Новости за 07.03.2016

Apple was the only big phone maker not at Mobile World Congress 2016 in Barcelona. Android dominated the exhibition halls. All of the other big phone makers showed Android devices. Even Blackberry sported a green Android toy robot on its unimpressive stand (see the photo). Android phone makers were all focused on competing with other […]

This week, the Co-Chairpersons of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians (CWP) New Zealand Group, Louisa Wall MP and Jo Hayes MP met with Shakti. Shakti is a national not-for-profit community organisation specialising in the area of women’s development, ...

Groups with innovative ideas for reducing waste to landfill can apply for grants of up to $5,000 from the ‘zero waste’ fund, opening on 1 April until 30 April 2016.

With Auckland City Limits now less than two weeks away it is time to talk about how to get along to the March 19 Western Springs music festival – including news of free public transport to the gig and a special offer from UBER.

Calling on world leaders to step up action to protect refugee women and children from violence

New Zealand can be proud of its reputation as a nation that empowers women to lead independent and self-determining lives, said Minister for Women Louise Upston, but we can’t be complacent in our progress towards gender equality.

Fonterra lower 2015/16 forecast milk payout Fonterra has lowered its 2015/16 forecast farmgate milk pay out by $0.25 to $3.90/kg of milk solids. The key points are:

The New Zealand Fire Service has set the benchmark for public sector reputation in the most comprehensive research of its kind in New Zealand.

Recently, the first international study on homophobia in sports, ‘Out on the Fieldsi’ highlighted the homophobia faced by the LGBTI+ community in New Zealandii on the sports field.

Lightning Lab, New Zealand’s premier business accelerator programme is happy to announce the inclusion of a Chinese startup into their Wellington based Lightning Lab XX programme this March.

Press Release – Volpara Solutions Wellington digital health company Volpara Solutions has been selected as a research collaborator with the Cancer Institute/Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CICAMS) in Beijing. This is the first Chinese installation of the company’s world-leading breast density assessment software. “CICAMS is using Volpara to investigate the relationship between […]

New Zealand publishing house Book Island from the Kapiti Coast has been nominated for the Bologna Prize 2016 for Best Children’s Publisher of Oceania by the International Children’s Book Fair in Bologna, Italy. This international award pays tribute to ...

Wellington, Tuesday 8 March 2016 - NZ companies could have a lot to gain with the new Health and Safety at Work Act coming into force 4 April 2016.

New Zealand is full of selfless, courageous women. In this year’s 50th Anniversary of Zonta Clubs in New Zealand, we give special recognition to fifty of these women - “Women of Achievement”- women who have worked hard to focus their passion, ...

News from NZ Police Police in Hawke’s Bay are highly critical of “rubberneckers” who followed a police pursuit through several Napier suburbs last night. At one stage, members of the public had almost formed a drag chain in their vehicles as the pursuit continued through some areas at low speed. Police involved in the incident […]

Women at the very top of New Zealand’s state sector are still undervalued and underpaid relative to their male counterparts, according to new analysis by the Public Service Association.

08 March, 2016 Softsource, a leading ICT systems integrator, today announced the launch of its next generation Infrastructure as a Service offering “entrada Hybrid IaaS”, heralding Australasia’s first Microsoft Azure Certified for Hybrid Cloud ...

Whangarei's Brightly Coloured Bollards were the surprising subject of national news coverage back in December 2014. Whangarei District Council moved quickly to insist that THE BACH repaint the bollards in front of their Gallery a dull green after two ...

Press Release – New Zealand Book Awards A Wellington writer’s first novel is a finalist in the country’s most prestigious book awards, rubbing shoulders with literary heavyweights, all contenders to win the new $50,000 Acorn Foundation Literary Award. David Coventry, whose debut book The Invisible Mile, about a New Zealander who in 1928 rode with […]

"E tū union member Kristine Bartlett and her fellow workers are the perfect women to celebrate on International Women’s Day," says CTU Vice-President Rachel Mackintosh.

On the 3rd of March 2016, specialist mosquito staff contracted by Auckland Airport captured exotic mosquito larvae in their trap near the international baggage area.

The Rail and Maritime Transport Union (RMTU) is today mounting a picket at Dunedin Railway Station in protest at the continuing persecution and intimidation of one of its members for raising a genuine concern over health and safety.

Jonathan Coleman reports: Health Minister Jonathan Coleman says new figures show there has been a significant drop in national rheumatic fever rates. 98 people were hospitalised for the first time with rheumatic fever in 2015, compared with 177 hospitalisations in 2012 – that’s a 45 per cent reduction. Rates for Māori have more than halved […]

Due to a fire in Hanmer Springs, State Highway 7A, is closed which shuts off all access to the Hanmer Springs area.

March 8 (BusinessDesk) - Japanese food group Maruha Nichiro Corp has bought a 4.7 percent stake in local fishing company Sanford at a 7.6 percent discount in an off-market transaction with interests associated with Goodfellow family.