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  • Kiwi Everest climber Edmund Hillary hailed as a great Briton

    Sir Edmund Hillary - the first person ever to scale Mount Everest summit - has been called one of "those great Britons" by a conservative British newspaper. Britian's Daily Telegraph bestowed the dubious title upon Auckland-born Hillary, who conquered Mt Everest with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay about 60 years ago, Stuff.co.nz reported. The new nationality was given to Hillary in a small editorial on ...

  • Daniel Vettori set for NZ Test return this week

    New Zealand spinner Daniel Vettori is set to return to action in the second Test against England this week after Bruce Martin was ruled out of the rest of the tour with a calf injury. Vettori has not played for the Black Caps for almost a year because of a hamstring injury and was left out of the squad for the two-Test series in England. But with Martin sidelined by the injury that prevented ...

  • Indian-origin men in New Zealand face gang-rape charges

    A woman has given evidence in a court in New Zealand implicating four men of Indian origin of raping her in turns in April 2011. Amir Chand, 25, Harvinder Singh, 22, Kamaljeet Singh, 27, and Sumit Vermani, 26, are defending the charges in the high court in Hamilton, Fairfax NZ News reported Tuesday. The woman has claimed that the four men raped her in the course of an evening during the ...

  • Ian Bell to recover in time for second test against New Zealand

    England middle order batsman Ian Bell is expected to recover from tonsillitis and play against New Zealand in the second test match starting from Friday. Bell's illness got him a score of 31 runs for 133 balls during the second innings at Lord's, and England's medical team is confident that there will not be a relapse this time. The Independent reports that once Bell is fit, there won't be any ...

  • Reserve status sought for land on expressway route

    video Writer Patricia Grace's application to the Maori Land Court for her Waikanae land to be declared a Maori reservation could delay construction of a section of the Kapiti Expressway. Grace, author of novels including Potiki and Tu, owns 983 square metres of Maori freehold land north of the Waikanae River, where Tuku Rakau village was once located. Last year, she was served with a ...

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The River [DVD]

The River [DVD]

Jean Renoir's The River is one of the most fascinating multinational productions of its era. An independently financed American film directed by a French expatriate about British colonists shot entirely in India (then a strangely exotic and relatively unknown country in the West), The Ri ... ...

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  • Findings of Urewera raids investigation due

    The findings of an independent police investigation into dawn raids on an alleged military-style camp in the Urewera Ranges are due to be released. Police swooped in on the small Bay of Plenty community in the early hours of 15 October 2007, with the Crown alleging military-style training camps were being held in the area. The Crown claimed the group was planning to use guerrilla warfare to ...

  • Vision of fear for citys heritage

    This Character Coalition image claims to shows what Sandringham's Cambourne Rd could look like under the Unitary Plan but the council disputes this. Photo / Supplied Auckland's heritage character is under threat from apartments in half of residential Auckland, says the Character Coalition. The group, comprising 58 heritage and community groups, has commissioned images to ...

  • King of legal highs may stage return

    Matt Bowen bowed out of the industry in 2011 when the Government moved to ban synthetic cannabis. Photo / Brett Phibbs Legal high pioneer Matt Bowden has hinted he may return to the industry once the Government makes changes to legislation to make it safer. Mr Bowden, who was known as the king of legal highs and introduced party pills to New Zealand, bowed out of the industry in 2011 when the ...

  • Keys $1b request claim in doubt

    The documents released yesterday reveal how relations between John Palmer and Treasury soured as the company's financial position deteriorated. Photo / Sarah Ivey Newly released papers raise fresh questions over Prime Minister John Key's claim that Solid Energy asked for $1 billion of taxpayers' money to fund its transformation into a massive resources company. Mr Key made the ...

  • Stalling on privacy report fuels speculation

    Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff. Photo / NZPA The Government has withheld the findings of a review of the state sector's vulnerability to privacy breaches for several months, creating speculation problems have been uncovered. Government Chief Information Officer Colin McDonald announced a review of the security of publicly accessible state sector agency IT systems in October last year in ...

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