freshwater eel, potato tortellini and a light crayfish sauce. Dessert is a Valrhona chocolate and honey fondant 6.30pm and costs $85 per person for six courses.
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For information on the Langham Hotel, Auckland, please Wammo and Scoop's Kevin List discuss: Big Day Out, Ahmed Zaoui, David Lewis, and the State House Garden Awards… Wammo IVs to Keith Locke who is in Tasmania regarding Ahmed Zaoui and why his family ought to be allowed to live in New Zealand. He also quizzes Mr Locke about his Tasmanian holiday..
. Wammo IVs Gary Reese (Campaigns Manager for Amnesty International NZ) regarding Blood Diamond campaign. Has the ring you wear come to you by way of murders and mercenaries?
“An interesting feature of the 2007 Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal Index of Economic Freedom just released is that for the first time in many years Australia, at 3rd place, outranks New Zealand, at 5th place, in the rankings for economic freedom”, Roger Kerr, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, said today. In last year’s index both countries were in 9th equal place. See.
.. - PHARMAC decision gives patients easier access to antidepressant Patients will have easier access to a widely used antidepressant, following a PHARMAC decision to fund the generic form of paroxetine.
Paroxetine is currently funded in New Zealand as the Aropax brand. It is currently used by about 49,000 New Zealanders, and accounted for more than half of the $29 million spent on antidepressants last year. See.
.. - Woolworths Limited (Woolworths) has today lodged an application with the New Zealand Commerce Commission (NZCC) seeking clearance to acquire up to 100% of The Warehouse Group Limited (The Warehouse).
Woolworths CEO and Managing Director, Michael Luscombe, said that the company is seeking clearance although no decision had yet been made on whether it would make any proposal to acquire the business. See..
. - At the halfway mark of their deployment, the New Zealand Defence Force contingent serving in the Solomon Islands can add saving lives to their list of achievements. Members of the 45-strong contingent, which includes 33 Territorial Force soldiers, intervened recently to save a man from being beaten by a crowd of infuriated stall owners at a market in Honiara.
The New Zealand soldiers were carrying out a routine patrol through the capital when they were approached by worried locals and alerted to the incident. See..
. Amnesty International is cautioning consumers to check the origins of their diamond purchases. Profits from the trade in conflict diamonds, worth billions of dollars, were used by warlords and rebels to buy arms during the devastating wars in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone.
These wars cost an estimated 3.7 million lives. See.
.. - DRUMMERS seldom steal the limelight, unless they’ve got magnetic character and their chops together.
Ringo Starr and Keith Moon had it - especially the comedy - so did Ginger Baker and Mitch Mitchell from rock’s early days, through to Dave Grohl of the recent beat masters. They are pumped for Friday's main stage appearance at Big Day Out. For the full interview, See… Ticket scalpers are making a lot more than an easy buck extorting their Auckland Big Day Out tickets on the online auction site Trademe.
The first 42,000 tickets to New Zealand’s only international music festival sold out last Monday, which is the fastest sale in the festival's history. "Our outlets have reported incredible demand for tickets this year right from the outset," said Campbell Smith from Big Day Out promoters CRS Music Management. See.
.. - STATE OF IT by Selwyn Manning: David Lewis, the Prime Minister's chief press secretary has resigned his position, citing changes in family circumstances as the reason of his departure.
David Lewis has been the Beehive's safest pair of hands, having helped the Labour Party, and its Prime Minister Helen Clark and her office, navigate through a most turbulent 2006. See..
. - This bold new film by Sándor Lau is a documentary about Starfish, who survives by washing car windows at intersections on the mean streets of South Auckland. He's a born hustler with an extreme personality, magnetic charisma, infectious humour, and a vicious temper.
New National Party leader John Key and his deputy Bill English have been eager to set a new strategic agenda, taking popular planks of the old Brash-policy-regime and mixing it with election-winning centrist rhetoric. Selwyn Manning and Wallace Chapman discuss the Nat-Strat. Wammo IVs Auckland University's Paul Buchanan on US security policy regarding Iraq.
Paul Buchanan is a former Pentagon security analyst and is the Director of the Working Group on Alternative Security Perspectives at the University of Auckland. Saddam Hussein has been hanged, the video displays Shiite observers taunting the former leader while he stood with a noose around his neck. Scoop co-editor Selwyn Manning and KiwiFM's Wallace Chapman discuss: What now for Iraq?
Saddam Hussein's appeal to have his death sentence quashed has failed, Iran says get lost to UN Security Council sanctions and announces its intent to proceed with its nuclear programme, so is Iran really rising as the major state of influence in the Middle East region?
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