Far North imoko health service honoured with award
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Kaitaia – One of New Zealand’s leading public health volunteer charity organisations, imoko, has been honoured for its services to the community. The Far North-based organisation helps more than 6500 New Zealand children across more than 110 early childhood centres, kohanga reo, primary, intermediate and secondary schools. The children receive […]
Read More →NZDF Finds NZ Yacht in Distress off Fiji
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: NZDF Finds NZ Yacht in Distress off Fiji 23 June 2017 The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has found the New Zealand-owned yacht that made a distress call at dawn off the coast of Fiji. Air Commodore Darryn Webb, the Air Component Commander, said […]
Read More →NZDF Searches for NZ Yacht in Distress Off Fiji
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: NZDF Searches for NZ Yacht in Distress Off Fiji The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is helping search for a New Zealand-owned yacht with four people on board that activated its emergency beacon at dawn approximately 425 kilometres southeast of the Fijian capital of […]
Read More →NZDF Delivers 120 Tonnes of Supplies in Middle East
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: NZDF Delivers 120 Tonnes of Supplies in Middle East The New Zealand Defence Force’s air transport support team transported 120 tonnes of supplies and about 500 military personnel supporting coalition operations in the Middle East in the past month. 22 June 2017 The New […]
Read More →Corporal Thriving as Helicopter Load Master
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: Corporal Thriving as Helicopter Load Master Helicopter load master in training Corporal Jono Bartley has just completed Exercise Blackbird, No. 3 Squadron’s annual mountain flying and level readiness training in Marlborough. 20 June 2017 Being a key member of the Royal New Zealand Air […]
Read More →NZ businessman to talk about near-death refugee experiences
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – A leading New Zealand tech businessman and a former refugee, Mitchell Pham, will deliver a speech in Auckland tonight as part of World Refugee Day. Pham runs the Augen Software Group and is chair of NZTech and Fintech NZ. He is a trustee of the Auckland Refugee Family […]
Read More →Yoga major part of soaring Kiwi exercising momentum
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Christchurch – If exercise was considered a sport, it would be the biggest sport in New Zealand, by more than 50 percent, Exercise New Zealand chief executive Richard Beddie says. He made the comments today on the eve of international yoga day tomorrow. Beddie says there are more than half […]
Read More →Kapiti Soldier Shows His Skills in The Middle East
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: Kapiti Soldier Shows His Skills in The Middle East Corporal Christopher Thomson, an electrician with the New Zealand Army’s 2nd Engineer Regiment, formed part of the 34-member New Zealand Defence Force engineering contingent that was sent to the Sinai Peninsula in January to enhance […]
Read More →Only 14 percent of large NZ businesses have deployed IoT
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Auckland – New Zealand is well positioned for the Internet of Things (IoT), such as fast fibre, however a national tech leader urged for the country to do better. NZTech chief executive and chair of the New Zealand IoT Alliance Graeme Muller says only 14 percent of large businesses have […]
Read More →NZDF Fends Off Cyber Attacks in US Exercises
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: NZDF Fends Off Cyber Attacks in US Exercises Twelve New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel are using their skills to fend off simulated military cyber-attacks as they take part in training exercises hosted by the United States. Air Commodore Kevin McEvoy, the Acting Commander […]
Read More →NZDF Sports Award Winners Announced
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: NZDF Sports Award Winners Announced Able Steward Deena-Ranganui Puketapu (Royal New Zealand Navy) received the Individual Sports Person of the Year and Outstanding Sports Achievement awards. 14 June 2017 Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) Able Steward Deena-Ranganui Puketapu was a double winner at the […]
Read More →NZDF Hunting Submarines in Joint Exercise in Japan
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: NZDF Hunting Submarines in Joint Exercise in Japan The Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS Te Kaha is joining warships from Japan, Canada and the United States this week for an exercise that involves detecting, tracking and conducting simulated attacks on enemy submarines. 13 […]
Read More →Impassioned plea for rural health research funding
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Mystery Creek – The head of the national rural health group today made an impassioned plea for the government to consider much-needed rural research. Michelle Thompson, chief executive of the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand (RHAANZ) says there is a strong feeling that rural health outcomes are poorer than […]
Read More →Mobile Health leads the Fieldays’ health hub
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Hamilton – At least 22 health nationwide organisations have been inundated with the rural community seeking advice from the landmark health hub at New Zealand’s Fieldays in Hamilton this week. The health hub was launched by Minister of Health Jonathan Coleman and Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy. The government […]
Read More →NZDF Appoints Military Assistant for UN Mission in South Sudan
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: NZDF Appoints Military Assistant for UN Mission in South Sudan The New Zealand Defence Force has appointed Lieutenant Colonel Neville Mosley to serve as Military Assistant to the head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. 12 June 2017 The New Zealand […]
Read More →NZ agriculture needs to latch onto tech faster
MIL OSI – Source: MakeLemonade.nz Hamilton – New Zealand’s primary industries need to latch on to technology faster to support the economic growth of its agri sector and become a world leader in a fast growing agritech market, NZTech chief executive Graeme Muller says. NZTech members have joined hundreds of other firms at Fieldays in Hamilton […]
Read More →Timaru let down by National’s tertiary education approach
MIL OSI – Source: Tertiary Education Union – Release/Statement Headline: Timaru let down by National’s tertiary education approach The decision to cut five courses at the Ara Institute of Canterbury is symptomatic of an approach to tertiary education that is failing local communities, the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) said today. Management’s decision to cut five level […]
Read More →Air Force Aviation Medicine Unit Opened
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: Air Force Aviation Medicine Unit Opened The new Air Force Aviation Medicine Unit at RNZAF Base Auckland 9 June 2017 A new, energy-efficient Aviation Medicine Unit (AMU) at Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Auckland was officially opened today by Minister of Defence Mark […]
Read More →NZDF-Fiji Navy Patrols Send Non-Compliant Vessels Back to Port
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: NZDF-Fiji Navy Patrols Send Non-Compliant Vessels Back to Port 9 June 2017 A combined team of New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) and Republic of Fiji Navy personnel sent seven of 70 fishing vessels boarded during fisheries patrols in western Fiji in the past week […]
Read More →NZDF Fine Tunes Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Plans
MIL OSI – Source: New Zealand Defence Force – Release/Statement Headline: NZDF Fine Tunes Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief Plans The New Zealand Defence Force has conducted at least four HADR operations in the past three years. 9 June 2017 The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) sent a team to Niue recently to look at […]
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