A new report taking stock of the country's shipping sector reports an uneven playing field for domestic and international providers, and major problems that need to be fixed if resilience and environmental goals are to be met.
Commissioned by Waka Kotahi, the report found New Zealand shippers were being short-changed on a number of fronts compared with their overseas counterparts.
Read more: NZ shipping faces uneven playing field in NZ waters
The latest members of New Zealand's Defence Force and police contingent have arrived in Honiara after days of unrest in the Solomons capital.
Read more: More NZ personnel arrive to help defuse tensions in Solomons Islands
Almost 500 Afghan nationals and their families who served with New Zealand soldiers are hiding from the Taliban unable to get out of the country.
They've been granted New Zealand visas but can't escape. Now, an interpreter is pleading for the Government to do more before "they're found and killed" by the Taliban.
A bomb disposal squad was deployed to a British hospital after receiving reports that a man had an anti-tank shell lodged in his rectum, officials confirmed to local media.
A team from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Regiment attended the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital in Gloucester, a county town in South West England, after being notified by police "that a patient had presented with a munition in his rectum".
Rectum you say... bloody near killed him...
The first real world data showing the coronavirus variant Omicron may evade some of our immunity has been reported by scientists in South Africa.
Scientists have detected a surge in the number of people catching Covid-19 multiple times.
Read more: First data points to Omicron re-infection risk
The United States Marine Corps Memorial stands proudly on the waterfront of New Zealand’s capital city, Wellington, close to where the first troops came ashore in 1942. A plaque laid by the Second Marine Division Association in 1951 says “To the People of New Zealand. If you ever need a friend, you have one.”
Read more: Duty Call or Booty Call?
New Zealand Defence Force personnel and police departed for the Solomon Islands on Saturday following recent unrest and rioting in the capital of Honiara.
Read more: NZDF, police depart for Solomon Islands
Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned that Japan and the US must defend Taiwan if China tries to invade it as Japan moves to more formally recognize Taiwan as a country.
NBA player Enes Kanter is making headlines again, this time for his name change and his beef with LeBron James over China.
Hong Kong students are going to see a change to their curriculum that's more in line with China's worldview after China essentially took back Hong Kong in 2020.
Read more: The US and Japan MUST Defend Taiwan: Shinzo Abe
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