Queenstown hosting tourism show again Otago Daily Times | The Trenz tourism industry trade show's inaugural Queenstown outing last year has been highly rated by delegates and preparations are falling into place for its return this year. | Almost 300 exhibitors, including Tourism New Zealand, Air New Zealand, Qantas, and host region Southern Lakes have re...
Markets Live: Stocks follow leads higher Sydney Morning Herald | Australian shares are higher after Wall Street rose on good jobs data and corporate results, and European markets gained on successful euro zone bond sales. | 12.44pm: Shares in Nexus Energy have risen a 10.4 per cent today after the company announced yesterday it will form a joint venture with oi...
Auckland Anniversary events to watch out for NZ Herald | The City of Sails celebrates its birthday this weekend with a historic regatta, as it has done for 172 years. Danielle Wright finds out what to expect at this year's event. | In September 1840, a small regatta was held on Waitemata Harbour with thr...
NZ wine exports grow 9.5%, bottled-wine price holds steady Otago Daily Times | New Zealand wine continues to find favour in overseas markets, with export volumes up 9.5% to 131 million litres in the 10 months to October last year. | However, the proportion of bulk wine exports was higher than a year ago, Rabobank's wine quart...
Brothel 'can stay near school' NZ Herald | The operation of an unlicensed brothel next to a primary school in Ponsonby has been put forward as evidence that prostitution laws are flawed - but the Auckland Council says to shut it would be unfair. | Residents have circulated flyers drawing at...
A day to look back, and forward NZ Herald | If Monday is fine I might take a wander on North Head, watch the anniversary regatta and ponder Auckland. From there, with a little imagination, you can see the city's beginnings as well as its splendour. | Away to the east, below Rangitoto, you ca...
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Chiefs are cautiously optimistic NZ Herald | Most chief executives of the major commercial and industrial property real estate agencies are quietly optimistic about a steady or improving market this year tempered with conce...
'Big Mac yoga' satisfies the masses NZ Herald | Bikram yoga founder's life mission is to share health benefits of techniques which saved the former weightlifter's crushed leg | The poster for tomorrow night's Auckland lecture ...
Air NZ wins top airline 'Oscar' for second time NZ Herald | A global airline industry magazine has named Air New Zealand the world's top airline for the second time in three years. | The United States-based Air Transport World gave the Ne...
Fishing holidays: In pursuit of the wolf fish The Daily Telegraph Jeremy Wade, presenter of 'River Monsters’ on ITV, recalls his pursuit of the wolf fish in South America and suggests some more angling adventures . | Image 1 of 2 Jeremy Wade searches for his quarry Image&nbs...
Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO The State | MENLO PARK, Calif - MENLO PARK, Calif. - Wall Street is about to get Facebook fever. | The social networking giant with nearly 1 billion users is expected to file papers any day now to sell stock to the public. The timing stems partly from federal ...
Tourism Forgotten As A Valued Export Sector Scoop Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 5:39 pm | Press Release: Inbound Tourism Operators Council | Tourism Forgotten As A Valued Export Sector | For many tourism operators working long haul markets, the high value of the NZD is like a poker hot enema. | Over the weekend I watched Bernard Hickey from Interest.co.nz reporting on TV1 where he suggested that Stand...
Jetstar fined for changing passenger's nationality The Daily Telegraph Australia | BUDGET airline Jetstar has been fined NZ$6500 ($5013) after the nationality of a Chinese passenger flying out of Melbourne was changed to Swiss - which allowed her to board a flight to New Zealand without a visa. | In the Christchurch District Court Judge David Saunders accepted that the change was simply an error, with the country codes being ve...
