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NZ meat hold-up in China continues

New Zealand sheep and beef meat is still held up at the Chinese border and officials say the documentation required to get the ball rolling only arrived in China today…

Obama defends drone strikes

US President Barack Obama has defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving US counterterrorism policy.

Science

Scientist: Challenges will help NZ

The Prime Minister's chief science adviser says a hitlist of 10 big issues for our top brains to tackle will be "transformational", despite criticism that they lack…

'Dream' software boosts power of DNA

The new software, called STRmix, has the ability to unscramble DNA found at crime scenes from up to four people - giving results that were previously not possible.

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80-year-old tops Everest

An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation has become the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest, a feat he called "the world's best feeling"…

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Snakk Media raises $6.5m in new funds

Snakk Media, the latest brainchild of Hyperfactory co-founder Derek Handley, has raised $6.5 million from an over-subscribed share purchase plan and private placement…

Tech Universe: Friday 24 May

HEALTH IN A BOX: We'd like to think that hospitals and medical clinics are places full of light and life-saving equipment. In many parts of the world though they are…

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First trade scholars graduate

Hundreds of trades scholarships offered last year to help in the Christchurch rebuild are starting to pay off as the first…

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Book: The pitch that paid off

Book: The pitch that paid off

The story so farBorn in Hong Kong, Derek Handley moved to New Zealand as a teenager. After some youthful business ventures…

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