Roy Morgan State Of The Nation : Auckland vs Wellington Spotlight
An interview with Roy Morgan Research CEO Michele Levine on the occasion of the release of the Roy Morgan Research State Of The Nation report with a spotlight on the difference between NZ's regions. Interview by Scoop Editor Alastair Thompson. More on the Scoop Independent News Youtube Channel >>
Minding Of Meats: MPI Working To Clear Shipments To China
New export certificates are being issued to release containers of meat products held up at the Chinese border, the Ministry for Primary Industries said today. Shipments of meat into China were delayed after MPI issued export certification in a format which had not been approved by Chinese authorities at AQSIQ. More>>
Banking Ombudsman: Bank Customers Need To Remember Basics
Have you heard the story about the kids who used their mum’s credit card details to buy up large online? Or the one about the person who saved all their PINs disguised as phone numbers on their mobile which was then stolen by a thief who saw through the disguise and went on a spending spree?More>>
TPP: A Global Fair Deal On Copyright - OurFairDeal.org
Alastair Thompson: The orginal "A Fair Deal" campaign brought together Internet NZ with a bunch of other groups including the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, the Creative Freedom Foundation , NZ Rise , Trademe and Kiwiblog's David Farrar. OurFairDeal.org takes the NZ based campaigns a giant leap forward bringing together 84 lobby groups from across the Asia Pacific in 6 countries into a global alliance. More>>
Business.Scoop: NZOG's Griffiths Backs Director Liability On Health, Safety
New Zealand Oil & Gas chairman Peter Griffiths has thrown his support behind legislative moves to make directors liable if the companies they govern fail to meet health and safety obligations. More>>
Scoop Business: NZ’s Services Sector Expands At Fastest Clip In 5 Mths
New Zealand’s services sector, which accounts for about 70 percent of economic activity, expanded at the fastest pace since October last month, led by activity/sales. More>>
Scoop Business: MRP Senior Managers In Line For $1.2M In Bonus Shares
Senior executives of newly listed, state-controlled MightyRiverPower are in line for shares in lieu of cash bonuses worth $1.2 million for the year to June 30, one of the company’s first disclosures to the NZX and ASX as a listed company show. More>>
Scoop Business: NZ Houses Overvalued By 25%, IMF Says
New Zealand housing is already overvalued by about 25 percent and if it continues to rise may force the Reserve Bank to hike interest rates, according to the International Monetary Fund. More>>
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Odometer Moments: CO2 Hits 400ppm
As the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hit the symbolic milestone of 400 parts per million (ppm), youth climate change organisation Generation Zero says it is time for New Zealand to rise to the challenge of building a zero carbon future. More>>
Trust Planned: Shared Vision For Mackenzie Basin Welcomed
Conservation Minister Dr Nick Smith and Environment Minister Amy Adams today welcomed a report proposing a way to manage the contentious land intensification, water, landscape, and biodiversity issues in the Mackenzie Basin. More>>
Scoop Business: Fidelity Acquires Most Of Tower’s Life Business For Net $70M
Fidelity Life Assurance has acquired most of Towers life insurance business for a net amount of about $70 million, propelling the closely held company to the third-largest in the market. More>>
The Friendly Skies: Air NZ Pressures Regulator To Drop ‘Untenable’ Cartel Case
Air New Zealand, the national carrier slated for a partial sell-down by the government, has ramped up pressure on the Commerce Commission to drop its long-running pursuit of the airline’s alleged involvement in a global cartel on air cargo surcharges. More>>
Scoop Business: NZ Jobless Rate Falls To 6.2% On Record Employment Jump
New Zealand’s jobless rate fell to a three-year low in the first three month of the year as the employment rate grew for the first time in four quarters, fuelled by demand for workers in Canterbury. More>>
New SOP: No Patents For Computer Software
“Following consultation with the NZ software and IT sector, I am pleased to be further progressing the Patents Bill with this SOP. These changes ensure the Bill is consistent with the intention of the Commerce Select Committee recommendation that computer programs should not be patentable,” says Mr Foss. More>>
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3D Printing The Next Industrial Revolution
3D printing technology is the next industrial revolution – and it’s a technology wave that New Zealand needs to be riding, says Professor of Mechatronics Olaf Diegel. More>>
No Charges For Hanover: SFO Concludes Finance Company Investigations
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has completed its investigation of Hanover Finance Limited, bringing to an end its investigations into the 2007/08 finance company collapses. That process, which saw SFO investigate 15 separate companies, resulted in criminal prosecutions in relation to nine companies. More>>
Scoop Business: Christchurch Quake Cost Rises $10B To $40B
The Christchurch rebuild just got $10 billion more expensive, of which the government expects to provide $2 billion, Prime Minister John Key has told the National Party’s South Island regional conference. More>>
Scoop Business: Labour-Greens Electricity Policy Halves Public MRP Appetite
A poll taken by the New Zealand Shareholders Association suggests up to half of people who intended to invest in the MightyRiverPower partial privatisation have changed their minds or are reconsidering. More>>
Scoop Business: RBNZ Keeps OCR At 2.5%, Sees Tame Inflation, Too-High Dollar
Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler kept the official cash rate at 2.5 percent, talking down the threat of soft inflation in recent months and reiterating his view the New Zealand dollar is “overvalued”. The kiwi jumped after the statement.
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Implimentation Brought Forward: Feedback Sought On Vehicle Inspection Frequency
Transport Minister Gerry Brownlee is inviting people to comment on changes to the warrant of fitness (WoF) and certificate of fitness (CoF) inspection frequency requirements. More>>
New March Record: Earlier Easter Contributes To Jump In Visitor Arrivals
Visitor arrivals in March 2013 (270,700) were up 13 percent from March 2012, Statistics New Zealand said today... "The latest figure was the highest ever recorded for a March month, easily surpassing the previous high of 250,800 arrivals in March 2008." More>>
Budget Announcement: Details On Tourism Funds
Prime Minister and Tourism Minister John Key has released details of the $158 million of additional funding for tourism announced in a pre-Budget speech earlier this week. More>>
Finance: Consumer Credit Law Changes Introduced
Consumer Affairs Minister Craig Foss today announced the introduction of a Bill making wide-ranging changes to consumer credit and repossession laws. More>>
Scoop Business: Pike River Coal Found Guilty On 9 Health And Safety Charges
Pike River Coal, the failed operator of the West Coast coal mine where two explosions killed 29 underground miners in 2010, has been convicted of nine health and safety charges. More>>
Scoop Business: NZ Education Ministry Sues James Hardie Over Leaky Schools
New Zealand’s Ministry of Education has launched a representative action against two James Hardie Industries subsidiaries and other parties, claiming several thousand schools buildings are leaky and is seeking repair costs and damages. More>>
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