50-plus projects under way to combat bacterial plague.

The Chinese company that sparked a fierce national debate last year about foreign investment in farming is ploughing ahead with plans to export millions of cartons of UHT milk from New Zealand to China.

GPG will return $158m to shareholders this year and gradually sell down assets to the point where the Coats thread-making business is its only investment.

Vector shareholders who sold into a controversial 'low-ball' share offer have been told they can back out of the deal.

Simon Allen, former managing director of ABN Amro New Zealand, has been appointed chairman of the Financial Markets Authority.

There is an extraordinary disconnect between what the experts write about oil prices, and what is likely to happen in the real world.

Scrap metal dealers and exporters say soaring commodity prices are bringing challenges to an industry that's worth $2b a year to the New Zealand economy.

Some of the best performing KiwiSaver funds last year were also the worst performers in 2008, new figures show.