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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 ...
Mehr News Agency reports U.S. forces have unloaded a large cargo of parts for constructing long-range missiles and
weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the southern ports of Iraq.
The United Nations refugee agency has reached an agreement with Myanmar's Government to begin measures to create the
necessary conditions in the country's east to allow the large-scale return of refugees from neighbouring Thailand.
Syria: Punished for using the internet - Amnesty International calls for an end to the suppression of the right to
freedom of expression
The United Nations Security Council today ordered all governments to freeze the assets of former Liberian leader Charles
Taylor and his immediate family and barred them from using "misappropriated funds and property" to obstruct the
restoration ...
Red Bull New Zealand's Flugtag – or 'Flying Day' – was held yesterday on the Wellington waterfront. Scoop's David
McLellan was present to record the thrills, spills, ditchings and dunkings….
The Attorney-General should consider the Prime Minister's critical comments of Judge Wickliffe as a contempt of court,
says National's Justice Spokesman Richard Worth.
1. There is so far no indication of any deaths or injuries involving New Zealanders.
"Labour is so desperate to take the attention off its own internal tensions that Helen Clark now admits she may change
the rules to suit herself," says National Party Treaty and Constitutional spokesman Dr Wayne Mapp.
National Party Social Services spokeswoman Katherine Rich says if Labour was serious about targeting need it would act
immediately to review a Work and Income scheme that penalises employers for hiring non-Maori.
A Cuban response to escalating threats against Cuba from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush will be
presented in a series of public meetings throughout New Zealand in late March.
This Saturday, March 20, is an international day of action against war and occupation. In Auckland we meet at 12 noon at
the bottom of Queen St
Hong Kong, 15th March 2004 ----- Sheraton Auckland Hotel and Towers, the first five-star hotel of its kind operated by
an international chain in New Zealand, will be renamed on 1 January, 2005, the Langham Hotel, Auckland.
"Fee paying students must call on Tertiary Education Minister Steve Maharey to explain how he spent $15 million last
year on radio sing-a-long studies," says National Party Education spokesman Bill English.
The Anglican Bishop of Dunedin, the Right Reverend Dr Penny Jamieson, has announced her retirement from the end of this
June.
Warning that a highly lethal human flu pandemic could occur at any time despite recent measures taken against a bird flu
outbreak in Asia, the United Nations health agency announced today that it will bring together more than 100 health
experts in Geneva ...
The Labour caucus split must be wide when the answer is a royal commission. The last time Labour proposed a royal
commission was when the caucus was split over proportional representation and divided over social welfare.
2 GE Free campaigners were arrested during a GE Food education exercise at an inner city Wellington supermarket
yesterday.
The United States vehemently condemns the outrageous and appalling terrorist attacks that took place in Madrid today. I
offer deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the people of Spain. In my telephone call with Foreign
Minister Palacio ...
President George Bush's decision to not maintain the Hubble Telescope has generated opposition as far away as Wellington
New Zealand.
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 ...
We are now a little over half way through our second term in government since the MMP electoral system came into force.
It is clear that the second half of this term is going to prove a little more testing of our capacities than the first
has been.
Tariana Turia says she remains committed to representing her constituents as best she can, and that is what they have
asked her to do.
As sometimes-fatal militia attacks continue along the desolate border between Chad and Sudan, the United Nations refugee
agency has relocated more than 10,000 Sudanese refugees further inland.
Emirates SkyCargo is looking forward to adding momentum to its rapidly expanding airfreight capability with its order
for two freighter versions of the giant, double-deck Airbus A380 aircraft, which will be able to carry over 30 tonnes
more than current ...
Given the urgent need to stem the cycle of violence in the Middle East and achieve a just and lasting settlement, the
parties to the conflict must implement the Road Map plan for a two-State solution, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi
Annan said ...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge said Friday (March 12) he "would not" keep his job if
John Kerry becomes president, but the Department of Homeland Security would be a permanent apparatus to crush terrorism
no matter ...
The stories of the so-called Guantanamo Five - the five Britons returned to their home country after two years at Camp
X-Ray last week - haven't been big news here, but they make for extremely disturbing reading...
A comprehensive review of the infringement system will be undertaken this year despite recent increases in the number
of unpaid fines being collected, Courts Minister Rick Barker announced today. "Over recent years both the rate of
collection, and ...
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