Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Fonterra and Beca have partnered to develop a breakthrough virtual reality health and safety training technology. The cutting-edge solution lets employees navigate the Co-operative’s manufacturing and distribution sites without the need to set foot on site and will help substantially reduce onboarding times.

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is the next wave of technology and New Zealand must present a fresh window to help encourage women into tech roles.  Big corporations across every industry, from retail to agriculture, are trying to integrate machine learning into their products and the global thirst for AI is fuelling a heated race to climb aboard the new revolution.

Mar 07, 2018  - For the past two years, the Samoa Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has been in discussions with the New Zealand Ministry of Primary Industries through its bilateral Quarantine Agreement meetings. Now there is finally an outcome that will see Samoa’s banana exports developing and growing again, although under strict New Zealand import bio security requirements.

Mar 07, 2018  -   The government is adding forestry rights to the Overseas Investment Act screening regime ahead of this week's signing of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership in Chile, preserving its right to legislate on the issue

Mar 07, 2018 -Negotiators for Lyttleton Port Company and the Rail and Maritime Transport Union are meeting this morning to try to stave off a strike set to begin tomorrow and last up to 14 days

Beijing-based economist Rodney Jones argues in an article on Newsroom today, New Zealand should have a robust debate about its relations with China under President-for-life Xi Jinping, and should be less afraid of any reaction in China to that debate. 

Mar 07 -  Christchurch Airport is reporting an increased interim result, alongside record passenger numbers.

Working Class Labour Premier arguably descended from aristocratic marriage of Princess Te Aitu-o-te-Rangi and whaler-prospector-grazier John Milsome Jury.

The possibility that former Labour prime minister Norman Kirk (above) was descended from the union of Princess Te Aitu-o-te-Rangi and whaler-goldminer-settler John Milsome Jury has again been ignited by the possibility of new National Party leader Simon Bridges MP assuming the honour of first Maori premier.

PENSKE New Zealand has secured a deal to deliver 36 MAN trucks to TIL Logistics Ltd, one of the kiwi's biggest freight and transport companies.