Power, weather fears grow for quake-hit farmers NZ Herald 12:30 PM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink | Looming bad weather and a fear that electricity may be out for days is worrying Canterbury farmers in the wake of this morning's quake. | A release from Federated Farmers just issued said that electricity is now the major concern for do...
Tata Power-led consortium to set up 240-mw project in Indonesia The Times Of India MUMBAI: A consortium led by Tata Power, India’s largest private power utility, will develop a 240 mw-geothermal power project in Indonesia. Since the programme would involve building units of various sizes, the total cost of the project will range from `2,900 crore to `3,800 crore, according to a ...
The quiet king of trash bags Herald Tribune | WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- The New Zealand billionaire buying the U.S. maker of Hefty brand trash bags to create the world's second-biggest packaging business started out as a tow truck driver and bounced back from the brink of bankruptcy more than...
Nine killed in New Zealand tourist spot plane crash The Times Of India WELLINGTON: Nine people, including foreigners, were killed when a skydiving plane crashed and burst into flames at a popular New Zealand tourist spot on Saturday, police and media said. | The plane went down near the airstrip at Fox Glacier, a centra...
Christchurch quake: Power, weather fears grow for farmers NZ Herald Updated 1:40 PM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink | Looming bad weather and a fear that electricity may be out for days is worrying Canterbury farmers in the wake of this morning's quake. | A release from Federated Farmers just iss...
Power, weather fears grow for quake-hit farmers NZ Herald 12:30 PM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink | Looming bad weather and a fear that electricity may be out for days is worrying Canterbury farmers in the wake of this morning's quake. | A release from Federated Farmers just issued sai...
Shaken residents say quake damage huge NZ Herald 11:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | Shaken residents of Christchurch fear the damage from today's devastating earthquake today may have a far bigger impact than most realise. | As aftershocks from the 7.1 magnitude earthquake continued ...
The man who fooled everyone NZ Herald By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | Loizos Michaels liked to call himself "The Phantom". | It was part of his arrogance but also true. He only ever introduced himself as "Michael". No one knew his surname for a long time and even now ...
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Govt Leaves Liquor Marketing Untouched Scoop Monday, 30 August 2010, 2:02 pm | Press Release: Group Against Liquor Advertising | Govt Leaves Untouched The powerful Influence of Alcohol Marketing | GALA notes the Government...
Trade academy to chip away at labour drought NZ Herald By Nick Smith 5:30 AM Monday Aug 30, 2010 Email Print Expand Shrink | As many as 1000 extra forestry workers will be needed every year for the next 20 years, regardless of whether ...
Alcohol reforms: just another hospital pass? Scoop Friday, 27 August 2010, 8:40 am | Press Release: The Kiwi Party | Alcohol reforms. Real local community control or just another hospital pass? | The Kiwi Party | Press Release | 26...
Chin Hill runs from Hatfields to motorway NZ Herald By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | Chin Hill Estate, a 183.3ha Angus beef farm comprising all the rural land between Hatfields Beach and the new State Highway 1 motorway in Rodney District, is one of the biggest land blocks to come o...
Big is good when the rent's going up NZ Herald By 5:30 AM Saturday Sep 4, 2010 Share Email Print | The national support centre of Mitre 10 in Wairau Valley on Auckland's North Shore is up for sale, with rental growth set to match consumer price index figures next year. | Situated at 46-48 View Rd...
Ground beef outbreak puts focus on meat oversight Herald Tribune | ST. PAUL, Minn. - The first known U.S. outbreak linked to a rare strain of E. coli in ground beef is prompting a fresh look at tougher regulations to protect the nation's meat supply. AC = 1234 | --> | Three people in Maine and New York became ill ...
What now for Gulf? Fire complicates drill debate Herald Tribune | WASHINGTON - What now for the Gulf? News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwate...
'Magical' process turns one kiwifruit into 100 bioplastic utensils! Newstrack India | Wellington, Sept 3 (ANI): New Zealand researchers have performed a feat nothing less than magic, by converting one kiwifruit into 100 plastic spoons and sewage into electricity. | Scion, a Crown research institute in Rotorua, has developed te...
Gluckman: It is Hard to be a Teenager Scoop Friday, 3 September 2010, 2:38 pm | Speech: Liggins Institute | It is Hard to be a Teenager | Sir Peter Gluckman FRS | Keynote address to Alumni and Friends of The University of Auckland | Wellington 26 Aug 2010 | Being an adolescent now is very different from being one just one or two generations ago and we will not understand the teenage years if...