Semantics spare Peters ... for now
New Zealand Herald
Thu Jul 24 05:00:10 2008
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters looks set to escape censure under one set of rules guiding the conduct of ministers after the Prime Minister said she was likely to allow him to keep the $100,000 Owen Glenn gave towards his...

Case may be NZ's last before Privy Council
New Zealand Herald
Thu Jul 24 05:00:09 2008
A long tradition of appeals to the Privy Council in London looks to be ending, with convicted killer john barlow's case the last one scheduled to be heard by the London-based judges. Barlow - sentenced to a minimum 14 years in...

Haka excites visiting kung fu kids
New Zealand Herald
Thu Jul 24 05:00:08 2008
Taiwanese primary schoolboy Chi Yung Hsun is excited at the possibility of learning to speak Maori and perform the haka. Chi, one of 26 Taipei students who arrived in Auckland yesterday as part of a "city diplomacy mission", had...

One in five quit school unqualified
Stuff
Thu Jul 24 05:00:00 2008
A third of all school leavers dropped out last year without getting level two NCEA and nearly one in five failed to make the qualification's most basic rung.

Interest rate cut possible (Newstalk ZB)
Yahoo Xtra
Wed Jul 23 22:23:02 2008
One finance expert believes there is an increased chance of an interest rate cut today, as yet another investment company hits troubled water.