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New Zealand National Party
Thank you for your welcome. It’s always great to be in the southern region.
Suzanne Baroud
Nothing seems to work right for Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton in her attempts to once more dwell in the White House.
Senator Barack Obama, despite inflated controversies continued his glide to the Democratic nomination with a landslide
victory and a marginal ...
Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- The U.S. prepared its first airlift of relief supplies to Burma's cyclone victims, but the flight
scheduled for Monday will not include America's Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) because they were denied visas,
U.S. officials said.
Green Party
"We are enormously proud to present our list for the 2008 election" says Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russel Norman, Green
Co-Leaders. "New Zealanders have come to expect high standards from the Greens and the calibre of this list stands up to
that test.
Carter Holt Harvey
Carter Holt Harvey (CHH), a subsidiary of Rank Group Limited, has agreed to acquire the timber manufacturing operations
and timber distribution business of the Weyerhaeuser Australian Group, including the interest of Green Triangle Forest
Products (GTFP). ...
Microsoft New Zealand
Microsoft delivers sophistication of Windows Aero to new Wireless Laser Desktop 7000 New peripherals bring stylish and
affordable options for the digital lifestyle
New Zealand National Party
After a long legal battle to stop the selection process, Aylesbury Lawyer and farmer Amy Adams (36) has been selected as
National’s candidate for the Selwyn electorate.
Suzan Mazur
“[I]nsects had evolved at least ten elaborate forms of mouthpieces, uniquely adapted (one would say) to their feeding
upon flowers, one hundred million years before there were any flowers on Earth.” – Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Greenpeace New Zealand
Auckland, 12 May 2008 – Big business and policy-makers must not succumb to the elusive promise of carbon capture and
storage (CCS) to solve the climate crisis, says Greenpeace in a major new report (1).
Poultry Industry Assn
The New Zealand poultry industry today welcomed an apology from a Sunday newspaper following a series of false
allegations from food writer Peta Mathias
Lyndon Hood
Scoop editorial images by Lyndon Hood, for stories from March 2008.
Undernews
WASHINGTON POST The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in
Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere at a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended yesterday when the
Pentagon ...
Schwarzkopf Professional New Zealand Hairdresser
A cut above the rest, a young Auckland hairdresser has won the coveted title of New Zealand’s top hairdresser in the
country’s most prestigious industry awards.
Flo-Dry Engineering
A new process for making biodiesel from tallow could allow meat companies to offset emissions taxes and avoid those
costs being passed on to farmers. However, misinformation about tallow-based fuel may halt progress of the Biofuel Bill
currently being considered ...
Gordon Copeland
Independent MP Gordon Copeland, the Kiwi Party spokesperson on Commerce, today questioned why the price of diesel in New
Zealand has increased twice as fast as the cost of petrol since the first quarter of 2007.
Jason Miller
Yes. It’s another anti-capitalist rant by Jason Miller. Big surprise! I’m the associate editor for Cyrano’s Journal
Online, the anti-capitalist tool. We’re not big fans of free market ideology and its tacit socioeconomic license to
rape, ...
New Zealand Defence Force
Click for big version HMNZS TE MANA undertakes replenishment at sea. The Japanese tanker JDS Oumi transferred 312 cubic
metres of fuel.
Martha Rosenberg
US Egg Supplier to Major Food Chains and Dept. of Defense Caught in Grisly Hen Abuse by Martha Rosenberg
ShapeNZ
Businesses with high greenhouse gas emissions are having the most influence on climate change policy, according to a new
national survey.
New Zealand National Party
National Party Finance spokesman Bill English is calling on Michael Cullen to come clean with the New Zealand public
about the likely total cost of the deal to buy Toll’s rail operations.
New Zealand Government
Building and Construction Minister Shane Jones paid tribute to attending Navy veterans at the naming and commissioning
of the third Inshore Patrol Vessel (IPV), the Pukaki, at Whangarei yesterday.
Telecom New Zealand
Telecom New Zealand CFO Russ Houlden said today the company had signed a new NZ$800 million committed standby facility
with its bankers.
NZ Contractors Federation
The New Zealand Contractors’ Federation has welcomed the National Party’s commitment to infrastructure investment
Happy
This is a land of revelry, Of passion and of tricks, Of Brownies, Bwkas, Boogles, Bogies, Pixies, Piskies, and Pooks.
Save The Children
Save the Children is working against the clock to reach surviving children and their families left destitute in the wake
of Cyclone Nargis.
Wood Processors Association
The Government’s proposed Emissions Trading Scheme is in danger of cutting New Zealand’s environmental lifeline – its
forests and wood products - according to Dave Anderson, chairman of the industry body, the Wood Processors Association,
...
Finsec
The bank workers union Finsec, is calling for a major overhaul of finance industry lending practices and regulations in
response to a report in today’s Sunday Star Times that shows customers support the curbing of unethical lending
practices.
Canterbury District Health Board
Nurses around the world are celebrating International Nurses Day today, Monday 12 May – the birthday of Florence
Nightingale. This includes the 5,000 plus nurses in Canterbury, more than half of whom work for the Canterbury District
Health Board.
LawFuel
The Law Jobs and Legal NewsWire LawFuel.co.nz, the law jobs website, has hit the Number One spot on the Google search
engine rankings for its key word "Law Jobs", showing top place out of over 23 million entries.
PGG Wrightson
A King Country property has sold for $32.5 million, believed to be a record price.