(Bloomberg) — Thailand and New Zealand have agreed to resume direct flights after the pandemic shut air connectivity as leaders of the two countries vowed to triple bilateral trade in the next two decades. Most Read from Bloomberg The two countries will also prioritize visa facilitation to achieve the goals of having 100,000 New Zealanders […]
(Bloomberg) — New Zealand needs to check government spending for it to successfully tame inflation, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said weeks before releasing his administration’s first fiscal blueprint. Most Read from Bloomberg The government is determined to get New Zealand’s “books in order,” Luxon said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin on Tuesday […]
New Zealand’s record cap holder Sam Whitelock has announced that he will retire from rugby at the end of this season. The 35-year-old lock, who currently plays for French club Pau, will call time on his career when the Top 14 campaign finishes. Whitelock won 153 caps for the All Blacks, a figure only bettered […]
The presence of an endangered species of dolphins on the race course has prevented sailing on the first day of the New Zealand leg of an international competition. The SailGP race venue on Lyttelton Harbour near Christchurch on the South Island is home to around 1,000 of the remaining 10,000 Hector’s dolphins, which are native […]
New Zealand has entered its second recession in 18 months after the latest round of GDP figures confirmed its economy contracted in the last quarter of 2023. The country’s economy shrank by 0.1% in the quarter to December, and 0.7% in per capita terms, the New Zealand’s official statistics agency Stats NZ announced on Thursday. […]
New Zealand has said it will ban vapes and raise financial penalties for those who sell such products to minors. The move comes less than a month after the government repealed a unique law enacted by the previous left-leaning administration to phase out tobacco smoking by imposing a lifetime ban on young people buying cigarettes. […]
Ireland will host World Cup conquerors New Zealand and Joe Schmidt’s Australia during a mouth-watering four-match autumn series against southern hemisphere opposition. The All Blacks, who beat Andy Farrell’s side 28-24 in the quarter-finals of last year’s global tournament in France, will visit Dublin on Friday, November 8th. Former Ireland boss Schmidt will bring the […]
A passenger aboard a flight from Australia to New Zealand described fellow passengers being thrown from their seats and hitting the roof when the plane suddenly plunged, before safely landing at Auckland Airport. At least 50 people were injured Monday after the LATAM Airlines plane experienced a “strong shake,” according to the Chilean airline. The […]
As officials investigate what caused a “strong shake” before a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand suddenly plunged, a passenger described a wild ride, with people without seatbelts thrown from their seats and some crashing into the plane’s ceiling. At least 50 people were injured by what LATAM Airlines described as a “strong movement” […]
By Alasdair Pal SYDNEY (Reuters) -New Zealand’s Transport Accident Investigation Commission said on Tuesday it was seizing the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of a LATAM Airlines Boeing 787 after an incident that left more than 50 people injured. The New Zealand accident investigator said Chilean authorities had confirmed they had opened a […]
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At least 50 people have been injured by what officials described as a “strong movement” on a Chilean plane flying from Australia to New Zealand. LATAM Airlines said in a statement that there was “a technical event during the flight which caused a strong movement”. Passengers were met by paramedics when the flight from Sydney […]