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CURRENT HEADLINES at 9:51 am, 11 Mar 2010

Wait and Watch  -  The Reserve Bank continues to eye the middle of the year as the time for lifting the cost of borrowing from historic lows but is urging the Government to keep belt tightening to help keep a lid on inflation.  MORE Related: RBNZ
Race Relations Priorities  -  Ensuring an effective voice for Maori, Pacific and ethnic communities in the Auckland super city is one of the top 10 race relations priorities for 2010, according to the Human Rights Commission’s annual review of race relations.  HRC
Wellywood Legal Snag  -  Mayoral candidate Jack Yan is looking to stop Wellington’s “tacky and unoriginal” ‘Wellywood’ sign by alerting the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and Global Icons, who have intellectual property rights in the sign, after discovering that opposition to the sign was running at 100 to 1 on Facebook.  JY&A Related: WIAL, JY&A(2)
Peak Oil  -  Researchers in Kuwait are predicting that world conventional crude oil production will peak in 2014, which is almost a decade earlier than some other predictions.  MORE
Tourism Rebound Forecast  -  International tourism will grow by three to four percent in this year, possibly higher in emerging regions such as Asia, after a four percent drop in 2009, the UN World Tourism Organisation has forecast.  UN
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