Politics and Economics | Forbes
7 June 2016
Helen Clark has been ranked #22 on Forbes Magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Women” list. The former New Zealand Prime Minister and head of the United Nations Development Program is currently a candidate for the…
Politics and Economics | Korea Herald (The)
3 June 2016
While ramping up global pressure is key to hampering Pyongyang’s nuclear development, Seoul should chart a path to restart denuclearisation talks to defuse tension and move toward an ultimate reunification, former New Zealand prime…
Politics and Economics | The Wire
20 May 2016
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has “warned that global climate change goals cannot be achieved without a united push to secure land rights for the world’s indigenous forest communities”, as reported by…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
10 May 2016
New Zealand’s former prime minister Helen Clark has begun her campaign to become the first woman to lead the United Nations, saying in Paris that, “peace really matters to women”. Clark has led the…
Business | Bank of China
21 April 2016
Bank of China (New Zealand) Limited has signed a partnership arrangement with Immigration New Zealand, which will simplify visa application processes for their high net worth customers wishing to study or visit.
“In addition to…
Politics and Economics | Barron’s Asia
15 April 2016
“‘I can offer the style of leadership needed today’. Such words sound unremarkable coming from a politician in this messy and pivotal election cycle. But when they come from the right woman with an…
Politics and Economics | Daily Mail
5 April 2016
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark’s announced candidacy for the position of Secretary-General at the United Nations has been hailed around the world by international media.
The UN’s current top ranked woman as head of the…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
18 March 2016
Zero-hour contracts have been outlawed in New Zealand after parliament unanimously passed a bill to ban the controversial practice, which is being hailed as a major victory for minimum wage workers, particularly in the…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
26 February 2016
New Zealanders who have lived and worked in Australia for more than five years will find it easier to access citizenship under a deal reached by the leaders of the two countries, the Guardian…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
11 January 2016
A letter from Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong sent to British Labour leader Clement Atlee and typed by New Zealand-born journalist James Munro Bertram, has sold at Sotheby’s for £605,000, more than…
Politics and Economics | Daily Star (The)
7 January 2016
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), led by New Zealander Helen Clark, says that 2 billion people have lifted themselves out of low human development in the last 25 years.
The Human Development…
Politics and Economics | Deutsche Welle
26 December 2015
Helen Clark, Head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and former Prime Minister of New Zealand was featured in an article on the Deutsche Welle as one of the faces…
Politics and Economics | Korea Herald (The)
14 October 2015
“The New Zealand Embassy has kicked off a month-long festival in October to celebrate growing commercial and cultural links with Korea, expected to expand further after the free trade agreement likely comes into force…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
12 October 2015
As the UN marks the 70th anniversary of its founding this autumn, those imperfections – and how the UN addresses them – have come to the fore as the organisation struggles to define its…
Politics and Economics | Telegraph (The)
12 October 2015
Why can New Zealand negotiate vast trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the largest regional trade accord in history, while Britian continues to argue over markets of the past, the Telegraph’s Harriet Maltby…
Politics and Economics | TIME
6 October 2015
Just hours before Prime Minister John Key addressed the United Nations recently, the National Party leader, who has been in office since 2008, spoke with TIME’s editors about Vladimir Putin, why New Zealand needs…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
23 September 2015
New Zealander Nina Hall, who is a post-doctoral fellow at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, recently swam from Turkey to Greece in solidarity with the refugees who are making the dangerous journey…
Politics and Economics | Huffington Post | World Bank
22 September 2015
“Migration to pick fruit is probably not the first thing you think of when you think of the World Bank’s work, or the broader global effort to eliminate poverty after 2015,” global development expert…
Politics and Economics | Xinhua News
1 August 2015
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully called for the United Nations Security Council to have a greater role in the Middle East peace process.
“Secretary Kerry has been closely involved in efforts to re- establish…
Politics and Economics | InnerCityPro
3 July 2015
Throughout July, New Zealand’s top UN diplomat Gerard van Bohemen will take on the responsibilities of the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council, and his cited his main goal to facilitate…
Politics and Economics | Newsweek | World Bank
26 June 2015
While Greece, Spain and Portugal face a bleak scenario as they struggle on their road to recovery New Zealand, Canada, America and Britain emerge from the Legatum Institute’s Prosperity Index as success stories, Newsweek…
Politics and Economics | Financial Times (The)
24 June 2015
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has outperformed all of its counterparts with its generated returns of more than 17 per cent a year over the past five years according to analysis by JPMorgan.
“Acting as…
Politics and Economics | OECD
22 June 2015
“Income inequality has risen in most OECD countries” in the last 30 years and the age profile of poverty has shifted “with young people replacing the elderly as the group most at risk of…
Politics and Economics | Forbes
29 May 2015
Helen Clark has been ranked #23 in Forbes annual audit – The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.
“As the most powerful woman in the United Nations (and first UNDP female head), Helen…
Politics and Economics | Daily Telegraph (The)
8 May 2015
The New Zealand Dollar is in sight of reaching the same value as the Australian Dollar. While New Zealand has developed structural reforms to secure future economic growth, Australia “is still operating on the…
Politics and Economics | Monocle
15 April 2015
New Zealand’s consul-general to Los Angeles Leon Grice and his Bichon Frisé Milou feature in Monocle’s “Ambassadogs” series.
“The eight-year-old, named after Tintin’s companion, has accompanied the Grice’s through Leon’s stints as executive of a…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
14 April 2015
Australians are going to have to get used to New Zealanders going on about how much better their economy is, according to the Guardian.
Paul Bloxham, the HSBC economist who first called New Zealand a…
Politics and Economics | Australian (The)
9 April 2015
For more than 20 years, “the trans-Tasman migration tide” has been a one-way wave – a relentless flow of Kiwis to Australia. Australia was the land of milk and honey, a rich big brother…
Politics and Economics | UPI
3 April 2015
The share of renewable energy on the grid in New Zealand is the highest it has been in close to 20 years, Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges said.
The share of electricity generated from…
Politics and Economics | Voice of America
21 March 2015
New Zealand and Vietnam have announced ambitious new trade goals following a meeting between New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Wellington.
“New Zealand and Vietnam have agreed…
Politics and Economics | Daily Mail | World Economic Forum
14 February 2015
Hedge fund managers are buying up remote stations and land in places like New Zealand to flee to in the event of civil uprising against growing inequality, it has been claimed.
With growing inequality and…
Politics and Economics | Canberra Times (The)
10 February 2015
Incoming ACT Legislative Assembly member New Zealand-born Meegan Fitzharris introduced herself as “the first MLA from Gungahlin” at her maiden speech delivered when the former bureaucrat and government staffer was sworn in…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
16 January 2015
New Zealand has long been the butt of sheep jokes but latest figures show the nation’s woolly flock has slumped to its lowest number since World War II, with numbers dropping by 3.2 per…
Politics and Economics | Monocle | OECD
1 January 2015
There are three challenges New Zealand faces in 2015, according to Monocle magazine. Much of the success of Prime Minister John Key, who led the National party to a landslide in the September elections,…
Politics and Economics | Economist (The)
10 November 2014
Prime Minister John Key, recently re-elected to a third term, is a cast-iron monarchist, the Economist writes. “Even so, he is bent on coming up with a new flag for New Zealand, one in…
Politics and Economics | Telegraph (The)
5 November 2014
Almost a year to the day since the Hawke’s Bay-born retail banker Ross McEwan replaced Englishman Stephen Hester at the helm of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), the bank appears in much greater health.
Inessential…
Politics and Economics | BBC | BBC News
24 October 2014
New Zealand has won a seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The 15-member council has five permanent members – the US, UK, France, Russia and China – and 10 non-permanent seats, filled…
Politics and Economics | Australian (The)
17 October 2014
New Zealand has won a seat on the United Nations Security Council, in the first round of the secret ballot.
The UN’s 193 member states voted at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday.
New…
Politics and Economics | Wall Street Journal (The)
17 October 2014
New Zealanders drink more cider than ever, wear sweatpants less often, and use smartphones instead of video cameras to capture family memories. These are just some of the lifestyle changes reflected in the government…
Politics and Economics | Wall Street Journal (The)
22 September 2014
Prime Minister John Key will lead New Zealand for a third consecutive term after the National Party won 48 per cent of the vote in this year’s election.
Official results show Key’s party will likely…
Politics and Economics | Boston Journal (The) | Radio Australia
24 June 2014
At the White House meeting between Prime Minister John Key and President Barack Obama this week, the two leaders discussed a timeline to complete the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade deal agreement by November when the…
Politics and Economics | Financial Times (The) | Forbes
6 May 2014
First it was a Forbes columnist poking the borax at the New Zealand economy; now Goldman Sachs is having a go at our property market. The Goldman report is a look at central bank…
Politics and Economics | Bloomberg
20 March 2014
China has announced that for the first time it will allow direct trade between the renminbi and the New Zealand dollar, only the fourth currency permitted to do so. The move further strengthens the…
Politics and Economics | National (The)
11 March 2014
New Zealand will export a research flock of sheep to Saudi Arabia this year under a breeding project aimed at bolstering the kingdom’s livestock supplies, according to the National. Pregnant ewes and lamb will…
Politics and Economics | Guardian | Guardian (The)
4 March 2014
Prince George will take part in his debut public engagement next month when he accompanies the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to New Zealand, Kensington Palace has announced.
The Prince, who will be…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
19 February 2014
An estimated one million New Zealanders living overseas will become a serious political force if the newly formed Expatriate Party of New Zealand gets its way, says the Guardian.
Based in Perth, the party says…
Politics and Economics | Business Insider
6 February 2014
Thanks to an ever-increasing demand for milk powder, New Zealand’s exports to China rose 45 per cent last year superseding Australia as New Zealand’s top export market for the first time on an annual…
Politics and Economics | Telegraph (The) | World Economic Forum
4 February 2014
4 February 2014 – Ranked 21st most powerful woman in the world, Helen Clark, 63, New Zealand’s Prime Minister for nine years, and now head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), gives Telegraph…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
29 January 2014
Introducing UN Secretary General … Helen Clark? The Guardian is tipping the former prime minister is the prime candidate to replace incumbent Ban Ki-Moon when he steps down in two years. Clark was New…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
28 January 2014
At the Open Government Partnership (OGP) summit in London in November 2013, New Zealand became the 61st member of a rapidly expanding global movement. The OGP is all about making governments more transparent, accountable…
Politics and Economics | Guardian (The)
24 January 2014
New Zealand-based Megaupload.com entrepreneur Kim Dotcom, 40, is launching two ventures this month: a new political party to contest in the country’s next general election and a debut dance album, Good Times, to be…
Agriculture | OECD | Wall Street Journal (The)
22 January 2014
In a world still limping its way out of the global financial crisis, The Wall Street Journal has written that New Zealand’s economy is looking remarkably zippy – and even outdoing our much larger…
Politics and Economics | Huffington Post (The) | Telegraph (The) | USA Today
2 January 2014
In a rare vacation encounter with a foreign official, US President Barack Obama played golf in Hawaii with a new partner, Prime Minister John Key also on vacation, along with Key’s teenage son Max…
Politics and Economics | Wall Street Journal (The)
17 November 2013
The New Zealand government has agreed to a full ban on shark finning, though fill implementation of the ban won’t happen for another three years.
The Wall Street Journal reports that it is already illegal…
Business | Wall Street Journal (The)
16 November 2013
Many strange things are used to measure economic growth and decline: the lipstick economy, the horse-trading economy, the Playboy economy (curves in recession, skinny in boom times) and even underwear, as Fed chairman Alan Greenspan…
Politics and Economics | News.com.au
13 November 2013
Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples features in a photographic exhibition featuring portraits of Tangata whenua, including Sharples. Sharples was stunningly captured on film by British photographer Jimmy Nelson, who was touring the world recording…