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MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard
campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering
in New Zealand.
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in
writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces
a world exclusive and a bold ...
In attempting to make sense of the Bush administration's drive to war in Iraq, we have heard much from the White House
of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. When that rationale proved to be an illusion, the administration turned to
''liberating'' ...
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate
and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home
city, Los ...
Failure to increase international assistance to post-conflict Côte d'Ivoire for the disarmament of its militias could
lead to the destabilization of precarious neighbouring countries, the United Nations aid coordinating office said today.
On the eve of the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) opening hearing on the construction of the fence/wall by
Israel, Amnesty International calls on the Israeli authorities to immediately dismantle the sections already built
inside the West Bank ...
1) A Palestinian Plan of Work against the apartheid wall 2) An Outcry from Strangled Bethlehem
Prime Minister Helen Clark said today that she had received the resignation of the Honourable Lianne Dalziel from all
her portfolios and has advised the Governor General to accept it.
Met Service Warn More Wind & Rain On Its Way - MetService meteorologists have issued severe wind and heavy rain warnings for an active front moving
across New Zealand on Thursday. See... Severe Wind and Rain Warnings for Thursday
Top 10 signs Labour is worried about Don Brash
The following document from the Director of New Zealand's Security & Intelligence Service was released by Ahmed Zaoui's lawyers on 20 Feb 2004:
Cartoon by kiddmillennium.com…
We all remember the photo of George W. Bush, Commander-In-Chief, waving from the co-pilot's seat of what was dubbed
"Navy One' on May 1, 2003.
National Party MP Judith Collins is maintaining her call for a full judicial inquiry into the Government's handling of
sensitive documents relating to the deportation of a young Sri Lankan girl.
Amnesty International said today that President Hugo Chávez must respect the right of non-governmental human rights
organizations to carry out their legitimate work, such work is underpinned by international human rights treaties which
the Venezuelan ...
The final bill after this week's severe flooding will run into many millions of dollars, Civil Defence Minister George
Hawkins says.
Professor Chris Milroy had this letter - "Fantasists and Dr Kelly" - published in the Guardian (see below, top) hot on
the heels of a letter - "Medical Evidence Does Not Support Suicide by Kelly" - by medical specialists from the Kelly
Investigation ...
We wrote about it before it happened, we called them by their own name, Dominionists, and we told you that Dominionists
in Congress were about to fire their first guns for reformation of the American government.
MetService meteorologists have issued severe wind and heavy rain warnings for another front moving across New Zealand on
Saturday.
More than 10,000 Burundian refugees have returned home from Tanzania in the first month and a half of this year, bound
for destinations that include the previously insecure eastern Ruyigi province, the United Nations refugee agency said
today.
What with all the issues and everything, I haven't got around this week to writing something about going to see Evan
Dando play on Tuesday night, if only so as to use the headline above...
“The resignation of Lianne Dalziel as Minister of Immigration was inevitable,” said New Zealand First leader Rt Hon
Winston Peters.
Matt Robson notes that the “Summary of Allegations,” prepared by the Security Intelligence Service at the direction of
the High Court and released by Ahmed Zaoui’s lawyers after Official Information Act requests, contains nothing of
substance that has not ...
Some 1,200 Bolivian university graduates will fan out across the South American country over the next two years to fight
poverty, empower women and promote small and family businesses under a new United Nations Volunteers ( UN V) programme.
Every week now it seems, astronomers are making a new mind-blowing discovery or observation. Black holes tearing apart
stars that come too close; galaxies flickering on just after the "Dark Age" of the universe following the Big Bang;
unseen "dark energy" ...
Something very strange happened in Volusia County on election night November 2000, the night that first Gore won
Florida, then Bush, and then as everybody can so well remember there was a tie.
Police have an arrest warrant out for Clayton Cosgrove, on a charge of being the Member of Parliament for Waimakariri.
Plans for Wellington's first wind farm have won "carbon credits" from the government for cutting greenhouse gas
emissions and helping to make New Zealand's electricity supply more secure, Hutt South MP Trevor Mallard announced.
The reason we have called a conference and released the summary this morning is an unusual step however the Zaoui case
is an unusual case. We have taken this step given that the Minister of Immigration has chosen to reveal the existence of
the Director’s ...
The death penalty as applied in Nigeria violates fundamental human rights and is sometimes used in a discriminatory way
against women, Amnesty International said today in a new and its first report on women and the death penalty entitled:
"Nigeria: ...