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Sunday reading! I wanted to lead off the week with two important articles on migration. But first, here’s an amusing comment about technological progress:

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The Herald reports: Visitors arriving at New Zealand’s main tourism gateway could be greeted by the stench of rotting food waste once a new composting plant begins operating nearby, claim campaigners. But the company behind the plans says the expansion of its facilities will actually reduce odour discharge. Living Earth, a subsidiary of Chinese-owned Waste […]

Wellington.Scoop A man was killed in a car crash in Feilding early this morning. News from NZ Police Shortly after 3.00 am this morning Police, Fire and Ambulance staff responded to a single vehicle crash on Awahuri Fielding Road, Fielding. The driver and sole occupant, a 31-year-old Palmerston North man, was critically injured, and despite […]

For the next week I will be blogging from Antarctica, having just arrived at Scott Base on a United States Air Force Hercules. Technically it is night time here but of course there is no night – the sun doesn’t set for around three months. But we landed early evening. I’m here, along with the […]

Pacific Scoop: By Pacific Media Watch in Jakarta Although Thursday’s Jakarta attacks have been blamed on militants recruited by the Islamic State in Syria, with the international media blaming the bombings as an ISIL terror assault, other NGOs based in Indonesia have provided more insightful analysis that reflect the reality on the ground, reports Agence […]

AMSTERDAM (Greenpeace International/Pacific Media Watch): Greenpeace International has today named not only its first female international executive director, but two.

Jennifer Morgan and Bunny McDiarmid will take up the reins in an innovative co-leadership role on April 4.

Bunny is a 30-year veteran of the organisation as an activist, ship's crewmember, and most recently the executive director of Greenpeace New Zealand which, under her leadership, became a powerhouse of innovation in the Greenpeace world. Читать дальше...

The Herald reports: Andrew Kirton has been selected as the Labour Party’s new general secretary. Mr Kirton is a former adviser to Helen Clark and a former president of the New Zealand students’ union. So he’s come back to work for two other former NZUSA presidents. More recently, he was head of public affairs for […]

Stuff reports: Iran released 10 US sailors on Wednesday (Thursday NZ Time) after holding them overnight, bringing a swift end to an incident that had rattled nerves days ahead of the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had freed the sailors […]

As the Obama administration prepares to announce new federal policies on Friday that cut back on subsidies for companies that mine coal from federal lands, the reforms are “Welcome, long overdue and in the best interest of taxpayers,” said Tom Sanzillo, ...

Tate announced today that Frances Morris, Director of Collection, International Art, Tate, has been appointed the new Director of Tate Modern.

The Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (“ICD”), an arm of the Jeddah-based Islamic Development Bank, acted as the Lead Arranger.

Wellington.Scoop When will production be starting on James Cameron’s three sequels to Avatar? The Canadian-born, New Zealand based writer-director hasn’t yet announced a start date for production, which is expected to take place largely in Wellington this year. But he has talked about when the first sequel will be completed. Here’s what he told the […]

At 9.56am on Saturday 16th January 2015, Police were advised that persons were seen and the sounds of a firearm being discharged from an address in Norana Road, Timberlea, Upper Hutt.

Wellington.Scoop Police this morning seized a rifle after shooting was heard at an address in Upper Hutt. News from NZ Police At 9.56 this morning, Police were advised that persons were seen and there were sounds of a firearm being discharged from an address in Norana Road, Timberlea, Upper Hutt. Police went to the address […]

News from NZ Police A bomb threat was telephoned to the Police Emergency Line shortly before 4.00am this morning, saying that a bomb had been placed in a house bus occupied by an individual at the Maitai Motor Camp in Nelson and was due to explode 30 minutes later. Senior Sergeant Koefoed of Nelson Police […]

At approximately 9.10am on Saturday 16th January 2016, Emergency Services were alerted to a 48-year-old male who had crashed his paraglider into rocks approximately 1.5km south of Back Beach car-park, New Plymouth.

Children with sunken eyes and protruding bones, struggling to breathe; mothers watching haplessly as their children die in front of their eyes; this sad reality was not happening in Somalia or Ethiopia, but in a country that is the seventh atomic power ...

Stuff reports: A year after giving away the coordinates of Islamic State fighters on social media, the “bumbling jihadist” Mark John Taylor has apparently resurfaced online and is encouraging others to join him in Syria. According to a Linkedin profile purporting to come from the former New Zealand soldier, Taylor has been teaching English to […]

News from NZ Police A 48-year-old man was injured this morning after he crashed his paraglider into rocks approximately 1.5km south of the Back Beach car-park, New Plymouth. Emergency Services were alerted by a companion of the injured male who was nearby. Due to the location, the Taranaki Rescue Helicopter, Police Search and Rescue, Fire […]

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has just issued a statement warning that deeply worrying new trends are emerging in Burundi, including cases of sexual violence by security forces and a sharp increase in enforced disappearances ...

In this episode of Just Asia, AHRC TV reports from Sri Lanka where the police still appear to consider themselves above the law. Police officers in Embilipitiya killed a young man and authorities responded by simply re-locating the perpetrators to other ...

The undersigned organisations are calling on the international community to take immediate action regarding the continuous closure of the Tel Rumeida neighborhood and the part of Shuhada Street that has remained accessible to Palestinian residents ...

A bomb threat was telephoned to the Police Emergency Line shortly before 4.00am this morning threatening that a bomb had been placed in a house bus occupied by an individual at the Maitai Motor Camp in Nelson and was due to explode 30 minutes later. Senior ...

The Canterbury Police confirm they are investigating a report of a stabbing in Gloucester Street Linwood. At 6.50 am this morning (Saturday 16 January 2016) a man believed to be aged 46 years and living on his own was found lying outside his address in ...