Новости за 22.08.2015

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The Herald reports: Residents of two narrow Auckland streets are furious that council parking wardens fined 27 of them in a 2am blitz on cars with two wheels on the curb. They say if they had parked correctly access would be obscured for emergency services vehicles, rubbish trucks and other large vehicles and likely result […]

Press Release – Wellington City Council A two day multi-sports festival for Wellington’s future sports stars starts on Tuesday. The Wellington City Council in partnership with Wellington region schools, sporting organisations and the Health Promotion Agency is running a sporting event for Year 5 – 8 students. This is the first year the event has […]

Press Release – U.S. Department of State Strengthening trade and investment capacity in Pacific Island nations for a more vibrant and robust economic partnership with the United States will be the focus of the Pacific Islands-U.S. Regional Workshop on Trade, Investment, and Private …Exploring Trade and Investment Opportunities Between the Pacific Islands and the United […]

Pacific Scoop: Report – By Lachlan Carmichael The European Union has urged India, Indonesia, Brazil and other major economies to immediately submit their emissions reductions targets to help avoid failure at the United Nations climate summit in Paris later this year. In hard-hitting remarks in Brussels, EU Climate and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete warned […]

One year out from the Olympic Games, Peter Burling and Blair Tuke have won the Gold medal at 2015 Rio Test Event easily securing victory with a 4th in today’s 49er medal race.

The Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance is backing residents of two narrow Auckland streets in their criticism of Auckland Council parking wardens who fined 27 residents in a 2am blitz on cars with two wheels on the curb. Carmel Claridge, a spokesperson ...

A husband and wife, who work side by side capturing love stories one camera click at a time, have won both wedding categories in a professional photography competition.

Two local librarians with a passion for family history have set up a new venture in Christchurch called Family History Genies. Julie Paterson and Erin Vail are noticing a growing interest in genealogy among people of all ages. Advances in technology ...

Labour leader says his Government would pull out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership if it doesn’t meet the party’s five bottom lines “If that agreement doesn't meet our bottom lines, it undermines our sovereignty, it fails to protect Pharmac, ...

CTU will challenge new health and safety law if it fails to include farming, as law promises reps for high risk industries. Sissons: “…the law says that high-risk industries will have health and safety reps. So we think that any regulations that ...

Stuff reports: Is Paula Bennett the real deal? Given the polls, fretting about John Key’s succession plan might seem overly anxious. But third terms are the time when people start wondering openly about what comes after defeat slaps a once popular leader in the face. And Bennett’s name increasingly crops up as the woman who […]

Police in Counties Manukau detained three teens and arrested an armed 20 year-old man who was wanted on warrants for failing to appear in Court in May on a range of charges, including assaulting Police.

The Ngapuhi leader David Rankin has announced that plans are already well under way for Ngaphui to make a Treaty claim on the greater Auckland area. It comes just a day after the Maori King Tuheitia said that Tainui were also planning to make a claim ...

National’s indulgence for Maori separatism is leading to ever more ludicrous claims, this time Tainui for Auckland, which was announced by the Prime Minister himself, says New Zealand First Leader and Member of Parliament for Northland Rt Hon Winston ...

National’s scrambling beltway bureaucracy has inadvertently included animal feed crops such as hay and silage as “high hazards,” making pastoral farms high hazard by default.

Police are investigating the suspicious fire of the New Brighton Cricket Club Rooms At Rawhiti Domain overnight on 22 August 2015.

Stuff reports: A 27-year-old West Coast man has admitted filming while a cat was set alight and killed. Jason Dale Rowling says he was under the influence of drugs when the cat was killed at a Greymouth beach in May last year. He admitted the charged of wilfully ill-treating the cat by burning it, causing […]

Stuff reports: King Tuheitia has launched a claim for Auckland extending north to Mahurangi, down the Firth of Thames and across to the Manukau Harbour and to Piha. … Conflict with other Auckland tribes was likely but he said their relationship with the likes of Ngati Whatua would stand the test. “It’s always going to […]

Diane Foreman says women need help to be entrepreneurs, not a ministry of women’s affairs

With its proposed changes to Ley 20.000 (Law 20,000), Chile joins a growing list of Latin American countries decriminalizing marijuana. The initiative, which would grant Chileans the right to possess up to 10 grams of cannabis and grow up to six ...

1. Population growth from migration continues to break new records, with Statistics NZ confirming a net gain of nearly 60,000 people in the year to July. Is immigration good for all of us? Or is it putting pressure on our infrastructure and pushing up ...

Swiss federal prosecutors have opened criminal proceedings against two "entities" of the Malaysian state fund 1MDB and "unknown" third parties, the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Switzerland announced on Friday. The news was broken ...

The Government must keep scandal plagued outsourcing company Serco away from our state housing after their disastrous record running Mt Eden prison, Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford says.