StretchSense, New Zealand-based electronics manufacturer and developer of a range of soft sensors that measure pressure, stretch, bend, and shear, has recently entered into a partnership with Japan’s largest online retailer,
The final part of the Waikato Expressway will start later this year, with Downer NZ Limited being awarded the contract to build the $115 million Longswamp section, Transport Minister Simon Bridges says.
Maryland-based ClimbZone unveiled a new franchise model and offering at the recent International Franchise Expo (IFE) in New York City.
Maersk Line, the world’s largest container shipping company and Kotahi, New Zealand’s leading export supply chain collaborator, are set to welcome the largest container ship to ever visit New Zealand waters
Infor, a leading provider of beautiful business applications specialized by industry and built for the cloud, today announced the winners of the 2016 Infor Excellence in Action Awards at the company's annual user
A view from afar - While a project is underway to make a bike path that would stretch along the East Coast of the U.S., in Auckland, New Zealand, some clever designers have covered a former highway offramp with a shocking pink nonslip resin to create a bike path that has just been shortlisted for this year’s World Architecture Awards.
Designed by Monk Mackenzie architects and landscape architecture firm LandLab, the Nelson Street Cycleway (known as “the Light Path”) opened in December and has already been christened by more than 100,000 cyclists.The 0.37-mile offramp turned bike path cuts through the surrounding asphalt like a pink ribbon, a bold and unconventional piece of urban infrastructure if there ever was one. How did the designers settle on that particularly vibrant shade of pink?
“From the outset we wanted something extremely vivid to contrast against the highway network it passes through,” partner Dean Mackenzie told me in an email. He said that they wanted to pick a color that didn’t connote a bus or typical bike lane (which in New Zealand, tend to be green or blue).
They considered bright oranges, yellows, reds, and pinks, before settling on a shade known as telemagenta. “Pink is a colour that a lot of people seem to be afraid of using (and hence not commonly used),” he said, “and we also felt looked beautiful against black.”
Mackenzie said that they approached the project as “a citywide artwork” that “had to be considered at that scale rather than just for the cyclist or pedestrian on the bridge.” In addition to the swath of pink, they installed 300 individual LED light poles at the eastern edge of the bike path to create a programmable interactive “spine” that transforms the space at dusk.
Check out the video here to see happy cyclists of all ages using the bike path
Source: Slate - Written by Kristin Hohenadel whos writing on design has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Fast Company, Vogue, Elle Decor, Lonny, and Apartment Therapy. Images Russ Flatt
NZ idealogues continue to suppress any airing of the real water issue
India has triggered the escape clause on dozens of bilateral investment treaties, aiming to renegotiate toward securing better protection from foreign litigation.
New Zealand's Ministry of Health has accepted Microsoft's Trusted Public Cloud services for advancing the country's electronic health service capabilities.
Microsoft's core cloud services Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online, have been successful in meeting the Ministry's requirements for storage of personal health information.
St John's Ambulance Service and Plunket are the other New Zealand health providers that are currently using Microsoft's cloud services.
These cloud services are also used by IT solution providers for the health sector, including Datacom, Stratos, Volpara, McKesson and Intergen.
"I am delighted by this news as it further supports the ability for health providers and digital partners to utilise advanced technologies to enable the delivery of enhanced services to New Zealanders," said Scott Arrol, chief executive of New Zealand Health IT (NZHIT).
US$1.3 billion health tech industry
New Zealand's health tech industry is worth US$1.3 billion to the local economy, and boasts established exporters like Orion Health, and more than a hundred other smaller independent software vendors.
The health tech sector in New Zealand is continuously growing and provides burgeoning opportunity for export to the fast growing global health market.
New Zealand's health tech industry and Microsoft will work closely for the next five years and aim for an increased export growth built on a strong local market.
The synergy focuses on supporting the development of new models of care and enabling health service delivery.
"The Ministry of Health's decision to accept the use of Microsoft's public cloud for storage of personal health records will help transform the eHealth agenda in New Zealand. It comes at exactly the right time, as globally we are at an inflexion point of all of this innovation in the sector," said Gabe Rijpma, senior director of Health and Social Services Asia at Microsoft.
Source: MISAsia
Trade Minister Todd McClay says outcomes of the G20 Trade Ministers’ meeting held in Shanghai 9-10 July, are likely to be extremely important for New Zealand's trade interests.
"This was a positive meeting for our core interests in trade and investment,” says Mr McClay.
"There is a clear political will to build on the successes of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Nairobi Ministerial last year, which agreed to eliminate agricultural export subsidies, and to make progress towards concluding an Environmental Goods Agreement."
In respect of the WTO, G20 ministers have committed to advance negotiations in a number of areas, including on the trade-distorting effects of agricultural domestic support.
Mr McClay says this is vitally important to New Zealand's export interests and would be welcome news to our rural sector.
"While much remains to be done, this meeting has been a useful step in the process toward the next WTO ministerial in 2017,” says Mr McClay.
G20 ministers negotiating the WTO Environmental Goods Agreement also reaffirmed their intention to conclude an ambitious agreement and to do so quickly, seeking to finish later this year.
"New Zealand has been a strong advocate of the Environmental Goods Agreement and I have pushed for an outcome that has clear benefits for both trade and the environment whilst in Shanghai. A successful outcome in this area could be beneficial for New Zealand trade,” says Mr McClay.
While at the G20 meeting, Mr McClay had bilateral discussions with counterparts from a number of countries including Argentina, United States, Korea, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Mexico, Laos, Russia, and China.
"The diversity of New Zealand trade means we are active in a wide range of markets. This meeting was an invaluable opportunity to progress our specific bilateral trade issues with these countries."
New Zealand was one of only two non-G20 members to be invited by China to attend the trade ministers' meeting.
Source: A press release from the Beehive
Palace of the Alhambra, Spain
By: Charles Nathaniel Worsley (1862-1923)
From the collection of Sir Heaton Rhodes
Oil on canvas - 118cm x 162cm
Valued $12,000 - $18,000
Offers invited over $9,000
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242
Mount Egmont with Lake
By: John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908)
Oil on Sea Shell - 13cm x 14cm
Valued $2,000-$3,000
Offers invited over $1,500
Contact: Henry Newrick – (+64 ) 27 471 2242