Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Over 300 researchers, academics and technology specialists representing 29 countries from across the Asia Pacific advanced research network are meeting in Auckland this week to look at ways to support research connections across the region and with 120 economies and regions globally.

Cabinet will consider whether government ministries should take a longer-term approach to construction negotiations after Ebert Construction was tipped into receivership, sparking wider concerns about cost pressures in the construction industry.

Tapware designer Methven's shares lifted 5 percent after news it has inked a deal with China's Jiangsu RuiZhiShang Building Materials Company to use its shower technology in a series of key projects over the next decade

Murray Sherwin, Chair of the New Zealand Productivity Commission, welcomes a new project with the Australian Productivity Commission into Growing the digital economy and maximising opportunities for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

PGG Wrightson has agreed to sell its seed and grain business to Danish cooperative DLF Seeds for $421 million in cash and $18 of debt repayment, and signalled it may return up to $292 million to its shareholders . . . . .

LONDON (AP) — Britain's international trade minister says it's likely the U.K. will fail to agree upon a divorce deal with the European Union before it leaves the bloc in March — the latest in a growing chorus of warnings that the negotiations are in crisis.

Skeleton Coast in the north west of Namibia might not sound like the most alluring of holiday destinations. Here the angry surf and harsh weather have brought down thousands of ships, whales and seals, the remains of which now litter its infamous beaches. But joining them is a cluster of luxury cabins inspired by the shipwrecked surroundings, offering unique and spooky stays between the desert and an otherwise untouched shoreline.

A major upgrade to Auckland’s main water treatment plant in Mangere took top honours at the Civil Contractors New Zealand’s (CCNZ) national awards in Hamilton last night. Other awards went to projects across the country, ranging from the Chatham Islands to the banks of the Waikato River.

Vista Drinks co-founder Scott Day, 26, talks starting a drinks business with his schoolmates and competing with Coca-Cola, despite having no FMCG experience with NZHerald's Aimee Shaw.

"Alan Hill pay your bills."

Aviv Jones of family trucking business Trucks 4 Hire couldn't be clearer on what she expects from the director of Intercivil, a civil construction business, which was put into receivership by the BNZ, and then liquidation by the courts.