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Tuesday, 19 July 2011
NZ has topped a new list ranking the world's most giving nations. British Charities Aid Foundation has complied the first World giving Index using three different typeds of charitable behaviour -...
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Statistics NZ said yesterday that the consurmer price index reached 5.3% in the March year, the fastest increase since 1990.
Stripping out last year's indcrease in GST, inflation was 3.3%, above...
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
The Christchurch earthquake and the Australian floods have accounted for a substantial [percentage of global reinsurance claims in the last six months. So reinsurance costs will go up for Kiwi...
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Kiwi businesses are optimistic about the future despite predictions of lower than global average GDP growth, a global survey has found. Two-thirds of businesses are upbeat about their outlook for...
Friday, 8 April 2011
“The Reserve Bank slashed the official cash rate from 3 per cent to 2.5 per cent on 9 March 2011, in what it called an ‘insurance’ move in case the impact from the Christchurch...
Monday, 28 February 2011
NZ is the third best place to live in the world, according to a UN report. Top 10 countries;
1 Norway, 2 Australia, 3 New Zealand, 4 US, 5 Ireland, 6 Liechtenstein, 7 Netherlands, 8...
Friday, 17 September 2010
Question 1: The two most significant obstacles when managing short-term international assignments are tax compliance and keeping control of the length of the assignment. True or False ...
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Planning Relocation
Carefully evaluating employees, their skill set and their current family situation before making a job offer, is a best practice that increases the employer's return on...
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Schooling in a New Location
A successful school search is not simply about "getting in" to a school in a new location. Recognising that all children moving to another country are...
Monday, 28 June 2010
Kiwis who earn $30,000 or less are the most likely to have a good work-life balance, according to a Government report from the Ministry of Social Development.
Nearly 80% of fulltime workers in...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
According to the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research, Bill English’s recent budget is the most positive change in direction for a decade, but it is still fumbling in its approach...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
New Zealand has been listed as the world’s most peaceful country in the 2010 Global Peace Index followed by Iceland and Japan. The Index uses dozens of indicators, from the crime rate...
Sunday, 7 February 2010
New National School Curriculum
From February 2010. New Zealand schools are now using the extensively overhauled National curriculum. It is designed to give schools more...
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
NZ has ranked highly in an international study of wealth and happiness, but its citizens are not quite as happy as the Australians, according to a survey by a London based think tank, the Legatum...
Thursday, 8 October 2009
New Zealand Best Destination for Expats
Says a Poll for Telegraph.co.uk (06/17/09).
New Zealand ranked ahead of Canada, Australia, France, the United Arab Emirates, Portugal,...
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Safest, easiest to do Business, favourite destination - this is New Zealand!
Auckland and Wellington are the Australasian region’s safest cities for personal safety and security.
The...