] Conference in San Francisco.
Greenpeace
A "wedding cortege" of the most-polluting German cars travelled along the Champs Elysée in Paris today, stopping in
various showrooms to distribute invitations to the marriage of French President Sarkozy and Germany's Angela Merkel.
Scoop Audio
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to UK correspondent Chris Mason about the big news inside the United Kingdom.