OCEANIA News, Sep 05, 2011

Basketball: Tall Blacks confident ahead of Oceania Cup New Zealand Herald Photo / Dean Purcell No longer outsiders in trans-Tasman basketball encounters, the Tall Blacks departed New Zealand today to meet Australia in this week's Oceania Cup full of confidence. The Kiwis, ranked 18th in the world, recently won the Stankovic ... See all stories on this topic »

Student died after hitting head on pavement metres from Croydon home Your Local Guardian Michael Male, 19, of Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon, spent New Year's Eve partying in Oceanianightclub, Kingston, but after being dropped off only a short distance from his home, at around 4.20am, was discovered unconscious in a pool blood just 20 ... See all stories on this topic »

Regent Seven Seas Cruises to move ships to Miami in 2012 Travel Daily News International Regent Seven Seas Cruises announced that beginning in fall 2012 it will join sister company,Oceania Cruises, at the Port of Miami. The line's ultra-luxury ships presently sail out of Port Everglades. The combined brands will account for more than 30 ... See all stories on this topic »

Gold for Valerie Adams Voxy This also extended her own Oceania and New Zealand national records. Immediately after the throw she picked up a picture of her coach Jean-Pierre Egger, pointing to it saying he did it for me. The Olympic champion has now won the title for the third ... See all stories on this topic »

Weights sensation Tulo hopeful of clean sweep Fiji Times FIJI'S weightlifting sensation and Oceania champion Manueli Tulo is confident to make a clean sweep in his preferred 56kilograms weight cateogry at Salle Sérandour in Mont-Dore today. Tulo is chqsing to win three gold medals in the clean and jerk, ... See all stories on this topic »

Kalou has something special to offer this RWC Fijivillage Kalou played for the Fiji U-20 Basketball team in the Oceania Championship in 2004 when he was still at Suva Grammar School and his first World Cup was in the Fiji Men's Netball team in the tournament which was played at home in 2005. ... See all stories on this topic » Fijivillage

Brazil, Russia show their strength Fifa.com In the final game on the day, the Oceania champions held the Russians at bay for 17 minutes, creating several chances before finally collapsing to a 5-0 defeat. While the eastern Europeans are clear at the top of Group C on six points, Tahiti are tied ... See all stories on this topic » Fifa.com

Baseball's man on mission Times Online - Auckland His list of achievements so far include luring New York Yankees centerfielder Curtis Granderson to Auckland as a special guest during the under-16 AA OceaniaChampionships, hosted at the diamond in Pakuranga in January. He's also led the creation of a ... See all stories on this topic » Times Online - Auckland

Fringe wrap Scoop.co.nz Simon, the winner of the Australian Institute of Magic's July FISM Oceania Championships of Magic, spoke of confronting an over-stated desire for originality and what that meant for festival shows. Edinburgh attracts acts that you will not see in your ... See all stories on this topic »

Joel Brunker Inks Deal With Promoter Gary Shaw BoxingScene.com As an amateur, Brunker went 106-19 while competing in the 2004 Olympics; he was also the NSW Championship six times, the Australian Champion four times and won gold medals at the Arafura andOceania Games. He caught Shaw's eye recently on the undercard ... See all stories on this topic »

Bogut closes in on NBL move Sydney Morning Herald "When we wanted to insure Andrew for the national team, it was a big lump sum for an extended period," Sengstock told AAP of Bogut, who will miss this week's Oceania championship series against New Zealand. "What we're hearing now is because there's a ... See all stories on this topic »

Senior CPC officials call for delivering development fruits to people Xinhua A total of 137 representatives from 52 political parties and related organizations of 26 nations participated in the conference. The ICAPP is a meeting forum of political parties of Asia-Oceaniacountries, initiated by Lakas-CMD of the Philippines in ... See all stories on this topic »

Tacoma climber 117th person to climb both version of Seven Summits TheNewsTribune.com The second version defines the seventh continent as Oceania – Australia, Indonesia and other surrounding islands – and brings in the bigger challenge of Carstensz. When Edwards reached the summit he became the 117th person to complete both versions, ... See all stories on this topic » TheNewsTribune.com

Rusty NZ battle to first-up hockey win SBS Hager is looking to push his players hard over the next four matches in seven days, as the Black Sticks zero in on the three-test Oceania Olympic qualifier against Australia in Hobart in early October. The United States have beaten New Zealand in their ... See all stories on this topic »

Delai, Puamau take top prizes at Pacific awards Fiji Times Nauru strongman and Oceania champion weightlifter Itte Detenamo was name the Male Athlete of the year, Samoan weightlifter Epe Opolego scooped the top female award.Patricia Taea of Cook Islands was named the Junior athlete of the year. See all stories on this topic »

Unemployed people among those who get a day off on Labor Day The Spoof (satire) Don't move to Nauru--This tiny country in Oceania sports a jobless rate of 90%. Yes, that's one job for every 10 people who want one. "Granted," says Billy Tomkins, "they don't even have 10000 people on the whole island, so it's not like we're losing ... See all stories on this topic »

Pumpkins Record Club FasterLouder Corgan has also revealed that Oceania will most likely see a release in November: “I'm halfway through the singing at least. I've got maybe five more songs to go on the singing, so we're getting pretty close. We start mixing September 1. ... See all stories on this topic »

In the beginning - Pitchcare Pitchcare (press release) Pitchcare Oceania launched about three years ago and has now started to turn the corner over in Australia. Pitchcare Germany is about to launch and there is interest from many other countries. Our trading arm is now global and the ability to ... See all stories on this topic »

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