Creating societal divisions a way of lifeThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 11:30PMErecting walls can be as much fun as demolishing them. Other walls, psychological ones, contain as
IRD forking out $31.6m for furnishingsThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 12:02PMInland Revenue is spending $31.6 million to furnish its new head office in Wellington.
Environment: Beekeepers add buzz to Japans urban jungleThursday, July 22, 2010 @ 11:04AMTOKYO -- Tokyos Ginza district is usually abuzz with shoppers and office workers, but high above its skyscrapers nature-lovers have created a home for real busy bees -- the ones that make honey.
Beekeepers add buzz to Japan urban jungleThursday, July 22, 2010 @ 3:00AMBeekeepers check beehives before dripping its honey on the rooftop of a building in Tokyo’s shopping district Ginza. Photo: Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP Tokyo’s Ginza district is usually abuzz with shoppers and office workers, but high above its skyscrapers nature-lovers have created a home for real busy bees – the ones that make honey.
Tax deal would allow renovation for move of DA's officeMonday, July 19, 2010 @ 3:39AMWORCESTER - City Manager Michael V. O'Brien is recommending a 10-year tax-increment financing deal to help finance the $3.5 million renovation of a vacant five-story commercial building on the north end of Main Street.
"Seized" community centres seen better daysSunday, July 18, 2010 @ 9:23AMAMPANG (July 18, 2010): When it wrested Selangor from the Barisan Nasional in 2008, the new Pakatan Rakyat (PR) state government proceeded to take over BN-run community centres which they claimed had been used for political purposes.
HISTORY'S TURNING POINTS OFTEN GO UNNOTICEDSaturday, July 17, 2010 @ 6:58PMFranklin Roosevelt didn't want to fight the Vietnam War. He wasn't, of course, alive when American troops began to trickle into Indochina, and his grasp of the tensions with Soviet Russia that would mature into the Cold War was not fully formed. Indeed, toward the end of World War II, he cut out Winston Churchill so as to confer with Joseph Stalin privately.
Historic district sees a century of changeFriday, July 16, 2010 @ 2:45PMOver one hundred years have past since Dubai’s first expatriates made their homes in a small settlement on the banks of the Creek.
Beekeepers add buzz to Japan urban jungleThursday, July 15, 2010 @ 4:04AMTOKYO - Tokyo's Ginza district is usually abuzz with shoppers and office workers, but high above its skyscrapers nature-lovers have created a home for real busy bees - the ones that make honey.