Foreign Minister Murray McCully will attend the high-level conference on Afghanistan in London next week co-chaired by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Spanta.

143 New Zealanders leave Auckland this Friday to go to Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and China to help build 162 homes in 5 days, joining 3,000 volunteers from around the world.

Having taken their electronic pop road show to Europe for a third time, Minuit are releasing another album of stick-in-your-head tunes in their homeland. CHRIS ORMOND of NZPA reports.

NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced on March 16 that Global Data Services JSC (GDS), its joint venture with Vietnam Posts & Telecommunications Group (VNPT), the largest telecom in Vietnam, will open a Tier 3-equivalent premium data center in Hanoi on April 12, 2009.