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NEW ZEALAND FOCUS
The New Zealand Arts, Businesses, Entertainment, Fashion, Lifestyle, Shopping and Travel Guide |
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EARTH TELEVISION
Travelling "Around the World in 80 Days" was once a dream of mankind...
Now earth television network brings you the ultimate voyage of modern times - amazing LIVE television program... a breath-taking daily tour around the world. earth television network`s new TV camera and transmission technology makes it possible: highest quality TV program -LIVE -from around the world.
earth television network
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WEBCAMPLAZA.NET
Streamimg cams by country 24/7 coverage by live cams around the world. Live video feeds. City webcams, personal cams, beach cams, cams by country, animal cams, and much much more .......
webcamplaza.net
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BBC.CO.UK
BBC : News, Current Affairs, Interviews, Music, Film Travel programs and World weather - The BBC exists to enrich people’s lives with great programmes and services that inform, educate and entertain. Its vision is to be the most creative, trusted organisation in the world. It provides a wide range of distinctive programmes and services for everyone, free of commercial interests and political bias. They include television, radio, national, local, childrens’, educational, language and other services for key interest groups.
bbc.co.uk
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CNN.COM
CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery. Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated staff in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and in bureaus worldwide, CNN.com relies heavily on CNN's global team of almost 4,000 news professionals. CNN.com features the latest multimedia technologies, from live video streaming to audio packages to searchable archives of news features and background information. The site is updated continuously throughout the day.
cnn.com
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REUTERS
Reuters is a global information company providing indispensable information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets. Our information is trusted and drives decision making across the globe. We have a reputation for speed, accuracy and freedom from bias. Although we are best known as the world's largest international multimedia news agency, more than 90% of our revenue derives from our financial services business. Some 330,000 financial market professionals working in the equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, money, commodities and energy markets around the world use Reuters products. They rely on Reuters services to provide them with the information and tools they need to help them be more productive.
Reuters
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BLOOMBERG.COM
M&A League Tables - A great source for the most comprehensive information available on financial and legal deal representation. Gain insight into the areas of expertise of M&A's main players.
Underwriter Rankings - Bloomberg's global capital markets tables are your fastest source for access to the most comprehensive information available. See what they can tell you today.
Metropolis Explores Bloomberg's Headquarters -
Bloomberg's new offices weave information, technology, and space into a seamless display of interior urban planning.
Bloomberg.com
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WIKIPEDIA - THE FREE ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA
Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has rapidly grown into the largest reference website on the Internet. The content of Wikipedia is free, written collaboratively by people from all around the world. This website is a wiki, which means that anyone with access to an Internet-connected computer can edit, correct, or improve information throughout the encyclopedia, simply by clicking the edit this page link (with a few minor exceptions, such as protected articles and the main page). Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which has created an entire family of wiki projects. On Wikipedia, and its sister projects, you are welcome to be bold and edit articles yourself, contributing knowledge as you see fit in a collaborative way. So go ahead!
Wikipedia the free online encyclopedia
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UNITED NATIONS
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving
extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the
target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading
development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s
poorest.
United Nations
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SEARCH ENGINE COLOSSUS
With Search Engine Colossus : Explore 327 countries and territories! Search in other languages!
Submit websites to search engines! Available online since 1998
Search Engine Colossus.Com
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MYSPACE.COM
MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. Create a private community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends! See who knows who, or how you are connected. Find out if you really are six people away from Kevin Bacon.
MySpace is for everyone: Friends who want to talk Online * Single people who want to meet other Singles * Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other friends * Families who want to keep in touch--map your Family Tree * Business people and co-workers interested in networking * Classmates and study partners * Anyone looking for long lost friends!
myspace.com
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BEST OF THE HISTORY WEB SITES
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more. BOHWS has been recommended by The Chronicle of Higher Education, The National Council for the Social Studies, The British Library Net, The New York Public Library, the BBC, Princeton University, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators -- and many others.
Best of History Web
Sites
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THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles. Established in 1863, the ICRC is at the origin of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
The International Committee of the Red Cross
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DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural or man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in more than 70 countries. Each year, MSF doctors, nurses, logisticians, water-and-sanitation experts, administrators, and other medical and non-medical professionals depart on more than 3,800 field assignments. They work alongside more than 22,500 locally hired staff to provide medical care.
Doctors Without
Borders
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WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION
The World Health Organization is the United Nations specialized agency for health. It was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
World Health Organization
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UNESCO
UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945. For this specialized United Nations agency, it is not enough to build classrooms in devastated countries or to publish scientific breakthroughs. Education, Social and Natural Science, Culture and Communication are the means to a far more ambitious goal : to build peace in the minds of men.
UNESCO : the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI’s vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. In pursuit of this vision, AI’s mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
Amnesty International
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GREENPEACE
Greenpeace exists because this fragile earth deserves a voice. It needs solutions. It needs change. It needs action.
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific.
Greenpeace
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NASA : NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
To do that, thousands of people have been working around the world -- and off of it -- for more than 45 years, trying to answer some basic questions. What's out there in space? How do we get there? What will we find? What can we learn there, or learn just by trying to get there, that will make life better here on Earth? resident Dwight D. Eisenhower established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in 1958, partially in response to the Soviet Union's launch of the first artificial satellite. NASA grew out of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics, which had been researching flight technology for more than 40 years.
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
After more than a century the National Geographic Society today is propelled by new concerns: the alarming lack of geographic knowledge among our nation’s young people and the pressing need to protect the planet’s natural resources. As our mission grows in urgency and scope, the Society continues to develop new and exciting vehicles for broadening our reach and enhancing our legendary ability to bring the world to our millions of members.
National Geographic
Society
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LONELY PLANET
Lonely Planet is passionate about bringing people together, about understanding our world, and about people sharing experiences that enrich everyone's lives. We aim to inspire people to explore, have fun, and travel often. And we strive to provide travellers everywhere with reliable, comprehensive and independent travel information. Our PrinciplesTravel can be a powerful force for tolerance and understanding. As part of a worldwide community of travellers, we want to enable everyone to travel with awareness, respect and care.
Lonely Planet
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LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD
Welcome to the ultimate source of authentic and reliable information about the Languages of the world on the net. The links in this directory will guide you to the official sites of the languages that you are looking for. Click on the respective alphabet to begin your search for a particular language or scroll down to the appropriate section beginning with that alphabet. Once you click on the link, it will directly take you to the official homepage of the particular language. In case of non-availability of of a particular official site, we have screened a number of sites and selected the most informative site on the subject.
Languages of the world
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FIFA : INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
The need for a single body to oversee the worldwide game became apparent at the beginning of the 20th century with the increasing popularity of international fixtures. The Football Association had chaired many discussions on setting up an international body, but was perceived as making no progress. It fell to seven other European countries to band together to form this association. FIFA was founded in Paris on May 21, 1904 — the French name and acronym persist to this day, even outside French-speaking countries. The literal translation into English is "International Federation of Association Football".
Fifa : International Federation of Association Football
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ITF : INTERNATIONAL TENNIS FEDERATION
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the world governing body of tennis, one of the few truly global sports. The objective of the ITF is to further grow and develop the sport worldwide, to develop the game at all levels at all ages for both able-bodied and disabled men and women, to make amend and uphold the rules of the game, to promote the International Team Championships and competitions of the ITF, to preserve the integrity and independence of tennis as a sport, and to perform all without discrimination on grounds of colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, age, sex or religion.
ITF : International Tennis Federation
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OLYMPIC MOVEMENT
The International Olympic Committee was founded on 23 June 1894 by the French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin who was inspired to revive the Olympic Games of Greek antiquity.
The IOC is an international non-governmental non-profit organisation and the creator of the Olympic Movement. The IOC exists to serve as an umbrella organisation of the Olympic Movement. It owns all rights to the Olympic symbols, flag, motto, anthem and Olympic Games. Its primary responsibility is to supervise the organisation of the summer and winter Olympic Games
Olympic Movement
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WORLD TRADE ORGANISATION
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world’s trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. The goal is to help producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business.Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Established: 1 January 1995
Created by: Uruguay Round negotiations (1986-94)
Membership: 149 countries (on 11 December 2005)
Budget: 175 million Swiss francs for 2006
Secretariat staff: 635
Head: Pascal Lamy (Director-General)
Functions:
• Administering WTO trade agreements
• Forum for trade negotiations
• Handling trade disputes
• Monitoring national trade policies
• Technical assistance and training for developing countries
• Cooperation with other international organizations
World Trade
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PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER
Established in 1949, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) in Ewa Beach, Hawai`i, provides warnings for teletsunamis to most countries in the Pacific Basin as well as to Hawai`i and all other US interests in the Pacific outside of Alaska and the US West Coast. Those areas are served by the West Coast / Alaska Tsunami Warning Center (WC/ATWC) in Palmer, Alaska. PTWC is also the warning center for Hawai`i's local and regional tsunamis.
Pacific Tsunami Warning Center
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ICAO : INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANISATION
One of ICAO's chief activities is standardization, the establishment of International Standards, Recommended Practices and Procedures covering the technical fields of aviation: licensing of personnel, rules of the air, aeronautical meteorology, aeronautical charts, units of measurement, operation of aircraft, nationality and registration marks, airworthiness, aeronautical telecommunications, air traffic services, search and rescue, aircraft accident investigation, aerodromes, aeronautical information services, aircraft noise and engine missions, security and the safe transport of dangerous goods. After a Standard is adopted it is put into effect by each ICAO Contracting State in its own territories. As aviation technology continues to develop rapidly, the Standards are kept under constant review and amended as necessary.
ICAO : International Civil Aviation Organisation
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IMF : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
The IMF is an international organization of 184 member countries. It was established to promote international monetary cooperation, exchange stability, and orderly exchange arrangements; to foster economic growth and high levels of employment; and to provide temporary financial assistance to countries to help ease balance of payments adjustment.
IMF : International Monetary Fund
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IMO : INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION
The purposes of the Organization, as summarized by Article 1(a) of the Convention, are "to provide machinery for cooperation among Governments in the field of governmental regulation and practices relating to technical matters of all kinds affecting shipping engaged in international trade; to encourage and facilitate the general adoption of the highest practicable standards in matters concerning maritime safety, efficiency of navigation and prevention and control of marine pollution from ships". The Organization is also empowered to deal with administrative and legal matters related to these purposes.
IMO : International Maritime Organization
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