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Kavkaz News: Chechen Rebels Counter Attack
Thursday, 9 March 2000, 10:05 am | Unknown
The Chechen command makes it known that during the night to March 7th Chechen units carried out a special Operation in Gudermes and attacked the Russian in various parts of the town. More >>
Jubilee 2000 Applauds Third World Debt Decision
Thursday, 9 March 2000, 9:59 am | Unknown
The Jubilee 2000 – Debt Action Network has applauded the decision of the New Zealand Government to make a $ 6.4 million contribution to the international effort to cancel the debt of the world’s poorest countries in the year 2000. More >>
World’s Highest Performance PC Processor Available
Thursday, 9 March 2000, 9:14 am | Unknown
Intel Corporation today introduced the Intel Pentium® III processor 1 GHz (gigahertz or 1,000 megahertz), the world’s highest performance microprocessor for PCs. More >>
Stars Help To Launch Performing Arts Centre
Thursday, 9 March 2000, 9:10 am | Unknown
Leading New Zealand performers, Michael Hurst and Jennifer Ward-Lealand, yesterday helped to launch a fundraising drive to raise $2 million for the development of a new performing arts centre at Western Springs. More >>
Conference: Help Great Minds Dissect Big Bodies
Thursday, 9 March 2000, 9:02 am | Unknown
Hierarchic mega-corporations have become leading actors on the global stage and now arguably cause or exacerbate over 80% of the planet's social and environmental ills. Strangely, however, few activists have ever looked at these bodies holistically as ... More >>
Picasso, Chagall and Penck at the Dowse
Thursday, 9 March 2000, 12:58 am | Unknown
Works by Picasso, Cocteau and Braque are proving to be a big hit at Lower Hutt’s Dowse Art Museum, as part of the exhibition, The Unexpected, Artists’ Ceramics of the 20th Century. The Dowse has brought the exhibition from the US in the middle ... More >>
ALRANZ Initiates Censorship Case Against Website
Thursday, 9 March 2000, 12:30 am | Unknown
The Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand is about to initate a censorship case against the Nuremberg Files website. In early 1999, this US website was found to have issued injurious threats against US abortion providers. More >>
The Pocket Literary Festival
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 4:18 pm | Unknown
The latest Landfall is like a pocket literary festival - an exciting mix of creative writing, essays, autobiography, poetry, photographs and reviews. Landfall 199 is published to coincide with the New Zealand Post Writers and Readers Week as part ... More >>
Landfall editor to change
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 4:15 pm | Unknown
As New Zealand's longest-running literary journal, Landfall has seen quite a number of editors come and go since the 20-year reign of its founder Charles Brasch, but has always retained its central position in the local literary world. Now current ... More >>
Levels of satisfaction with doctors high - NZMA
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 4:00 pm | Unknown
Surveys and anecdotal evidence show high levels of satisfaction with doctors, says New Zealand Medical Association Chairman Dr Pippa MacKay. More >>
Presbyterian Cleric Calls for Resignation
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 3:47 pm | Unknown
A Presbyterian clergyman, the Rev Rhys Pearson of Wanganui, last week called for the resignation of church elders and ministers who hold that "Jesus Christ is nothing more than a symbol of our evolutionary development". More >>
Gaming machines in TAB’s raise serious issues
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 3:28 pm | Unknown
The Government’s decision to allow a TAB outlet in Palmerston North to install gaming machines is a major change in Government policy which has potential serious ramifications for the industry as a whole the Chief Executive of Pub Charity (Inc) Ian Bray said ... More >>
Data Flash NZ - ANZ Job Ads - February 20
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 2:30 pm | Unknown
The trend number of job ads fell by 0.6% in February, following a 0.5% decline in December, but remained 17.2% higher than the same month a year earlier. More >>
TIMOR TODAY 08 March 2000
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 11:50 am | Unknown
For full text see… http://www.easttimor.com/ More >>
Scoop Opinion: Wheelbarrows Of Hypocrisy
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 11:11 am | Unknown
When considering the role of the British baby-killers of the Balkans, the totally overwhelming feature of hypocrisy-on-a-grand-scale comes through loud and clear. This historian has been attempting to determine which of the mass-murderers of the ... More >>
Exhibition of Contemporary NZ Art
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 10:18 am | Unknown
Exhibition of Contemporary NZ Art, WCC Atrium, 4-8 March, 9am-6pm. Review: Lissa Mitchell More >>
Nielson In Good Form
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 10:12 am | Unknown
Kiwi tennis No.1 Mark Nielsen has shown good form for the Gallagher Challenger in 10 days time in Hamilton as he moved into the second round of US$25,000 Kyoto Challenger event in Japan by beating another entrant for the Waikato tournament, Grant Doyle ... More >>
Wall Street And Kiwi Investors Launch World First
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 10:02 am | Unknown
Wall Street And Kiwi Investors Launch World First In e-Commerce Wall Street and New Zealand investors have joined forces to launch a new e-Commerce company, which today announced plans to spend more than NZ$50 million here during its first year of business. More >>
"A steering wheel would help", say BERL economists
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 9:58 am | Unknown
In releasing its latest assessment of NZ's economic performance and potential, independent researchers BERL have criticised the sole use of a 'stop-go' mechanism (ie interest rates) with which to drive the economy. More >>
intheshed.com, Shed 11, 2-8 March, till late
Wednesday, 8 March 2000, 9:32 am | Unknown
Pumping in Shed 11 at present is intheshed.com (you can check out www.intheshed.com for a very limited amount of information), a multimedia exhibition. These artists have generated an inspiring amount of sponsorship and technical support – this show ... More >>
