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May 22, 2012
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New Zealand has some of the best filmmakers, rugby
players and seafood in the world, and now according to Air Transport
World, we’ve also got one of the best airlines. For the second
time in three years, Air New Zealand has won ATW’s prestigious Airline
of the Year award – the first time any airline has done so in ATW’s
40-year history.
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Data centres aren’t particularly exciting or glamorous- but in IBM’s case, there’s definitely a wow factor. We take a look at the cutting-edge design and technology that went into its making.
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Embattled cargo ship Rena is going down – its stern
is almost entirely submerged and debris and oil are escaping as it
slides off the Astrolabe reef.
Around 30 containers are reported to have washed ashore overnight.
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New ways to rebuild Christchurch will be floated at an international workshop next month. Architecture experts have been invited to apply alternative concepts to the standard heavy structures
traditionally used, and find the best designs for
cost-effective, lightweight, quake-resilient structures to sit lightly
on the land.
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What would an extra $250 in your bank account every month mean to you? That’s what the average pay rise in 2011 amounted to, according to Seek. Salaries
grew by 5 percent (an increase of more than $3,000) to $73,530 per
annum across jobs advertised on seek.co.nz last year.
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Retailers around New Zealand are about to get
access to unprecedented amounts of bulk gift and homeware products at
clearance prices. New website gifttrader.co.nz
will host bargains from more than 600 importers, manufacturers and
wholesalers who have exhibited at a New Zealand Gift and Homeware Fair.
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Dreaming of working at the beach? Imagine working
under a sunny sky – the next best thing created by researchers at the
Fraunhofe Institute in Germany. They’ve developed an innovative
luminous ceiling, using a combination of LEDs to imitate the open sky
and create the effect of clouds drifting by.
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