Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Trump, who has taken a hard line on trade and technology issues with Beijing, tweeted on Sunday that he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping "are working … #trade

For us in New Zealand, we look around and see Australian and the Pacific. In India, looking west means looking to Pakistan and looking north means …

Bob Dylan will play at least two New Zealand shows this year.  One of the most successful and longest lasting voices in pop music, Bob Dylan has announced he will play a show in Auckland and Christchurch this year.

That's a huge increase from the Productivity Commission's estimate of between 2 to 5 percent. The carbon footprint of New Zealand's buildings currently takes into account operational emissions like heating and lighting.

But the author of the Thinkstep report, Jeff Vickers, said their approach only took into account what was produced, not what was consumed.

"If you factor in the whole life cycle so taking account of production of the building products, also the operational energy and end of life, you get to a number that's 20 percent of New Zealand's total.

"It changes the game on how significant the built environment really is," he said.

In early 2019, University of Canterbury researchers will be part of an international effort to explore one of the coldest, harshest and most remote locations in the world: the Weddell Sea off Antarctica.

The Government has been talking about getting freight off the country’s roads and onto alternative sea freight and particularly rail freight.  Rail freight has its place and already its biggest customer is the road freight transport industry, but it also has its limitations.

Cheesemakers are set to benefit from a more modern and common-sense approach to food safety regulation, says Food Safety Minister Damien O’Connor.  Delighted to be a guest at The Great Eketahuna Cheese Festival today, Mr O’Connor launched the Food Safety Template for Cheesemakers – a tool to help cheesemakers producing cheese for New Zealand and Australia to meet food safety requirements.

Oasis Engineering testing facilities have been working to capacity with one of their new products a Light Duty CNG Fill Valve and Transit Nozzle recently released to the market.   With intuitive fill valve and nozzle operation, the full flow fill valve & fuelling nozzle redefines the flow rate standard for NGV gas deliveryis.  These fill valves are used for a wide range of vehicles which include private passenger cars, busses and trucks that are using CNG or Bio-Gas, as well as trailer load/unload systems.

Singapore Airlines will deploy one of its A350-900 aircraft to New Zealand, with operations to Christchurch scheduled to commence from 7 January 2019 when SQ297 departs Singapore for the city.

“What do the passengers around us think?” asks my seating partner ensconced in G on the other side of the four seater aisle. “I was wondering the same thing”, I replied.