Wellington - The New Zealand economy, which is in the grip of a recession, suffered a further blow Wednesday with a forecast that will wipe up to 1 billion New Zealand dollars (about 530 million US dollars) off the critical dairy industry's earnings this season.
The Fonterra Co-operative Group, which has huge influence on the economy as the country's biggest single exporter, told its 10,700 farmer-shareholders that the global recession had cut international demand for dairy products and slashed commodity prices.
It might sound as an interesting story of fiction but all the readers who are reading it should know that it is true. Last year, a man named Chris Ogle from New Zealand was enjoying his time in Oklahoma when he bought a used MP3 player from a thrift store for $9.
Just a few weeks ago, this man plugged the MP3 player into his computer so that he can download a song. But to his surprise, Ogle found a confidential U. S. military files stored in the player.
Wellington - Henry, a tuatara reptile said to be 111 years old and a relic of the dinosaur age, has become a father for the first time, a newspaper reported Monday.
Tuatara (Sphenodon punctatus) usually become sexually mature at the age of about 20, but Henry, who lives at the Southland Museum in Invercargill, was a slow developer and did not discover sex until March, when he had a romp with Mildred, who is in her 70s.
Wellington - A man alleged to have sparked a high-speed chase that ended in police shooting dead an innocent bystander had no recollection of the events, his lawyer told a court Monday.
Stephen Hohepa McDonald, 50, faced 29 charges, including 10 counts of using a firearm against police law on Friday and unlawfully possessing a gun when he appeared in the Auckland District Court.
Halatau Naitoko, 17, a courier driver, was fatally wounded by police Friday in a shoot-out with a gunman who tried to hijack his van after crashing a stolen car following a
Wellington - New Zealand police said Friday they did not know whether one of their men shot dead an innocent driver, or if he was the victim of a gunman who had led them on a 40-minute chase through Auckland suburbs at up to 160 kilometres an hour.
Another motorist was shot and injured in the drama that ended on a city motorway when the gunman crashed and tried to hijack another vehicle to escape pursuing police.
Wellington - The New Zealand economy, which is in the grip of a recession, suffered a further blow Wednesday with a forecast that will wipe up to 1 billion New Zealand dollars (about 530 million US dollars) off the critical dairy industry's earnings this season.
It might sound as an interesting story of fiction but all the readers who are reading it should know that it is true. Last year, a man named Chris Ogle from New Zealand was enjoying his time in Oklahoma when he bought a used MP3 player from a thrift store for $9. 
Wellington - Henry, a tuatara reptile said to be 111 years old and a relic of the dinosaur age, has become a father for the first time, a newspaper reported Monday. 
Wellington - A man alleged to have sparked a high-speed chase that ended in police shooting dead an innocent bystander had no recollection of the events, his lawyer told a court Monday. 
Sydney, Jan. 25 : Black Caps coach Andy Moles has predicted his young side can beat Australia in next month''s Chappell-Hadlee series.
Wellington - New Zealand police said Friday they did not know whether one of their men shot dead an innocent driver, or if he was the victim of a gunman who had led them on a 40-minute chase through Auckland suburbs at up to 160 kilometres an hour.
