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1:
Why
Not Just Genetically Engineer Women For
Milk?
MAdGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering in Food and the Environment) today launched a highly controversial billboard campaign in Auckland and Wellington to provoke public debate about the social and cultural ethics of genetic engineering in New Zealand.
2:
Images:
Lord Of The Rings Exhibition At Te
Papa
In anticipation of the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the central instalment in writer/director/producer Peter Jackson's epic trilogy based on the J.R.R. Tolkien masterpiece, Te Papa proudly announces a world exclusive and a bold ...
Mehr News Agency reports U.S. forces have unloaded a large cargo of parts for constructing long-range missiles and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the southern ports of Iraq.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
UN
& Myanmar Strike Deal Possible Refugee
Returns
The United Nations refugee agency has reached an agreement with Myanmar's Government to begin measures to create the necessary conditions in the country's east to allow the large-scale return of refugees from neighbouring Thailand.
5:
Syria:
Punished for using the
internet
Syria: Punished for using the internet - Amnesty International calls for an end to the suppression of the right to freedom of expression
6:
Ex-Liberia
Leader Charles Taylor's Assets
Frozen
The United Nations Security Council today ordered all governments to freeze the assets of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor and his immediate family and barred them from using "misappropriated funds and property" to obstruct the restoration ...
7:
Scoop
Images: Red Bull Flugtag On The
Waterfront
Red Bull New Zealand's Flugtag – or 'Flying Day' – was held yesterday on the Wellington waterfront. Scoop's David McLellan was present to record the thrills, spills, ditchings and dunkings….
8:
PM
should face contempt of court charge
The Attorney-General should consider the Prime Minister's critical comments of Judge Wickliffe as a contempt of court, says National's Justice Spokesman Richard Worth.
1. There is so far no indication of any deaths or injuries involving New Zealanders.
10:
Rattled
PM looks to change the rules
"Labour is so desperate to take the attention off its own internal tensions that Helen Clark now admits she may change the rules to suit herself," says National Party Treaty and Constitutional spokesman Dr Wayne Mapp.
11:
Employers
penalised for hiring non-Maori
National Party Social Services spokeswoman Katherine Rich says if Labour was serious about targeting need it would act immediately to review a Work and Income scheme that penalises employers for hiring non-Maori.
12:
Cuban
Visitor to Christchurch
A Cuban response to escalating threats against Cuba from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush will be presented in a series of public meetings throughout New Zealand in late March.
13:
GPJA
#55: Global Antiwar Action Sat March
20
This Saturday, March 20, is an international day of action against war and occupation. In Auckland we meet at 12 noon at the bottom of Queen St
14:
Auckland's
Sheraton Rebranded the Langham
Hotel
Hong Kong, 15th March 2004 ----- Sheraton Auckland Hotel and Towers, the first five-star hotel of its kind operated by an international chain in New Zealand, will be renamed on 1 January, 2005, the Langham Hotel, Auckland.
15:
Minister
must explain the wasted
millions
"Fee paying students must call on Tertiary Education Minister Steve Maharey to explain how he spent $15 million last year on radio sing-a-long studies," says National Party Education spokesman Bill English.
16:
Dunedin
Bishop announces retirement
The Anglican Bishop of Dunedin, the Right Reverend Dr Penny Jamieson, has announced her retirement from the end of this June.
17:
WHO:
Potential Highly Lethal Flu Pandemic
Looms
Warning that a highly lethal human flu pandemic could occur at any time despite recent measures taken against a bird flu outbreak in Asia, the United Nations health agency announced today that it will bring together more than 100 health experts in Geneva ...
18:
ACT's
The Letter - Monday 15 March
2004
The Labour caucus split must be wide when the answer is a royal commission. The last time Labour proposed a royal commission was when the caucus was split over proportional representation and divided over social welfare.
19:
Two
arrests at Wellington GE Food
Action
2 GE Free campaigners were arrested during a GE Food education exercise at an inner city Wellington supermarket yesterday.
The United States vehemently condemns the outrageous and appalling terrorist attacks that took place in Madrid today. I offer deepest condolences to the families of the victims and to the people of Spain. In my telephone call with Foreign Minister Palacio ...
21:
NZ
students learn from Hubble
graphics
President George Bush's decision to not maintain the Hubble Telescope has generated opposition as far away as Wellington New Zealand.
22:
A
Chance To Meet Mary-Kate And Ashley In
LA
The ZM radio network in association with the mary-kateandashley brand is searching for New Zealand's biggest Mary-Kate and Ashley fan! The winner and two companions will get to meet the most famous teenagers on the planet in their home city, Los ...
23:
Cullen:
Address to Labour Party
Conference
We are now a little over half way through our second term in government since the MMP electoral system came into force. It is clear that the second half of this term is going to prove a little more testing of our capacities than the first has been.
24:
Tariana
Turia not intending to
resign
Tariana Turia says she remains committed to representing her constituents as best she can, and that is what they have asked her to do.
25:
10,000
Sudanese Refugees Relocated To Safe
Camps
As sometimes-fatal militia attacks continue along the desolate border between Chad and Sudan, the United Nations refugee agency has relocated more than 10,000 Sudanese refugees further inland.
26:
Emirates
Skycargo Looking To A380
Freighters
Emirates SkyCargo is looking forward to adding momentum to its rapidly expanding airfreight capability with its order for two freighter versions of the giant, double-deck Airbus A380 aircraft, which will be able to carry over 30 tonnes more than current ...
27:
Middle
East Parties Urged To Implement Road
Map
Given the urgent need to stem the cycle of violence in the Middle East and achieve a just and lasting settlement, the parties to the conflict must implement the Road Map plan for a two-State solution, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said ...
28:
Tom
Ridge Talks Homeland Security In
Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand -- U.S. Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge said Friday (March 12) he "would not" keep his job if John Kerry becomes president, but the Department of Homeland Security would be a permanent apparatus to crush terrorism no matter ...
29:
Public
Address 15/03/04 - Prime
Communications
The stories of the so-called Guantanamo Five - the five Britons returned to their home country after two years at Camp X-Ray last week - haven't been big news here, but they make for extremely disturbing reading...
30:
Government
to review infringement system
A comprehensive review of the infringement system will be undertaken this year despite recent increases in the number of unpaid fines being collected, Courts Minister Rick Barker announced today. "Over recent years both the rate of collection, and ...
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Gordon Campbell: On The Coalition’s Awful, Not Good, Very Bad Poll Results
Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee