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• 1.新西兰英语 552 Babies’ names
• Parents must register the name of their baby before the child is 2 months old. Each year, we learn the most popular names for girls and boys. Last yea...
• 2.新西兰英语 551 Journey to the South Pole
• One hundred years ago today, January 17th 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four other men, reached the South Pole. They had hoped to be the first...
• 3.新西兰英语 550 Antarctic exhibition in London
• First listen to the previous item: Journey to the South Pole. Tomorrow an exhibition called Scotts Last Expedition opens in London, in the Museum of N...
• 4.新西兰英语 549 Buskers Festival
• Once again, Christchurch is hosting the Buskers Festival. This time it is the 19th year. Buskers are street performers. Listen to January 24th 2011 to...
• 5.新西兰英语 548 Internet Piracy
• Four men were arrested yesterday and charged with internet piracy of movies and TV shows. Their website MegaUpload was a file-sharing website, with 50...
• 6.新西兰英语 547 Mining Lignite
• Lignite is low grade coal which contains more moisture than high grade coal and is dirty to burn. Southland has ten areas with lignite. Solid Energy, ...
• 7.新西兰英语 546 Wind Power plan cancelled
• Meridian Energy has decided not to go ahead with their plan to put 176 wind turbines in Central Otago. Local people set up a protest group. This group...
• 8.新西兰英语 545 Oil and gas on East Coast
• TAG Oil and its partner Apache both Canadian companies have the rights to 500,000 hectares around Gisborne and South Hawkes Bay. TAG Oil says they hav...
• 9.新西兰英语 544 Sale of farms to Chinese
• On Friday, the Prime Minister announced that a Chinese company, the Shanghai Pengxin group will be allowed to buy the 16 Crafar dairy farms. The owner...
• 10.新西兰英语 543 School starts again
• The new school year begins again this week for most schools. Most primary schools start again tomorrow although the Ministry of Education website says...