Dairy prices have slipped at Fonterra's overnight online auction, with the globalDairyTrade index down 2.5 per cent.

The Australian dollar has finally hit parity with the US dollar.

Monitoring gear developed in New Zealand is being used to help doctors assess the vital signs of the miners trapped in the Chilean mine.

A local biotech firm is set to use its patented microbe technology in China.

A US law means supplies of the gas - a vital component in MRI scans - are vanishing fast.