Новости за 02.09.2015

As most of you are probably be aware, we’ve long suggested that we need to change our thinking about any future Waitemata Harbour Crossing. A $4-6 billion road tunnel and dramatically widened northern motorway which will only serve to flood the city centre with cars at a time when we’re trying to make it more pedestrian friendly.

Situation Report – 1 September 2015 UNRWA conducted humanitarian operations in Yalda today, providing vital healthcare to civilians displaced from Yarmouk and host communities. UNRWA medical personnel established a health point in Yalda, treating 330 patients over the course of the day. This included 9 suspected cases of typhoid and 1 case of scabies. As […]

Press Release – New Zealand Police Collaboration strengthens Pacific detector dog capability Six Fijian detector dog teams have completed their New Zealand training and graduated today in a ceremony at the NZ Police Dog Training centre in Trentham. Police and Customs staff in New …Collaboration strengthens Pacific detector dog capability Six Fijian detector dog teams […]

Press Release – It’s Not About Us (PR.co.nz) Its Not About Us is a small humanitarian organisation based in Alexandra, Central Otago. They have just completed their fourth project in Vanuatu providing water to those who were in desperate need following Cyclone Pam which caused widespread …Cyclone Pam Funds Spent (PR.co.nz) It’s Not About Us […]

Press Release – University of Otago A University of Otago-led research team has unexpectedly discovered the first evidence that the ancestors of Polynesians did not bypass New Guinea on their way from Southeast Asia to colonise remote areas of the Pacific, as was previously thought. Thursday 3 September 2015 Re-dated New Guinea pottery reveals early […]

Press Release – WorkSafe NZ Petone importer and manufacturer European Profile Company Limited has been fined $24,375 and ordered to pay reparation of $17,500 after a worker had four fingers amputated by a wood cutting machine while at work. European Profile Company Limited was sentenced and fined yesterday in the Hutt Valley District Court under […]

Press Release – Creative New Zealand Six senior artists from the Cook Islands specialising in heritage artforms will visit Aotearoa New Zealand next week as part of an annual Creative New Zealand cultural exchange programme with the Pacific Islands. The visit coincides with this years …Visiting Cook Islands heritage artists to share their knowledge and […]

The untimely death of Celia Lashlie in February robbed us of a powerful voice of reason and compassion – a voice that is arguably needed now even more than when her iconic book He’ll Be OK was first published in 2005.

Some good news today with AT and some of Auckland’s bus companies all confirming there will be 53 new double decker buses on the roads soon.

50 Māori graduates from around the country are set to graduate from six months of training, gaining skills and qualifications to support them into a wide range of trades-related careers.

Assigning school guidance counsellors to primary and intermediate schools would provide early intervention for children and families and help prevent some of the cases that end up with Child, Youth and Family (CYF), says a prominent school counsellor.

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PORT MORESBY (PNG Post-Courier/ Pacific Media Watch): The vice-chancellor of the University of Goroka, Dr Gairo Onagi, has been suspended and the appointment of the university governing council revoked.

The Minister for Higher Education, Research Science and Technology Malakai Tabar intervened "under such difficult situations, in order to minimise disruption to students, university staff and wider community".

RIPPA rugby is more than just sport for the Porirua’s Tairangi Typhoons. ALIA OVEREND talks to coach Lucho Arca

This is part three in a five part series of guest posts on the Christchurch rebuild from reader Brendon Harre. It first appeared on the Making Christchurch blog.

BANGKOK (International Federation of Journalists/ Pacific Media Watch): Thai journalist Chutima Sidasathian and Australian journalist Alan Morison have been acquitted of all criminal defamation charges from the Phuket Provincial Court, an act which is being heralded by regional journalism bodies as a victory for press freedom in Thailand.  

Olympic gold medalist James Sullivan takes time out of his job as a fire fighter to spend time with kids.

National organisation gets hands on with schools at regional sports event.

The Wellington Regional SportsFest has brought together schools which would not normally meet.

THE man who lit up Wellington’s 150th birthday is excited about the creative possibilities of the new polytechnic arts and performance centre on Cuba Street. Construction has just began following a ceremony led by Te Ati Awa iwi in late August. EMMA MOODY reports.

Corrections Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga today officially opened the refurbished Whanganui Community Corrections site. The $2.7 million refurbishment is part of a five-year nationwide renewal programme to make Community Corrections sites more secure ...

It is a pleasure to be part of the launch of the 2015 Children’s Health Stamp.

Sept. 2 (BusinessDesk) - Jin Yuan Finance, an Auckland-based foreign exchange trader, has been warned over its lack of anti-money laundering processes in place in the first public notification by the Department of Internal Affairs.

2 September 2015 Hunting out shady characters A three-strong team of specialist abseilers has been used by Waikato Regional Council to support landowners to clear around 100 woolly nightshade plants from a riverside area in Hamilton city. The work, involving ...

This blistering exuberant comedy is set in a world of rampant greed, fear and the reckless pursuit of deal making; The London Stock Exchange - 1987. There is Calculated Avarice and Takeover Bids, a murder whose investigator is consumed by their own craving ...

New Zealand earned $2.3 billion more from exports than we spent on imports during the year ended June 2015, Statistics New Zealand said today.