06 September 2011
FM Commends Julia Tijaja’s Performance In Trade Foreign Minister Commends Julia Tijaja’s High Performance In Extrenal Trade Minister of Foreign Affairs, External Trade and Immigration Patterson Oti last night highly commended Julia Tijaja for her exceptional performance with Solomon Islands government in the area of external trade. Ms Tijaja of Indonesia joined the External Trade [...]
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03 September 2011
Digest: $1 mil Science prizes, Folic Acid, 3 Rs The most lucrative prize for science ever offered in New Zealand has been created with the Prime minister’s Science Prize offering to a scientist or team working on groundbreaking research in New Zealand. The suite of prizes unveiled by the Prime Minister at Plant & Food [...]
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03 September 2011
Maritime workers boosted by international support Workers on the Maritime Union picket line at the Port of Napier were told early this morning that tens of thousands of dollars of solidarity donations were flooding in from around the world. A hardship fund is being set up to look after the workers, many of whom are [...]
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02 September 2011
Reporter Arrested on Orders of Giuliani Press Sec Manchester, NH – Freelance reporter Matt Lepacek, reporting for Infowars.com, was arrested for asking a question to one of Giuliani’s staff members in a press conference. The press secretary identified the New York based reporter as having previously asked Giuliani about his prior knowledge of WTC building [...]
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02 September 2011
US-NZ Declaration: hints of science But in the text of the declaration and the associated speeches from Clinton, Prime Minister John Key and foreign affairs minister Murray McCully, there were brief mentions of increased cooperation on science-related issues. Clinton, in her speech, referenced the “high science of the Antarctica” noting the that “Kiwi and American [...]
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01 September 2011
ACC figures ‘accounting trickery’ The Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union says ACC Minister Nick Smith and his handpicked board chair, John Judge, are being deliberately misleading in their assessment of ACC’s financial situation in order to undermine the scheme. The call is in response to the Minister and the ACC Chair’s scaremongering today over the [...]
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01 September 2011
UN Climate Change Talks Kick Off In Ghana The latest round of United Nations-sponsored global climate change negotiations began today in Accra, Ghana, bringing together more than 1,600 participants to discuss future greenhouse gas emission reduction targets ahead of a major summit set for 2009. Government delegates from 160 countries and representatives from business and [...]
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31 August 2011
Rehash of Old Ideas The National Party have released their long awaited anti social welfare policy to the theme of ‘Back to the Past’. “The 1990s is back and today the National Party showed how bereft they really are of new ideas,” said Ruth Dyson Minister for Social Development. Their policy will:
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31 August 2011
Subnational Family and Household Projection All 16 regional council areas of New Zealand are projected to have more households in 2031 than in 2006, according to projections released by Statistics New Zealand today. This is based on the ‘medium series’ of the 2006-base subnational family and household projections. By comparison, the population of three regional [...]
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30 August 2011
NZers misled by unfounded sea level claims New Zealanders should not be misled by unfounded claims about dangerous rises in sea levels says Professor Nils-Axel M
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