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Company Registration Made Easier. A new online tool (a part of Companies Office website www.companies.govt.nz) for new company registration will allow businesses to apply for an IRD number at the same time as registering their company, reducing the need to deal with two separate government agencies at the start-up phase of a company.
For companies related queries, call 0508 Companies (0508 266 726), or visit www.companies.govt.nz. For Inland Revenue queries, call 0800 377 774, or visit www.ird.govt.nz |
Business Consultation Website. - www.businessconsultation.govt.nz - Business people wanting to comment on government plans will find it easier to do so with this new website. It allows business owners, operators and people interested in business to register their interest in being contacted by government agencies seeking business input on proposed or existing regulations.
Travel Planner - http://www.newzealand.com/travel - Tourism NZ has launched an online travel planner, a dedicated web site which enables visitors to plan a visit by dragging and dropping activities, accommodation, scenic highlights and locations into a database, which can then generate a travel calendar and maps. A completed programme can be printed, saved on a PC, or emailed to a travel agent.
Biotechnology Report 2004 Now Available. This report looks at the use, production and uptake of biotechnology in NZ. It measures the size of the biotechnology sector and identifies constraints to biotechnology research and development. To view the report see: http://www.stats.govt.nz/
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Writer's Block - http://sfwa.org/ - Sometimes, the words just won't make it to the screen. That old and common ailment is known as writer's block. How to break word jams is an age-old problem. SF writer Jerry Oltion's list of 50 ways to break the block may help, says "Netsurfer Digest" magazine.
2005 Industrial Design Excellence Awards - www.idsa.org - The Industrial Design Excellence Awards are dedicated to fostering business and public understanding of the importance of industrial design excellence to the quality of life and the economy. See the 2005 winners.
Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena - http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ - Michael Bach teaches electrophysiology at the University of Freiburg Medical School. During the last eight years, he's collected 55 amazing optical illusions to illustrate his lectures, and he shares them with us on his Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena site. Each illusion demonstrates a feature, or flaw, of human vision. He starts with time-motion examples and carefully explains how each one fools us with several different levels of technical detail from, as "Netsurfer Digest" puts it, "oooh" to "post-doctoral research".
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