Новости за 05.05.2016

Auckland City Police are advising motorists not to pay window washers and to stay in their cars if approached, following an incident in Greenlane last night.

Police advise that they are at the scene of a truck v truck crash on the Mangawhero Bridge, SH27, 7 km south of Matamata. One driver has died, the other driver has minor injuries.

The NZDUSD opens at 0.6880 (mid-rate) this morning. The NZD is relatively unchanged from yesterday’s open in quiet trading overnight.

Legislation paving the way for a two-stage transition of Environment Canterbury back to an elected council passed its third reading in Parliament today.

A Bill to make minor technical changes to New Zealand’s alcohol legislation has passed its first reading in Parliament with unanimous support. “Since the passing of the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act in 2012, we’re already seeing fewer alcohol ...

Trade Minister Todd McClay has welcomed the Waitangi Tribunal’s Report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement which found no breach of the Treaty of Waitangi.

‘The substance of the Waitangi Tribunal’s report on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), vindicates the claimants’ concerns, especially about foreign investors’ special rights under the Agreement. But in the end pragmatism held sway ...

A contradictory report released by the Waitangi Tribunal, following an urgent hearing into the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), has upheld virtually all of the claimants concerns about the potential risks to Maori yet concluded that the ...

The Treaty of Waitangi clause in the TPPA should ‘provide a reasonable degree of protection to Māori interests’, the Waitangi Tribunal has found.

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May 6 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street was mixed as a report showing that more Americans than expected filed for jobless benefits ahead of the government’s monthly jobs data offset gains in the price of oil.

The government want to increase the currently dismal uptake of electric vehicles, increasing the numbers on our roads from about 1,200 to 64,000 in just 5 years. To do that yesterday they announced a package to encourage more people to buy an electric car. Most of the initiatives, such as extending the Road User Charges exemption on [...]

An interesting article in the Herald: The tiny Waikato town of Kerepehi once resembled one of those semi-deserted rural communities unkindly referred to as “zombie towns”. The dairy factory had long ceased operations, the War Memorial Hall and domain were seldom used and a close-knit rural community – which proudly sent 15 soldiers to World […]

News from NZIFF The New Zealand International Film Festival has this week revealed the first five films of its 2016 programme, which will begin in Wellington on 22 July. “We’ve chosen to reveal these five films first because audiences have been requesting them ever since they appeared overseas, or in the case of High-Rise, ever […]

News from WCC Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown is proposing a formal sister city relationship between Wellington and the Australian capital. Councillors will consider the issue at the next full Council meeting on 11 May. Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Andrew Barr is ready to sign the deal when he visits Wellington in early July. The […]

Press Release – Office of the Clerk 1. RON MARK (Deputy LeaderNZ First) to the Minister for Land Information : Why is her Government planning to hike Overseas Investment Office application fees?1. RON MARK (Deputy Leader—NZ First) to the Minister for Land Information: Why is her Government planning to hike Overseas Investment Office application fees? […]

Press Release – Hutt City Council Two of Hutt City Council’s newest building projects have won awards from the New Zealand Institute of Architects. The $12 million Walter Nash Centre in Taita is a winner of the NZIA Wellington Branch Award for Public Architecture, while the new ANZAC bus shelter outside the War Memorial Library […]

Press Release – University of Canterbury A University of Canterbury student who is a practicing pharmacist and self-confessed public health fanatic has been awarded the 2016 New Zealand Science Journalism Fellowship.A University of Canterbury student who is a practicing pharmacist and self-confessed “public health fanatic” has been awarded the 2016 New Zealand Science Journalism Fellowship. […]

Press Release – Australian Government Agreed statement about the Department of Immigration and Border Protections direction to Save the Children Australia to remove 10 employees from work in NauruAgreed statement about the Department of Immigration and Border Protection’s direction to Save the Children Australia to remove 10 employees from work in Nauru 06-05-2016 – On […]

Press Release – Greater Wellington Regional Council Three new dog poo bins are now available at Onehunga Bay in Whitireia Park. “Park users told us they love the fact the park provides them with many opportunities for dog walking and supporting this was the need for people to be able to get rid of their […]

Qassam Four Palestinian citizens were injured on Thursday at dawn after Israeli warplanes launched several airstrikes on different Palestinian targets across the Gaza Strip. Local sources said that an elderly Palestinian and three children was injured in the Israeli airstrikes in the center and north of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Ministry of Health confirmed […]

Al Qassam Press Statement Ezzedeen Al Qassam Brigades stressed that it will not allow the Israeli occupation to continue its aggression on the Gaza Strip. The Brigades said in a statement issued on Wednesday evening that the Palestinian resistance considers the Israeli incursion, which has been going on since Tuesday morning, a clear violation of […]

Hamas Press Statement Taher Al-Nono, adviser to the Deputy Chairman of Hamas political bureau Ismail Haniya, has categorically denied fabricated statements published on Breitbart News Network and attributed to him. Al-Nono denied making any statements to the Breitbart news outlets regarding the UK Labour Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn. “The website that ran this […]

Press Release – Simon Matafai Established in 1964, the Grey Lynn Samoan Methodist Church was the first Samoan Methodist parish in New Zealand outside of Samoa and American Samoa. The Samoan Methodist movement later expanded to the rest of New Zealand, Australia and across the globe.First Samoan Methodist Church in NZ Releases Debut Cd Album; […]

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SUVA (The Fiji Times/Pacific Media Watch): As long as the Media Decree is in place, Fiji cannot say it has press freedom, says opposition National Federation Party leader Professor Biman Prasad.