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• China, NZ pine venture

  Business & Consumer
  A joint venture by a Wellington company in China aims at processing pine timber from New Zealand for sale in the European building industry to replace tropical African hardwoods. The factory aimed at processing 50,000 cubic metres a year from about 100,00...

• "The brown Jesus"?

  Public people
  TV3 correspondent Mike McRoberts, who is in Haiti to report on the aftermath of the earthquake, had “waded into his own battle about a reporter’s role”, wrote Rachel Glucina for The New Zealand Herald this week. McRoberts was seen on Wednesday’s...

• $134m for Whanau Ora

  Politics
  Families-based social services initiative Whanau Ora would receive $134.3 million in funding over the next four years, Prime Minister John Key announced yesterday. Mr Key said the $134m would increase and did not include current contracts. The minister in...

• $400m deal

  Business & Consumer
  Investors in the cash-strapped lender Hanover Finance will be offered a shares-for-debentures sweetener to approve a $400 million deal with Allied Farmers, the listed rural services and finance company. Allied revealed this week that it had launched a bid...

• $84m for ship-fix

  Politics
  The Government has reached an $84.6 million settlement with BAE Systems to fix problems with the multi-role ship HMNZS Canterbury. The ship was part of the previous government’s $500m Project Protector programme, which has been bedevilled with problems ...

• $84m for ship-fix

  Politics
  The Government has reached an $84.6 million settlement with BAE Systems to fix problems with the multi-role ship HMNZS Canterbury. The ship was part of the previous government’s $500m Project Protector programme, which has been bedevilled with problems ...

• $84m for ship-fix

  Politics
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• 'Call-ins' query

  Politics
  The Canterbury Regional Council has asked Environment Minister Nick Smith if he wants to call in the resource consents for factory dairy farming in the Mackenzie Basin. Call-ins enable the Government to make a decision, bypassing some potentially long pas...

• 'Darkie' talk makes Canterbury see red

  Story of the week
  What happened “Once they’ve recruited three, that’s it. That’s their ceiling. Three darkies ... no more.” That remark on the sports broadcaster Murray Deaker’s television programme last week by former All Black Andy Haden triggered outrage. Th...

• 'Extremists' German mosque closed

  Global leads
  Islamic extremists in Germany have lost an important meeting place after Hamburg authorities closed the Taiba mosque and the society attached to it on Monday. Muhammad Atta, who hijacked and flew American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the Wor...

• 'Fed's' record

  Business & Consumer
  The United States Federal Reserve paid a record $US46.1 billion in earnings to the Treasury Department last year, reflecting gains as the central bank bulked up its portfolio of securities to revive the U.S. economy and fight the financial crisis. The pay...

• 'It's just a flag'

  Story of the week
  What happenedThe tino rangatiratanga flag will fly from the Auckland Harbour Bridge, Premier House, in Wellington, Government House, and “other significant sites” on Waitangi Day, the Cabinet has decided. Earlier this year, after approaches from his M...

• 'No practical alternative' to 1080

  Best of the articles
  It will be a sad day for the birds and bush of New Zealand if 1080 use is banned or severely restricted before a practical alternative is found, the Otago Daily Times says in an editorial. “It could also be an expensive and potentially ruinous day for f...

• 'Silly walks' approach to rescue helicopter

  Best of the articles
  The Taranaki Daily News (New Plymouth) trained its editorial armament on the Civil Aviation Authority and public servants this week. The trigger appeared to be the CAA’s enforcing the rules on single-engine rescue helicopters operating over hospital hel...

• 'Sterilise child abusers' comment had its backers

  Story of the week
  What happened David Garrett, an Act Party list member of Parliament, commented on a blog last week that child abusers be offered $5000 to undergo a surgical procedure rendering them unable to have children. “Nothing compulsory, just an option.” The re...

• 'Three strikes' passed

  Politics
  The controversial three-strikes legislation is becoming law after the National-Act Party bill passed its third reading in Parliament this week. It came under repeated fire from Labour, the Greens, and the Maori Party in an at-times colourful debate, in wh...

• 'With friends like these ...'

  Best of the articles
  {jcomments on}Allegations that the Israeli secret service, Mossad, was behind the killing of 49 year-old Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai are gaining strength, writes Ibrahim Hewitt in Al Jazeera. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied Mossad ...

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• ... and then there's Susan

  Public people
  Susan Boyle – the 48 year-old Scottish songstress who famously finished second on Britain’s Got Talent – has made history with a number one album in the U.K. and the U.S. that has sold more than 701,000 copies, setting a 2009...

• 10 most expensive cars

  Business & Consumer
  1) Zenvo ST1 Price- £2m 2)Koenigsegg Trevita Price - £1.5m ; 3)Bugatti Veyron Price - £1.3m ; 4) Aston Martin One-77 Price- £1.2m ; 5)Pagani Zonda Cinque Roadster Price; - £1.2m;  6) Ferrari 599XX Price - £1.2m; Lamborghini Reventón Roads...