Новости за 25.08.2018

Report from RNZ Police are searching for a man who witnesses say jumped off a Lower Hutt bridge after crashing his car in the early hours of this morning. The single-vehicle crash happened at 12:40am on the Kennedy Good Bridge in Avalon. A helicopter was brought in to help look for the man along the […]

Press Release – Greater Wellington Regional Council Regional Council chair Chris Laidlaw has thanked the people who attended the meeting at St Patrick’s College in Kilbirnie on Sunday afternoon to share their experiences of the new Wellington bus network. About 300 people turned up at the meeting chaired by Rongotai MP Paul Eagle to express […]

Stuff reports: The mother of a murdered three-year-old girl said she could not hold back the tears after hearing about a Māori woman saying Europeans could not know what it was like to be victims of crime at the Government’s criminal justice summit. In 1997 Luke Frederick Sibley – then 18 – suffocated and strangled Brittany Crothall, 3, while she […]

News from NZ Police Police are appealing for sightings of Kris Clark, aged 41, who has been reported missing by his family. Kris is from Lower Hutt and was last seen at 9am on Friday morning. He is believed to be driving a black Chrysler Voyager, registration CBQ857. Police have concerns for Kris’ wellbeing and […]

News from NZ Police A man has died following a crash involving a single vehicle on Cemetery Road in Sanson. Police were called at 4.05am. The man who died was the front seat passenger of the car. The driver received moderate injuries and was taken to hospital. The Serious Crash Unit is investigating.

News from WCC Beervana – one of the events in the annual Visa Wellington on a Plate festival – exceeded attendance expectations this year. “More than 16,000 tickets were sold – 50.1 percent to people outside Wellington city,” says Festival Director Sarah Meikle. They tasted the wares from more than 50 brewers, who brewed more […]

By Jessica Savike
SUVA (Fiji Times/Asia Pacific Report/Pacific Media Watch): Fiji High Court judge Justice Vinsent Perera has ordered a retrial of former opposition SODELPA parliamentarian Mosese Bulitavu and Fiji United Freedom Party president Jagath Karunaratne in a case of alleged sedition over political graffiti.

Hikurangi Cannabis has become the first New Zealand company to secure a license to cultivate medicinal cannabis plants.

Rebel violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is escalating inside the vast country’s Ebola-hit North Kivu province, putting millions at risk, the United Nations refugee agency warned on Friday. “Thousands of civilians have fled ...

Significant progress has been made in protecting hundreds of thousands Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh in the 12 months since they fled violence in Myanmar, but lives “will once again be at risk” if funding is not urgently secured, UN officials ...

New Zealand Nurses Organisation lashes out at critics on social media By Tom Peters (original url http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/08/24/nzno-a24.html ) On August 22, the New Zealand Nurses Organisation’s (NZNO) Board posted a statement on its ...

Shayn Wills and the Swamp Diggers At The Thirsty Dog 469 Karangahape Road Newton Auckland Time 8pm – 11 pm Date Saturday the 8th of September 2018 door charge $20.00 On 8th of September 2018 Shayn Wills and the Swamp Diggers reunite for one night ...

Nestled between a car repair shop and a storage unit in Mount Roskill stands a humble shed where 15 or so kids come together every week to learn from and be inspired by some of New Zealand's high achieving musicians. Established in 2015, the Central ...

Stuff reports: Thousands of science fiction and fantasy enthusiasts are set to transform Wellington into a sci-fi metropolis. The capital has been selected to host the 78th World Science Fiction Convention in 2020, an event that celebrates all aspects of the science fiction and fantasy genres. It will be the first time that New Zealand has hosted the event, which will feature Game of […]

Trevor Mallard, Speaker of the House, has called off the inquiry into the source of the leak of National Party travel and accommodation expenses that was to have been undertaken by Michael Heron QC.

At about 8.20pm last night (Friday 24 August), one male offender entered the Challenge service station on Blighs Road armed with a claw hammer [pictured].

• US Ambassador Scott Brown says it is "politics as usual" in Washington - and the events of the last week do not spell a crisis for the administration. "You have people who will still support him, regardless, and people who will never support ...

Stuff reports: The Government is stripping public service bosses of their performance bonuses, a move it expects will help save the country $4 million. State Services Minister Chris Hipkins announced the end to performance pay on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a year-long freeze on MPs’ salaries. Until now public service chief executive remuneration […]

• Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis admits the original 360 rapid build prison units commissioned by the previous government to be ready for use in February this year are "still under construction". • Mr Davis says he is "entirely ...

UN agency chiefs condemn Saudi-coalition led air strike that killed dozens in western Yemen

Central America: drought, resulting crop losses threaten food security of two million people, UN warns

We need to let know of an exciting concert that includes a Southern Hemisphere premiere and a fabulous selection of NZ compositions coming up on Sun 9th September in the magnificent space of St Benedict’s Church in Newton, Auckland.

Botswana minorities need boost in education and health care, says UN expert urging Bill of Rights

The winners of the New Zealand Institute of Building Charitable Trust’s (NZIOB Charitable Trust) 2018 Scholarship Awards were announced last night at the NZIOB Awards of Excellent dinner in Auckland.

University of Otago scientist Dr Andrew Das has won the Roche Translational Cancer Research Fellowship to further his work as part of a research team investigating the role of epigenetics in leukaemia.