The NZ Commerce Commission is taking three international airlines to court alleging poor disclosure while it probes allegations of price fixing in the $NZ400 million air cargo market.The commission said it has filed criminal charges in Auckland District Court against Cathay Pacific Airways, Singapore Airlines and Aerolineas Argentinas.The charges...
ANZ National bank has told workers doing back office jobs in Wellington and Auckland that the work done by 238 of them will be outsourced to India.The meetings on Tuesday with workers at the bank's lending services centre in Auckland and customer transaction service centre in Wellington were the...
Soaring food and petrol prices pushed annual inflation up to four per cent in the June year after the Consumer Price Index CPI leapt a higher than expected 1.6 per cent in the June quarter, Statistics New Zealand says.The department reported food prices rose 8.2 percent in the June...
New Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen says there is nothing surprising in a treasury report that says the economy could already be in a recession."We're talking about an economy that's running pretty flat," he told reporters on Tuesday as he went into an all day caucus meeting to plan...
New Zealand may already be in recession, a monthly Treasury report says."The past month has seen the release of data that confirm a sharp slowing of growth in early 2008 and point to further weakness in the June 2008 quarter," the June report said."It is possible that the...
Air New Zealand said on Wednesday it carried six per cent more passengers in May compared with a year earlier.For the financial year to date, short-haul passenger numbers increased by 4.5 per cent and long haul by 13.3 per cent.It said its North American and UK passenger loadings increased...
Auckland Airport is reviewing whether new Commerce Commission information has any implications for its plan to move from two to one duty free operator.The commission has published its reasons for declining to grant clearance for duty free operator Hong Kong-based DFS Galleria to buy all the shares in Swiss-based...
By Israel Faxx News Services An Israeli woman visiting New Zealand surprised a group of workmen by stripping when they cat-called her. The unidentified tourist was trying to withdraw money from an ATM in the northern town of Kerikeri when she heard suggestive...
SYDNEY, March 30 Kyodo New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark confirmed Sunday that her government will sign a free trade agreement with China on April 7, according to reports from New Zealand. New Zealand is the first developed country to negotiate a comprehensive...
Blue Chip's founder-director Mark Bryers will be reported to the"appropriate authorities" after failing to show at a creditors'meeting in Auckland. Liquidator Jeff Meltzer said it was an offence under theCompanies Act for Bryers not to attend yesterday's meeting, attendedby about 300 angry creditors, and he would be reporting his...
The nation's respect Final farewell: mourners in the Auckland Domain pay theirrespects to Sir Edmund Hillary, left and above. . The family's love Touching moment: Lady Hillary lays her hand on her husband'scasket at the service in St Mary's Church, Auckland yesterday. Shewas supported at the...
New Zealand's oldest immigrant -- 102-year-old Eric King- Turner -- sets sail from England today. The Kiwi stepson of the retired British dentist says hisstepfather is a remarkable person. King-Turner has packed his belongings to move to the Nelson homeof his 87-year-old, New Zealand-born wife, Doris, the Daily...
Health protection officers spent nearly three days tracing 120people who had contact with a nine-year- old Nelson boy withsuspected meningococcal disease. The boy was rushed to Auckland's Starship Hospital on Wednesdayafter he was admitted to Nelson Hospital with symptoms of thepotentially fatal disease, including a fever, headache, vomiting andmuscle...
Ava is hot - Riley is too. Mia is in, but Maia is on the wayout. The Department of Internal affairs has announced the most popularnames of 2007. Ella and Jack topped the charts. Ava climbed eight places from 26th on the girls' list in 2006 to18th...
An Akaroa police officer's wife was forced to go to her husband'said when he was attacked at his Banks Peninsula home by two men hehad stopped earlier in an unroadworthy car. The officer, Senior Constable Lyle Pryor, is off work recoveringfrom injuries received in the assault last Sunday night....
A Templeton healthcare facility for people with intellectualdisabilities faces strike action over a contract dispute. Members of the National Union of Public Employees NUPE and theNurses Organisation working at Brackenridge Estate have voted tostrike for 48 hours from Friday, January 11. NUPE organiser Janice Gemmell said the unions,...
A desire to find love for the new year has sparked a boom forinternet dating sites. Dating website Findsomeone has reported a 30 per cent rise inactivity since the New Year, and its membership now tops 250,000. Business manager Mike O'Donnell said the site often saw anincrease in...
A man enticed by a text message promising an experience with twowomen ended up naked in someone else's house. A 17-year-old woman was offered diversion for misusing a phonewhen she appeared in the Palmerston North District Court. She sent a text to the 31-year- old man offering him...
Canterbury rugby league legend Mel Cooke was "overwhelmed" to benamed in the Kiwis' team of the century at the New Zealand RugbyLeague awards dinner. Cooke -- universally regarded as the best player to representCanterbury -- was selected at loose forward. "That's quite anhonour; it's remarkable," said the Hornby club...
Articles 2007-12-03
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