WELLINGTON, 24 FEBRUARY 2020 (RNZ PACIFIC) — New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden has confirmed the country’s China travel ban will be extended for another eight days. Ardern said NZ was also exploring the possibility of an exemption to the travel ban for foreign tertiary students in mainland China. She made the announcement after Cabinet […]
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Police begin fraud probe of Oceania Football Confederation
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand Police’s serious fraud office has begun an investigation into former leading figures in the Oceania Football Confederation in response to a complaint by world governing body FIFA. The fraud office confirmed the investigation Thursday after inquiries by New Zealand’s Fairfax Media. Fairfax reported that one of the people […]
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New Zealand’s first slavery trial to enter second week in the High Court in Napier
NAPIER, 17 FEBRUARY 2020 (STUFF NZ) — New Zealand’s first court trial involving slavery and human trafficking charges has ended its first week in the High Court in Napier and will resume today. The trial before Justice Helen Cull and a jury started on Monday last week with horticultural and viticultural contractor Joseph Matamata, also […]
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Islands Business Pacific Person of the Year: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is Islands Businesses’ 2019 Pacific Person of the Year. Just over two years since she took office, events in New Zealand and in her own personal life have catapulted her on to the global stage. One among a new wave of young leaders who were swept to power (Canada’s […]
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Shocking photos and videos from NZ show iconic glaciers turning brown from Aussie bushfires
Brown slush now tops New Zealand’s usually pristine glaciers after “extensive” bushfire smoke travelled across the Tasman Sea. Icy white glaciers on New Zealand’s South Island have turned a concerning shade of caramel as a result of the bushfires burning in New South Wales and Victoria. Shocking photographs and videos shared on social media over […]
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Question marks linger over NZ gun buyback scheme
WELLINGTON, 24 DECEMBER 2019 – New Zealand authorities say the country will be a safer place after gun owners handed in more than 50,000 firearms during a buyback programme following a ban on assault weapons, but critics of the scheme say the amount collected has been woefully low. Wellington banned the most lethal types of […]