This year's Census results showed a quarter of New Zealand's population was born overseas and one in eight people living in New Zealand are Asian.
As the green light flashed, the cabin door opened and Liu Kang moved forward to sit at the edge of the door with his tandem master. Everyone was pretty scared, but they stepped out of the plane after someone behind Liu shouted " embrace the fear." With a 60-second free fall from 4,500 meters high at a speed of 200 km/hour, an amazing world with spectacular views of lakes and snow mountains surrounded him.
As the green light flashed, the cabin door opened and Liu Kang moved forward to sit at the edge of the door with his tandem master. Everyone was pretty scared, but they stepped out of the plane after someone behind Liu shouted " embrace the fear." With a 60-second free fall from 4,500 meters high at a speed of 200 km/hour, an amazing world with spectacular views of lakes and snow mountains surrounded him.
The New Zealand economy will grow next year at its strongest rate since 2007, or before the Global Financial Crisis, led by a surge in household spending, a leading economic think-tank forecast Wednesday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said New Zealand will be one of the strongest growing of the world's advanced economies this year and the next.
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 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.