A host of Chinese talent has been lined up to perform at New Zealand's biggest Chinese New Year event, which is being expanded this year to accommodate a greater variety of performers and visitors.
Growth in New Zealand's manufacturing sector surged to its highest level of 2015 in December, according to the latest performance of manufacturing index (PMI) out Thursday.
Ministers from 12 nations are to gather in Auckland next month to sign the disputed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay confirmed Thursday.
David Bowie was a New Yorker for over 20 years. In Bowie years, that is practically an eternity considering the multitude of lives he lived — musically, geographically and otherwise — since he first set out to become a star in the late 1960s.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee's organization department has allocated 80.2 million yuan (12.2 million U.S. dollars) in New Year subsidies for elderly and needy CPC members.
Visitors to New Zealand over the next two months will be forgiven for not recognizing the national flag as the country flies two flags over official buildings and other sites.
Finnish police are investigating 15 suspected sexual offenses which occurred in Helsinki on New Year's Eve, said the Helsinki Police Department on Tuesday.
After scores of women reported sexual assaults and muggings by men on New Year's Eve in the western German city of Cologne, German police have identified a total of 31 suspects, most of whom were asylum seekers, German media Focus Online reported on Friday.
Pupils participate in a calligraphy contest to celebrate the New Year in Tokyo Jan 5, 2016. Over 3,000 calligraphers who qualified in competitions throughout Japan wrote resolutions or wishes onto paper sheets during the annual contest that marks the start of the new year, according to organizers.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her outrage over series of sex attacks committed against women in the western German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve, demanding a hard response from the law, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Tuesday.
The world's biggest dairy exporter, New Zealand's Fonterra, has found itself caught in the crossfire of an unexpected new controversy: a global environmental campaign against the destruction of rainforests.
A German millionaire should be sent to the United States to face charges of Internet piracy, a New Zealand judge ruled Wednesday.
German tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom on Wednesday lost a bid to block his extradition from New Zealand to the United States to face charges including copyright infringement and money laundering, a major victory for the U.S. Department of Justice in the long-running case.
New Zealand's largest agricultural services company has been fined 2.7 million NZ dollars (1.84 million U.S. dollars) for price fixing, the commerce regulator said Tuesday.
Three New Zealand men have been arrested and convicted after an investigation into child abuse material on the Internet across at least 10 countries, the New Zealand Police said Tuesday.
New Zealand legislators and health advocates on Tuesday renewed calls for the introduction of plain packaging on tobacco products following the tobacco industry' s failure to stop similar moves in Australia.
New Zealand's foremost scientific organization Monday called for immediate action on climate change in the wake of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.