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The Education of Ming Ming wins film award
The Education of Ming Ming wins top University film award. Film Television and Media Studies graduate Beyond Wen has won the annual Images and Sound 'Geoff Evans Memorial Prize for Excellence in Screen Production'. His winning film The Education of Ming Ming is a comedy about an eight year old girl with an incredibly busy daily schedule supposed to help her achieve a "bright ...
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Kelly Tarltons gives turtles second chance
A new initiative that aims to increase awareness of the dangers turtles face and encourage human action to help them survive, kicks off at Kelly Tarlton's SEA LIFE Aquarium this month. Turtle Fest, held from 18 May to 2 June, will commemorate World Turtle Day on 23 May and educate visitors to SEA LIFE aquariums across Australia and New Zealand on the turtles' plight. Since 1991 ...
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Christchurch rebuild more certain than Australian Dream
May 26, 2013New Zealanders are realising the Australian dream is not so perfect after all with work harder to find and less lucrative, a University of Canterbury (UC) management researcher says.The number of New Zealanders heading to Australia has slowed to its smallest monthly pace in almost three years, as New Zealand's economic prospects begin to look better.Seasonally adjusted, ...
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Three Lotto Players Beat the Winter Blues
Three Lotto players in Rotorua, Wellington and Motueka can beat the winter blues this weekend after each winning $333,333 with Lotto's First Division.The winning tickets were sold at Te Ngae Hardware and Lotto in Rotorua, MyLotto in Wellington and Paper Plus in Motueka.Powerball was not struck this evening and has jackpotted to $7.5 million.Strike has jackpotted tonight and will be ...
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BOP Police seek witnesses to woman in boot case
Bay of Plenty Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding critical injuries received by a 37 year old Rotorua woman on State highway 1 at Lichfield between Tokoroa and Putaruru South Waikato on Saturday 25 May 2013. Detective Senior Sergeant Greg TURNER stated that witnesses have described the woman falling from the boot of a dark coloured Subaru sedan and being dragged for a ...
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Aggravated robbery - offenders apprehended
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Fatal shed fire investigated
West Coast Police and the Fire Service are investigating the cause of a fire in a shed at Kaniere, south of Hokitika overnight. Police have confirmed one person died in the fire. The body is yet to be recovered and formally identified. The fire broke out about 4.20am today. At this stage no further information on the cause of the fire or the name of the deceased is available. ...
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Serious Assault – State Highway 1 Tokoroa
At about 1:45pm Saturday, Police responded to a serious assault on State Highway 1, near Kincloch Road, Tokoroa. The female victim was airlifted to Waikato Hospital with serious injuries. The Serious Crash Unit and CIB are in attendance. Diversions are in place on State Highway 1, Tokoroa at the following locations. (North of the Scene) Kincloch Road & SH1. (South of the Scene) ...
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FLASHBACK David Karps 2009 NBR interview
Yahoo has been hailed in some quarters for buying Yahoo for buying Tumblr, a photo-heavy blogging service, for $US1.1 billion. The thinking is the buy will help struggling Yahoo reach younger, hipper users. The deal netted co-founder and CEO David Karp, 26, around $US209 million cash (the balance of the company was owned by various venture capital funds). Karp certainly weighed in with ...
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Johnny Depp has told Amber Heard she is his soul mate.
A source said: "Johnny is totally head over heels. He says that she is his soul mate and he plans to spend the rest of his life with her."Things are very serious between these two. He's told her that he wants to get married which is obviously a shock to anyone who knows Johnny."After Johnny mentioned marriage, Amber, 27, is keen to start a family of her own with the hunky ...
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Greens name Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidate
The by-election race in Ikaroa-Rawhiti is heating up, with the Greens naming the daughter of a well-known Kiwi actor as their candidate, while Labour is about to deliberate over its selection.The Maori electorate seat, running down the east coast of the North Island from above Gisborne to parts the Hutt Valley, has been vacant since the death of Labour MP Parekura Horomia late last month.The ...
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Greens select child abuse campaigner for Ikaroa-Rawhiti
The Green Party has selected former Human Rights Commission adviser Marama Davidson as its candidate for Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election. Mother of six Ms Davidson is currently working for the Owen Glenn Inquiry into family violence and child abuse. "I am standing for Ikaroa-Rawhiti to continue my kaupapa Maori passion for social justice and protecting our environment," Ms Davidson said in a ...
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Russell Brand and Sheridan Smith have been spotted sharing a kiss.
Sheridan had been in the audience at the show, and has also been spotted hanging out with Russell at a food festival last week, but denies any romantic link with the notorious lothario.On the night of his show, she wrote on Twitter: "Just had dinner with lovely friends. And yes they're wrong yet again. He's one of my best mates Xx (sic)."After the Soho Theatre Sheridan - ...
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Wellington barista reaches world final
A young Wellington coffee shop owner has made it through to the top six of the World Barista Champs, with the champion yet to be crowned.Nick Clark, 24, is competing in Melbourne during the weekend against more than 50 other top baristas from around the globe.The co-owner of Wellington cafe The Hangar and roastery Flight Coffee won the New Zealand Barista Championship in March.He will compete ...
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Amanda Seyfried thinks her beautiful huge breasts made her more attractive.
The 'Les Miserables' actress' figure has changed since she was a teenager and she admits being in the limelight is what made her body alter, as her chest has shrunk as she has got more "fit" and ...
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Perilous ridge-top rescue for trapped man
A worker who fell down a Bay of Plenty landslide site had to be rescued from a ridge 50m high above a highway amid atrocious weather conditions last night. The man had been in a two-man team surveying the site of a landslide in the Waioeka Gorge near Sandy Creek yesterday afternoon when he slipped and fell, injuring his shoulder and left unable to walk. Police, fire, ambulance and search and ...
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Three more arrests over soldier hacked to death
Murdered soldier Lee Rigby. Photo/AP Three men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder the British soldier hacked to death in a London street by two Islamists. Two men aged 24 and 28 were arrested at a residential address in southeast London while a 21-year-old man was arrested in the street around 1.5 kilometres from the murder scene, Scotland Yard police ...
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Four arrests after armed robbery pursuit
Photo/File Four people have been arrested after an armed robbery at a South Auckland pub last night. Police were called to the Whitehouse Tavern in Rosehill after the robbery about 11pm. The offenders fled in a stolen vehicle but were spotted by police staff who were en route to the robbery. Police gave chase but the pursuit was abandoned. The stolen vehicle was found ...
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Man faces charges after Tokoroa assault
A man has been arrested on a driving charge after a woman was seriously injured when she was dragged by a car in Waikato on Saturday.The Rotorua woman suffered leg, head and other injuries after trying to escape from the car, and remains in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital.Police have arrested a 26-year-old man who will appear in Tokoroa District Court on Monday.He has been charged with ...
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Erakovic loses Strasbourg doubles final
Kiwi tennis player Marina Erakovic and Zimbabwe's Cara Black fell short in a tense tiebreaker to lose the doubles final at the Strasbourg ...
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Stacy Keibler wants to star in romantic comedies.
She told the Metro newspaper: "Romantic comedies are more my speed. I feel like that's more my personality."I'm usually happy, smiling, joking and having a good time so I think those kind of roles suit me. Comedy and dramedy is what I'm better at."The striking star has had small guest parts in 'How I Met Your Mother' and 'Men at Work', but is ...
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Kiwi Schmidt leaves Leinster on a high
New Zealander Joe Schmidt ended three successful years with Irish club Leinster on a high by winning the Celtic League final 24-18 over Ulster.The Dublin triumph followed victory in the second-tier European Challenge Cup final two weeks ago for Schmidt, who will leave to take up the reins as Ireland national coach.Schimdt led Leinster to two European Cup titles in his first two seasons in ...
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Rochelle Humes baby is absolutely beautiful.
The Saturdays star gave birth to daughter Alaia-Mai Humes - her first child with JLS singer Marvin Humes - on Monday and bandmate Una Healy has revealed the couple's new arrival takes after her stunning ...
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LeAnn Rimes prays for forgiveness every day for having an affair with Eddie Cibrian.
The 30-year-old singer admits she's so guilt ridden by the 2009 infidelity that ended her eight-year marriage to Dean Sheremet that she's haunted by it every day, even she and Eddie have stayed together and married in April ...
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Four arrested after Auckland pub robbery
Four people have been arrested following the overnight armed robbery of an Auckland pub.The group held up the Whitehouse Tavern in the South Auckland suburb of Rosehill about 11pm on Saturday, police say.Officers en route to the scene saw the four leaving in a stolen vehicle and a pursuit ensued, but it was quickly abandoned.The vehicle was found a short time later and two people were arrested ...
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Auckland's infastructure needs upgrading in the long run.
Auckland may in the next few years be able to upgrade two major pieces of infastructure and reap the economic benefits for the city.
There may, in the near future, be a four-lane road of national significance (RONS) between Auckland and Whangarei, which would make travel between the country’s largest city and Northland much faster and more efficient, while providing significant economic benefits to both regions as well. Read more
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