State Owned Enterprises Minister, Tony Ryall, has announced the reappointment of Prue Flacks to the Board of Mighty River Power. Flacks has been an MRP director since May 2010. She is a barrister and solicitor with extensive specialist experience in commercial law, banking and finance and securities law, and a consultant to Russell McVeagh, where she was a partner for …

Minister for Climate Change Issues Tim Groser claims the Doha Conference has left NZ well placed to confront the real issue: the negotiation of a long-term comprehensive Climate Change Agreement. Groser  and Associate Minister Simon Bridges have been ave been leading the New Zealand delegation at the annual Climate Change Ministerial meeting in Doha. “While the formal agreements are extremely …

Over 700 young people held a flash mob outside Britomart yesterday to launch a new campaign for climate change solutions, in the wake of New Zealand being named as one of the worst players at the UN climate negotiations in Doha.  Youth organiser Lance Cash said the 100% Possible campaign is borne out of the frustration of many young New …

China from the Inside – the 4th and final episode of this series is scheduled for 11 am December 16. The series has provoked controversy on You Tube – Here’s a few comments “It’s call industrialization. I lost count of how many negative points in all of the series. Maybe it’s time to make some documentary of the problems in …

The Kyoto Protocol died in Copenhagen in December 2009. Why, then, are climate change officials, including our own, meeting a third time since then and, instead of finalising burial arrangements, still talking about extending Kyoto to tackle climate change? The answer is simple: the international community of climate change officials is going through the five stages of grief: denial, anger, …

State Councillor Liu Yandong will visit New Zealand next week as a guest of the Government – the first visit by a senior Communist Party figure since China’s November leadership transition. State Councillor Liu is a senior leader in China’s 2012-2017 hierarchy. Her portfolios include education, science, screen and television, and culture. Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce says he will …

Turners & Growers, the fruit marketer controlled by Germany’s BayWa Aktiengesellschaft, changed its guidance and is now forecasting a full-year loss, reflecting a writedown of its orchards. “Early indications are that there will be write-downs, particularly of orchard properties and biological assets,” the company said in a statement. “As a result the after-tax loss is forecasted to be between $16 …

Business representatives from four economies have met in Auckland to press for more urgency in concluding the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations currently underway. “In September business representatives from across the TPP member economies urged governments to conclude an ambitious, comprehensive and high standard outcome in 2013,” said Cal Cohen, President of the Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT) speaking …

WSJ’s Off Duty brings you the newest and most unique in leisure, lifestyle and pop culture. From Spider-Man on Broadway to Olympic athletes, Olympic fencers and Fenway Park: Here is a look at the best of Off Duty from 2012.

The NZ Superannuation Fund has been named the world’s most innovative sovereign fund. The fund won the prestigious Sovereign Wealth Fund category in the 2012 aiCIO Industry Innovation Awards in New York. The other finalists were the Australian Future Fund; Singaporean fund GIC; Norges Bank Investment Management and the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan. Chairman Gavin Walker said the award …