1White South Africans have again been targeted in bombing attacks in Queenstown. Meanwhile more Black South Africans died in township unrest. Tens of thousands of people have marched in London in a mass demonstration against apartheid and the British Government's refusal to impose full economic sanctions against South Africa.
2United States agricultural officials are investigating the pricing and advertising practices of the New Zealand Lamb Company there.
3A $2.5 million television promotion for New Zealand lamb has been criticised in the United Kingdom for allegedly exploiting consumer fears that British meat may have been contaminated by radiation following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
4The Te Maori Exhibition has returned from the United States, where hundreds of thousands of people flocked to see it. Now the exhibit is being prepared to go on display to New Zealanders at the National Museum in Wellington.
5Hamilton has again pressed its case to stage half of Auckland's Commonwealth Games in 1990 by offering to house all the athletes at Waikato University as well as holding five events.
6In two weeks, Japanese voters will go to the polls to elect a new Parliament (Diet). One of the biggest issues dominating the election campaign is that of an increasingly elderly population and how to pay for it's needs.