Recently added articles from New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand):
Rugby needs a professional makeover<br/>WEEKEND WINNER<br/>WHAT TO WATCH<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... I TRIED to watch the Super 14 at the weekend _ I really tried hard _ but the lack of professionalism is a big turn-off. Never mind the confusion over the different varieties of rules and the different interpretations since the advent of the ELVs, the game would be vastly ...
Biology can be<br/>our trump card<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... T HERE is a television advertisement in which ``The Creator'' gives away resources and major enterprises such as oil, gold and car manufacturing to the countries of the earth in a game show that parodies the biblical Creation. Each item is given to the country representative who ...
Owners face appeals on repair deals<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... Owners of two big North Shore apartment complexes face Court of Appeal challenges on legal settlements over repair costs. In five months, the court will hear appeals on High Court decisions about the properties. They are the 12-unit Byron Ave apartments overlooking ...
At last an end to race-based politics<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... D EMOCRACY is alive and well in South Africa and while some may not like the democratic outcome of last week's elections, the people have spoken and Jacob Zuma will be the next President. The African National Congress did not quite get the two-thirds mandate to change the ...
$870,000<br/>to help<br/>software<br/>company<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... A boost in funding for technology company Author-it will be plugged into further developments of its content management software. The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology has invested $870,000 into the software company. Author-it has gone from start-up to ...
Breakers play in limbo<br/>with future uncertain.
Apr 26, 2009 ... The Breakers continue to operate in a holding pattern as uncertainty over their future in a revamped Australian league drags on. Basketball Australia (BA) remains tight-lipped over the composition of the new league, with a spokesman saying due diligence is still being done on ...
Shabby loss makes Blues' job much harder<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... It was disastrous, but not fatal. But the shabby loss to the Reds has made the Blues' task of reaching the Super 14 playoffs a lot more difficult. A flurry of 19 unanswered points for the Blues in the last 17 minutes obscured the scope of the defeat which was even more galling ...
Knockout<br/>ends Masoe<br/>title hopes<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... The New Zealand super middleweight boxer Maselino Masoe was knocked out yesterday during a fight for the WBO super middleweight title. Hungarian Karoly Balzsay put Masoe _ brother of former All Black Chris Masoe _ on the canvas in the 11th round of the 12-round fight in Germany ....
PROSTITUTION LAW<br/>Brothel ordered out of school neighbourhood<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... Auckland City Council has kicked out a brothel operating in an inner-city suburb. The brothel in Greenlane's Puriri Ave just one street from Cornwall Park School had been operating under the guise of a massage parlour. Residents became suspicious when they saw taxis ...
Goff thinks fresh face has winning edge<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... Labour leader Phil Goff says his party's bid to keep the Mt Albert seat in the coming byelection will be stronger with fresh faces. He made the comment yesterday after the eight Labour candidates vying for Labour selection this Sunday faced their first meeting with local ...
`Risk of revolution' as worker rage grows<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... PARIS _ A wave of ``boss-nappings'' and sit-ins by workers faced with losing their jobs has caught France's Government wrong-footed and left its trade union movement struggling to channel anger building on the factory floor. In seven weeks, executives at six firms, including the ...
Developer hopes to plant island draw for expat Lebanese<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... BEIRUT _ Mohammed Saleh is convinced: if he builds it, Lebanese expatriates will come. The Beirut-based developer envisions a 3.3sq km artificial island shaped like a cedar tree as an attraction off Lebanon's coast. The massive chunk of dredged seabed or transported ...
Robl drinks in Champagne comeback<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... Sydney jockey Peter Robl's comeback to the saddle scaled new heights on Saturday when he combined with Team Patinack to win the Champagne Stakes at Randwick. The victory of A$20-million colt Onemorenomore was the first group one win for trainer Jason Coyle, who was plucked from ...
Citigroup firm in NZ market<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... Citigroup won't be pulling out of the New Zealand market and is focusing on growth opportunities through exporters, New Zealand chief executive Mark Fitz-Gerald says. The wholesale bank, whose American owner was bailed out to the tune of US$45 billion ($78.67 billion) by the US ...
Restructuring is time to _ carefully _ plan port's future<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... T HE Government needs to act swiftly on the Auckland governance issue. There's plenty of turmoil around town at the moment and it will be good when the dust starts to settle. But we need to work out quickly how to handle the ``one city'' transition more positively. And to make ...
Ekstreme gives former jockey food for thought<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... Bryce Revell has, a number of times, proved how good he is at keeping his horses at peak through relatively tough campaigns. He has also proved in the past couple of decades how dieting is a swear word for him. The Taranaki horseman looks nothing like a former jockey ...
Headache mare eases trainer's pain<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... Racehorses can have all sorts of physical problems. When you add mental problems, horse trainers have nightmares. Opie Bosson gave a hand gesture as he went across the finish line in front on Veloce Bella in Saturday's $100,000 Travis Stakes at Te Rapa. ...
Israel's foreign minister shoots straight from hip<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... T HE great virtue of a maverick like Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is that there is none of the usual pussy-footing around. He says exactly what he thinks. In an interview last week with the Russian newspaper Moskovskiy Komsomolets, he said three quite interesting ...
z WORLD REPORT<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... Professor on the run A University of Georgia marketing professor suspected of shooting dead his ex-wife and two men outside a theatre near the campus in Athens disappeared in his Jeep after dropping his children off with a neighbour, authorities said. A US-wide manhunt was on last night ...
China concerns shape<br/>new paper on defence<br/>.
Apr 26, 2009 ... CANBERRA _ Australia is about to release a new defence white paper shaped by growing concerns about the rise of China and emerging threats to the nation's maritime approaches and trade routes. The white paper will confirm the need for the big spend-up already planned for new jet ...