NZ to spend $3.5m on Pacific tsunami system
The Govt will spend $3.5m to upgrade tsunami warning systems across the Pacific, Murray McCully announced today.
The Govt will spend $3.5m to upgrade tsunami warning systems across the Pacific, Murray McCully announced today.
The Australian Government will appeal a WTO ruling that Australia is breaching international laws in restricting NZ apple exports.
A World Trade Organisation decision issued in Geneva early this morning ruled against Canberra's efforts to block imports of Kiwi apples in what Tim Groser says is 'a stunning victory' for NZ.
Efforts to contact a New Zealander known to be in India's remote Himalayan region of Ladakh hit by flash floods are continuing today.
The Pacific Islands Forum will be held in Auckland next September in the lead-up to the first game of the World Cup, the Herald understands.
New Zealand will boost the monitoring of Pacific fisheries to help an industry that loses more than $400 million a year because of poor enforcement.
New Zealand will open its doors to 200 education scholarships for Pacific people, as well as commit $4.8 million towards the policing of Pacific fisheries, Prime Minister John Key announcement today.
The endorsement of Fiji's military regime by some Pacific countries is unlikely to affect the Pacific Islands Forum's suspension of Fiji, says Murray McCully.
New Zealand is considering imposing further sanctions on Iran as part of an international bid to halt its nuclear programme.
The leak to Australian media of a high-level NZ diplomatic cable has jeopardised future discussions between the two countries, Phil Goff says.
A double-pronged aid effort is getting up a head of steam in Tuvalu this week, as more than 300 New Zealand Defence Force staff descend on the tiny nation north of Fiji and nearly 4000km from New Zealand.
Trade Minister Tim Groser has been warned, after a complaint was made about rowdy drinking by him and some members of a trade mission.
NZ activist Nicola Enchmarch says she saw a man shot in the head by Israeli forces after they stormed her Gaza-bound aid ship.
The NZ woman detained in Israel after a raid on an aid flotilla headed for Gaza has been released overnight.
The Israeli Embassy in Wellington says Nicola Enchmarch is about to be deported from Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport but her destination is unknown.
The mother of a New Zealand woman held by Israel was last night anxiously waiting news of her daughter.
Members of the Pacific Islands Leaders Forum will travel to Fiji to see whether or not the situation has improved in the island nation.
NZ will join Australia in taking legal action over Japan's whaling programme if last minute diplomatic solutions are not found.