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New Health Research Fellowship Honours Kuia
Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 3:27 pm | Unknown
The Health Research Council has created a new senior Maori health research fellowship in honour of former HRC Kaumatua Dr Erihapeti Rehu Murchie. More >>
Red Cross Taking Action in Ethiopia
Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 3:19 pm | Unknown
The International Red Cross is taking action to assist vulnerable people in drought-struck Ethiopia, in the face of worsening food shortages there. More >>
Mozambique Appeal –Strong Response but More Needed
Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 3:16 pm | Unknown
Kiwis have so far donated approximately $80,000 to the New Zealand Red Cross appeal for flood-ravaged Mozambique, in southern Africa. More >>
Westpactrust Decides Not To Implement Charge
Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 3:14 pm | Unknown
WestpacTrust announced today that it will not implement a new $2 charge for people paying their credit card account at a branch or through an ATM using a deposit envelope, which was due to come into effect on 1 May. More >>
Questions For Oral Answer - Wednesday, 5 April
Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 1:19 pm | Unknown
Today's questions for oral answer. Paraphrased answers to these questions will be posted in the Headlines wire shortly after 3pm. More >>
New NZMA Board Members Elected
Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 9:27 am | Unknown
Three new members have been elected to the New Zealand Medical Association Board following a postal ballot of members last month. More >>
Public shows it wants FREE Internet service
Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 9:24 am | Unknown
The New Zealand public are flocking to join the free Internet access site i4free after a court injunction ruled that Telecom must restore the lines they disconnected on Friday and over the weekend to stop the service being launched. More >>
Nationwide Welcome Home for INTERFET Peacekeepers
Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 9:13 am | Unknown
Australians across the country will have an opportunity to welcome home the soldiers, sailors and airmen and women who took part in the successful East Timor peacekeeping operation. More >>
Walker Wireless installs leading network tech.
Wednesday, 5 April 2000, 12:00 am | Unknown
AUCKLAND, April 4, 2000 - Broadband wireless company Walker Wireless Limited today announced it has chosen Cisco to drive its networking infrastructure and will be one of the first New Zealand companies to install new generation fast networking ... More >>
Howling At The Tube
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 6:21 pm | Unknown
How much longer do we have to put up with this kind of conspiracy of silence from our news media? Given a nightly menu of worthless rubbish in an effort to hide stories such as these.... A letter from publisher Ian Wishart to Paul Cutler TVNZ Director ... More >>
Eforce Announces Acquisitions
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 5:54 pm | Unknown
Eforce Ltd today announces that an agreement has been entered into to acquire international supply chain management specialists Product Sourcing International (PSI) and web development and hosting agency Imagic. Eforce's combined first year revenue will ... More >>
Leading Environmentalists Acknowledged
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 4:29 pm | Unknown
Northland Conservation Board Chairman Derek Keene has acknowledged the efforts of two leading Northland environmentalists for their work promoting biodiversity issues. More >>
International J-Day
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 2:09 pm | Unknown
This year, an estimated one million people will be in the streets for the largest single direct action for the reform of cannabis law in the history of the world! More >>
West Coast Forests Discussed On Breakfast TV
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 1:53 pm | Unknown
MH Now there have been protests as only the West Coast of the South Island can produce in the past week, as formed by the government's decision to stop beech logging and the High Court's decision last week to agree with it. So how does this decision stack ... More >>
Questions For Oral Answer - Tuesday, 4 April
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 1:36 pm | Unknown
Today's questions for oral answer. Paraphrased answers to these questions will be posted in the Headlines wire shortly after 3pm. More >>
Microsoft Court Ruling
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 11:23 am | Unknown
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW The United States, nineteen individual states, and the District of Columbia ("the plaintiffs") bring these consolidated civil enforcement actions against defendant Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") under the Sherman Antitrust ... More >>
Microsoft Anti-Trust Ruling – Judge’s Statement
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 11:06 am | Unknown
"I regret to announce the end of my efforts to mediate the Microsoft antitrust case. Since my acceptance of this assignment on November 19 of last year, I have endeavored to find common ground that might enable the parties to settle their differences ... More >>
Microsoft to Appeal U.S. District Court Ruling
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 11:02 am | Unknown
REDMOND, Wash. -- April 3, 2000 - Microsoft Corp. said that it plans to appeal today's ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, and that the company will continue to focus on creating the next generation of innovative software that ... More >>
Kavkaz News: Chechens Offer Trade For Rapist
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 10:39 am | Unknown
The Chechen side officially announces its readiness to exchange the 9 OMON men from Perm, captured in the fighting near Zhanni-Vedeno, for the sadist-murderer Budanov, the so-called colonel of the Russian marauders' and killers' army, who killed and ... More >>
Lenten Reflections Of Rev. Raymond Oppenheim
Tuesday, 4 April 2000, 9:31 am | Unknown
The word "Lent" comes from an Old English word, meaning "spring." It refers to the lenten or spring fast, a Christian observance which precedes the celebration of Easter, that most joyous of all Christian festivals. More >>
