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Kiwi-Made App Released For Movie After Earth
Kiwi-Made App ReleasedForMovie After Earth A Kiwi company is behind the global release today of an interactive app for the highly anticipated sci-fi thriller movie After Earth, starring Will Smith and his son Jaden.UK-based BeyondTheStory developed the app, titled After Earth: Kitai's Journal, for the Sony Pictures Entertainment/Overbrook Entertainment film and its tie-in book.The ...
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Kiwis Spend Almost $2 Million on Tickets to Space
Kiwis have spent more than $1.8 million on space travel to embark on flights with the world's first commercial space service.New Zealanders are able to secure their tickets with the Virgin Galactic service through its travel partner House of Travel.Interest in these history-making flights is expected to increase as Kiwis learn more of the opportunity to aboard a space-bound ...
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The First Kiwi Cloud
05/2013 - Leading New Zealand Internet Services company, Web Drive, announced today the launch of the Web Drive Cloud, the company's new Infrastructure as a Service offering. Webdrive's General Manager, Robin Dickie, says Web Drive Cloud sets new benchmarks for the local industry, and will empower developers. Under development for over a year, the company has built a ...
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Playground honours Margaret Mahy ONZ
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 12:56 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Gerry Brownlee Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery 23 May 2013 Playground honours Margaret Mahy ONZA playground based on author Margaret Mahy's work has taken out one of the top prizes in the BNZ Amazing Place playground design competition run by the Christchurch Central Development Unit, Canterbury ...
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Survey Supports Reduced Duck Season
Eastern Region's four-week duck-hunting season has been justified by the early results from a Fish & Game survey of hunter success analysed this week.The game bird season for mallard and grey duck will finish at Queen's Birthday weekend in the Eastern Fish & Game Region, although upland game birds and other species such as paradise shelduck and black swan have a longer ...
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Christchurch CBD construction ramps up
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 11:39 am Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Gerry BrownleeMinister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery 23 May 2013 Christchurch CBD construction ramps up Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee has today taken Prime Minister John Key on a whistle-stop tour to check progress on three major construction sites in the Christchurch CBD. "These ...
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Consultation begins on mining safety regulations
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 12:12 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government 23 May 2013 Consultation begins on mining safety regulationsThe Government has further progressed the Pike River Implementation Plan with the release of a discussion document on a new regulatory regime for the mining sector. Labour and Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges says the discussion document proposes ...
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Waikato Innovation Park Contributed Over $100m to Region
According to a 10 year economic impact report, the Waikato Innovation Park has brought $16M of establishment funding into the region and employee-related benefits from those working at the Park have contributed more than $100M to the regional economy. The report, carried out by the Institute for Business Research at the Waikato Management School, outlines the Park's direct and ...
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ASK ME ANYTHING David Parker v Shamubeel Eaqub
Can – and should – something be done about New Zealand’s high exchange rate? It is one of the hottest political, economic and business topics of the post-global financial crisis world. The topic flared up at the Grant Thornton-National Business Review post Budget breakfast in Wellington last Friday. Although they were delivered set piece speeches on the budget, Labour ...
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Chickenpox vaccine supplies running low
Stocks of a chickenpox vaccine have run dry after an unexpected rush by parents to get their children immunised. Drug company GlaxoSmithKline has notified medical centres throughout the country that the Varilrix vaccine would be temporarily out of stock for the next few weeks. ''This situation is because of the phasing of planned vaccine shipments and uncharacteristically high ...
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Dealer due to be sentenced over fake Trade Me bids
Source: ONE News Auckland car dealer The Auto Co (Millennium) Ltd will be sentenced today for what TradeMe says is the biggest ever episode of fake bidding on the site. TradeMe says the company made more than 7000 fake bids on hundreds of auctions, creating a "consumer detriment" of $97,000. The thousands of fake bids drove up the price of cars sold by The Auto Co on TradeMe. ...
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Little battler Toddlers hands burnt by fire
Brett Oosthuizen, with his Mum Mandy, suffered third-degree burns from the family fireplace. Photo / Katee Shanks Little Brett Oosthuizen has been nicknamed The Great White by staff at Waikato Hospital. His dad Marius said it is because they think his youngest son looks like a boxer with both of his hands swaddled in bandages. However, Marius and his wife Mandy know the horror under ...
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Failed protection rail worker regularly used cannabis
The commission found several faults leading up to the incident. Photo / Thinkstock A rail worker who failed to make sure two of his co-workers were off the track before a passenger train passed by, nearly hitting them, was a regular cannabis user, an investigation has found. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission today released its findings into the incident near Wellington on August ...
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Company plans to demolish Carisbrook
Calder Stewart has plans to demolish almost all of Carisbrook. The company bought the old stadium from the Dunedin City Council in a conditional deal in February for $3.3 million. Confirmation of the purchase appears to be due next month. Documents released to the Otago Daily Times yesterday confirmed the company planned to clear almost every structure from the former home of ...
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Ambassador to Afghanistan appointed
Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully today announced the appointment of career diplomat John Mataira as Ambassador to Afghanistan. "New Zealand has made a significant commitment to Afghanistan over the last 10 years, and while our Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) has now left Bamyan, that commitment will continue through our development projects and military personnel based in ...
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Trial set for teen accused of Ashburton murder
A 16-year-old accused of murdering Ashburton mum Sina Nerisa Solomona will stand trial in Timaru in November. The youth, who has name suppression, had a trial date of November 4 set at a pre-trial callover at the High Court in Christchurch today. Defence counsel Elizabeth Bulger said the trial has been set for two weeks, but said it was likely to last just over a ...
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Car crashes into petrol station in Auckland
A car has crashed through the front door of a petrol station on Auckland's North Shore. The crash happened just before midday at BP Connect on Lake Road. Police said the driver was removed from the car. His injuries and the cause of the incident are unknown at this stage.- APNZ By Abby Gillies Email ...
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Mayor Hosting Wellington’s Talented Athletes
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 11:15 am Press Release: Wellington City Council Mayor Hosting Wellington's Talented AthletesHer Worship Celia Wade-Brown the Mayor of Wellington will present certificates to young athletes involved in the Wellington City Council Talent Development Programme on Tuesday 4 June.The Council has partnered with Sport Wellington to deliver this programme which aims ...
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Info evenings for would-be regional councillors
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 10:58 am Press Release: Northland Regional Council 23 May, 2013 Info evenings for would-be regional councillors With the official nomination period for this year's local body elections drawing closer, would-be Northland Regional Councillors are being invited to attend information meetings to learn more about what the job entails. Malcolm Nicolson, the regional ...
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EDITORS INSIGHT Budget review – 10 myths exposed
Previous Winner Stephen Tubbs is NBR's latest winner of New Zealand's richest subscription prize, a fabulous trip for two flying Business Class with Singapore Airlines and SilkAir to Cambodia’s newest ultimate "all-inclusive" luxury eco-resort – Song Saa Private Island, valued at ...
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Reporter takes part in police tests
Head down, hands on my knees, gasping for air. What am I talking about you ask? I'll start from the beginning. Every year New Zealand Police staff are made to undergo a fitness test, called a physical competence test (PCT), with a small part of their salary riding on them passing. Earlier this year, while I was working on the police desk at the newspaper, I was handed a ...
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Woman charged with mistreatment of elderly mother
A Napier woman is facing a charge of failing to provide the necessaries of life to her elderly mother, who was found fused to her furniture and a blanket after apparently being confined to a couch for at least three years. Details have emerged after the latest court appearance of the woman, aged in her 50s. She has yet to plead to the charge, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 ...
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Extra staffing adds extra $3.5 million Novopay bill
Novopay getting 'remarkably' better Dealing with the bungled Novopay system has cost taxpayers nearly $3.5 million in extra staffing, documents reveal. The payroll system went live in August and has resulted in endless problems with teachers and school staff being overpaid, underpaid, or not paid at all. Earlier this month, the Government announced it was sticking with the ...
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NZ risks breaching human rights - Amnesty
Amnesty International decries New Zealand's move to deter asylum seekers and the country's approach to child poverty in its annual report just released. New Zealand risks breaching its domestic and international human rights obligations by introducing the Immigration Amendment (Mass Arrivals) Bill, Amnesty International says in its 2013 global report on the state of the world's ...
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Surgeon under investigation resigns
Source: Photos.com The surgeon at the centre of a criminal investigation into botched surgery has resigned. Zimbabwe-born doctor Michael Parry originally stood down from his post at Wairau Hospital after the death of Jim Nicholls, 81, following surgery last May to repair a hernia and remove his gall bladder. Parry had been on paid leave since. Another patient, Rachel Riddell, 31, died of ...
Auckland Feature Story
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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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