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TEA SATE Asia-Pacific 2025 arrives in New Zealand for the first time
Breaking Travel News
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August 18, 2025
For the first time ever, the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) is bringing its popular TEA SATE Asia-Pacific Conference to New Zealand. To bring this incredible event to life, TEA has partnered with Wētā Workshop, the award-winning creative...
The Great New Zealand Road Trip 2025 - Nine Questions with Northbound author and writer Naomi Arnold
The New Zealand Herald
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August 18, 2025
Across the bay in northwest Nelson, Tasman, Kahurangi National Park is a marvel of geology and biodiversity. I recommend local author Dave Hansford’s recent book Kahurangi (Potton & Burton). Typically of Dave, it has the most wonderful lyrical,...
Artificial intelligence: New Zealand firms embrace AI, yet struggle with full integration and skills gap
The New Zealand Herald
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August 18, 2025
Some 88% said AI had had a positive effect on their operations. Of those: 20% had seen significant gains (25%+ time saved or output increased) 28% report moderate gains (10–25%) 35% report minor gains (under 10%) “So the benefits are there....
Trade Me seeks gaming chief to shape E Blacks’ global success
IT Brief - New Zealand
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August 18, 2025
Trade Me Jobs and the New Zealand Esports Federation are seeking a Chief Gaming Officer to help determine the future direction of the E Blacks, New Zealand's national esports team. The Chief Gaming Officer role, now open for applications, will...
Companies are granted personhood; why not nature?
Taipei Times
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August 18, 2025
It is a well-accepted quirk of law that corporations have the right to own property, enter into contracts and sue each other — just like an actual person. Ships also enjoy the perks of legal personhood. So it is not too much of a stretch to...
New Zealand will no longer accept paper student visa applications by Sept 18
Nairametrics
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August 18, 2025
New Zealand will phase out paper applications for international student visas next month as the government accelerates its transition to a fully digital immigration system. From Sept. 18, all applications for six categories of student visas must...
MacMillan to lead Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand
WATT Poultry - Illinois
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August 18, 2025
Fiona MacMillan has been selected as the next executive director of the Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand (PIANZ). She will succeed Michael Brooks, whose upcoming retirement was announced earlier this year. Following that announcement,...
‘New Zealand over-regulated, over-priced’: Heritage Expeditions
Seatrade Cruise News
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August 17, 2025
New Zealand has 'over-regulated itself and over-costed itself out of the cruise and expedition industry in the future,’ Heritage Expeditions owner Nathan Russ warned delegates at the New Zealand Cruise Association 2025 conference in Napier....
Nation of Debt: Higher taxes, deeper spending cuts inevitable as economy suffers from long Covid
The New Zealand Herald
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August 18, 2025
Spending is at a fundamentally unsustainable level, even once you strip out the ups and downs associated with different parts of the economic cycle. The Government’s finances aren’t just suffering from a hangover that will pass. The chills run...
Industry veteran sells business to ISG Group; Automating manual reporting
Good Returns
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August 18, 2025
Investment Services Groups buys fund distributor to expand its global manager reach. Tuesday, August 19th 2025, 1:49AM Matt Mimms has agreed to sell his fund distribution business, The Investment Store, to ISG which itself recently changed...
City of No Sales: What’s wrong with Auckland?
Newsroom
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August 18, 2025
Auckland’s been labelled the City of Fails after its annual State of the City report which highlighted glaring issues with the city’s economy, productivity, innovation, education and more. Its flagging GDP, city sprawl, reliance on cars, a lack of...
Is Auckland really the 'City of Fails', or does it just have a cashflow problem?
RNZ
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August 18, 2025
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown at the launch of the State of the City report. Photo: RNZ / Marika Khabazi Retailers say it is the City of No Sales, productivity is wasted sitting in traffic and much of the inner city is broken. Does Auckland have...
Response Plus Medical, Austability Sign Non-Financial Mou
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Response Plus Medical Services LLC (RPM), a subsidiary of Response Plus Holding PJSC – the largest pre-hospital care and emergency medical services provider in the region, has signed a strategic partner non-financial...
Squirrel has 22 of New Zealand's top mortgage advisers
Mortgage Professional Australia
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August 18, 2025
Consistency, in Squirrel’s case, has meant that every aspect of the firm’s infrastructure, from its bespoke adviser portal to its growing ecosystem of lending and investing solutions, is designed to help advisers build client relationships and...
A2 Milk acquires Yashili New Zealand Dairy from Chinese owners
Just Food
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August 18, 2025
A2 Milk Co. is buying an infant-formula business in its home market of New Zealand and plans to invest NZ$100m ($59.3m) to increase factory capacity. The New Zealand and Australia-listed company made a multi-faceted full-year results announcement...
FBI upgrade enmeshes New Zealand in anti-China war plans
Friends of Socialist China
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August 18, 2025
In the following article, which was originally published on Consortium News, Mick Hall analyses how the recent visit to New Zealand by Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s far-right Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), where he announced a...
New Zealand Cigars, Cigarillos And Smoking Tobacco Industry Report 2025
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) In 2024, New Zealand's cigars, cigarillos, and smoking tobacco market experienced a decline in volume sales due to rising health awareness and cost-of-living pressures. Discover comprehensive market insights with...
TEA SATE Asia-Pacific 2025 ready to ‘entertain’ New Zealand for the first time
Conference & Meetings World
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August 18, 2025
A first of its kind partnership with Tātaki Auckland Unlimited and Wētā Workshop is set to welcome themed entertainment and leisure professionals from 12 countries to New Zealand for the TEA SATE Asia-Pacific Conference. The Themed Entertainment...
The Million-Dollar Business Model Behind "Free" Casino Games
RadarOnline
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August 18, 2025
The transformation of gambling affiliate marketing over the past few years reveals why "free" platforms have become goldmines. Traditional cost-per-action (CPA) models focused on raw traffic volume, paying affiliates flat fees for deposits...
New Zealand to reform consent process to spur building industry
The Business Times Singapore
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August 18, 2025
[WELLINGTON] New Zealand will reform key aspects of the nation’s building approvals process, betting that the changes will speed up consenting and remove roadblocks to new construction. The government plans to scrap the existing liability...