Новости за 13.08.2016

Stuff reports: Drysdale made his move in the third 500m, overtaking early pacesetter Martin as the pair left Ondrej Synek in their wake and battled for gold. The Kiwi, who won the same event in London four years ago, took an almost boat-length lead at one point before Martin pushed back and looked to have got over Drysdale […]

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Coach puts victory down to fitness and finding the gaps out wide

Education Stats Good to see most of the indicators heading in the right direction. Also good just to see more standardised data so we can see where the most support is needed. Tags: Education

PORT MORESBY (PNG Today/Pacific Media Watch): The United Nations in Papua New Guinea and the Media Council of PNG have announced that a week-long journalist training will be conducted by Thomson Reuters.

The course is expected to accommodate 15 "well-committed and motivated" journalists within Papua New Guinea for the training.

Presentation abstract:

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Stuff reports: An Indian man who was jailed for raping a 14-year-old girl will not be deported because life in his home country would be too hard. Oh diddums. I imagine life for the girl he raped is pretty tough also. In 2003 he arrived in New Zealand with his mother and siblings at the […]

Overseas readers wanted to know how New Zealand is filling its tech industry vacancies. Here is my story published earlier this year in London-based Computer Weekly.  Wellington is as far as you can fly from Heathrow before you start coming back. New Zealand’s capital is almost 19,000km and at least 24 hours away. The city […]

Wellington.Scoop The business case for Wellington City Council investment in the Movie Museum is to be discussed by councillors next Wednesday. They’ll be under pressure to spend more than the $135m that they approved for the building (below) to house a convention centre as well as the museum, opposite Te Papa. A new design for […]

Paula Bennett announced: New Zealanders are benefiting from the Government’s continued focus on front-line services and restraint of bureaucracy, State Services Minister Paula Bennett says. The latest report of the public sector cap shows a decrease of 190 to 35,917 full-time equivalent positions in the core public service compared to the previous year. Currently set […]

A great silver medal again to Valerie Adams in the shotput final. Her first throw of 19.79 metres got pipped out by Michelle Carter’s 2nd throw of 19.82 metres. Then Adams did a season best 20.42 metres on her second throw. Most other finalists are only in the 17 and 18 metre range. Her third throw of 19.80 […]

Tracy Watkins writes: As if national politics wasn’t brutal enough, Andrew Little has turned the Wellington mayoral campaign even uglier by verbally attacking a high profile candidate. Little has drawn a new battle line in the mayoral campaign by claiming one of the front runners, Nick Leggett, is a “right wing” candidate, backed by right […]

Audrey Young writes: There is increasing speculation that Jones will leave the diplomatic corps and stand for New Zealand First against National MP Shane Reti in Whangarei, an electorate in which New Zealand First has traditionally done well. I’ve heard this also. Reti got 56% of the vote and Paraone (NZF) got 8% so unlikely […]