June 2012

Fiji’s former Deputy Prime Minister Pandit Harish Chandra Sharma launched a collection of poems written by his late father Pandit Pratap Chandra Sharma in the

Developing economies of the Indian Ocean region will become important players in the world economic scene over the next few years and establish themselves as

Singapore Airlines has appointed Edwin Chiang as General Manager New Zealand. He was most recently General Manager of the airline’s Egypt and North Africa office,

The Indian agriculture sector is currently facing a number of challenges and needs to adopt innovative technologies to achieve sustainability, said experts at a conference

Billionaires Bill Gates, Ratan Tata and Azim Premji held a brain-storming session in Bangalore on June 1 with other billionaires and millionaires on the need

Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer Prize winning Indian-American writer of the ‘The Emperor of All Maladies’, a biography of cancer was among the recipients of the

Migration patterns have reversed from a growth to a loss pattern over the last year – more people are leaving New Zealand than arriving (long

Any person with a balance of mind would agree that every form of child abuse should be stopped, with the offenders – be they parents,

Education Minister Hekia Parata has taken a U turn in the teacher-student funding ratios, following widespread protest from teachers, parents and students over her earlier

Climate change will impact on different regions, ecosystems and people. Some examples of climate change affecting weather conditions are Hurricane Mitch in Honduras (1998), hurricanes

Cricket has not caught on to any major extent in Afghanistan even 11 years after the Taliban was pushed out of Kabul in 2001. The

While Cancer is a deadly disease inflicting an increasing number of people, early detection and timely treatment can lead to cure, a prominent medical practitioner

The person or people wanting to create the Trust (the settlor) transfers property to appointed trustees. The trustees will be the persons who hold the

Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004, launching a new era in people-to-people communication. With more than 800 million

A primary reason for people migrating to developed countries is to ensure a better life for their family, and a brighter future for their children.

If you were to see a young and beautiful girl under the boot of a car or a boat, do not assume that she is

The Goan Community in Auckland will have a get-together evening at St Therese Church Hall at Three Kings (463 Mt Albert Road) on July 7.