[ad_1] A digital technology expert is backing government moves to make the use of the Covid Tracer app mandatory in certain circumstances. Archive image. Photo: RNZ Data from the Ministry of Health shows that less than one in six of the 2.3 million registered app users use it on a …
Read More »Jack Tame: Life in Managed Isolation
[ad_1] This morning we are making history together. As far as I know, this is the first time a national program has been broadcast in New Zealand from controlled isolation. Hopefully the technology remains. Hopefully my tests come out negative. But if you hear a knock on the door in …
Read More »China congratulates Joe Biden on being elected president of the United States
[ad_1] World November 13, 2020 09:50 am4 minutes to read Xi Jinping, right, shakes hands with Joe Biden in 2013. Photo / AP China today became one of the last major countries to congratulate US President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to make little change in US policy. In conflicts …
Read More »Farming Festival Draws South Island’s Largest Post-Covid Crowd to West Coast
[ad_1] Supplied The Topp Twins perform at Agfest West Coast 2020 in Greymouth. A West Coast agricultural festival kicked off Friday with an expected turnout of 20,000, the largest post-Covid mass gathering on the South Island. The event was supposed to take place in March, but had to be canceled …
Read More »China congratulates Biden on being elected president of the United States
[ad_1] China on Friday became one of the last major countries to congratulate Joe Biden on being elected president of the United States. China, along with Russia, avoided joining the multitude of governments that congratulated Biden last weekend after he was projected to have garnered enough Electoral College votes in …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: new detail of the visit of an infected woman to the AUT student center
[ad_1] New Zealand November 12, 2020 11:19 AM2 minutes to read The video will play in Play now Don’t play automatically Never auto game There is a new community case of COVID-19 in Auckland after people in an Auckland CBD apartment block mixed with people in controlled isolation after a …
Read More »Xero enjoys his spell as New Zealand’s most valuable firm
[ad_1] SUPPLIED Covid-19 forced Xero to scale back its lavish Xerocon conferences, which typically attract thousands of accountants. New Zealand cloud accounting firm Xero surpassed Fisher & Paykel Healthcare to become the most valuable company in the country, for the first time, for about an hour on Thursday. However, the …
Read More »Negative interest rates could be coming in. What would it mean for borrowers and savers?
[ad_1] The Reserve Bank considered it, the big banks hated it, so could negative interest rates really work? Finance professor Harry Scheule from the Sydney University of Technology explains. A dispute is brewing in the corridors of financial power. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) recently warned commercial banks …
Read More »Hello fresh food poisoning stigma ‘could spread’ to other food kit services
[ad_1] Carla Amos / Things The fish delivered with the Hello Fresh meal kits over the weekend potentially contained elevated levels of histamine. A case of food poisoning that prompted Hello Fresh customers to seek medical attention could have an impact on the reputation of all meal kit delivery services, …
Read More »Judith Collins, Leader of the National Party, on the party’s new plans
[ad_1] National Leader Judith Collins with senior MPs, from left, Louise Upston, Shane Reti, Andrew Bayly, and Michael Woodhouse. Photo / Mark Mitchell Today it has returned to the activity of the National Party with its leader Judith Collins armed with her new superior team. Collins spoke with Mike Hosking …
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