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SYDNEY/WELLINGTON: Australian shares tumbled 1.4 per cent from six-year highs on Friday in a sharp fall across all sectors after Wall Street tumbled overnight as strong US economic data stoked concerns the Federal Reserve may start its ...

Wellington, Jul 31 (AFP) New Zealand is to slap a seven-year jail term on anyone caught match-fixing under a new law due to take effect before it hosts the Cricket World Cup and Under-20 FIFA World Cup next year. The Match-Fixing Bill, introduced ...

Representational image Wellington: A group of Air New Zealand passengers finally got airborne on Tuesday after being stranded for three nights due to repeated delays from mechanical problems. The upside? They were stuck in Hawaii. And every ...

WELLINGTON, July 31 (Xinhua) -- The New Zealand government on Thursday issued guidelines for the definition and labeling of the country's highly-valued manuka honey after a spate of alleged false claims in export markets. The Interim Labeling Guide ...

The kiwi fell as low as 84.90 US cents overnight and was trading at 84.96 cents at 8am in Wellington, from 85.15 cents at 5pm yesterday. File photo / NZ Herald The New Zealand dollar dropped below 85 US cents for the first time in seven weeks ...

New Zealand's Sally Johnston has won the shooting gold medal in the 50m rifle prone at the Commonwealth Games. The Wellington 44-year-old shot a six-round total of 620.7 in the event to win from South Africa's Esmari van Reenen and Scotland's Jen ...

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority has awarded its first equity crowd funding licences to two platforms. Wellington-based PledgeMe and Auckland-based Snowball Effect gained licences under the new Financial Markets Conduct Act, which came ...

July 31 WELLINGTON, July 31 Stories may be taken from either the paper or Internet editions of the papers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. Taxpayers dig deep to take over Novopay: After throwing NZ$45 ...

Oil executives had dinner at Logan Brown, a sail on Wellington Harbour and a four night stay at the Intercontinental - all on the taxpayer. Photo / NZ Herald Energy Minister Simon Bridges is defending a $240,000 bill for taxpayers to wine and dine ...