Новости за 21.04.2016

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April 22 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street fell, dragged lower by disappointing earnings from companies including Travelers Cos.

The City Rail Link is probably the most intensely scrutinised transport project New Zealand has ever seen thanks to the government’s earlier outright opposition to it. Over the last six years we’ve seen a number of studies, reports and business cases examining the project and often one sided and deeply flawed reviews of all of these. In 2013 [...]

Stuff reports: China will allow dairy to remain on the table as it progresses talks with New Zealand over an upgrade to an existing free-trade agreement. But it’s not yet promising that formal re-negotiations will begin over an eight-year-old pact that the government would argue has fallen victim to its own success.  Prime Minister John Key met […]

Stuff reports: Pop superstar Prince has died at home in the United States, aged 57. The ‘Purple Rain’ singer – full name Prince Rogers Nelson – was found dead at a compound in Paisley Park, Minnesota on Thursday morning (local time), his publicist Yvette Noel-Schure confirmed. Sad so many of the great artists die so young. His full name was Prince […]

News from Generation Zero Youth climate change organisation Generation Zero has praised NZ Bus on their forward-looking decision to save Wellington’s trolley buses and initiate a significant retrofit programme to electrify many of its 1100 buses in Wellington and Auckland. NZ Bus announced plans yesterday to fit the trolley buses with Wrightspeed electric motors, which […]

Press Release – Pacific Islands Climate Action Network Friday 22nd April, SUVA, FIJI. Today more than 150 world leaders gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York to reaffirm their formal commitment to the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change in the largest ever signing ceremony …Pacific Must Continue to Lead Climate […]

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SUVA (The Fiji Times/ Pacific Media Watch): About 3000 people from nine coastal villages on Ovalau in Lomaiviti will be relocated because of the devastation caused by severe tropical cyclone Winston.

WELLINGTON (Radio NZ International/Dateline Pacific/Pacific Media Watch): A media forum in Fiji has heard the fear of retribution is a barrier to reporting human rights stories in the Pacific, Radio NZ International reports.

A unique approach to hosting large incentive groups has seen Tourism New Zealand and its partners secure incentive business from China worth at least $50 million dollars.

New Zealand’s economy will get a boost of more than $50 million when an additional 10,000 Chinese visitors holiday in Queenstown in 2018, says Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism John Key.

April 21 (BusinessDesk) - An overhaul of the way taxis and private hire companies operate has been set out by Transport Minister Simon Bridges in response to the rise of ride-sharing companies such as Uber.

Phil Goff’s claim tonight that Auckland police stations are closing to the public is false, says Auckland Mayoral candidate Vic Crone.

In response to a number of media queries received today, claims that 16 stations in Auckland will close is incorrect.

April 21 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand shares rose to a fresh record as Fletcher Building reached a 10-month high on perceptions it has lagged the market's rally. A2 Milk, dual-listed Australia & New Zealand Banking Group and Westpac Banking Corp also ...

Wellington.Scoop What’s going on? The Regional Council keeps insisting that it’s going to scrap all Wellington’s trolley buses next year. But Infratil has just announced a different plan – it’s going to replace their engines with something that it’s calling “electric powertrain technology.” Chris Laidlaw was insisting in February that the trolley buses have to […]

April 21 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar fell from a 10-month high against the greenback and dropped versus the Australian dollar amid speculation the Reserve Bank may try to drive the kiwi lower by cutting rates next week when most in the ...

A serious crash at Chertsey late this afternoon, in mid Canterbury, means the state highway is likely to be closed for several hours tonight.

Around 300 New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel returned this afternoon from a seven-week humanitarian aid operation in Fiji, where they helped deliver hundreds of tonnes of life-saving aid supplies to remote communities devastated by Cyclone ...

• From Tuesday 26 April a section of Edgeware Rd, between Hills Rd and Geraldine St, is becoming one-way for about 3 months because of wastewater repairs at the intersection with Champion St.

Today’s figures released by the Ministry of Social Development show that despite a drop in the number of beneficiaries, fewer people are going into paid employment or study, says Labour’s Social Development spokesperson Carmel Sepuloni.

Police have today arrested and charged a 59 year-old man in relation to possession for supply of methamphetamine.

The engineering firm responsible for saving New Zealand’s Christchurch Art Gallery following the earthquakes in 2010 and 2011 has been shortlisted for the International Project of the Year Award at the 2016 Ground Engineering Awards.

Police are attending a fatal vehicle crash on State Highway 1 near Chertsey. The road is closed but diversions are in place. More details will be made available later on this evening

A world-first study into the health and wellbeing of more than 154 million Indigenous and tribal peoples globally was launched today simultaneously in Melbourne and London, by Australia’s Lowitja Institute and the Lancet journal.