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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
Beijing - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) official Helen Clark said Saturday that China's new pledge to reduce carbon intensity is an important and ambitious target - but not yet ambitious enough. Speaking at the end of her three-day Ch...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
A former Labour MP has had her conviction for harassment overturned. Helen Clark, who represented Peterborough between 1997 and 2005, was told by a judge that her behaviour in an hotel bar had been shameful but was not criminal.
The Untrusted (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Pope Urban II declared the First Crusade in 1095. Macy's in New York held their first annual Thanksgiving Day parade in 1925. The descent module of the Soviet Union's Mars 2 became the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars when it crash landed in 1971. Helen Clark became the first elected female Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1999. Born today: Anders Celsius (1701-1744), Buster Merryfield...
Big News (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
Goff’s Nationhood speech Rather than do an immediate post on Goff’s Nationhood speech , I thought I’d wait rather than attack Goff for a racist speech that Shane Jones vetted before delivery. What Goff appeared to want to do is open up a split within the Māori Party at the same time as divide a wedge between the Māori Party and National. He wanted to play the race card,...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Helen Clark in IPS highlights a persistent challenge for Hanoi and other cities : As Vietnam’s big cities are increasingly deluged by floods, the infrastructure cannot keep up. At the end of October last year Hanoi suffered the worst floods in over 50 years. Some streets were under more than two metres of water, resulting in a death toll of 20, many as a result of electrocution from makeshift...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Ninety new United Nations development projects will be launched over the next three years, a top official said today, to help achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) This is an incredible opportunity to think more strategically about how, working together, we can accelerate progress on the MDGs and the other goals which loom large in nations’ development strategies,” UN Development...
Big News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
TIME looks back over 50 years In 1959, TIME magazine published its first edition for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific. The magazine looks back and lists the most influential people that shaped the region. The New Zealanders mentioned are: Peter Snell , David Lange , Jane Campion, Peter Blake , Peter Jackson and Helen Clark , Matiu Rata, Rob Muldoon , and Russell Crowe . You can read what...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Helen Clark is enjoying her new job as the head of the United Nations Development Programme, a year after being ousted as Prime Minister.The former Labour leader says she gets to do a lot of travel, has a large organisation to...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Latin American governments should seek a more effective alliance between the state and the market to deal with the global crisis, Helen Clark, administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), suggested Friday. "The working of the market alone will not end poverty, or deliver either equity or justice," Clark said during a conference hosted at the headquarters of the Economic...
Not PC (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
What can you say about the National-led government and its leader Guy Smiley after their one year in office. Well, what is there to say? Their list of concrete achievements is … let’s be polite … slight. Not to say, almost non-existent. When it comes to boasting, there’s practically nothing to be boasting about. Helen Clark once had the temerity to say that her ambition for...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Helen Clark's team at the United Nations Development Programme has just produced its first report since she became administrator. And it has a challenging message for her native country - we're in the big league when it comes to economic...
Cactus Kate (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
In the spirit of fairness to all who come in front of the judiciary of one on Asian Invasion, I say to Rodney Hide this was a bad call - no biscuit. The Act leader and Minister for Local Government sidestepped Mr Key's directive by keeping Ms Crome's business-class flights off his ministerial tab, instead claiming them as part of his MP's perk of 90 per cent subsidised international travel for partners....
Cactus Kate (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
It is hard to analyse where someone sits who both the left and right of the political spectrum are starting to ask questions of. Just because both ends of the spectrum are questioning his ability, does not make him a centrist. For centrists actually do take policy positions and have a vision. About the only vision we have seen from Bill was in desperation getting into and clobbered out of a boxing...
Oswald Bastable's Ranting (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
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