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Every household in the country will get an emergency checklist delivered in the mail next week, says Civil Defence Minister Rick Barker. More >>
We are all now desperate runners in the epic race between doom and boom. It's a global- warmed dead heat between apocalyptic ecological collapse, versus a Solartopian green-powered prosperity. More >>
ALTHOUGH the response to the deadly H5N1 virus in poultry has significantly improved over the past three years, the virus, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation's (FAO) Chief Veterinary Officer Joseph Domenech, still remains entrenched in several ... More >>
Containers of unidentified chemicals floating down rain-swollen rivers are a potential nightmare that could be avoided, say emergency and environmental authorities in Taranaki. More >>
Balancing environmental protection with the need for better economic performance will be a major consideration for a National-led government, says National Party Leader John Key. More >>
From your President, Peter Maddison, to your executive members, council members, branch leaders, and all the other volunteers that give life to the Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand. More >>
Rt Hon Helen Clark Prime Minister, Sanderson Memorial Address, Annual General Meeting Forest and Bird Society, Silverstream Retreat Upper Hutt Wellington, 11am Saturday 23 June 2007 More >>
Ashes removed from a wood burner are believed to have caused the fire which destroyed a ranger’s cottage on Kapiti Island last Thursday. A Department of Conservation and New Zealand Fire Service investigation has revealed that ashes cleaned out of ... More >>
A year ago, Canterbury was hit with one of its worst winter snow storms, with many rural properties without electricity for weeks on end. With more cold southerlies predicted by Metservice, the Canterbury Emergency Management Office is encouraging ... More >>
Tomorrow, June 20, is World Refugee Day, and New Zealand journalist and aid worker, Tennille Bergin is right in the middle of the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world, the exodus of two million refugees from Iraq. More >>
New Zealand Red Cross has welcomed the New Zealand Government's support to assist victims of conflict in Iraq as the humanitarian crisis in the country deepens. More >>
Two people have been rescued from a helicopter which crashed on Braemar Station on the Eastern side of Lake Pukaki in the South Island this morning (16 June 2007). More >>
United Future leader Peter Dunne says today marks the start of Volunteer Awareness Week (June 17-23). "Budget 2007 lifted the cap on tax rebates for charitable donations... Our work in this field is not over yet." More >>
Drought conditions in Hawke's Bay continue despite days of rain and a committee established to assist the farming community during the current situation warns that things are still bleak. More >>
The rapid spread of large-scale industrial livestock production focussed on a narrow range of breeds is the biggest threat to the world’s farm animal diversity, according to a report presented to the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. More >>
Lesotho needs urgent international assistance to avert a major food crisis because of high cereal prices after this year’s main cereal harvest was ravaged by one of the worst droughts in 30 years, says a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture ... More >>
95bFM Audio: Mikey Havoc talks to the Co-Leader of the Green party, Jeanette Fitzsimmons, about climate change and the Therapeutics Medicines Bill. More >>
The United Nations food agency today welcomed a contribution in excess of $20 million from the Republic of Korea to provide food assistance to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), where a lack of funds has already led to cutbacks in critically ... More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the launch of an operation to airlift emergency food supplies to over 2,600 Sudanese refugees who recently crossed into the the Central African Republic (CAR). More >>
The processes of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration are essential if countries emerging from conflict are going to make a successful and lasting transition to peace and stability, the senior United Nations envoy to the Democratic Republic of the ... More >>
Albert Cash, David Hancy and Nau Hura are off to Spain on Monday (June 18) as members of the New Zealand waka crew supporting Team New Zealand’s bid to regain the America’s Cup. More >>
Many people living with HIV (PLHIV) are too poor to take care of their health properly. Even among those people with access to free antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, many cannot afford to maintain the balanced diet they need to compliment the drugs. More >>
In true ANZAC spirit, North Shore City Mayor George Wood is sending Kiwi sympathies to our Australian neighbours and a wish for a quick recovery from this month's devastating floods. More >>
The human right situation in Somalia is deteriorating as hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes while others are being subject to threats, rape and violence in the war-torn East African nation, a United Nations expert said today. More >>
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today expressed his deep sadness at the loss of more than 100 lives, the injuries sustained by over 100 people and the destruction caused by the landslide and flooding impacting Chittagong, Bangladesh’s ... More >>
A new report by two United Nations agencies says that more than 400,000 people in Lesotho face food shortages due to the country’s most severe drought in 30 years. More >>
The top United Nations humanitarian official today strongly condemned the killing of an aid worker in the Central African Republic (CAR), and the world body has suspended all movements in the affected region for the time being. More >>
The United Nations Population Fund UNFPA is leading a global effort to end obstetric fistula – an abnormal hole in the birth canal caused by prolonged labour without speedy medical attention – in Sudan, where 5,000 new cases occur every year in ... More >>
The United Nations is rushing aid to refugees pouring into the Central African Republic (CAR) from the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, a spokesperson said today. More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today deplored the killing of two Lebanese Red Cross workers and the wounding of a member of delegation of clerics at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon that has been the scene of fierce fighting for three weeks. More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme WFP today announced plans to support an emergency operation helping people displaced by clashes in two of the largest Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. More >>
RDU Audio: Kate Gorgeous talked to Augie Auer once a month. She remembers meeting him when she was working at National Radio: "A good guy, it is a sad loss," Kate says. Here is her last interview with Augie dated from early May 2007. More >>
A repatriation convoy carrying some 250 Liberians from Sierra Leone is set to bring to over 100,000 the number returning home with United Nations assistance, the world body’s refugee agency said today. More >>
Over 4 million people in Zimbabwe – or one third of the Southern African nation’s population – will need food aid by early next year due to the combined effects of drought and economic decline spurred in part by Government policies, two United ... More >>
Representatives of more than 100 governments converged in Geneva today to launch a new United Nations-chaired forum on disaster reduction that is expected to the major international consultative group on the issue. More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to the Prime Minister about carbon emissions, carbon neutral New Zealand businesses, and travel/export complexities... More >>
As the leaders of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in Germany hammered the final communiqué on climate change, half a world away, in the small Pacific island country of Tuvalu, Sialafaga Talua, a born and bred islander pondered her shaky future on the islands, ... More >>
A poor harvest coupled with a worsening economic crisis will leave more than 4 million people in Zimbabwe in need of food assistance by early next year, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ... More >>
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator today urged action on plans to cope with disasters as delegates from 120 nations meeting in Geneva wrapped up a conference which warned that some of the world’s greatest cities are at risk. More >>
New Zealand's Pandemic Planning is well advanced and stands us in good stead for any future pandemic event, Health Minister Pete Hodgson said today from the APEC Health Minister's meeting in Sydney. Health Ministers of APEC`s 21-member countries ... More >>
Please find attached a statement which MFAT is distributing on behalf of the family of Nick Parker, killed in Tuesday's train crash in Australia. A photograph of Mr Parker will follow. More >>
A $3 million contribution from a United Nations humanitarian fund will help facilitate the delivery of badly needed aid to Somalia, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said today. More >>
The main United Nations agency tasked with helping Palestinian refugees launched an appeal today for nearly $13 million to help the thousands of people who have had to flee the Nahr el-Bared camp in northern Lebanon because of deadly fighting. More >>
Jim Anderton spent Wednesday morning visiting Hawke's Bay to see for himself the difficulties farmers are having. "The government has already moved to get the rules relaxed for the IRD Adverse Events Equalisation Income Scheme." More >>
The recent appointment of Elizabeth Mataka as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's new Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa is a first in many ways. More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wammo talks to Nandor Tanczos about the Greens AGM, how is Russell Norman as a leader, could the Greens work with National, has Green social engineering damaged environment policy? More >>
Aid has been distributed to more than 90 per cent of the nearly 400,000 people displaced by recent fighting in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, though considerable humanitarian difficulties persist, the United Nations said today. More >>
Remarks on on Darfur and Sanctions John D. Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State; Adam Szubin, Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control Director ; and Andrew Natsios, Special Envoy to Sudan More >>
Some 1,500 Sudanese refugees have sought refuge in a single town in the Central African Republic (CAR), claiming that Sudanese Government forces and armed militias attacked their town two weeks ago, a United Nations spokesperson said today. More >>
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned in the strongest possible terms the recent massacre of civilians in the war-ravaged east in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), calling on those responsible to be brought to justice. More >>
Canterbury Coastal residents can be assured evacuation plans are in place in case of a tsunami event. Police and Christchurch City Council staff have developed a plan for more than twenty three thousand coastal residents living between Waimakariri ... More >>
Remarks on the Humanitarian Situation in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa More >>
Please do your bit to help our registered charitable trust to support poverty stricken villages in the Pacific Islands! We have a fabulous lineup of standup comedians donating performances at Auckland's Classic Comedy Club (321 Queen St) on Saturday June 2nd, ... More >>
"In the southeast Atlantic, the Southeast Pacific, the Northeast Atlantic and the high seas tuna fishing grounds in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, half to two thirds of tuna stocks are overexploited, depleted, or recovering," Fisheries ... More >>
"The Darwin Declaration, signed today, outlines steps to enable the region to achieve energy security and sustainable development through energy efficiency, conservation and diversity of supply, with a strong focus on low emissions technologies," ... More >>
KiwiFM Audio: Wallace Chapman talks to Malcolm Rands from Ecostore about the G.E testing approved for Crop & Food by ERMA. More >>
Ongoing violence between Islamist militants and the Lebanese army has caused trouble for World Vision's work with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The violent clashes between Lebanese security forces and Fatah-al-Islam militants based in the Nahr el-Bared ... More >>
95bFM Audio: Frances Mountier from the Save Happy Valley Coalition which was infiltrated by a student paid to spy from within the organisation to Thompson & Clark, contractors for Soild Energy. More >>
Comet McNaught over Mt Edgecumbe (Putauaki) More >>
Powerful governments and armed groups are deliberately fomenting fear to erode human rights and to create an increasingly polarized and dangerous world, said Amnesty International today as it launched Amnesty International Report 2007, its annual ... More >>
PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, 1998 - In "X-Files" one of the characters explains that "FEMA allows the White House to suspend constitutional government upon declaration of a national emergency. It allows creation of a non-elected government. Think about that, ... More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend a meeting of the Middle East Quartet, the international diplomatic grouping trying to advance the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, in Berlin next week, his spokesperson announced today. More >>
An opt-in tsunami alert system designed to effectively warn 15,000 homes and businesses in a matter of seconds, has been approved by North Shore City Council and Civil Defence in preparation for the threat of a tsunami. More >>
There will be a gathering for peace in the countries of the Horn of Africa with a special focus on Darfur and Somalia. The event will be held in Civic Square on Saturday the 26th of May from 12pm-2pm. More >>
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is dispatching his new Middle East envoy Michael Williams to the region for consultations after a week of deadly violence involving intra-Palestinian clashes, Israeli military operations and Palestinian rocket attacks. More >>
More than 140,000 southern Sudanese refugees have returned home since the north-south civil war ended at the start of 2005, but almost twice as many remain in neighbouring countries, the United Nations humanitarian arm reported today. More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that it was airlifting 31 metric tons of equipment to the Central African Republic (CAR) as part of expanded efforts to reach over 230,000 people affected by recent violence and displacement. More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began a distribution of food to 122,500 Somalis affected by violence while warning that piracy is hampering its operations. More >>
The first evidence that recent climate change has weakened one the Earth’s natural carbon ‘sinks’ is published this week in the journal Science. The results of the four-year international study reveals that an increase in winds over the Southern ... More >>
Although many humanitarian activities, including a successful polio vaccination campaign, are currently being carried out in Sudan’s Darfur region, violence continues to threaten the operations, according to the United Nations Mission in Sudan ( UNMIS ... More >>
Just months after the formation of the national unity government, new clashes in the Gaza Strip have erupted, leaving more than 37 people killed and scores injured. More >>
The new draft Tourism Strategy released today reinforces the underlying fact that lack of action on reducing our greenhouse emissions and cleaning up our polluted rivers is a significant threat to our single largest export industry - tourism. More >>
United Nations information staff from around the Western Hemisphere are spending this week exploring the Holocaust and ways that public outreach can prevent future genocides. More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) today made an urgent appeal for $3.5 million for transport and storage needs in the Central African Republic (CAR), in order to feed at least 230,000 people affected by recent violence and displacement. More >>
AUT Postgrad Bharat Jamnadas writes: Maori and Pacific community leaders and entertainers feature in a “diplomatic” protest to Japan over plans to hunt 50 humpback whales next summer. The message was clear at an anti-whaling rally in New Zealand on Saturday ... More >>
The United Nations relief arm today more than doubled the appeal it launched just two months ago to help Madagascar as the country tries to recover and rebuild its agriculture after a series of deadly recent cyclones and tropical storms since December. More >>
A nationwide test of the Government’s plans to respond to an influenza pandemic is being held this month. Exercise Cruickshank will be one of the biggest exercises staged by the New Zealand government and plans to test every phase of the response ... More >>
Prime Minister Helen Clark has hailed the Budget's investment in overseas development assistance announced today as a major step forward in New Zealand's contribution to reducing poverty and supporting sustainable development. More >>
The Darfur crisis in Sudan is perhaps the most politically convoluted conflict in the world today. Its underpinnings involve local, regional and international players, all selfishly vying for power and economic interests. More >>
Following the recent earthquake and tsunami in the Solomon Islands, emergency supplies from New Zealand were among the first to arrive in the affected area. Our supplies meant victims of the disaster had clean water, shelter and medical treatment when ... More >>
Acting Climate Change Minister Michael Cullen today welcomed National's belated embrace of climate change as a major economic and environmental challenge. More >>
"No-one currently in Parliament will be there to take responsibility if John Key's '50 by 50' target on climate change is not achieved. It is a 'do nothing' recipe for the next few decades, by which time climate change will be unstoppable," ... More >>
Yasmine Ryan writes from Lebanon: As Lebanon heads down the fast track to trade liberalisation, some commentators, including UK-based charity Oxfam, are predicting a devastating impact on small-holder farmers. Unable even to sell produce on the Lebanese market ... More >>
Yasmine Ryan writes from Beirut: Ibrahim Akeel has an axe hanging over his neck. Along with his fellow farmers in the southern Lebanese village known as Sinai, the elderly man has little control over his fate and that of his children. More >>
The fragile peace process in Darfur is at a “crossroads,” the United Nations Special Envoy for the strife-torn region said today, as he and his counterpart from the African Union (AU) wrapped up their third joint visit to Sudan. More >>
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced today that it is sending an emergency cash grant of $30,000 to Uruguay to aid victims of flooding, the worst the country has seen in half a century. More >>
The latest swarm of earthquakes in the Bay of Plenty area highlights the need to be prepared, says Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management Director John Hamilton. More >>
The latest swarm of earthquakes in the Bay of Plenty area highlights the need to be prepared, says Ministry of Civil Defence and Emergency Management Director John Hamilton. More >>
This week marks the fifth anniversary of an order by the Supreme Court of India that an Andaman Islands highway, which threatens the lives of the Jarawa tribe, must close. The government has defied the order, and the road remains open. More >>
The Howard government is providing an example of unsustainable economic management by using the income generated by mining royalties in order to pay for tax cuts, and the National Party Finance Spokesperson Bill English is wrong to think that is a ... More >>
Our mums have always been there for us and are quick to pass along sage advice like ‘eat your greens’, ‘wash behind your ears’, and ‘get a good education’. This Mother's Day you can show mum that you took her words to heart by passing on ... More >>
"Since the recent Tsunami panic on the Australian East coast in April, Australians are particularly interested in New Zealand", says Open Polytechnic of New Zealand based crisis communication expert Dr Gary Mersham . More >>
Australian farming families from drought-affected areas have started to take advantage of free accommodation provided by Federated Farmers’ members and 100 free flights across the Tasman gifted by Jetstar Airlines. More >>
A New Zealand Special Service Medal Tsunami is to be presented in Feilding for services following the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Indonesia. Ministry of Civil Defence Emergency Management Director John Hamilton will present the medal to Shane Bayley, 10am Wednesday, ... More >>
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released the Summary for Policymakers of its Working Group 3 report Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change. This summary was approved at a plenary in Bangkok, Thailand, this ... More >>
Greenpeace is demanding swift and serious action from the New Zealand government, following the completion of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's latest report. More >>
Audio: Greenpeace's climate change spokesperson Vanessa Atkinson talks to Wallace about the spoof on the Genesis Energy pukeko advert. Hmmm, did Wal have a hidden motive? ;-) More >>
The United Nations food relief agency today welcomed a €30 million donation from the European Commission’s Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO), to help feed over 2 million people in the violence-torn Darfur region of Sudan. More >>
Health services deal with routine crises every day, but little is known about how they would perform in a major emergency such as an influenza pandemic. PhD student Debra Ellis will study how staff at the Auckland District Health Board cope during ... More >>
Biosecurity NZ, the lead agency for managing the invasive algae didymo, has confirmed this week that didymo has been found in the upper Hurunui River -North Branch Hurunui about 7 km downstream of Lake Sumner. More >>
Greenpeace said today it was time New Zealand energy companies like Genesis Energy stopped trying to brand themselves as caring and clean, when in reality they were increasing the threat of climate change. More >>
Improving welfare arrangement during emergency events is the aim of a new Canterbury Civil Defence and Emergency Management initiative. More >>
A petition from local government leaders to increase protection for the endangered Maui’s dolphin has been welcomed by Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton and Conservation Minister Chris Carter. More >>
Twelve United Nations experts united to voice their deep concern today about the recent violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu, where hundreds of people have been killed in the latest clashes and hundreds of thousands forced to flee in recent months. More >>
To better serve the urgent needs of the 2 million Iraqis who have fled their home regions to other areas of the violence-torn country, the United Nations refugee agency has decided to again station international officials in Baghdad, UN High Commissioner ... More >>
Twenty-one years ago this week, lethal radiation poured into the breezes over Europe and into the jet stream above, carrying death and disease around the planet. More >>
Climate Change Minister David Parker says he's impressed by the willingness of New Zealand businesses to get stuck in and develop solutions to climate change. More >>
For more than four years, the genocide in Darfur has demanded greater international action, and today, the violence continues unabated. On the first day of May 2007, the U.S. will begin its month-long presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security ... More >>
For more than four years, the genocide in Darfur has demanded greater international action, and today, the violence continues unabated. On the first day of May 2007, the U.S. will begin its month-long presidency of the United Nations (UN) Security ... More >>
Deeply deploring the civilian deaths resulting from renewed fighting in Somalia, the Security Council today urged the country’s Government to reach out to all segments of the war-torn country’s society, while demanding that the warring parties allow ... More >>
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR pledged today to shine the spotlight on the “forgotten situation” in eastern Sudan, where the agency has been running camps since 1968 for displaced Eritreans and Ethiopians, but has attracted ... More >>
Maritime New Zealand says the sentencing today of the owner of the fishing vessel Mi Jay for breaches of the Maritime Transport Act should remind all owners and operators of their duty to make sure their Masters establish a method to report back to shore ... More >>
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his grave concern about the intensified violence in Somalia, and called on the world to step up its assistance to the war-torn East African nation. More >>
We are writing to you with great concern about the issue of West Papua. We believe the situation in West Papua is deteriorating. The West Papuan people who are one of our nearest neighbours face great challenges including ongoing human rights abuses, ... More >>
The United Nations humanitarian arm today launched a $62.5 million appeal to boost the capacity of the world body and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to respond to emergencies and crises, from the rapid deployment of expert staff to ensuring ... More >>
If you have ANY plan to grab a copy of my book, Armed Madhouse, I’m asking you, please: do it THIS WEEK. The new edition, in paperback, totally updated with two new chapters, is out today. More >>
95bFM Audio: Mickey Havoc interviews Prime Minister, Helen Clark, about her trip to Americas Cup central in Valencia; weather; the French presidential elections; ANZAC Day; youth school leavers; liberals n conservatives… More >>
New Zealand donors have given $100,000 to World Vision's Solomon Islands appeal, and Kiwi child protection expert, Amalia Fawcett, says the situation after the April 9 tsunami is heartbreaking and there's an urgent need to help the thousands of children ... More >>
Britain is in favour of "tougher measures and sanctions" against Sudan over the continuing violence in the Darfur region, Tony Blair said today. More >>
Kit and Evie Davis, are two of the children from Northland who have responded to the Books Without Borders 2007 invitation to share books with students in the developing world. Don Cameron the skipper who built "The Scotsman" back in the 1980s ... More >>
The Sudanese Government has announced it will streamline some passport and customs procedures to allow the United Nations to better support the existing African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-torn Darfur region. More >>
The United Nations World Food Programme ( WFP ) today announced plans to provide emergency relief for more than 42,000 people displaced from their homes on the troubled island of Jolo in the southern Philippines, where there have been deadly clashes ... More >>
Minister of Public Services Hon Joses Sanga is urging Opposition Leader Fred Fono to work closely with the government instead of politically degrading positive efforts to address the humanitarian crisis facing survivors of the April 2 Tsunami. More >>
An euconomical service to remember those who lost their lives as the result of April 2 earthquake-tsunami will be held at the Wesley United Church in Honiara next Monday morning. More >>
Choiseul Province Premier Jackson Kiloe has appealed to the government to have the provincial capital Taro relocated to a much higher and safety location. More >>
This morning Israeli Forces accompanied bulldozers to the Home of the Abu Kabatya Family near Um Nazel which was rebuilt with donations collected by peace activists. They demolished the families' home and then proceeded to the land of farmer Ali Rabia ... More >>
Over the past decade best-selling author Greg Palast has put the word "investigation" back into US journalism (while working mainly for publications in the United Kingdom). And even if much of the US media steadfastly continue to ignore his remarkable investigations ... More >>
Climaction, a group of people dedicated to taking action to push for real solutions to Climate Change, will put ourselves on the line on Saturday to raise money for our free public transport campaign. More >>
National is accusing the Government of understating New Zealand’s Kyoto deficit by $1 billion and is seeking an independent review by the Auditor-General. More >>
The rescue of an ill crew member from a vessel off the Otago coast has been successfully completed reports the Rescue Coordination Centre New Zealand (RCCNZ). More >>
Responses to the earthquake-tsunami stricken areas continue to flow in from organizations and individuals in the forms of cash and material. More >>
"What is avian influenza?" asks a senior lady doctor working in one of the leading hospitals in Cairo. It is not a surprise because in present times we all are so focused with our own respective professions and interests, that it becomes hard to know all ... More >>
IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS), a global provider of critical technical information and consulting services, today announced the upcoming launch of the Iraq Atlas, the first and only detailed analysis of oil reserves, production and development opportunities developed ... More >>
An international conference in Geneva organized by the United Nations refugee agency to focus on the plight of the nearly 4 million Iraqis who have fled their homes ended today with agreement on the urgent need to stem the outflow of people while assisting ... More >>
Taiwanese Navy Midshipmen Cruising Training Squadron led by Commander Rear Admiral Wang, Neng-an will be arriving in Honiara on Friday morning 20 April for a four-day friendship visit. The Embassy of Taiwan and its counterparts will jointly arrange ... More >>
Thanks to the generous support of major institutional donors and the corporate sector in Australia and New Zealand, international aid agency Oxfam continues its humanitarian response to meet the needs of the thousands of people left homeless in the aftermath ... More >>
A new way to manage fire risk and strengthen rescue services in New Zealand is outlined in a public discussion document released today by Internal Affairs Minister Rick Barker. More >>
The New Zealand Defence Force aircraft loading team which has worked to assist the Solomon Islands aid effort for the past week returned to New Zealand tonight. More >>
The New Zealand branch of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) supports the view of Australian trauma experts that New Zealand hospitals are not adequately resourced to cope with a large-scale natural disaster, major accident or terrorist ... More >>
The Interim Government of the autonomous Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville today donated cash assistance to Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to assist in the relief program for Tsunami victims in Western and Choiseul Provinces. More >>
Fourteen individuals involved in the response to the 28 November 1979 Mount Erebus crash of Flight TE901 will receive their New Zealand Special Service Medal (Erebus) on Monday at a ceremony for Wellington-based recipients. More >>
From the radio newsmagazine Between The Lines http://www.btlonline.org ---------------------------- Between the Lines Q&A A weekly column featuring progressive viewpoints on national and international issues under-reported in mainstream media for release April 12, ... More >>
Warning that a virulent new wheat-killing fungus called wheat stem rust could destroy harvests across the globe, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) today said that it has partnered with other organizations to fight the spread of ... More >>
Relief efforts in the Solomon Islands following last week’s deadly tsunami are being hampered by the lack of access to the more remote regions, the United Nations humanitarian arm warned today, with some areas still not yet reached by emergency ... More >>
Audio & Text Report: The Premiere of Niue has invited all Niueans living in Auckland, Wellington and Sydney to consider returning home. He encouraged them to do so, before family land they abandoned over the past 30 years is lost to them. The call came ... More >>
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador and singer Clay Aiken is currently on his first visit to Afghanistan, aiming to raise awareness about the hope and promise he has seen in the young people of the war-torn country. More >>
New Zealand will provide $209,000 ($F240,000) to support families struggling to recover after serious flooding in Fiji, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced today. More >>
The Solomon Islands Red Cross led relief operation, supported by New Zealand Red Cross, in the Western provinces of the Solomon Islands is in full swing. The Western provinces were the worst affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit ... More >>
Some of the world’s most renowned natural and cultural sites, from the Great Barrier Reef to Kilimanjaro National Park to the city of Venice, are at serious threat from climate change, according to a report released today by the United Nations Educational, ... More >>
As aid is steadily reaching those who need it in the Solomons Islands, World Vision New Zealand staff are reporting stories of encouragement. More >>
Small islands, including those in the South Pacific, are already experiencing the effects of climate change, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). More >>
The latest UN report shows the jury is now in on climate change and it is time the country started serious work on avoiding unnecessary losses and reaping huge potential benefits from weather changes which are now virtually certain to occur. More >>
The United Nations today condemned separate bloody weekend attacks in Afghanistan, resulting in the killing of seven civilian de-miners and the deaths of six Canadian soldiers belonging to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ... More >>
After a deadly tsunami struck the Solomon Islands one week ago, the United Nations continues to provide aid and technical assistance in the wake of the natural disaster which has displaced at least 5,500 people in the South Pacific nation, the world ... More >>
The United Nations humanitarian arm has dispatched a five-member disaster assessment and coordination team to Madagascar, where relief operations are under way after the sixth cyclone of the season struck the island nation last week. More >>
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A team of New Zealand Defence Force aircraft load specialists has departed from Whenuapai Air Force Base to assist with aid efforts in the earthquake hit Solomon Islands. More >>
From Bangkok where she is attending the Asia Pacific Leaders Forum annual meeting, PIAF CEO and HIV Advocate Ms. Maire Bopp-Dupont sends her support and encouragement to the families affected by the deadly tsunami that has just hit the country. More >>
Solomon Islands Government and RAMSI are continuing to work together to ensure a coordinated and effective disaster response in Western and Choisuel provinces. More >>
RAMSI Special Coordinator Tim George met today with Prime Minister Sogavare to personally express his heartfelt sympathy to Solomon Islanders affected by Monday’s earthquakes and tsunami and pledge RAMSI’s continued support to the government’s relief efforts. More >>
5th April 2007, Caritas Australia is today facilitating food distribution to villagers who are yet to see assistance in the wake of the tsunami that hit the Solomon Islands on Monday. Jack de Groot CEO of Caritas Australia said “In addition, three trauma ... More >>
Save the Children New Zealand is supporting the emergency situation in the Solomon Islands by accepting donations and is also sending $20,000 to help with relief efforts. More >>
Southern African communities, local authorities and humanitarian partners are finding their resources stretched to the limit with the early arrival of the rainy season and relentless precipitation as well as an unprecedented series of cyclones and tropical ... More >>
Oxfam is deploying additional emergency workers to help with the assessment, recovery and emergency support in the aftermath of the Solomon Islands earthquake and tsunami that left dozens killed and rendered thousands of people homeless and in urgent need ... More >>
The leaders of the Anglican Church in these islands have urged Anglicans to reach out to the victims of the Solomon Islands earthquake and tsunami. Archbishops Brown Turei, David Moxon and Jabez Bryce have also endorsed the Christian World Service ... More >>
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and development, is seeking financial donations to assist those affected by the large earthquake and tsunami in Western Province of the Solomon Islands. More >>
Foreign Minister Winston Peters said the body of Mr Teangauki Toma, who died when a tsunami struck the western Solomon Islands on Monday, will return to New Zealand tonight on an RNZAF Hercules. More >>
Solomon Islands has deepen ties with the Republic of Cuba as it receives Cuba’s first ever Ambassador in Honiara today. More >>
Civil Defence Minister Rick Barker said today that New Zealand is sending civil defence expertise to help in the aftermath of the recent earthquake and tsunami in the Solomon Islands. More >>
World Vision's first shipment of relief supplies is leaving Honiara on a Government ship today, following an assessment team's flight into Gizo this morning. More >>
With some 450,000 people in Madagascar already in urgently need of shelter, food, drinking water, medication and school supplies due to five cyclones this season, and a sixth one on the way, United Nations agencies have set up three operational ... More >>
Thousands of homeless people camped over night on a hilltops at the hard-hit Gizo Island fearing another return of huge waves that crashed the western Solomon Islands yesterday. More >>
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 Media Release Emergency Appeal for the Solomon Islands Christian World Service (CWS) today launched an emergency appeal to support the people of the Solomon Islands in response to the severe earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck ... More >>
Social Development and Employment Minister David Benson-Pope has today announced Enhanced Taskforce Green funding to help with the clean-up of flood damage in Northland. More >>
A deadly weekend attack on two villages in south-eastern Chad, possibly carried out by Janjaweed militias from Sudan’s neighbouring Darfur region, has forced at least 2,000 people to flee their homes and seek safety in nearby camps, the United Nations ... More >>
Caritas Australia’s partners are currently on the ground in the affected islands of the Western province of the Solomon Islands assessing the damage and providing immediate assistance to those affected by the recent tsunami. More >>
Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon has expressed deep distress and sorrow over the Tsunami that hit Solomon Islands, leaving a trail of devastation. More >>
Civil Defence Minister Rick Barker said today that it was sad National MPs Phil Heatley and John Carter had to resort to making things up in the vain hope of looking effective. More >>
The National Disaster Management Council this morning agreed to endorse a directive by the Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare for the immediate deployment of a reassessment team to the Tsunami stricken areas of the Western and Choiseul Provinces. More >>
More than 5,000 people have been left homeless in the wake of the devastating tsunami triggered by an undersea earthquake, which hit Western and Choiseul Provinces early yesterday morning. More >>
The National Disaster Council (NDC) has withdrawn an alert warning to the people of Western and Choiseul Provinces. More >>
World Vision is sending four Solomon Islands staff to assess the situation in Gizo by plane from Honiara tomorrow. The staff will be on the ground for three to four days in Gizo, looking at the damage caused by yesterday's earthquake and tsunami ... More >>
Reports coming in from the Solomon Islands indicate that emergency supplies in the country are insufficient to meet the immediate needs of the people following yesterday’s massive earthquake and tsunami says the Council for International Development (CID) ... More >>
Northland MPs John Carter and Phil Heatley say they'll hold the Civil Defence Minister to his word over relief promises for flood-affected Northlanders. More >>
The National Disaster Management Council this morning agreed to endorse a directive by the Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare for the immediate deployment of a reassessment team to the Tsunami stricken areas of the Western and Choiseul Provinces. More >>
The Tsunami hit Western Solomon Islands is yet to be declared a ‘Disaster Area’ as the government is waiting for assessment reports from a team dispatched yesterday to the affected areas. More >>
New Zealand is making an initial $500,000 contribution to the Solomon Islands as well as providing humanitarian supplies in the wake of yesterday's earthquake and tsunami, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced today. More >>
ANZ today announced a range of measures to support customers who have been impacted by the earthquake in the Western and Choiseul Provinces of the Solomon Islands. More >>
As a result of the international Red Cross response to the earthquake and subsequent localised tsunami which hit the Solomon Islands yesterday, New Zealand Red Cross employee Douglas Clark was deployed to Honiara last night to assist with disaster ... More >>
International agency Oxfam has started its response to help people affected by the tsunami triggered by yesterday's (Monday, April 2) earthquake. Oxfam's Solomon Islands Disaster Management Officer, Rex Tara, yesterday led an assessment mission dispatched ... More >>
Authorities in the provincial capital of Taro Island, Choiseul Province in the Western Solomons are evacuating residents to higher ground after observing strange ocean changes in the Western part of the Island. More >>
Six more people including two children were confirmed dead at Gizo, making the death toll reaching 12 in the Tsunami that crashed the Western Solomons today. And Solomons PM Sogavare has urged all leaders to ensure people receive assistance. More >>
ChildFund New Zealand is raising money through an emergency appeal for those affected by the tsunami which hit the northwest islands of the Solomon Islands yesterday. Tents, food and drinking water are urgently needed. More >>
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and development, is pledging $10,000 towards immediate relief assistance for those affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Western Solomon Islands. More >>
Aid agency World Vision reports 25 people dead in Gizo, in Western Province Solomon Islands after a 3 metre tsunami hit the town this morning. Many are injured but the numbers are not yet known, although it is believed between 50,000 and 60,000 have ... More >>
Six more people including two children were confirmed dead at Gizo, making the death toll reaching 12 in the Tsunami that crashed the Western Solomons today. A hospital worker in Gizo said late this afternoon six more bodies were found floating in seas ... More >>
The Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare was today saddened by the destruction and loss of life caused by the earth quake and the subsequent Tsunami that crashed parts of Western and Choiseul Provinces. More >>
Foreign Minister Winston Peters has offered his condolences to Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare in the wake of today's earthquake and tsunami. More >>
Canterbury emergency response organisations are monitoring the situation after a major earthquake and local tsunami event in the Solomon Islands this morning. The Ministry of CDEM, advised by its Tsunami Expert Panel, do not anticipate any significant ... More >>
The latest death toll in the Tsunami devastated Western Solomon Islands has risen to six before midday while several others were missing as 10 meter high waves continue to crash coastal villages. More >>
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