Australia and Papua New Guinea on Wednesday said they had agreed to close a controversial Australian-funded asylum seeker detention center on Manus Island, although the ultimate fate of 800 refugees held in the camp remained unclear.
Australia grabbed the first ever women's rugby gold medal in Olympic history after they muscled down New Zealand 24-17 in the rugby sevens final at Rio Games here on Monday.
Alibaba Group, the world’s largest e-commerce company, plans to ratchet up its Asia-Pacific cross-border retail activities with the launch of operations in Melbourne to serve online merchants in Australia and New Zealand.
A New Zealand-led military force - including troops from China and the United States - has begun building community projects to improve water storage and sanitation in the Pacific island nation of Tonga, the New zealand Defence Force (NZDF) said Friday.
Malaysia and Singapore will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the long anticipated high speed rail linking the two countries, local media reported Thursday.
The New Zealand government is to tighten up its lax foreign trust rules after an official inquiry found last month that they could be exploited to hide ill- gotten gains or evade tax.
The New York Times photographer was as responsible as anyone for high fashion’s street-style obsession.
China's Nanshan Group has taken control of Air New Zealand's remaining shares in Virgin Australia for 301.4 million Australian dollars, giving Chinese backed airlines a near one-third stake in Australia's second largest airline.
Many have heard of the grandeur of the annual Great Wildebeest Migration in East Africa, while every year around early June, a similar massive migration of cows and dairy farmers takes place in New Zealand, in which thousands of households join the traffic with their herds, in trucks or on foot, to move to new properties.
Donors at an international energy conference in New Zealand have committed more than 1 billion NZ dollars (693.3 million U.S. dollars) to sustainable energy projects in the Pacific, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said Tuesday.
A growing number of New Zealanders are homeless, according to a study of official figures out Friday, highlighting the country's worsening housing crisis.
Six popular Chinese films will be shown this week in New Zealand movie theaters amid efforts by both countries' governments to increase cultural exchanges.
The New Zealand government has opened a trade office in the Colombian capital of Bogota as it seeks to drum up business with the Latin American country.
A New Zealand air force aircraft has found two Kiribati fishermen who had been missing in a small boat for five days, New Zealand search and rescue authorities said Wednesday.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved legislation that would allow victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks of 2001 to sue Saudi Arabia, U.S. media reported.
Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao met with a delegation of the New Zealand National Party led by President Peter Goodfellow in Beijing on Monday.
Surging demand from Asia is driving record exports of New Zealand onions, the Onions New Zealand industry group said Friday.