Dargaville couldn't be further from the Beehive, where revelations of Exclusive Brethren political lobbying and espionage are fuelling Parliament's running dog-fight.
Lebanon is making speedy progress towards recovery after the destructive conflict between Israel and Hizbollah this summer and humanitarian agencies are preparing to close down or transfer their activities to relevant Government authorities or development agencies, the United Nations officials reported today.
Pioneering South Auckland based engineered solutions company Flotech are now at the forefront of the global commercialization of Biogas following their latest international deal to deliver on a significant public project in Madrid, Spain.
The stories coming out of the annual PPTA conference are horrendous: overcrowded classrooms are often war zones where drugs are dealt and assaults on persons and property are commonplace. Teachers blame the parents. Parents blame the teachers.
National Party Industrial Relations spokesman Wayne Mapp say the Labour Government should take note of a business survey expressing serious concerns about employment-related compliance costs for small and medium businesses.
According to the Institute of Chartered Accountants, unions, business and government need to work together to reduce business compliance costs. The Institute's director of government relations, David Pickens, said that the issue isn't as simple as a need for more or less regulation.
[Middle East News Service comment: When Ynet had an Arabic version it had an official policy of ensuring that the Arabic reader got to read what the Hebrew readers were getting. This went down to the level of re-translating Yasser Arafat’s speeches back to Arabic rather than using the original.
The Girl Scouts-Prairie Winds Inc. council is kicking off the 2006-2007 school year with its annual fall product sale, which counts as a service project activity for Brownie, Junior and Teen Girl Scouts and is designed to help Girl Scouts earn money at the beginning of the program year.
The latest figures from the Property Council of New Zealand’s Investment Performance Index survey show commercial property investors receiving an average return of 17.88% in the year to June 2006, at a similar level to the 18.10% investors earned on average for the previous year.
Trans-Tasman harmonisation of regulation should not be pursued for its own sake. If New Zealand and Australia both strive for the best regulatory policies, that will produce natural convergence.