Новости за 12.01.2016

NCEA Results a Time for Career Conversations And Future Planning About 170,000 students will be anxiously awaiting today’s online release of NCEA results. The results will be particularly important for school leavers, and Careers New Zealand says this ...

One of the main concerns I’ve seen raised about the idea of Light Rail to the airport has been the speed. In particular, that light rail is too slow in comparison to heavy rail, especially along the Dominion Rd section where it is also suggested it could also be held up by traffic. After I wrote about [...]

Press Release – Robert J. Burrowes It has been argued that nonviolent struggles to liberate occupied countries such as West Papua, Tibet, Palestine, Kanaky and Western Sahara have failed far more often than they have succeeded but that secessionist struggles (that have sought …The Struggle for Merdeka in West Papua Robert J. Burrowes It has […]

SUVA (Radio NZ international/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji's Media Industry Development Authority says media organisations should not publish or broadcast material in a form likely to promote discord, but are free to report matters of national interest.

12 JANUARY 2016 TPPA signing will be a historic farce New Zealand First is questioning why a farcical TPPA signing will take place just before Waitangi Day, when United States lawmakers are unlikely to vote on the TPP before November’s Presidential ...

The Government’s intention to introduce recreational fishing parks is an attempt to mask the fact it has left New Zealand huge Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) to be plundered by oil and gas and seabed mining interests, the Green Party said today.

Wellington Zoo helping to save Chimpanzees in Senegal Wellington Zoo Primate Keeper Esta Wilson-Burke is heading to Senegal for a month to work with the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) to save endangered wild chimpanzees with support from the Wellington ...

New Zealand public education will be seriously undermined once our government signs the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA).

New research from Massey University shows community water fluoridation remains cost effective, despite an overall reduction in the average number of decayed teeth in both fluoridated and non-fluoridated communities.

PORT MORESBY (ABC Pacific Beat/Pacific Media Watch): A senior police officer in Papua New Guinea's Enga province has used social media to combat sorcery-related violence by appearing with an alleged victim to demonstrate that he is alive and well.

ACT Leader David Seymour welcomes the Government’s proposal to pass a marine protection Act, with some reservations.

PARIS (Reporters Without Borders/Pacific Media Watch):  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Indonesian government’s refusal to let French journalist Cyril Payen visit Indonesia following the documentary he made about West Papua, the Indonesian half of the island of New Guinea, that France 24 broadcast last October.

Among the first to complete EIT’s pioneering primary teaching degree, Luke Rurawhe – like most of his classmates – is starting the new year with a job at a local school.

Māori smoking rates have barely changed since 2011, and the Government is not doing enough to address tobacco-related harm amongst Māori, say leading tobacco researchers and public health advocates.

The crowding of genes inside the nucleus of a cell affects the way they replicate, and how they are turned on and off, according to a study led by New Zealand’s Liggins Institute. The study is now published online in Scientific Reports, a journal from ...

In an effort to recognise the value of volunteer work in the rainbow community, the ASB Unity Network and RainbowYOUTH have teamed up to offer a $2,500 scholarship to one tertiary student for 2016, with a further $2,500 scholarship to be offered ...

A leading geologist and Antarctic climate researcher from the University of Cambridge will deliver two free public lectures at Victoria University of Wellington this week

Three New Zealand school students have created winning designs for exercise books that will be sold throughout the country to fund a new scholarship programme.

2015 was a dry, sunny year for New Zealand, but no hotter than average overall, according NIWA's annual climate summary.