A delegation of New Zealand government ministers will meet with their Australian counterparts this week to discuss the prospects of expanding trade with Asia.
The amount of toxic environmental contaminants ingested by New Zealand adults has halved over the last 15 years, health researchers announced Thursday.
New Zealand politicians are facing unprecedented fiscal challenges over coming decades to deal with the country's ageing population, an economic think-tank warned Thursday.
Smoke from the massive bushfires in the Australian state of New South Wales is likely to drift more than 2,000 km across the Tasman into New Zealand in the next few days, a New Zealand government research agency warned Thursday.
Severe droughts that happen once every 20 years will affect New Zealand once every two to five years by the year 2100 and the country's Pacific neighbors will need help to deal with the impacts of climate change, a leading New Zealand climate scientist warned Wednesday.
All schools, including child care centers and pre-schools in the Blue Mountains, will be closed on Wednesday and weather conditions are expected to be worse than first thought, Australia's New South Wales Rural Fire Service (RFS) said on Tuesday.
New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English on Thursday defended the government's goal of returning to an operating surplus next year, saying it would help protect the country against ongoing global risks to economic recovery.
New Zealand could see an annual economic growth of 3 percent according to the results of a quarterly business confidence survey, a leading economic think- tank said Tuesday.
Two New Zealand companies have lost "significant sums of money" after two Chinese companies fell victim to Internet hackers, New Zealand Police said Monday.
The New Zealand hosts of the first APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Conference) business leaders meeting next year on Friday laid out their key topics for trade and economy in the region.
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has sought French President Francois Hollande's backing for a New Zealand-EU free trade agreement, but admitted that such a deal is a long way off, according to reports.
U.S. stocks shed earlier gains and closed mixed on Monday, as former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers pulled out of the race for Federal Reserve chairmanship, currently held by Ben Bernanke.
New Zealand would be pressing for greater economic cooperation and integration in the Asia- Pacific region at this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC) annual meeting of finance ministers, Associate Minister of Finance Jonathan Coleman said Tuesday.
The New Zealand government on Thursday welcomed a nine-year jail sentence for a Hong Kong man who was caught importing a record haul of methamphetamine.
New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English will visit Vietnam and Singapore next week to reinforce the country's trade and economic links with Southeast Asia.
Top-ranking international climate change negotiators gathered in Auckland Tuesday for a second New Zealand government initiative aimed at injecting "fresh thinking" into the new United Nations climate change agreement.
The most senior public servant in New Zealand's Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI), the government agency responsible for food safety and agricultural produce, will go to China to try to mitigate the damage from the Fonterra botulism scare.
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