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[ad_1] National says it has a $ 1.29 billion plan to double New Zealand’s tech sector in a decade and create at least 100,000 new jobs. It pledges to do this by ensuring that 90 percent of households have unlimited ultra-fast broadband, introducing a fast-track technology skills visa, creating a …

[ad_1] Abigail Dougherty / Stuff Pania Newton in Ihumātao during the arrival of the Maori king. (File photo) The group at the center of the fight for Ihumātao won big at the 2020 Matariki Awards. ALMA (Save Our Unique Landscape) – Te Hapori o te Ihu o Mataaho received the …

[ad_1] Supplied The entrance to the medical school is more difficult if you compete for the general entrance places. (File image) The man behind a court challenge to the University of Otago medical school admissions plan is receiving support from other parents whose children did not participate. The medical school’s …

[ad_1] A division drug touted by Donald Trump may contain the secrets to stopping the spread of Covid-19, and its potential is enormous. Every morning before Claire Lobb goes to work on the front lines of Victoria’s second wave coronavirus crisis, she takes a mystery pill. There is a 50 …

[ad_1] A Covid-19 testing station installed at a South Auckland school was flooded today after a student tested positive for the virus. Chapel Downs Elementary School. Photo: google maps An asymptomatic boy briefly attended Chapel Downs School near Botany on Monday morning, before the family knew the student had the …

[ad_1] OPINION: The delay to date of the New Zealand elections, to which not all citizens of the countries would have adapted so quickly, was only the latest event in a year in which the unexpected and the extraordinary have become characteristic constant of a fragile “new normal”. What was …

[ad_1] New details have emerged about the rollercoaster relationship between US President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, including what the couple said to each other behind the scenes when their diplomatic summit in Hanoi fell apart last year. Veteran political journalist Bob Woodward, who you may …

[ad_1] In open contradiction to leading government health experts, US President Donald Trump predicted on Wednesday (local time) that a safe and effective coronavirus vaccine could be ready next month and in mass distribution shortly thereafter. , undermining the director of the Centers for Disease. Control and Prevention (CDC) and …

[ad_1] Sweden’s laid-back approach to living with Covid-19 has come under international scrutiny, but now a group of 200 scientists, medical experts and professors are raising the pressure on the official version of events. The group, of which Australian expatriate and former epidemiologist David Steadson is a member, told news.com.au …

[ad_1] A professor at the University of Canterbury received $ 13 million over seven years to develop a more efficient and sustainable electrical grid. Professor Neville Watson’s project is one of three that the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) will finance with $ 40.7 million from the Strategic …