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New Zealand's top court takes Kim Dotcom appeal

3 days ago

New Zealand's highest court has agreed to hear an appeal by Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and three colleagues as they seek to avoid extradition to the United States.

New Zealand to sell stake in 2nd power company

3 days ago

The budget indicated that after several years of deficits, New Zealand is on track to return to a surplus in the year beginning July 2014.

New Zealand raises $1.4B from power company sale

11 days ago

The government Wednesday announced a sale price of 2.5 New Zealand dollars ($2.10) for shares in Mighty River Power, raising a total of NZ$1.7 billion ($1.4 billion).

Same-sex marriage close to approval in New Zealand

66 days ago

New Zealand lawmakers for a second time have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill allowing same-sex marriage, virtually assuring its passage into law in the coming weeks.

New Zealand to sell stake in state power company

76 days ago

New Zealand says it will sell 49 percent of a state-owned energy company and list the shares on the country's stock exchange in about mid-May.

News Corp to sell stake in Sky in New Zealand

76 days ago

News Corp. said Sunday that it is selling its 44 percent stake in Sky Network Television Ltd., a pay TV broadcasting service in New Zealand.

Air New Zealand says long flights profitable again

80 days ago

Air New Zealand said Thursday its long-distance international flights are profitable again for the first time in five years after it axed its Hong Kong to London route and upped its offerings in...

Loved ones salute New Zealand dad killed by shark

80 days ago

Clinton Duffy, a shark expert with the Department of Conservation, said New Zealand is a hotspot for great white sharks, and other potentially lethal species also inhabit the waters.

Large shark kills man in New Zealand; beach closed

81 days ago

A shark has killed a man off a New Zealand beach that was closed after the rare attack there.

Royal penguin found stranded on New Zealand beach

87 days ago

A thirsty and thin royal penguin has been found stranded on a New Zealand beach more than 1,000 miles from its sub-Antarctic home.

2 years on, slow quake recovery in New Zealand

88 days ago

It is expected to exhaust the NZ$6 billion held by the Earthquake Commission, the government insurer created after a 1931 quake killed 256 and led private insurers to limit their coverage.

New Zealand plans logo-free cigarette packs

89 days ago

But Associate Minister of Health Tariana Turia says New Zealand will wait until a trade challenge in Australia plays out before introducing the new law.

New Zealand telecoms plan $60m fiber-optic cable

89 days ago

Three New Zealand telecommunications companies say they plan to jointly build a new $60 million fiber-optic cable connecting New Zealand with Australia.

Police confirm NZealand girl not Madeleine McCann

95 days ago

New Zealand police said in a statement Wednesday they sent DNA samples to Scotland Yard at the request of British police still investigating Madeleine's disappearance.

New Zealand mulls cutting mail delivery to 3 days

110 days ago

In an unscientific poll conducted by The New Zealand Herald newspaper, 50 percent of respondents said they'd be fine with three-day-a-week delivery because they don't get much mail anyway.

HK billionaire Li buys NZ waste company for $412M

124 days ago

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings said Tuesday that it was buying EnviroWaste Services for 490 million New Zealand dollars ($412 million) in cash.

A look ahead at 2013 travel trends

143 days ago

Myanmar, Marseille, New Zealand and Gettysburg are all on the travel radar for 2013 thanks to new tours, events and anniversaries.

Hands off our heritage: some wary of China's reach

158 days ago

Over the past decade, New Zealand's trade with China has more than doubled as a percentage of GDP, and China has overtaken the U.S. as New Zealand's second-largest export market after Australia.

Rare tornado kills 3 in New Zealand's largest city

163 days ago

An unusually destructive tornado swept through neighborhoods around New Zealand's largest city Thursday, killing three people and forcing 250 more to evacuate damaged and powerless homes.

3 dead as tornado hits New Zealand's largest city

164 days ago

The small tornado hit at about noon Thursday in Hobsonville, a western suburb of New Zealand's largest city, Auckland.

New Zealand backs anti-whaling suit against Japan

177 days ago

New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs Murray McCully said in a statement Friday that the government will use all avenues possible to try and stop Japan from whaling.

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