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First Up for Monday 10 May 2021

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 7 May 2021
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 11 May 2021
  • NZ Indians raise money, sending supplies to India

    Workers arrange medical oxygen cylinders to be transported to hospitals amid Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic at a facility on the outskirts of Chennai on April 24, 2021.

    5:53 AM.New Zealands Indian communities have raised tens of thousands of dollars and obtained oxygen and other medical equipment to help with India's relief effort. Nathan Rarere spoke with the president of… Read more Audio

  • Calls for repatriation flights to bring NZers home from India

    Sydney, Australia - February 12, 2019: Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner taxiing at Kingsford Smith Sydney International Airport. Registration: VT-NAC

    5:47 AM.Calls for repatriation flights from India are growing as kiwis stuck there become desperate and scared. In the past day India has recorded more than 403-thousand new cases and over 4-thousand deaths… Read more Audio

  • NZ canoe slalom paddler gives up job to focus on Olympics

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    (FILES) In this file photo taken on November 15, 2020 the logo of the Japanese Olympic Committee is displayed at an entrance of the Japan Olympic Museum in Tokyo.

    5:37 AM.The Tokyo Olympics are fast approaching ... it's 74 days to go until the games begin. In the lead up, we're talking to New Zealand's Olympic athletes as they prepare for the event they've prepared… Read more Audio

  • Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth

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    Banana peel, file photo

    5:24 AM.And we head now to the fresh produce markets with our Minister of fresh fruit and veggies, Glenn Forsyth. Audio

  • New technology involving radio waves could help locate MH370

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    A poster showing cabin crew from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 is displayed during a prayer at a school in Petaling Jaya on 8 March 2016.

    5:12 AM.An aviation expert believes new technology that detects disturbance in radio waves could find the final resting place of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Weak Signal Propagation or WSPR is employed in… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 7 May 2021
  • Next Episode: Tuesday, 11 May 2021
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