Teenagers are ending the third school term today with 93,000 fewer NCEA pass marks than at the same time last year. The figures provided to RNZ by the Qualifications Authority show schools had reported 1.4 million achieved, merit and excellence results to the authority so far this year, 6 percent fewer than last year and […]

Rapid work was underway at Auckland District Health board to plan for life with Covid after borders open up, with modelling helping bosses to plan. It paints a sobering picture of what having Covid permanently in the community will look like. Under the scenario they think is most likely, there would be, on average, more […]

The “Golden Triangle” regions of Auckland, Waikato, and Bay of Plenty continue to dominate property development activity in New Zealand, accounting for close to 60 per cent of the annual national building consents issued. Home to just over half of New Zealand’s population (50.18 per cent), The Golden Triangle regions accounted for 52.4 per cent […]

Flexible working conditions are being seen as an important tool to prevent New Zealand tech companies from losing staff to big overseas firms. Christchurch-based Jade Software, which is looking for 25 New Zealand based staff, said it had recently lost people to Australia. With the company now in growth mode in what is a tight […]

Covid-19 elimination is possible but that does not mean New Zealand will necessarily get to zero cases, the Director-General of Health, Dr. Bloomfield says. Daily cases have been bouncing around in the 20s and teens for the past week and have yet to fall below 10. Bloomfield said he doesn’t think a level 1 scenario […]

Auckland moves to alert level 3 from 11:59pm today for at least two weeks, to be reviewed on 4 October. The area around Mangatangi, in northern Waikato, is under a section 70 order requiring people who live or work there to stay at home. The rest of the country will stay at level 2, though […]

Today is the start of the Korean holiday Chuseok. Chuseok, or ‘Mid-Autum Festival’ is one of the three most important holidays in Korea. Korean businesses and schools will be closed for three days, the 20th, 21st and 22nd of September. Although Chuseok’s roots are largely agricultural, in present-day Korea the festival is a time for […]

The Meat Industry Association says concerns about human rights should be kept away from trade, as it welcomes China’s bid to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Signatories to the trade deal, such as Australia, have previously voiced strong concern about China’s human rights record But a leading export body in New Zealand, the Meat Industry Association, […]

The Maori Party has launched a petition to change the official name of New Zealand to Aotearoa. “It’s well past time that te reo Māori was restored to its rightful place as the first and official language of this country. We are a Polynesian country, we are Aotearoa,” Māori Party co-leaders Rawiri Waititi said at […]

Over the past week, concern has been growing about the bad debts being carried by China’s largest property developer Evergrande. Evergrande is carrying around $447 billion (US$315b) in debt. With Chinese households holding more than 60 per cent of their wealth in the form of property, a default by Evergrande could trigger a much broader […]