The massive earthquake that destroyed large parts of New Zealand’s second biggest city struck at 12:51pm on an overcast Tuesday in February, as Grant Wells was eating a Chinese meal in a Christchurch food court. “As soon as the shaking stopped, I got out of there as fast as I…
Sold! Aussie web-gurus hit the jackpot with retailmenot.com
WHAT started as a weekend hobby has led to a multi-million dollar payday for two Melbourne men, after a private US firm backed by a group of powerful venture capital firms purchased their coupon website. Guy King, 32, and his business partner, Bevan Clark, 37, yesterday finalised the deal to…
APEC 2007 – Truth revealed by Freedom-of-Infomation
I covered the protester aspect of the 2007 Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit in Sydney for the Sydney Morning Herald. Using direct reporting and a series of Freedom-of-Information requests I found that police were forced to make a payout for wrongly arresting a protester, spent $2 million on a…
Stolen photos from laptop tell a tawdry tale
What started out as a cautionary tale about storing lurid digital photos of past lovers on the computer has become one of Asia’s biggest internet celebrity sex scandals and a focal point for censorship in Hong Kong. Read more.
Ad agency cribbed my lecture notes: professor
An Australian ad company accused by an American professor of plagiarising his lecture on quantum mechanics for a television advertisement has settled the matter for $5000 – but admitted no wrong-doing. Read more. December 20, 2007: Ad company settles plagiarism complaint An Australian ad company accused by an American professor…