Новости за 25.01.2016

Godwin Ligo
PORT VILA (Vanuatu Daily Post/Pacific Media Watch): For the first time in Vanuatu’s political history since 1980, three Kalsakau brothers from the same parents hailing from Ifira, Efate, have been elected MPs, according to provisional results.

Dunedin Police have arrested and charged a 29 year-old male after a fleeing driver incident in Dunedin this afternoon.

MARKET CLOSE: NZ shares rise with global markets; Xero, A2, Nuplex gain while Spark falls

News from allblacks.com The All Blacks Sevens team to play the third leg of the 2015/16 HSBC World Series, the Wellington Sevens, features one new cap in Rugby World Cup winning All Black Sonny Bill Williams. The side also sees the return of four Investec Super Rugby players who have pulled on the All Blacks […]

A new company plans to build a transpacific submarine cable. By now I have the hang of how this works: First, there’s a big announcement complete with a list of features showing the planned cable differs from the Southern Cross Cable Network. There is also an argument explaining why the new cable is essential. Beautiful […]

Jan. 25 (BusinessDesk) - The hunt for the tau fly continues in Auckland, with growers nervous about the potential impact on the $7 billion horticulture industry.

Stuff reports: A struggling solo mum in Blenheim is only $34 better off a week since she came off the benefit and got a job. The 48-year-old said Marlborough’s low wage economy meant it was harder for people to enter the workforce. The early childhood teacher, who worked 29 hours a week, earned $21.90 an […]

The media are once again going off on the topic of housing affordability, after the release of the latest report by Demographia saying that Auckland is one of the most unaffordable cities in the world.

Jan. 25 (BusinessDesk) - Views are split on the direction of the New Zealand dollar heading in to the Reserve Bank's review of interest rates on Thursday amid global market uncertainty.

Jan. 25 (BusinessDesk) - An Employment Court hearing has begun in Auckland over stalled negotiations between Talley’s-owned meat processor Affco and the Meat Workers Union on a return to work by 200 Wairoa freezing workers who have been out of work for ...

The Herald reports: Hundreds of Jetstar customers were stranded in Queenstown overnight after their flight was cancelled. Earlier today, a disgruntled Sam Collins emailed the New Zealand Herald to say his girlfriend, Rosie Shelton, was among more than 200 “irate” Jetstar passengers still at the airport, more than 24 hours after they were due to […]

AUCKLAND (Pacific Media Centre/Pacific Media Watch): An enterprising new media collaboration between a journalism school and an independent news organisation will take off on Thursday evening in a bid to bolster Asia Pacific news and analysis in New Zealand.

Jan. 25 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand export log prices jumped higher this month, as falling oil prices pushed down shipping rates while a decline in the kiwi dollar made the country's goods more attractive to overseas buyers.

Jennifer Eder
BLENHEIM, NZ (The Marlborough Express/Pacific Media Watch): An annual New Zealand protest has drawn a colourful crowd to the South Island province of Marlborough to protest against mass surveillance.

Stacey Kirk writes at Stuff: The value the Government places in New Zealand’s children will be judged by its appointment of the next Children’s Commissioner.  Umm, no. Not at all. The value the Government placed on children will be judged by the effectiveness of its policies that: reduce welfare dependency improve the education system improve […]

News from NZ Rugby There is a new category in the costume contest at the Wellington Sevens this weekend – competitors can battle it out for the Judges’ Choice, Best Superhero prize. The new category is one of six in the popular Costume Catwalk, sponsored by Chris Parkin in association with Wellington Sevens. The $15,000 […]

This truth has no place in the Australian consciousness. Among settler nations with indigenous populations, apart from a facile “apology” in 2008, only Australia has refused to come to terms with the shame of its colonial past, writes John Pilger.

News from Taxpayers’ Union The Taxpayers’ Union is calling for full disclosure by the Wellington City Council, after three of its councillors contradicted the Council’s Chief Executive about an apparent budget blow-out of the Council’s Island Bay Cycleway. According to councillors Paul Eagle, Nicola Young and Simon Woolf the cycleway, budgeted to cost $1.7million, has […]

Press Release Hamas As of today, the 33-year-old Palestinian journalist Mohammed Adeeb Al Qeiq enters his 61st day of hunger strike against his detention in Israeli prisons without trial or charge. Having begun his hunger strike on Wednesday, 25 November 2015, Al Qeiq was detained 4 days earlier, on Saturday 21st November 2015, when Israeli […]