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Funds for youth training boosted

Govt to spend $55m on youth jobs

A new Govt package will give subsidies to employers who agree to train a young person and give them a permanent job.

Fiance didn't kill baby, say family

Shortland St defends Maori beach levy plot

Move cuts help to anti-violence groups

Women's refuges say some women fleeing from violence may no longer be able to get...

Gaming on the rise for quake-hit Christchurch

Editorial: Anti-abuse move drastic but necessary

Tobacco giants targeted weight conscious

Outrage as Malaysia sends 'effeminate' boys to anti-gay camp

The Malaysian authorities are at the centre of an increasingly heated row after it emerged that 66 Muslim boys identified by teachers as "effeminate" had been dispatched to a special camp to discourage them from becoming gay.

Abuse of 9-year-old 'not cause of review'

Inquiry coming

Past still present for African Americans

When Confederate forces fired the first shots at Fort Sumter on April 12, 150 years ago, triggering the American Civil War, almost four million African Americans were slaves.

Greg Ansley: Taggers versus street artists

One suburb - two separate worlds

Meadowlands, a shopping centre in one of the most Chinese parts of Auckland, tells a story of how NZ is...

A criminal by association

The Crimes Amendment Bill will only criminalise people who are already on the margins of society, says Dita De Boni.

NZ's stillbirth rate among highest

An expert says many more babies would survive if the country quit smoking and reduced its obesity.

'We're moving on' - MPs accept O'Connor's apology

One Labour MP said Damien O'Connors "gaggle of gays" comment offended him, but accepted an apology.

Tapu Misa: IMF at last sees perils of inequality