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 […]

There have been 24 new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today – the second daily increase in a row. There have now been 1050 total cases associated with the current community outbreak. Eleven and 13 cases were reported on the previous two days. There are 13 people in hospital with the coronavirus, […]

Olam Food Ingredients (OFI), has confirmed it will establish a new dairy plant in Tokorua. The plant will employ between 50 and 60 staff and become part of a global network that spans 20 major milk consumption markets, including South-East Asia, China, the Middle East, and Africa. South Waikato District Council welcomed the announcement. Mayor […]

Press Release: Te Whanau-a-Apanui Te Whānau-ā-Apanui and Aotearoa Mussel Limited have joined forces to build a land-based mussel spat hatchery in the Eastern Bay of Plenty, to enhance New Zealand’s growing aquaculture industry. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui will invest $1.2million in a research and development programme with support from Callaghan Innovation. The programme is scheduled to commence […]

$1.4 billion of the $24.3 billion National Land Transport Fund has been applied to Bay of Plenty roading projects. The spend will include continued work along 35.8kms of State Highway 2 between Waihī and Ōmokoroa, and a further 36kms between Wainui Road and Ōpōtiki. Other key projects will see the delivery of the State Highway […]

Waikato based infrastructure company has been selected to develop Lodestone’s five solar power stations in the upper North Island. The farms in Northland, Eastern Bay of Plenty and Coromandel, will eventually generate 400 Gigawatt hours – enough power for about 55,000 households, the equivalent of Hamilton. The first plant will be near Kaitaia, with further […]

Air New Zealand and global aviation giant Airbus have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to analyse hydrogen aircraft’s impact on its network, operations, and infrastructure. Air New Zealand aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2050, while Airbus aims to develop a zero-emission commercial aircraft by 2035. Airbus has a project called ZEROe which looks to […]

There have been 14 new community cases of Covid-19 reported today, all detected in Auckland, the Ministry of Health has revealed. There are 20 cases in hospital today, including four in ICU or HDU. The Ministry said 441 of the 966 Auckland cases had now recovered, while all but two of Wellington’s 17 cases have […]

Māori Language Week (Māori: Te Wiki o te Reo Māori) is a government-sponsored initiative intended to encourage New Zealanders to promote the use of the Māori language, which, along with New Zealand Sign Language, is an official language of the country. Māori Language Week is part of a broader revival of the Māori language. It […]