Dangerous painkillers to stay on shelves.
Source: The Dominion Post.
New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Islands ::: A News Blog ::: est 2004
The Black Caps are being urged to pull out of this winter's cricket tour to Zimbabwe. Greens co-leader Rod Donald has written to the players, asking them to walk - before the umpire gives the tour out. He says the players should withdraw on moral grounds, given the human rights atrocities he says surrounded last month's election. Black Caps captain Stephen Fleming says he is yet to receive the letter. Fleming says Snedden will make a decision which is in the best interests of the team, and a decision on whether the Black Caps will tour Zimbabwe this winter will be made on safety rather than moral issues.
Auckland Regional Council is facing potential losses of nearly $1 million after only selling half the corporate seats for Ericsson Stadium’s new grandstand. Despite an extensive marketing campaign, just 50 per cent of the 1000 corporate seats at the council-owned East Stand at Ericsson have been sold for the 2005 Warriors season. The stand cost about $23 million to build, with the loan to be paid back from sponsorships, stadium use fees and ticket sales.
Source: APN Holdings NZ Ltd
Immigration Minister Paul Swain is signalling changes in the way immigration fraud is handled, following revelations fake degrees, sham marriages and bogus job offers are being sold to Asian migrants.
A Herald on Sunday special investigation last week uncovered widespread academic and immigration fraud, the details of which have now been passed on to police. Mr Swain is promising tougher laws, more investigators and a new "immigration czar". A two-week investigation found the Chinese community was being offered an easy way into New Zealand through buying university degrees, marriages and fake "jobs".
Source: APN Holdings NZ Ltd
Fat, lazy and increasingly unhealthy. That’s the worrying picture being painted of Aucklanders - now dubbed the laziest people in the country. New research shows that, apart from 16 and 17-year-olds, activity levels for Aucklanders are below the national average. The most worrying figures relate to the Pacific Island population, where 51 per cent of young Polynesians are "active" for less than 2.5 hours per week - while 23 per cent do no physical exercise at all. There are similar figures for the Asian population.
Source: APN Holdings NZ Ltd
A huge fire has destroyed a Foodstuffs warehouse in Auckland overnight. More than 20 appliances were called in to deal with the blaze at Davis Trading’s premises in Carbine Road, in Mt Wellington.
Source: APN Holdings NZ Ltd
The world's biggest real estate franchiser and hotel operator is poised to open four new tourist resorts here after taking over part of a Rotorua resort two months ago. Timeshare operator Trendwest South Pacific, part of the New York Stock Exchange-listed Cendant Corp, is planning to build resorts at Waipu Cove in Northland, Pauanui on the Coromandel and at Queenstown. It hopes they will open within 18 months. In a fourth deal, it has a management agreement with The Residence at Lake Tekapo, a resort under construction and due to open later this year.
Source: APN Holdings NZ Ltd
PRETORIA: The Bulls produced 80 minutes of intense rugby to down The Crusaders 35 to 20 in their Super 12 match in Pretoria on Sunday.
The curiosity of a huge stuffed kakapo being sold by the New Zealand High Commission in London began with a cultural question mark and ended with queries over misleading advertising. The kakapo - a 60cm 19th century bird which sold last month for about £ 9000 ($23,700) - mentioned the New Zealand High Commission in London in the promotional catalogue.It was promoted by London antique dealer Finch & Co.That raised questions with Maori Party cultural affairs spokeswoman Atareta Poananga who said such "taonga", or treasures, should not be used for profiteering.
The auditor-general has decided to investigate Health Ministry contracts worth more than $1 million that were awarded uncontested to two former employees.The announcement yesterday – in response to a Dominion Post report last week giving details of 21 untendered contracts – coincided with Health Minister Annette King's release of a report showing 18 other untendered contracts were awarded to Wellington policy and regulations consultants Allen and Clarke.The company is owned by former Health Ministry employees Matthew Allen and David Clarke.
Western Bay of Plenty Maori are seeking cash-rich Chinese partners to back a range of million-dollar aquaculture schemes. Ngati Ranginui chairman Brian Kawe and deputy Alf McCausland will present the joint venture proposals during a sister city visit to Yantai in Shandong province next week. "We want to get some of our initiatives moving by setting up partnerships and attracting capital and technical expertise from China," said Mr McCausland.
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