The shutdown allows statutory inspections of equipment across the refinery, along with maintenance work, cleaning and other projects that cannot be carried out while in operation. A critical part of the shutdown will be the 10-day closure of the utilities systems for preventative maintenance. Refining NZ …

Christchurch - New Zealand seriously needs a national AI strategy to keep pace of global change in technology, the Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand (AIFNZ) research report, just released, says.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appealed to the business community to help the government develop a "robust plan" for the economic and environmental policy shifts required to deal with climate change and the fast-changing nature of work

The Government is setting up a three-way forum with the major business and trade union organisations to inform policies for future challenges in the workforce. Finance Minister Grant Robertson will lead the work with Business New Zealand CEO Kirk Hope and the Council of Trade Unions (CTU) …

Semiconductor giant Intel teams up with the China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation in efforts to conserve and repair the Great Wall’s severely weathered Jiankou section

More than 1,100 economists, including Nobel laureates and former presidential advisers, have signed a letter warning Donald Trump about his tariff-heavy approach to trade. Many of its passages quote directly from another letter sent in 1930, cautioning against protectionist measures the U.S. imposed …

What we produce should connect … Food is one of our biggest export earners. In 2016, land-based primary production which includes agriculture, horticulture, and forestry earned $35.4 billion, half of the country's total export earnings of $70.9 billion. All Birds shows town and country can be an ingenious lot too. It doesn't have to be an …

The Government is disappointed New Zealand has not been included in the announcement by President Trump on exemptions from steel and aluminium tariffs, Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker says.

Staff from Victoria University of Wellington’s School of Engineering and Computer Science are in Samoa this month as part of an initiative to bring cyber-security education to the Pacific and beyond.

The Government is disappointed New Zealand has not been included in the announcement by President Trump on exemptions from steel and aluminium tariffs, Trade and Export Growth Minister David Parker says.