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Duck shooters are being encouraged to check, clean, and dry their gear and equipment to help stop the spread of alligator weed.

New Zealand based alt protein start-up Jooules has powered up the next steps to commercialise its novel gaseous fermentation technology with a $1 million capital raise by Sprout Agritech LP.

Companies Encouraged to Reevaluate Drug and Alcohol Policies

As the Atlassian user and partner community gathered together for Atlassian Team’24, leading marketplace partner, Revyz, announced a major step forward for customers in the fight against cyber attack and malware.

News from Hapai Te Hauora Hāpai Te Hauora is kicking off Smokefree May with Auahitūroa, a Traveling Art Exhibition bidding farewell to the entrenched tobacco culture in Aotearoa with eulogies presented by politicians in Wellington today. For years, our largest Māori Public Health organisation has been advocating for a Smokefree Aotearoa and Hāpai Te Hauora […]

"The main objective of the exhibition is to prompt conversations that acknowledge the role tobacco has played in our culture and the impact it has had on whānau, hāpu, iwi and hāpori."

The Marlborough South zone will move from a prohibited fire season to a restricted fire season from 8am Wednesday 1 May, until further notice. This includes all Department of Conservation land.

For the first time, the University of Auckland’s internationally renowned MBA is going online – and those based in Ōtautahi Christchurch can get a preview of the MBA experience with an exclusive taster session held in person on 14 May.

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The Remuneration Authority will soon decide what pay rise MPs get. This used to be an annual exercise. I lobbied for years that they should avoid the pressure of annual pay rises, and just have their pay set for each term of Parliament. They have partly moved towards that. There is only one determination for […]

Press Release – UN FAO A new brief by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)highlights that since February 2024, drier conditions have emerged in various pockets of the region, posing a threat to rice and wheat harvests and potentially delaying the onset … 01/05/2024, Bangkok – As El Niño, a recurring […]

The UN’s top humanitarian official in South Sudan has urged the government to lift newly imposed taxes and charges that are causing aid deliveries to be suspended, affecting tens of thousands of people.

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, reached one of its now-abandoned schools in Khan Younis at the weekend, where thousands of people appeared to have left at a moment’s notice, fearing further intense Israeli bombardment.

The head of UN peacekeeping and demining reiterated calls on Monday for a ceasefire in Gaza as a first step to returning the war-ravaged enclave to some normality, while mine clearance experts warned that the Strip is now at its “most dangerous period”.

Top UN officials called on Monday for swift action to combat the El Niño extreme weather events that are currently devastating southern Africa and other regions with flooding and drought.

Rising violence is again restricting humanitarian aid delivery in the Darfur region of Sudan, the head of the World Food Programme said on Monday.

Global progress towards sustainable development will continue to stall unless countries do more to bridge the gender gap and reduce poverty and inequality, the President of the General Assembly said on Monday.

On International Workers' Day, also known as May Day, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi and the wider union movement are celebrating the proud history of the labour movement during a tough time for working people.

An alarming increase in enforced disappearances of citizens exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and participating in matters of public interest is reported in Venezuela since December 2023, UN experts* said today.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk on Tuesday said he was troubled by a series of heavy-handed steps taken to disperse and dismantle protests across university campuses in the United States of America.

Today marks the start of TE MARAMA PUORO O AOTEAROA 2024 (NZ Music Month), with AMPLIFYING AOTEAROA | PAOROTIA AOTEAROA the key theme across this year’s event.

Ordinary Gazans remain in a “constant state of trauma” over an impending full-scale Israeli attack on the enclave’s southernmost city of Rafah amid a growing number of strikes there, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday.

With the situation in Gaza “worsening by the day”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for Israeli and Hamas leaders currently taking part in intense negotiations to reach a ceasefire agreement.