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Phil O’Reilly, Chief Executive of New Zealand’s largest business advocacy group – BusinessNZ, came out strongly in support of TPP at Friday’s stakeholder day. best software for graphic design “For a small economy like NZ, which depends for its economic survival on doing business with the rest of the world, the growth in trade in the APEC region has been …

EMA CEO Kim Campbell says if the TPP deal is?not right, “New Zealand will walk away.” As one of the first nations to embrace bilateral free trade agreements, New Zealand has learnt a number of lessons when it comes to international trade agreements Campbell told the TPP Stakeholders Day. “They must be high quality, they must be fair to all …

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 …

MONTI TO QUIT; BERLUSCONI BACK IN THE ARENA. Italian PM Mario Monti has told the head of state that he has lost support in Parliament and intends to resign. He has been in power 13 months and his unelected emergency term was due to conclude in April. Not coincidentally, earlier the same day, Silvio Berlusconi (76) announced plans to run for …

Following in the footsteps of US President Barack Obama, Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce took to Twitter with his latest comments on policy. Joyce took aim at ex-Endace CEO Selwyn Pellett after he took the government to task on R&D grants, the same  program from which Endace received $11.1 million in funding. “I remain unhappy about taxpayers’ previous R&D investment …

Don Christie – founder of Catalyst IT and a leading New Zealand expert on open source software – said he was disappointed with the proposed effects for the technology industry under TPP at today’s stakeholder meeting in Auckland. “TPP is a big missed opportunity” said Christie citing an independent report out of the UK (available for download below) which called …

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 …

The man who blew the whistle on American Bernie Madoff, and two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigators of massive U.S. insider trading activities, are heading to New Zealand. They will be attending two inaugural events being hosted by the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in February 2013 – one of those, open to the business community. Simon McArley, …

“Surpringly well positioned for 2050”. That is how Daniel Franklin, editor of The Economist summed up New Zealand’s long-term economic position. Population growth was cited as a critical driver for growth, much the same as the Asian economy. That same Asian economy will be relied on to sustain continued growth also says Franklin. “New Zealand is surprisingly well positioned for the world …