Work to begin on Auckland's Korean Garden project - 10 years after its launch
Korean Garden Trust finally granted resource consent last month.
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Bad blood over goods and services
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North Korean soldier makes midnight dash to freedom
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North Korea ramps up pressure on US, fires more missiles
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Two Kiwi water polo players injured in nightclub balcony collapse
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South Korea fires at Russian jet in its airspace
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Excavating a horror that some Koreans wish would stay buried
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has received a lavish reception at G-20 summit.
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250 children died when a ferry sank. Here's why it could happen again
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She went overboard and disappeared: The latest tragic addition to list of cruise ship deaths
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7 dead, 21 missing after tour boat sinks in Budapest
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The search for missing soldiers: How US is bringing wartime fallen home
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'Sex island' is new tourist hot spot
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Intoxicated airline passenger faces 20-year sentence
A passenger faces a maximum 20-year prison term after a drunken disaster in the skies.
French troops' shocking find in kidnappers' lair
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North Korea fires 'unidentified projectile'
North Korea today described firing rocket artillery at the weekend as an exercise.
North Korea's missile tests to go on until US lets go of tough stance
Experts say testing will ramp up until the US softens its tough line on denuclearisation.
North Korea launches short range missiles
North Korea fired short-range missiles from the east coast city of Wonsan.
Running out of children, a South Korea school enrols grandmothers
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Violence erupts as protesters mark May Day around the globe
Some protesters threw rocks, burned effigies of politicians and trashed cars.
Kiwi who lost job after refusing HIV test sues for damages
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The odd little room in North Korea kept for the US
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Spy cam porn ring films guests in 30 Korean hotels
Four men have been arrested for an illicit porn ring, spanning 30 separate hotels.
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Family watched in horror as tourist killed by bus
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