Новости за 30.08.2018

The company, which started life as a market-darling developer of energy-efficient motors, and has since expanded into areas as diverse as the internet of things (IoT) and retail food and beverage, reported a net loss of $200,000 for the half-year ended ...

Aug. 30 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand needs to cut its methane emissions by about one-fifth from 2016 levels if it's to meet the Paris climate change commitments, according to new research prepared for the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.

Article HAMAS The barriers to signing a ceasefire between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli Occupation cannot be limited to the great disparity between the terms of the Israeli Occupation and the Palestinian resistance or the Palestinian Authority’s stance towards the ceasefire. Rather, the disparity between the Palestinian factions’ stances towards the ceasefire represents another […]

Stuff reports: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has stood Customs Minister Meka Whaitiri aside while an investigation is carried out into staffing issue in her office. Stuff has been told relations in Whaitiri’s office are toxic and she is understood to have been through an entire rotation of staff in the short time she has been in the […]

Government officials have slated Winston Peters’ Budget 18 tax breaks for the racing industry in advice released today by the Treasury.

“The Fiji Parliamentary Opposition expresses its gross disappointment and deep concern on fast tracking of the process to appoint the next President of Fiji when Fiji has time until October of this year to do that.

Attorney-General David Parker has raised the issue of social media liability at a meeting with his counterparts from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States.

MEDIA RELEASE Business confidence shows need for urgent 30 AUGUST 2018 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE With business confidence falling further and firms’ perceptions of their own activity sitting at its lowest level since the GFC, tax reform to kickstart productivity ...

Mayor Phil Goff has pledged Auckland Council’s commitment to the C40 Advancing Towards Zero Waste Declaration , alongside 22 cities from around the world. The commitment will avoid disposal of 87 million tonnes of waste globally by 2030.

By Richard S. Ehrlich BANGKOK, Thailand -- The Pentagon has conducted its first army-to-army exercise in Brunei along the strategic, contested South China Sea after the U.S. State Department suggested obedience to the sultanate's Islamic Shariah ...

In international law, a category regarded by certain legal philosophers as non-existent (there being no overarching sovereign to police it), aspirations reign like obstinate fantasies. The 1967 Outer Space Treaty is one such example, decorated by such expressions ...

Stage Set for Thrilling Junior World Champs Slopestyle Final at Winter Games NZ Cardrona, New Zealand (30 August 2018) – The Big Bucks Park at Cardrona Alpine Resort was the place to be today for high flying action in the FIS Junior Freestyle ...

A Written Submission to the 39th Regular Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council by the Asian Legal Resource Centre

Great Britain and Slovakia shine on the final day of Alpine Racing Coronet Peak, Queenstown, August 30 2018 - It was a day of blue skies and firm snow to start the last day of alpine skiing, kicking off at 8.45am with the men’s slalom. Racing ...

New research shows methane - a greenhouse gas which New Zealand produces vast amounts of - is not the benign gas some are trying to paint it as, says Forest & Bird.

Aug. 30 (BusinessDesk) - S&P Global Ratings cut AMP's life insurance credit rating and said it has a dim view of the group's creditworthiness after revelations from Australia's Royal Commission into misconduct in the financial services sector.

Health Minister David Clark is continuing to battle conflict of interest allegations from appointing Deloitte to review the failing $90 million National Oracle Solution IT programme, National’s Associate Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says.

WEST PAPUA: Plea for PM to be ‘game-changer’ in Pacific support http://www.pmc.aut.ac.nz/pacific-media-watch/west-papua-plea-pm-be-game-changer-pacific-support-10223

The NZ Transport Agency advises road users to expect delays on State Highway 2 between Omokoroa Road and Esdaile Road in Tauranga again this Saturday 1st September, between 7am and 5pm while further tree felling & maintenance work is carried out.

The council has today agreed to defer a decision on the potential purchase of Hurunui Water Project (HWP) shares, Chair Councillor Dick Davison has confirmed.

Aug. 30 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand business confidence dropped further in August as headline confidence weakened while firms' views of their own prospects stabilised.

A Levin man has been arrested today following a recent spate of cars being broken into at rural car parks in the Levin area.

Suicide Prevention worker Louise Hutchinson is calling for an urgent independent government inquiry into the Wellington Regions' 3DHB Suicide Prevention and Postvention Service.

Aug. 30 (BusinessDesk) - Vector has agreed to buy Vircom Energy Management Services to help maintain a national service for residential and commercial smart meters.

Jointly presented by Nadene Milne Gallery and Michael Lett 6 September – 6 October Preview Thursday 6 September 6–8pm (Preview Nadene Milne Gallery Arrowtown, Friday 7 September and Christchurch Saturday 8 September)