Some 379 buildings have been identified around New Zealand as being built in a similar engineering “genre” to the CTV Building, whose collapse in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake claimed 115 of the 183 lives lost. At a press conference for the release of Volumes Five to Seven of the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Canterbury …

Wall Street moved higher amid promising data on China’s economy, fuelling hopes that the world’s second-largest economy is gathering steam again. China offered better-than-expected data on both industrial output and retail sales, welcomed by a market that is on tenterhooks about US budget talks aimed at avoiding the US$600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts scheduled to kick in …

The median house price in New Zealand set a new record for a second straight month, reaching $383,250 in the strongest sales volume in five years. apple antivirus software Sales rose 24 percent to 7,454 in November from a year earlier and were 12.3 percent up on October, according to the Real Estate Institute. The median price climbed 4.3 percent …