1The effects of the Cook strait ferry strike are beginning to take effect in the South Island, with business owners planning to sue the Seafarers' Union over loss of income.

2The threat of industrial strife continues to hang over all twelve of New Zealand's ports.

3At the Labour Party conference today, unionists successfully fought off a move to take away their multiple voting rights.

4The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tonight celebrates its 40th birthday with a spectacular fireworks display in Tiananmen Square, but many foreign dignitaries have refused to attend following the massacre of protesting students there earlier this year.

5The East German Government is allowing a convoy of special 'Freedom Trains' to ferry thousands of refugees to West Germany.

6A multi-racial crowd frolicked on a Whites-only beach outside Cape Town today and met with a low key response from police.

7A group of top lawyers has called on the Government to expel the visiting Chilean ship Esmeralda and ensure it never returns. They say they have evidence it was used as a torture chamber during the Pinochet regime.

8Taonga Maori, a large exhibition of Maori artefacts, opened in Sydney today with a special tapu-lifting ceremony.

9Young New Zealanders are rehearsing for their part in the 1990 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony, which is expected to be viewed by 500 million people worldwide.