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  • `Funding boosts New Zealands military capability

    Increase in New Zealand's defence budget and cost savings are helping to improve military capability across all three services, Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman said Friday. "In the year to July 2013, the NZDF (New Zealand Defence Force) will deliver 190 million NZ dollars ($153.87 million) in savings after achieving 140 million NZ dollars in the year prior," Coleman said in a statement the ...

  • Google Glass makes you look like a complete dork

    This just in from Google's I/O conference in San Francisco, where Christchurch man Ben Kepes has been trying company's prototype camera-equipped smart glasses. "Having spent a few hours walking around San Francisco's Moscone center wearing, and trying to use, Google Glass, I'm less worried by the privacy impacts of the device than I am the sartorial impacts," the ...

  • MPs debate petrol tax bill

    Petrol price's downward trip could be over Patience is wearing thin in Parliament as MPs continue to debate a bill to hike petrol tax. The Customs and Excise Amendment Bill is having its third and final reading, under urgency. It will mean petrol tax will rise three cents per litre in July of each of the next three years. The Government says the hike is needed to help fund roading ...

  • Car crashes into canal

    Photo / File A man has been hospitalised with moderate injuries after his car went into a canal in South Auckland. Police and ambulance services were called to the scene on Island Rd in Mangere just before 4pm. The man was taken by ambulance to Middlemore Hospital for treatment, a St John Ambulance northern communication centre spokesman ...

  • Coercive Moves Disguised as Workshops

    Saturday, 18 May 2013, 3:24 pm Press Release: Quake Outcasts Coercive Moves Disguised as "Workshops"Christchurch- The government, through CERA and the quake organisation CanCern released a letter to Canterbury residential "red zone" residents. The letter suggests there will be "workshops" for people to "discuss their concerns" and is targeted at ...

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The Untouchables [DVD]

The Untouchables [DVD]

So there Brian De Palma was. At the end of filming The Untouchables, his big-budget, highly stylized, Prohibition-era crime saga about the exploits of federal agent Eliot Ness and his attempts to bring down Chicago crime king Al Capone, he was already some $8 million over ... ...

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  • V8 Supercars Lowndes thwarts Kiwi drivers

    After Kiwi drivers topped the opening three sessions at practice, it was the sport's most successful driver who stole the limelight as the V8 Supercars completed their first stint in the United States today. Craig Lowndes, who recently became the winningest driver in V8 Supercars, pushed his Red Bull Holden to top of the tree at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, ...

  • Car crashes into canal

    A man has been hospitalised with moderate injuries after his car went into a canal in South Auckland. Police and ambulance services were called to the scene on Island Rd in Mangere just before 4pm. The man was taken by ambulance to Middlemore Hospital for treatment, a St John Ambulance northern communication centre spokesman said. - APNZ By Abby Gillies Email ...

  • Officials scramble to lift block on NZ meat in China

    China steps up inspection of meat trade after fake lamb scandal Government officials are working "around the clock" to resolve an issue which has seen New Zealand meat products stopped at the border in China. The problem is understood to be around documentation and while the Government will not say how much meat has been prevented from entering China, Labour claims it is ...

  • Waka return home

    Two traditional double-hulled waka and their crews have arrived in Doubtless Bay in Northland after a 10-month historic voyage across the pacific Ocean. The crew left Auckland's Waitemata Harbour last August and travelled to Rapanui (Easter Island) before returning to New Zealand today using only the stars, moon, sun, ocean currents, birds and marine life to guide their 10,000 ...

  • Waka return home

    Two traditional double-hulled waka and their crews have arrived in Doubtless Bay in Northland after a 10-month historic voyage across the pacific Ocean. The crew left Auckland's Waitemata Harbour last August and travelled to Rapanui (Easter Island) before returning to New Zealand today using only the stars, moon, sun, ocean currents, birds and marine life to guide their 10,000 nautical-mile ...

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