1Fletcher Challenge has made a late bid to buy Telecom, offering a lower price to keep the company in New Zealand hands. The bid has once again raised the controversial issue of boardroom ethics and sensitive commercial information.

2Air New Zealand, sold eighteen months ago, has turned in a 40% increase in profits since becoming a public company.

3Airlines who bring passengers to New Zealand without the appropriate visas could find themselves in court.

4The Government has extended the visas of Chinese students who have been living in New Zealand since last year's Tiananmen Square Massacre. However, some students want more protection and are calling for permanent residency.

5The Government has announced a new scheme to get young people into apprenticeships.

6France has a new Ambassador to New Zealand and is adopting a conciliatory approach in an effort to improve relations with New Zealand and other Pacific nations. Interview with the new Ambassador.

7Within a few hours, South African President FW De Klerk is expected to announce an end to the four-year long state of emergency in South Africa and a return to the rule of law. However, his reforms have faced some backlash, with the pro-apartheid Conservative Party has come close to winning a by-election in Durban.

8Czechoslovakians go to the polls tomorrow in the country's first free elections in over forty years. President Václav Havel's Civic Forum Party looks set to win.

9Members of both East and West military alliances have begun meeting at opposite ends of Europe. NATO Foreign Ministers have gathered in Scotland to review European security and in Moscow, a decision to abolish the Warsaw Pact is expected to be made tonight.

10A new portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, set to appear on the British five pound note, shows the reality of an aging monarch.