Новости за 17.10.2016

New Zealand is facing serious and unprecedented challenges around our water resources, from providing clean and safe drinking water to how we provide sustainable solutions for wastewater and storm waters.

Resident doctors are looking for the best possible outcome to their strike, hoping not only for safer hours, but to use their time to help and teach people.

Thank you for your reply of 16 October to our emails concerning the Women's Boat to Gaza.

The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal that a Wellington City Council party, held just weeks prior to the Council's elections to celebrate the signing of its new “sister city” agreement with Canberra, cost Wellington City ratepayers more than $51,000. ...

Bay of Plenty Regional Council has appointed an independent hearing panel to decide on rules to manage nutrients coming from land use and ensure the long term sustainability of Lake Rotorua’s water quality (proposed Plan change 10: Lake Rotorua Nutrient ...

Hāpai Te Hauora, the voice for community action on the Minimisation and Prevention of Gambling Harm, are calling for decision makers to ensure money is returned to those communities who are contributing the most to pokie machines revenue. This will ...

If it can be seen, it can be stolen. That’s the basic prevention message from Police in Southland. We’re reminding vehicle owners to keep valuables out of sight.

Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light(HWPL) has signed a memorandum of understanding(MOU) with the Aljazeera media network, one of the world's most respected news and current affairs channels, to achieve their common goals: the cessation of ...

Stuff reports: Europe is attempting to rein in milk production by its 52,000 dairy farmers with a scheme to pay them to not produce milk, and while the farmers have rushed to take it up, the success of the plan will not be known until early next year. The 150 million euro carrot – more […]

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Oct. 18 (BusinessDesk) - The US dollar fell, while Wall Street slid with the price of oil, as investors tried to gauge the timing of a Federal Reserve interest rate increase.

The Herald reports: The Tribal Huk’s war against P in Ngaruawahia appears to be off to a strong start with the gang claiming they have decommissioned 10 P houses. As of Saturday morning, the small Waikato town was P free, a gang source told Fairfax. … Pink said the deadline ended at 6.30pm on Friday […]

Last week, I wrote a piece explaining why I write for Transportblog and setting out some of the broader social goals that encourage us to spend unpaid volunteer time writing blog posts. An active and well-informed public conversation about policy issues is a vital bulwark for representative democracy – meaning that people have to participate [...]

Press Release – Pacific Islands Association of NGOs Suva – A peaceful end to the occupation of West Papua by Indonesia is a real possibility with the election of the United Nations next secretary general, Antonio Guterres last week says the Pacific Islands Association of NGOs.PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION NEW UN CHIEF INTEREST […]

Press Release – Pacific Islands Climate Outlook Forum The second Pacific Islands Climate Outlook Forum officially opened today with national, regional and international experts on climate services and disaster risk reduction present to explore common approaches and best practices for climate services that … JOINT MEDIA RELEASE: 17 October, 2016 Pacific Islands Climate Outlook Forum […]

Press Release – Amnesty International Today Amnesty International has released new research conducted by UMR on the attitudes of New Zealanders towards the human rights abuses happening to people held by the Australian Government in offshore detention centres. The results show that Kiwis …18 October 2016 Poll: 79% of Kiwis want PM John Key to […]

Killed At Work whanau group advocates KAWWS today expressed their grief and aroha for the families left behind after New Zealand's latest quadbike accident at Taharoa, near Waitomo, killed a teenage girl yesterday evening.

Early stage research projects, such as using New Zealand’s huge resource of health data to find out the impact of Canterbury earthquake damage on hospital admissions for cardiovascular disease, will be presented at a National Science Challenge symposium ...

A third medical school has been proposed for New Zealand at the University of Waikato.

Oct. 17 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar rose on expectations that dairy prices will gain at this week's GlobalDairyTrade auction, snapping two consecutive declines for the nation's biggest export commodity.

Southern Response Class Action (SRCA) is back in court on Wednesday seeking an order that their class action may proceed. The group of 40, accuses Southern Response (which is owned by the Government) of consistently delaying earthquake house repairs, and ...

Oct. 17 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister John Key will lead a trade delegation to India next week, saying the pursuit of a free trade agreement with the protectionist giant is "the primary reason we're going" but playing down the likelihood ...

Oct. 17 (BusinessDesk) - SkyCity Entertainment Group shares fell in response to the arrest of 18 staff employed by its Australian rival, Crown Resorts, by the Chinese government.

The University of Otago this week renewed an important Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira. The MoU was signed at a ceremony at the University of Otago Wellington by Te Taku Parai, chair of Te Rūnanga, Sir Matiu Rei, Te Rūnanga ...

The rising Hawke’s Bay commercial property market is achieving “stunning” results says Pat Turley, director of valuers and property strategists Turley & Co.