Новости за 24.10.2015

Welcome back to Sunday reading. This week, we’re starting with a look at the law of unintended consequences. At Vox, Brad Plumer describes how “Europe’s love affair with diesel cars has been a disaster“:

Tags: General Debate

200 heads of state and/or government have been rated in order of hotness here. This is No 1 – Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan. He is aged 35. And at the bottom No 200 is Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader of North Korea. He is aged 32. No tag for this post.

Press Release – New Zealand Government Plant a seed today, for the future generation. That is the theme for Tokelau Language Week which begins today.Tokelau Language Week celebrated 25 October 2015 Plant a seed today, for the future generation. That is the theme for Tokelau Language Week which begins today. Pacific Peoples Minister Peseta Sam […]

Minister doesn’t know what’s happened to the estimated 160,000 patients who failed to get a specialist appointment after being referred by their GP but is now trying to find out Major work underway to count and understand what’s happened ...

Canterbury Police SAR have taken advantage of improving weather today (24 October 2015) to deploy a team to identify the item of interest located near the last known position of the FV Jubilee of the Canterbury coast.

AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Watch): Loss of language is still a major concern for Pacific communities. With another year of language week celebrations almost over, the Auckland University of Technology has produced a series of videos to promote the languages.

A guest post by Katy Hendrikse: Last week the Green Party decided, in their infinite wisdom, that because I am a woman I couldn’t possibly be capable of earning a place in cabinet on my own merit. I feel so lucky to have a big strong man like James Shaw there to look out for me, […]

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SUVA (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): Social media platforms such as Facebook are an increasingly prominent and popular means of social networking and political online engagement in Fiji.

An author at The Standard writes: 1981 marks the point where – for good reason at the time – the left ceded the idea of sport to National. We still begrudge it. We begrudge it even more than the flag debate. We hate it because it’s full of mean-old competition, winning and losing, and injuries. […]

At the national launch of the Young Farmer Contest, Deputy Chairman of Ravensdown Stuart Wright, paid tribute to all those who have entered, judged and supported the celebration of young farming over the years.

This week AHRC TV first turns to the Philippines, where civil society organisations, including the Asian Human Rights Commission, recently launched a campaign to stop military harassment and killings of Lumads, an indigenous group in Mindanao. Massive ...

South Korea / Hazardous substances: UN expert calls for stronger protections for people at high-risk

Using force will not stop the global migration crisis – UN experts call for smart mobility solutions

Wuhan, China ( ESCAP News ) – The 7th Annual Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forum (APTFF) concluded in Wuhan, China this week with a call for countries in the region to increase efforts to simplify and automate trade procedures and move towards paperless ...

Fatima Beyina-Moussa, CEO of ECAir, is coming to the end of her term in office

Children also have the right to freedom of religion or belief, and that must be protected

Sierra Nevada Corporation Selected for Phase Three Order to Aide Pilots in Degraded Visual Environments (DVE)

New Zealanders in Australia’s remote Christmas Island Detention Centre have spoken about the trauma of being locked up thousands of miles away from their families in a facility designed to house people considered to be a terrorism threat.

Jonathan Coleman owes an apology to tens of thousands of Kiwis who have been denied surgery assessments over the last five years, Labour’s Acting Health spokesperson David Clark says.

October 23, 2015 (Washington, DC) -- President Obama has re-authorized U.S. support for the African Union-led counter-LRA mission, Operation Observant Compass, for one additional year starting now.

WHEN & WHERE: * 11am gather at Washington Square Park, NYC * 1pm permitted march to the center of Manhattan * 3pm Closing Rally at Bryant Park

At about 10.54am, Saturday morning the 24th of October, Dunedin Emergency services were called to a light plane crash near Ocean View

The Daily Mail reports: In-flight television screens are to be axed from long-haul flights in and out of the UK with carriers streaming content to passengers’ mobile phones and tablets instead, it has emerged. WestJet, a low-cost airline which will launch transatlantic flights out of London’s Gatwick Airport next year, will be among the first […]

Red Cross says Nepal will continue to require international support for decades, six months after two earthquakes devastated the country.