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Interest-free loans for students on exchange
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 10:08 am | New Zealand Government
The government is to extend interest-free loans to people studying full-time overseas as part of formal exchange programmes, the Minister of Revenue Peter Dunne announced today. More >>
Wellington Conference on Cluster Munitions Threat
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 9:34 am | New Zealand Government
Next week in Wellington the New Zealand Government is hosting an international conference on a treaty to prevent humanitarian disasters created by cluster munitions. We hope that this conference will sufficiently progress discussions to enable, later this ... More >>
Vanuatu PM to visit
Tuesday, 12 February 2008, 8:45 am | New Zealand Government
Prime Minister Helen Clark announced today that Ham Lini, Prime Minister of Vanuatu, will make an official visit to New Zealand from 17 to 20 February. More >>
Buy Kiwi Made Campaign Takes Off
Monday, 11 February 2008, 4:39 pm | New Zealand Government
Kiwis have got behind the Buy Kiwi Made media campaign and the Government has agreed to give it a new lease of life says Sue Bradford, the Buy Kiwi Made Government Spokesperson. More >>
Early Childhood centres receive more funding
Monday, 11 February 2008, 10:44 am | New Zealand Government
Thirteen new early childhood education centres (ECE) across the country have received grants with a combined worth of $485,000 to help them start providing services, Education Minister Chris Carter announced today. More >>
Maryan Street Speech: College of Chiropractic
Monday, 11 February 2008, 9:13 am | New Zealand Government
Maryan Street Speech: Opening of the new site for the New Zealand College of Chiropractic (NZCC) Mt Wellington More >>
Goff welcomes troops back from Lebanon
Monday, 11 February 2008, 9:04 am | New Zealand Government
Goff welcomes troops back from Lebanon Defence Minister Phil Goff was at Auckland International Airport this weekend to welcome home New Zealand Defence Force personnel from munitions clearing duties in the Lebanon. More >>
Cluster munitions solution closer - Wgtn Conf.
Monday, 11 February 2008, 9:03 am | New Zealand Government
Wellington is gearing up for an important international conference that will bring the world substantially closer to a new treaty on cluster munitions, Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Phil Goff said today. More >>
Some progress in WTO round
Monday, 11 February 2008, 9:01 am | New Zealand Government
Some progress in WTO round Trade Minister Phil Goff welcomed the release of new negotiating texts for agriculture and industrial market access in Geneva overnight. More >>
WHO report finds NZ a leader in tobacco control
Friday, 8 February 2008, 5:12 pm | New Zealand Government
Associate Health Minister Damien O’Connor said today he is delighted that New Zealand has once again been held up as a leader in the global fight to stop the tobacco epidemic. More >>
Accidental catch of deepwater coral
Friday, 8 February 2008, 4:37 pm | New Zealand Government
In December last year, a New Zealand commercial fishing vessel accidentally caught a large amount of deepwater coral while bottom trawling for orange roughy over seamounts near the Chatham Islands. More >>
Minister welcomes appointment to UN tax committee
Friday, 8 February 2008, 3:31 pm | New Zealand Government
Revenue Minister Peter Dunne has welcomed the appointment of Robin Oliver to the United Nations' Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters. More >>
How many tests does John Key plan to fail?
Friday, 8 February 2008, 3:27 pm | New Zealand Government
John Key needs to outline how many of Labour’s four tests for personal tax cuts National’s tax plan will fail, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today. More >>
Minister reassures Somali community
Friday, 8 February 2008, 2:11 pm | New Zealand Government
Ethnic Affairs Minister Chris Carter has spoken with Somali community leaders following the incident on the Eagle Air flight travelling from Blenheim to Christchurch today which involved a member of the Somali community. More >>
Timberlands future announced
Friday, 8 February 2008, 10:22 am | New Zealand Government
State Owned Enterprises Minister Trevor Mallard today announced that the assets of Timberlands West Coast Ltd are to transfer to Crown Forestry as the SOE can no longer operate as a successful business. More >>
King calls for reports on Chch Airport incident
Friday, 8 February 2008, 10:18 am | New Zealand Government
Police and Transport Minister Annette King says she has asked NZ Police and the Aviation Security Service to provide her and the Minister for Transport Safety, Harry Duynhoven, with urgent reports on an incident at Christchurch Airport this morning. More >>
Submissions called for on renewable energy
Friday, 8 February 2008, 9:44 am | New Zealand Government
Environment Minister Trevor Mallard will tomorrow publicly notify two renewable energy development proposals that he has called in, and encourages anyone with an interest in them to make a submission. More >>
New technology adds value to dairy
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 3:39 pm | New Zealand Government
Scientists are creating new economic opportunities in our dairy industry, Pete Hodgson, Minister of Research Science and Technology said during a visit to AgResearch campus near Hamilton today. More >>
New technology adds value to dairy
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 3:00 pm | New Zealand Government
Scientists are creating new economic opportunities in our dairy industry, Pete Hodgson, Minister of Research Science and Technology said during a visit to AgResearch campus near Hamilton today. More >>
Cullen: Growth and fairness reinforce each other
Thursday, 7 February 2008, 1:47 pm | New Zealand Government
In his first speech on the economy this year, Finance Minister Michael Cullen said today that by overseeing the longest period of economic expansion since World War II while taking steps to reduce poverty, Labour has shown that fairness does not ... More >>
