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Nov 30, 2010

Americans Say Small Businesses Are Critical To Future of The Economy

Half of Americans believe the recent election did not affect their employment outlook at all, while the rest are split on if it helped or hurt their job prospects according to a new poll by Zogby conducted for the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA).

Three Ways to Profit as China Dumps Japanese Debt

As a veteran trader, I have a tendency to look past the day's top headlines. That's why a recent Bloomberg News story - which stated that China sold a net total of 769.2 billion y
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en ($9.24 billion) worth of Japanese debt in September - really caught my eye.

Norfolk Island: Abundant bounty in predatory seas

With only two landing places on Norfolk, boats are launched through nifty work from skippers and helpers. Photo / Supplied
With only two landing places on Norfolk, boats are launched through nifty work from skippers and helpers. Photo / Supplied
With only two landing places on Norfolk, boats are launched through nifty work from skippers and helpers. Photo / Supplied Shrink
With only two landing places on Norfolk, boats are launched through nifty work from skippers and helpers.

Cook Islands: On island time in paradise

Aitutaki, Cook islands. Photo / Pamela Wade
How long does it take a big, nattily tweed-patterned crab on Aitutaki to come back out of hiding so you can take his photo? Long enough for the camera battery to go flat in the meantime, that's how long.

Along Fiji's royal road

Sigatoka River Safaris, Fiji. Photo / Supplied
An island holiday can be more than lying on a beach, discovers a culturally enriched, exhilarated and exfoliated Andrew Stone.
Tourists sweating after clearing customs in the tropical heat of Nadi usually head straight to the air-conditioned comforts and kidney-shaped pools of Denarau's resorts.

Niue: Tranquillity at its finest hour - Destination Pacific Islands

Jeff Jeffarian, an American who visited Niue in 2007 and never left, says that after your first visit to the island you'll be back. Photo / Geoff Thomas
Jeff Jeffarian, an American who visited Niue in 2007 and never left, says that after your first visit to the island you'll be back. Photo / Geoff Thomas
I had a workshop with eight mechanics in Grey Lynn but after 27 years I left the rat race and came back to Niue. I love it here," said Willie Saniteli, as he dropped another flying fish bait over the side of his 5m tinny, Sarah. "She's named after my daughter," who lives in Auckland.

Cook Islands: A rocky road to Raro - Destination Pacific Islands

Edgewater Resort Rarotonga. Photo / Cook Island Tourism
Despite having to adjust his expectations of an island idyll, father of three Liam Dann manages to have a good time in the Cook Islands.
Edgewater Resort Rarotonga. Photo / Cook Island Tourism
In the thick of chaos lie the remnants of my .

Rarotonga: Sultry nights at ultimate hideaway, Cook Islands

Romance is almost compulsory at the Rumours Luxury Villas and Spa, where visitors can make the most of bubbly on arrival, four-poster beds and pampering massages. Photo / Supplied
Romance is almost compulsory at the Rumours Luxury Villas and Spa, where visitors can make the most of bubbly on arrival, four-poster beds and pampering massages. Photo / Supplied

Dunedin: Buckets of cool charm - City Breaks, New Zealand

St Clair Beach is the perfect coastal retreat on hot summer days. Photo / Dunedin Tourism
St Clair Beach is the perfect coastal retreat on hot summer days. Photo / Dunedin Tourism
Dunedin is cold and there's nothing much to do there. Yeah right, as the folks at Tui would say (with apologies to Speights). Rather, Dunedin boasts gourmet kai, fabulous fashion, world-class festivals,

Niue: Hunting the uga - Destination Pacific Islands

Jim Eagles with a cooked coconut crab on Niue. Photo / Jim Eagles
Jim Eagles with a cooked coconut crab on Niue. Photo / Jim Eagles
The monster was waiting for me in the darkness, eyes alert, body armour gleaming, massive claws poised to crush any unwary fingers.
We stumbled towards its lair, the black of night broken only by the dim light of our torches, brushing our way through Niue's dense rainforest, desperately trying to avoid the razor sharp chunks of coral which protruded on all sides.

The ocean liner that thinks big

She's longer than a queue of 40 Routemaster buses. She's taller than St Paul's Cathedral. She's as wide as a football pitch. Welcome to Royal Caribbean's brand new Allure of the Seas, the largest cruise ship in the world.

New Caledonia: Indigenous awakening - Destination Pacific Islands

Flag of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front. Photo / Pamela Wade
Kanaks are regaining their land and pride, says Pamela Wade.
Flag of the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front. Photo / Pamela Wade
Few things will destroy dinner-table ambience faster than a dog fight breaking out underneath it; especially if it's a picnic table with the attached benches snugly filled.

Fiji: Return to the blue lagoon - Destination Pacific Islands

The end of another perfect Yasawa day. Photo / Paul Rush
The end of another perfect Yasawa day. Photo / Paul Rush
My dive briefing is less than wholeheartedly encouraging.
'Say your prayers now as you will be diving to 21 metres to The Chapel' where our two guides will lay out bait fish for three four-metre lemon sharks. We're sending a Kiwi down today so they'll be

Niue: Rockin' out to an underground beat - Destination Pacific Islands

Playing the xylophone in the Ulupaka Caves. Photo / Jim Eagles
Playing the xylophone in the Ulupaka Caves. Photo / Jim Eagles
Darren's question, from a dark corner of the huge cave, was a little unexpected: "Anyone here like music?"
By way of explanation he turned his lamp on to a row of stalactites hanging from the ceiling, like a set of stone chimes, and hit a couple with a broken off length of stone.

Norfolk Island: Painful past in paradise - Destination Pacific Islands

Tourists have an easy time of navigating Norfolk Island, which is just  35 sq km, and some local knowledge will help them appreciate the significance of landmarks. Photo / Kerri Jackson
Tourists have an easy time of navigating Norfolk Island, which is just 35 sq km, and some local knowledge will help them appreciate the significance of landmarks. Photo / Kerri Jackson
No visit to Norfolk Island is complete without a good look at its history.
There are few places where you can pack so much action into a relatively short time, and even fewer have so many reminders of their history - family names, original buildings, unique dialect and early graves - still intact.
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NSW miners organise state memorial for Pike River - Australia

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Residents of a New South Wales town devastated by a gas explosion in their local coal mine 31 years ago have started organising a state memorial service for the 29 men killed at Pike River Coal mine.
John Hennessey, of Ingleburn, has already invited a number of dignitaries, including NSW Premier Kristina Keneally and Governor-General Quentin Bryce, to attend the ceremony on December 7, at Appin Mine Memorial Garden.

Video Nations unhappy with latest Wikileak

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Video Clinton: US 'deeply regrets' leak of documents

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World leaders react to Wikileaks, Nov 30, 2010

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says leaked American diplomatic cables recounting Arab calls for the US to launch a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities were intended to stir "mischief."  

Teen missing after lake jump

A teenager is missing after jumping into a lake in Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore this afternoon.
Police say the 16-year-old boy was part of a youth programme involved in an organised outdoor activity at Lake Pupuke.
Members of the programme had been diving into Quarry Lake, a lagoon formed in a former quarry area near Smales Quarry, from a point near Shea Tce.

US high school hostage taker shoots himself

A high school student who pulled a handgun and shot a film projector as the school day wound down held 23 classmates and a teacher hostage for about five hours before shooting himself when police busted down a classroom door.

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China 'backs Korean reunification'
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Chinese officials increasingly doubt the usefulness of neighbouring North Korea as an ally and would support the reunification of the peninsula if the communist state were to collapse, according to leaked US diplomatic cables. ...
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WikiLeaks: Do they have a right to privacy?
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The candid diplomatic information revealed by WikiLeaks is embarrassing, but it could also cause real harm, says Malcolm Rifkind . By Malcolm Rifkind 7:12AM GMT 30 Nov 2010 Henry Stimson, a predecessor of Hillary Clinton as US Secretary of State, ...
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Iranian scientists targeted in car bombings
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By Thomas Erdbrink TEHRAN - A prominent Iranian nuclear scientist was killed Monday and a second was seriously wounded in nearly simultaneous car bomb attacks in the Iranian capital, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported. ...
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US fears Iran has long-range missile, but Russia calls it a 'myth'
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By Laurie Ure, CNN Washington (CNN) -- The United States believes that North Korea is supplying Iran with long-range missiles, suggesting Iran has strike capabilities are stronger than discussed in public, according to one of the leaked US diplomatic ...
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OAS says Haiti election was valid
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The joint mission from the Organisation of American States and the Caribbean regional grouping, Caricom, said delays at some polling stations were not reason enough to cancel the election. Most opposition presidential candidates had called for the vote ...
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Quake jolts north-eastern Japan (Roundup)
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There were no reports of casualties or damage to property. There was no danger of a tsunami, the agency said. The epicentre of the 12:25 pm (0325 GMT) quake was near the Ogasawara islands, which are about 1000 kilometres south of Tokyo in the Pacific, ...
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Trove of Picassos Surfaces, and So Do Questions
New York Times
By SCOTT SAYARE Above and below, drawings that are part of 271 previously unknown works that Pierre Le Guennec, an electrician who had worked for Picasso, says were given to him by the artist. The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, ...
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Afghan policeman kills six US troops
Washington Post
By Joshua Partlow and Javed Hamdard KABUL - An Afghan border police officer opened fire on US troops during a training mission in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing six of them in one of the worst such attacks in the past year, according to Afghan ...
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Bangladesh paralysed by opposition strike
AFP
DHAKA — Thousands of riot police patrolled the streets of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Tuesday as a nationwide strike called by the main opposition party brought much of the country to a standstill. One empty bus in the city was set on fire by ...
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Kenya: Prime Minister's Remarks Leave Homosexuals Fearful of Arrest
New York Times
By AP An official with Kenya's largest gay rights organization said Monday that its members were panicked following remarks on Sunday by Prime Minister Raila Odinga that homosexuals who were discovered having sex should be arrested. ...
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Outgoing Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who steps down in January after losing an independent bid for the U.S. Senate, says he is concerned that political divisions are preventing elected officials of both parties ...
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