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Her game face has been perfected and the rest of her body is in pretty good shape too as Valerie Adams prepares to defend her Olympic shot put title.In her final press conference before she competes in London on August 6, Adams...
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APN News & Media has posted an A$45.1 million annual net loss ($NZ57.7m) and sold half its outdoor advertising business to Quadrant Private Equity for cash proceeds of about A$190 million.APN, which publishes The New Zealand Herald...
Though he plays a young 20-something with the potential for godlike powers of superhuman strength, Emmett Skilton sure is a charmingly down-to-earth chap in real life. And those unassuming qualities often emerge in his Almighty Johnsons...
Gillian Gilbert half-chuckles, half-sighs when the inevitable question of how New Order, the most influential British band of their generation, became New Order, ongoing rockbiz soap opera.Gilbert is on the line from the Cheshire...
When Led Zeppelin came to Auckland they had already been denied entry to Singapore because of local laws banning males from wearing long hair. The good thing about coming up for concerts was that I got to talk to the bands. The promoters...
World No 1 amateur Lydia Ko has withdrawn from the Riversdale Cup with illness after taking the round-one lead in Melbourne.The 14-year-old, who shot a three under par 70 to lead round one of the Riversdale Cup by two shots from...
Receivers for Kitchen House, the troubled retailer which shut its shops and sent staff home this week, say the company is in receivership, has debts of more than $2 million and is unlikely to conduct any further trading.Receivers...
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An axe hangs over 305 jobs - including 63 policy positions - at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The announcement was made by MFAT chief executive John Allen at a press conference today, who stressed that the reforms were...
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In between Arsenal away and Manchester United at home, All Whites captain Ryan Nelsen will fly to New Zealand to lead his country against Jamaica.New Zealand Football chief executive Grant McKavanagh spoke to the Tottenham defender...
It was British designer Zandra Rhodes who recently dubbed textile designers the "Cinderellas of the business" - the hard-working creatives behind the scenes creating the things that we often take for granted; the print, the weave,...
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Jennifer Aniston promises "a lot of penises" and "breasticles" in Wanderlust .The actress stars as a woman who decides to quit her life and head to a nudist colony in the new romantic comedy, and assured viewers will get to see...
Swiss underdog FC Basel pulled off another Champions League shock today, stunning German giant Bayern Munich 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League last-16 match.Substitute Valentin Stocker struck in the 86th minute, firing...
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Vector, the Auckland-based electricity, gas and telecommunications distribution network owner, posted an after-tax profit of $105.3 million for the six months to December 31, up 6.9 per cent on the same period a year earlier.The...
After several weeks of snow and subfreezing temperatures in Italy, the chill is out of the air - at least weather-wise - and Italian designers are looking at the bright side of things as they begin the latest round of preview showings...
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Rod Petricevic said yesterday Bridgecorp investors needed to read an allegedly misleading prospectus "in total" to get a sense of it - but the former managing director did not go through the document "top to bottom" himself before...
A former Black Cap says Jesse Ryder cost New Zealand victory in the third and final Twenty20 against South Africa last night after putting himself in front of the team.The Black Caps lost the Twenty20 decider by three runs at Eden...
Chiefs co-captain Liam Messam has been passed fit to play in the season opener against the Highlanders at Waikato Stadium on Saturday night.Messam has not played a pre-season game after pulling a calf muscle in his warm-up for the...
Pastoral Dairy Investments, a company associated with farm management firm MyFarm, plans to raise at least $75 million by selling shares to the public and tapping high-wealth individuals to invest in dairy farms.PDI will offer 25...
Importers are resorting to desperate means to get goods to shelves against a crippling two-week port strike starting tomorrow.One leading clothing retailer was yesterday said to be preparing to pay an extra $10,000 to bring 12 containers...
Theories that men will eventually become extinct because the Y chromosome which determines maleness is shrinking are quite wrong, according to a new gene study.The men-are-doomed scenario leapt to prominence nearly a decade ago...
