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  • Kiwi-Made App Released For Movie After Earth

    Kiwi-Made App ReleasedForMovie After Earth A Kiwi company is behind the global release today of an interactive app for the highly anticipated sci-fi thriller movie After Earth, starring Will Smith and his son Jaden.UK-based BeyondTheStory developed the app, titled After Earth: Kitai's Journal, for the Sony Pictures Entertainment/Overbrook Entertainment film and its tie-in book.The ...

  • Kiwis Spend Almost $2 Million on Tickets to Space

    Kiwis have spent more than $1.8 million on space travel to embark on flights with the world's first commercial space service.New Zealanders are able to secure their tickets with the Virgin Galactic service through its travel partner House of Travel.Interest in these history-making flights is expected to increase as Kiwis learn more of the opportunity to aboard a space-bound ...

  • The First Kiwi Cloud

    05/2013 - Leading New Zealand Internet Services company, Web Drive, announced today the launch of the Web Drive Cloud, the company's new Infrastructure as a Service offering. Webdrive's General Manager, Robin Dickie, says Web Drive Cloud sets new benchmarks for the local industry, and will empower developers. Under development for over a year, the company has built a ...

  • Playground honours Margaret Mahy ONZ

    Thursday, 23 May 2013, 12:56 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Gerry Brownlee Minister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery 23 May 2013 Playground honours Margaret Mahy ONZA playground based on author Margaret Mahy's work has taken out one of the top prizes in the BNZ Amazing Place playground design competition run by the Christchurch Central Development Unit, Canterbury ...

  • Denniston coal mine gains access approval

    Thursday, 23 May 2013, 12:34 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Dr Nick SmithMinister of Conservation 23 May 2013 Denniston coal mine gains access approvalConservation Minister Dr Nick Smith today announced his approval under the Crown Minerals Act for an access agreement for Bathurst Resources for its Escarpment Mining Project on the Denniston Plateau, near Westport. ...

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The Dark Knight Rises

Shrouded in both astronomical fan expectations and unexpected real-world tragedy, Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight Rises, the third and final entry in his acclaimed Batman trilogy, is nothing if not grandly ambitious, the filmmakers bold, sometimes unwieldy stateme ... ...

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  • Survey Supports Reduced Duck Season

    Eastern Region's four-week duck-hunting season has been justified by the early results from a Fish & Game survey of hunter success analysed this week.The game bird season for mallard and grey duck will finish at Queen's Birthday weekend in the Eastern Fish & Game Region, although upland game birds and other species such as paradise shelduck and black swan have a longer ...

  • Christchurch CBD construction ramps up

    Thursday, 23 May 2013, 11:39 am Press Release: New Zealand Government Hon Gerry BrownleeMinister for Canterbury Earthquake Recovery 23 May 2013 Christchurch CBD construction ramps up Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee has today taken Prime Minister John Key on a whistle-stop tour to check progress on three major construction sites in the Christchurch CBD. "These ...

  • Consultation begins on mining safety regulations

    Thursday, 23 May 2013, 12:12 pm Press Release: New Zealand Government 23 May 2013 Consultation begins on mining safety regulationsThe Government has further progressed the Pike River Implementation Plan with the release of a discussion document on a new regulatory regime for the mining sector. Labour and Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges says the discussion document proposes ...

  • Waikato Innovation Park Contributed Over $100m to Region

    According to a 10 year economic impact report, the Waikato Innovation Park has brought $16M of establishment funding into the region and employee-related benefits from those working at the Park have contributed more than $100M to the regional economy. The report, carried out by the Institute for Business Research at the Waikato Management School, outlines the Park's direct and ...

  • ASK ME ANYTHING David Parker v Shamubeel Eaqub

    Can – and should – something be done about New Zealand’s high exchange rate? It is one of the hottest political, economic and business topics of the post-global financial crisis world. The topic flared up at the Grant Thornton-National Business Review post Budget breakfast in Wellington last Friday. Although they were delivered set piece speeches on the budget, Labour ...

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