Новости за 26.09.2016

Professor Neil Quigley has been elected Chair of the Reserve Bank's Board of Directors, replacing Dr Rod Carr. Ms Kerrin Vautier has been appointed as Deputy Chair.

The NZ Transport Agency is advising motorists to take extra care on State Highway 35, north of Gisborne, as there are a number of slips on the roads following heavy rain.

Favoured contenders Akarana and Counties Manukau have safely negotiated the opening day of play at the NZRL National Youth Tournament in Rotorua.

Police are looking to return a large amount of stolen property discovered as part of an ongoing investigation into burglaries across the Waitakere, Rodney and North Shore areas.

Anne O’Callaghan was bursting with pride when son Ben received his Master’s in Medieval History at the University of Auckland’s graduation ceremony on Tuesday. A little more unusually, Ben (26) had his turn to feel the same sense of family pride ...

Finance Minister Bill English has congratulated the new chair of the Reserve Bank’s board of directors Professor Neil Quigley.

New figures showing that student loan defaulters have now clocked over $1 billion in debt highlights National's failure to combat spiralling student loan debt, Labour's Education spokesperson Chris Hipkins says.

Hamilton Police are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a woman near Waikato Hospital early on the morning of September 26th.

The Friends of the Ōtaki River has been recognised at the Wellington Airport Regional Community Awards, winning the Heritage & Environment section.

Police are appealing for witnesses to a crash that occurred on SH5 near Napier yesterday, Monday, 26 September.

Boaties on the east coast of Northland will soon be safer on the water as Coastguard launches a new, purpose built Rescue Vessel at Whangaroa.

Hutt Valley business confidence in New Zealand’s economy has significantly improved according to the latest Hutt Valley Chamber of Commerce Business Confidence Survey, sponsored by Red Hot Business Coaching.

The UN Security Council has held its fifth poll on the candidates for UN Secretary-General. This was another positioning poll. We did not expect the results to be very different from the previous poll and this turned out to be the case. The selection process ...

If I was not in my wheelchair when I was a very young child, I would sometimes launch myself off whatever I was sitting on and end up in a heap on the ground. I used to think if I concentrated hard enough I might be able to stand up.
I guess I didn’t really understand why I couldn’t walk and I did think that I might just be slower than the other kids to pick it up. That was well before I went to primary school. I did understand quite well though what spina bifida meant. I would even…

To prevent hundreds of thousands of Kiwis becoming renters for life in Auckland, the government must start acquiring more land and building affordable houses, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament Rt Hon Winston Peters.

New Zealand First says it is wrong for people to blame dairy farmers for the price of milk in supermarkets when it is the supermarket chains and the government who are milking the profits.

Tete-a-tete This weekend Jacinda Ardern argued for the government, or an agency of Government, to set wages for whole industries. This is the proposal associated with the Kristine Bartlett vs. TerraNova case, where the Employment Court found that ...

The 5th straw poll has seen Clark slip further going from 6-2-7 to 6-0-9. As I said previously I don’t see any credible path to victory. The net support for each candidate in the 5th straw poll was: Guterres +10 (12-2) Jeremic +2 (8-6) Lajcak +1 (8-7) Malcorra 0 (7-7) Turk 0 (7-7) Bokova -1 […]

Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse today signed a Working Holiday Scheme with Luxembourg during a meeting with the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Luxembourg Jean Asselborn in Wellington.

The NZDUSD opens at 0.7272 (mid-rate) this morning. The NZD along with the JPY have been the best performing currencies over the past 24hrs. The NZD shrugged off yesterdays disappointing trade balance and has started to retrace some of its fall, following ...

Sept. 27 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar rose as the nation's relatively robust economy and relatively high interest rates made it a standout as risk appetite abates ahead of today's US presidential debate.

Sept. 27 (BusinessDesk) - Trilogy International independent director Mandy Sigaloff is sitting on a paper profit of $664,000 after she exercised share options granted prior to her appointment in 2013.

Sept. 27 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street fell ahead of the first US presidential debate between candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

Sept. 26 (BusinessDesk) - Stride Property Group, the NZX-listed property investor, has sought resource consent to redevelop the Johnsonville Shopping Centre in Wellington's northern suburbs.

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