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Yesterday the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuits Centre (OPC) was fined by a court for unsafe practices which caused the death of seven people last year. See January 22nd 2009 Six students and a teacher from Elim Christian College were killed while
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Both Chinese and Korean people are celebrating the Lunar New Year. This is a three day festival for Koreans called Seollal. The Chinese New Year is the start of the Spring Festival. It finishes with the Lantern Festival 15 days later. For Chinese and
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When you arrive in New Zealand, people from Biosecurity check that do not bring any food with you. Because we are an island country, we try to keep out pests from other countries. We are not always successful though. Listen to September 25th 2008 for
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After the Job Conference in Auckland two weeks ago, (see February 27th 2009)the government has moved quickly to bring in a nine-day fortnight. The idea is for workers to take one day off every two weeks for training. This will help employers who do n
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The Green Party MP and co-leader, retired from Parliament today. She has been in Parliament for 13 years. She was elected as a list MP for the Alliance Party in the first MMP Parliament in 1996. At that time, the Greens were part of the Alliance Part
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Today, Western Samoa changed from driving on the right hand side of the road to the left hand side, just like New Zealand. American Samoa will continue to drive on the right hand side just like the USA. However, all the other Pacific Islands drive on
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The winners of the BAFTA (the British Academy of Film and Television Arts) awards on Sunday included the New Zealand company Weta Digital for the visual effects in the movie Avatar. Weta Digital used some of the worlds most powerful supercomputers to
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Last week, four New Zealanders won awards for this year. Each of them volunteered their time and skills to help others. It is hard to say only one thing about each of these people because they have all done so much. Sam Tutu Chapman won the Local Her
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While this website is concerned about New Zealand news, we are very close to Australia in distance, in economic matters and in culture. The population of New Zealand is just over 4 million but another 500,000 New Zealanders live in Australia. Many of
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Many New Zealanders got up early this morning to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama on the steps of the Capitol building in Washington DC. After the Vice President, Joe Biden, was sworn in, Barack Obama also took the oath. He put his hand on the
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The All Blacks beat the Australian Wallabies tonight and won the Bledisloe Cup. Lord Bledisloe, who was Governor General of New Zealand, gave this cup in 1931 for the winner of a rugby game between Australia and New Zealand. Now, the winner has to wi
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New Zealand workers have a holiday on Good Friday (yesterday) and Easter Monday. Easter is a Christian holiday to remember when Jesus Christ was killed on the cross and came back to life again. This is called the resurrection. Easter is a holy time a
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Yesterday, 25-year old Shaun Quincey arrived in New Zealand after rowing across the Tasman Sea from west to east. It took him 54 days. About 200 people were waiting on 90 Mile beach to welcome him around midday. He left Australia more than seven week
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The Prime Minister, John Key, will visit China from Wednesday until Saturday. This will be his second visit to China and shows that he believes relations between the two countries are very important. China is our second-largest trading country (Austr
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If you hear fireworks outside your house, its probably your neighbours celebrating Guy Fawkes night. Christchurch and possibly Wellington have had to postpone their public Fireworks shows because of heavy rain and wind but the weather looks better fo
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South Canterbury Finance company went into receivership this week. The company owes $1.6bn which is a huge sum of money. It was a sad day for the company which had worked hard to stop this from happening. There are a number of interesting things abou
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The 7th World Potato Conference was held in Christchurch this week. This is the first time it has been held in New Zealand. A large number of scientists from many different countries attended the conference. New Zealand is a good country to host a po
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Tomorrow is Valentines Day, a day for lovers. The celebration of Valentines Day is mostly an American and British custom but some New Zealanders also like to give cards, chocolates or flowers. Flower growers are happy to encourage this custom because
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Almost 20,000 football supporters came out in Wellington on Wednesday to celebrate the success of the New Zealand football team, the All Whites. The Wellington City Council organised a special parade for the team and the Prime Minister, John Key, was
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A 30 year old Samoan woman gave birth to a baby on a plane from Samoa to New Zealand. The baby was found by cleaners after the plane landed. It was in the toilet rubbish. The mother was found waiting at immigration because she had lost her passport.
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