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.
The infant formula manufacturer at the center of the botulism false alarm in New Zealand said it has been confirmed that Karicare infant formula products that were affected by the Fonterra ingredient contamination are safe and now back on New Zealand shelves.
The New Zealand government will act on recommendations made by inquiries to the Fonterra botulism scare, but it will not rush to conclusions about what went wrong, Trade Minister Tim Groser said Wednesday.
The flow of capital from emerging markets could pose a risk to New Zealand's economic recovery, a leading independent economic think tank warned Wednesday.
While New Zealand's relation with China remained strong after the scare, its Trade Minister Tim Groser said officials in China and other Asian countries were closely watching the New Zealand government's response, he said in a published speech to the Wellington Chamber of Commerce.
The relationship between China and New Zealand remains strong despite recent food safety concerns, New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully said during a visit to Beijing Thursday.
A car park attendant introduced that the mother had been there one hour earlier, to secure a parking place for her son, who works in a nearby school and often complains how difficult it is to find a spot.
On Monday, Fonterra's CEO Theo Spierings held a press conference in the Chinese capital Beijing.
The New Zealand government is to lower the film and television production cost threshold for rebates in a bid to have more global blockbusters made in the country, it announced Wednesday.
New Zealand Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse said on Wednesday that he is assessing visa and travel procedures for Chinese visitors during a visit to China.
Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman on Monday ordered the New Zealand military to review its defense orders after it was revealed that the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) regarded the country's investigative journalists as a subversion "threat".
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key will mark the anniversaries of two of the country's overseas military deployments when he travels to the Solomon Islands and the Republic of Korea (ROK) this month.
New Zealand's widening wealth gap is having a major impact on the country's sense of "wellbeing, " according to the country's first social index.
The foreign ministers of New Zealand and Tajikistan discussed regional security issues when they met in Auckland Tuesday, according to New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully.
Visitors from China are keeping New Zealand's tourism industry afloat, but the industry's contribution to the country's economy stagnates, according to a University of Canterbury study.
New Zealand's top legal representative body has told the United Nations Human Rights Council that the country needs stronger human rights protection after the government passed a series of laws that fail to meet its international obligations.
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