Wellington - Helen Clark, prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 until defeated in last November's elections, has been appointed to head the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), unconfirmed news reports said on Wednesday.
A spokesman for Clark, who was known to be on a short-list of three for the job, would not confirm the appointment and said that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had not made his preference public but an announcement was close.
Wellington - A New Zealand teenage whizz-kid who admitted developing software that infected a million computers around the world has been hired by telecommunications company TelstraClear to advise companies how to avoid hackers.
Owen Walker, 19, who was tracked down by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, is advising on "botnets" - networks of computers infected by malicious software - TelstraClear spokesman Chris Mirams told Radio New Zealand on Wednesday.
Wellington - New Zealand's watchdog Commerce Commission said Wednesday that the country's two main telecommunication companies, Telecom and Vodafone, charged too much for mobile phone calls.
Their rates were "significantly above current international cost- based benchmarks," chairwoman Paula Rebstock said.
She said reduced price offers by the companies, which are trying to avoid government regulation forcing them to cut charges, were not acceptable.
Napier, Mar. 24: India’s batting machine has dented the confidence of New Zealand’s fast bowlers so much, that a majority of them have owned up to not possessing the required counter-attacking skills.
One of them is New Zealand’s most experienced bowler, Kyle Mills.
In the wake of a master class 42nd Test hundred by India’s Sachin Tendulkar (160) at Hamilton, Mills made little effort to mask his inadequacies as he reflected on the least-memorable episode of his 19-test career.
Napier, Mar. 24 : New Zealand's cricket selectors have called in Jamie How as a replacement for injured batsman Daniel Flynn for the second Test against India to be played here later this week.
Flynn was a virtual spectator at New Zealand''s practice session today before leaving midway through for scans on the left hand damaged by Indian pace bowler Ishant Sharma while scoring a dogged 67 on Saturday, during the first test loss at Hamilton.
Wellington - Helen Clark, prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 until defeated in last November's elections, has been appointed to head the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), unconfirmed news reports said on Wednesday.
Wellington - A New Zealand teenage whizz-kid who admitted developing software that infected a million computers around the world has been hired by telecommunications company TelstraClear to advise companies how to avoid hackers.
Wellington - New Zealand's watchdog Commerce Commission said Wednesday that the country's two main telecommunication companies, Telecom and Vodafone, charged too much for mobile phone calls.
Napier, Mar. 24: India’s batting machine has dented the confidence of New Zealand’s fast bowlers so much, that a majority of them have owned up to not possessing the required counter-attacking skills.
Napier, Mar. 24 : New Zealand's cricket selectors have called in Jamie How as a replacement for injured batsman Daniel Flynn for the second Test against India to be played here later this week.
