TVNZ reports: Hundreds of Koreans who hope to become New Zealand citizens have been caught up in a messy dispute involving police and Korean government officials. Court appointed liquidators called police to remove Wasan International’s owner, Edward Kang, and to shut down the company’s Auckland offices. Kang has been an immigration consultant for almost 20 [...]
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Singapore Prescribes Shorter Showers, Less Meat to Fight Slump – “Singapore is asking its citizens, the world’s third-wealthiest adjusted for purchasing power, to be prudent as analysts predict the worst economic slump in the nation’s 43-year history. In speeches, pamphlets and ads, the government is advising people to switch to cheaper frozen meats, take shorter [...]
Since the revelation of the biggest accounting scandal in history that involves a global IT outsourcing service provider, I have been trying to read up on it simply because the news and the implications have a lot to do with my own field of profession. And I must say I have been puzzled by a [...]
It’s now January 2009, and a statement like: The price of crude oil hits an all-time high of US$140 a barrel before it falls dramatically down to around US$40 by the end of the year. …would have been a hell of a new year prediction for this time last year. I am neither qualified nor [...]
— Update (24 December 2008): Both Fiji and New Zealand have now declared each other’s top diplomat persona non-grata. Link: It’s war (Fiji Times) — Bula, What does Fiji get out of kicking out foreign journalists and diplomats because of a reason that really sounds like a joke? Publicity. Tens of millions of dollars’ worth [...]
It’s been a week since I bought my first iPod. And it’s a 2nd-generation 32GB touch. I wanted something that could productively occupy my 23-minute on-foot commute but also wanted something more than just a music/podcast player. I bought the touch because I knew it was the most compact – and affordable – Mac portable [...]
Government devastates contractors, vendors and recruiters The Federal Government of Australia has spoken. “Two of the central tenets of the review was a drastic cut in IT spending and dramatic rationalisation of human resources within a very short period. Implementation of the recommendations will result in a cut of ICT contractor numbers in Canberra by [...]
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After failing to scoop a legible pictorial representation of the New Zealand election results from the well-known media sites, Numbers drew me a pretty chart of the new 122-seat parliament in just three minutes with flying colours: Last night’s election was the first election in my adult life that made me stay up till late [...]
One thing I can’t stand when I’m watching TV, listening to the radio, or reading the paper, is unnecessarily long Internet domain names (Web addresses). I don’t understand why some countries such as the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand mandate the use of country-specific second-level domains that sit between the brand/organisation name and the country [...]