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New Zealand Drivers At Risk Of Sun Damage

Monday, 18 January 2010, 3:10 pm | NZPA

According to Oasis Beauty NZ, one of New Zealand’s up and coming health and beauty companies, car drivers who do not apply sunscreen before getting behind the wheel are in danger of developing wrinkles, melanomas, pigment changes and other conditions ... More >>

Community Gaming: Big not always better

Monday, 21 December 2009, 12:35 pm | NZPA

Recent revelations about the behaviour and activities of some of the biggest Class 4 gambling trusts proves the point that big is not always better the Chairman of the Community Gaming Association, John Burke, said today. More >>

Conference on Value of Sports News

Monday, 21 December 2009, 11:19 am | NZPA

Nicola Speroni, the Marketing Manager at La Gazzetta dello Sport, has joined the programme of ‘Using Sports News to Optimise your Revenues’, an international conference dedicated to helping newspapers better exploit the value of their sports ... More >>

Acousto-Magnetic (AM) Anti-Theft Labels

Monday, 7 December 2009, 2:21 pm | NZPA

ADT Security Services today announced a major victory in a patent lawsuit in China against ZhenTai Science & Technology Company. ZhenTai was found liable for infringing upon ADT's industry-leading Sensormatic anti-theft Ultra.Max label technology. The ... More >>

Documentary makers ask Chris Short to come down

Friday, 28 August 2009, 11:16 am | NZPA

Clyde and Steve Graf, who produced the 1080 documentary “Poisoning Paradise”, are urging Chris Short to come down off the mountain, and return to his family where he can be warm and safe. "We applaud Chris on his stand against 1080, and his support ... More >>

Suckers! It’s a record already!

Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 5:32 pm | NZPA

This Friday’s Big Latch On has already broken records with 170 breastfeeding mothers and their babies registered to latch on at Hoyts cinema at Sylvia Park on Friday. ‘This is the biggest number of women who have ever got together in one place to ... More >>

Techtonics to transform Labour’s management

Tuesday, 4 August 2009, 10:35 am | NZPA

New Zealand-owned information and infrastructure management firm Techtonics has been appointed as the provider of the Department of Labour’s electronic document and records management solution (EDRMS), providing it functionality to improve systems ... More >>

BLIS Technologies achieves momentum in key markets

Friday, 31 July 2009, 3:04 pm | NZPA

Improving sales and expansion of its customer base are just some of the reasons why Dunedin based biotech and health products manufacturer, BLIS Technologies Ltd (NZX:BLT) believe their turnaround strategy, which started in 2007, remains firmly on track. More >>

Kiwi tradesmen line up to work in Paris

Friday, 31 July 2009, 10:03 am | NZPA

Since listing a job on Builderscrack.co.nz seeking Kiwi tradesmen to renovate her 3 storey house near Paris, NZ expat Pauline Hampshire has been overwhelmed by the amount of interest she has had. “Renovating my house in Paris is something I had ... More >>

Lumino Urges Kiwis To Think About Oral Health

Friday, 24 July 2009, 3:18 pm | NZPA

New Zealanders are storing up trouble by pushing concerns about their oral health to the back of their minds according to the country’s only national provider, Lumino The Dentists. The company’s latest initiative to get people to think ... More >>

Windows Live Messenger blows out 10 candles

Friday, 24 July 2009, 2:54 pm | NZPA

Auckland, 24 July 2009 – While the popularity of text messaging fatigues thumbs worldwide, instant messaging keeps fingers almost as busy, with more than half a million Kiwis sending an average of nine million instant messages per day, or nearly ... More >>

Eyede And Ptc Unite To Form New Entity

Monday, 13 July 2009, 3:32 pm | NZPA

Eyede Ltd and PTC Enterprises today announced that the two organisations have joined together to form Eyede NZ as of the 1st July 2009. Wellington based Eyede Ltd and Auckland based PTC Enterprises have combined their individual commercial strengths ... More >>

Otis Products for Projects Across China

Wednesday, 8 July 2009, 3:05 pm | NZPA

Otis Elevator Company's joint venture Xizi Otis has secured a new contract from Longfor. Properties, a leading real estate developer in China. Xizi Otis will deliver and install 442 elevators and 10 escalators for residential and commercial projects in ... More >>

NZPA Selects DTI Content Publisher

Wednesday, 20 May 2009, 9:27 am | NZPA

Pacific Region’s Oldest News Agency Updates Technology To Deliver Multimedia Content To Multiple Channels More >>

Ginger Nut Jumping Into Record Books

Friday, 15 August 2008, 10:39 am | NZPA

Mike Heard, long suffering ginga and Bungy Jumping nut, steps off the AJ Hackett Bungy pod from beneath the Auckland Harbour Bridge at 6:05am this morning in his attempt to Bungy into the Guinness World Records™. More >>

NZPA Restructuring Confirmed

Saturday, 21 June 2008, 10:56 am | NZPA

Chairman Michael Muir announced today that the NZPA Board had considered feedback received from staff and the union representing journalists to a proposal made 3 June. More >>

NZPA Review

Wednesday, 4 June 2008, 3:09 pm | NZPA

The New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) is proposing to streamline its news gathering operations by reducing staff and other costs and investing in new technology. More >>

Lighting Up the Lives of Children With Cancer

Friday, 7 December 2007, 12:26 am | NZPA

07/12/07 -- New Zealanders are being asked to help light up the lives of child cancer patients this holiday season with a special Christmas Joy Drive. More >>

NZ’s No 1 Triathlete Bevan Docherty Returns Home

Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 4:49 pm | NZPA

New Zealand’s No 1 Triathlete Bevan Docherty is coming home for a well earned break and to defend his national title, before returning to a demanding training schedule in preparation for next year’s Olympic Games in Beijing. More >>

Disabled: 'Not Allowed To Book With Web Site'

Wednesday, 14 November 2007, 9:29 am | NZPA

While many New Zealanders applaud the cheaper airfares resulting from Pacific Blue’s arrival this week, disabled people are wondering how it’s possible, or legal, for the airline to treat them as second class citizens in 2007. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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