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New Zealand Government
National Party Leader John Key stands firmly behind both his full support for Working for Families and his vehement
opposition to the scheme.
Sloggi
International lingerie brand sloggi is on the search for NZ’s most beautiful male and female bottoms for the 2nd annual
“Show me your sloggi” (smys) campaign. The national male and female winner will attend the international finals in
Paris, ...
New Zealand First Party
“Today I met the Prime Minister to clear up the media generated hysteria of the past two weeks.
Patterson Associates
New Zealand architects Patterson Associates has been included as a double finalist in the World Architecture Festival,
one of the world’s most prestigious architectural awards, being held in Barcelona this October. The announcement from
Barcelona was ...
Toni Solo
Shakespeare foresaw Thomas Shannon's July 17th Statement to Congress on Venezuela by four hundred years. There he was,
the Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, mewling about Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, giving
the United ...
Michael Collins
The July 25, 2008 House Committee on the Judiciary hearings focused on the Kucinich resolution calling for the
impeachment of President Bush. In his resolution , Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) argues that Bush knew that the Iraqis had
no weapons of mass ...
Office of the Clerk
1. JOHN KEY to the Prime Minister: Does she have confidence in the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Racing; if so, why?
New Zealand National Party
National Party President Judy Kirk today announced that Melissa Lee and Steven Joyce will be standing for the National
Party at the up-coming General Election.
Tanveer Jafri
At last the proposed controversial nuclear deal between India and America got green signal from the Indian parliament
In the 543 member house the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) led by the Indian National congress got 275 votes whereas
the trust ...
Greg Palast
In swing-state Colorado, the Republican Secretary of State conducted the biggest purge of voters in history, dumping a
fifth of all registrations. Guess their color. In swing-state Florida, the state is refusing to accept about 85,000 new
registrations ...
Undernews
In his speech Senator Obama declared that "America can’t [win in Afghanistan] alone... The Afghan people need our troops
and your troops; our support and your support to defeat the Taliban and al Qaeda, to develop their economy, and to help
them rebuild ...
Australian Government
A Boeing 747 was on a scheduled passenger service from HK to Melbourne. At approximately 29,000 feet, the crew were
forced to conduct an emergency descent after a section of the fuselage separated and resulted in rapid cabin
decompression.
New Zealand Government
The release of an updated SuperGold Card directory, which will be delivered to more than half a million senior New
Zealanders, has been welcomed by Associate Senior Citizens Minister Winston Peters today
Scoop Photo-Essay
Photo Essay: Protesters braved a one-in-ten-year storm and pressed the line with Police to drive their message home on
the weekend while New Zealand's PM Helen Clark met with US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice.
Sherwood Ross
Chairman Rupert Murdoch of Fox News once said of his former sportscaster Keith Olbermann, “I fired him. He’s crazy.” And
when MSNBC’s Senior Vice President Phil Griffin hired Olbermann for his new “Countdown” show in 2003 he agreed “The guy
is ...
New Zealand Government
Education Minister Chris Carter has today announced a new appointment to the board of the New Zealand Qualifications
Authority (NZQA).
Rosalea Barker
In just four weeks’ time, the world’s media will be lining up in Denver, Colorado, to receive their press credentials
to cover the Democratic national convention; a week later, ditto in St. Paul, Minnesota, for the Republican convention.
But already, ...
America.gov
The nuclear accord would bring India into the nuclear nonproliferation mainstream, help India meet its growing energy
needs while protecting the environment, and deepen the strategic partnership between many nations and India.
AUT University
The first real picture of how New Zealanders are using the Internet can be seen with the release today of the World
Internet Project New Zealand data produced by AUT University (to obtain copies of report see below).
New Zealand National Party
There are important lessons to be learnt from the remediation of the contaminated site at Mapua that need to be applied
to other contaminated sites of this kind, says National’s Environment spokesman Nick Smith.
Hugh Pavletich
The June 2008 Building Consents Issued Release by Statistics New Zealand state that in June 2007 there were 2574 new
residential building consents issued, which had slumped to 1362 consents in June 2008 – some 1212 less than the same
month last ...
New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark will travel to Tonga for the coronation of King George Tupou V of Tonga in Nuku’alofa on
Friday, 1 August.
The Internet Bureau
Video: Internet Bureau Online Advertising Symposium - The main objective is to help grow online advertising in the
broadband environment and ensure that New Zealand gets to be globally competitive in this space. Click on the images to
view the speakers.
New Zealand Government
Chile's Foreign Minister, Alejandro Foxley, will visit New Zealand on Thursday and Friday this week, Foreign Minister
Winston Peters announced today. "Education will be a primary focus of Mr Foxley's visit. An arrangement will be signed
allowing scholarship ...
David Swanson
Imagine being so angry that you couldn't find a job that you were able to decide, as a man in Tennessee just did, that
the way to solve your problems was to attack liberals - the people who support (albeit ineffectively) workers' rights,
union rights, ...
Lachlan Mackay
I call upon you all to do your bit in applying pressure on the appropriate parties when it comes to the plight of the
Darfur region and its people.
Lincoln University
A perennial problem for New Zealand olive growers is the annual frosts that occur during the ripening season, especially
in the south of the country. Frosts, while not occurring often, have the potential to damage olives trees; delay olive
ripening ...
Meghan Paggabao
Like the treacherous but sublime desert in which it is set, Ashes of Time Redux is a difficult, epic journey for one's
psyche.
Harcourts
Harcourts New Zealand has introduced two new online initiatives aimed at making life easier for renters, CEO Bryan
Thomson announced today. “Firstly, Google-powered mapping functionality is now available to people searching for rental
properties ...
Government of Tonga
King George is the progeny of 3 royal bloodlines, which emerged from a civilisation nearly 3,000 years old: Tu’i Tonga,
Tu’i Ha’atakalaua and Tu’i Kanokupolu. King George is the 23rd Tu’i Kanokupolu, the transcendent source of authority.