FLAGSTAFF, Arizona (AP) ” The Navajo Nation, the largest tribe of Native Americans, has turned to an international human rights commission that has dealt with death penalty cases and foreign killings in its effort to draw attention…
Inflation target risks overheated economy: BNZ
Targeting 2 per cent annual inflation could force the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to cut interest rates too sharply and overheat the economy, says Bank of New Zealand, which suggests current low global inflation rates mean the local…
Juha Saarinen: The long and rather slow arm of foreign law
From the Hobbit Law to the anti-file sharing amendment to the NZ copyright act, when US private interests come calling with their pet gov
Singapore Govt in new Akl property deal
The Singaporean Government is expanding its New Zealand property holdings, taking a further stake in Auckland via a new office block yet to be built.Listed landlord Goodman Property Trust has just announced that Fletcher Building…
Drug company treats to doctor should be public – experts
Medical suppliers’ treats and payments to doctors should be opened to public scrutiny under American-style “sunshine” legislation, say a group of health and science experts.The United States law led to the disclosure of payments…
US isolated as allies line up to join China-led bank
WASHINGTON (AP) ” U.S. resistance to a Chinese-led Asian regional bank has left it isolated among its Asian and European allies and given some heft to China’s frequent complaints that Washington wants to contain its rise as a world…
John Drinnan: Bank hits a six with sponsorship
The Black Caps will be laughing all the way to the bank. Specifically, the ANZ Bank, which has sponsored New Zealand Cricket, the Black Caps and bought all four ad packages for sponsoring Sky’s Cricket World Cup broadcasts.Beyond…
EU probes e-commerce in bid to wipe out competition barriers
After four years probing Google’s grip on the Internet search market, European Union antitrust regulators set their sights on online barriers that thwart EU shoppers using websites outside their country.An industry-wide probe into…
Executive Success: Hacking attacks need new tactics
In the pre-Christmas retail frenzy of 2013, US retail giant Target had its cash registers raided.It wasn’t the stand and deliver tactics of old, but the work of 20-something-year-old eastern European hackers exploiting a weakness…
Auckland's big battle of the barristers
A quiet coup is afoot among the pinstripes of Auckland’s Shortland St, threatening to overthrow almost a century of legal tradition. Meredith Connell , the law firm whose staff h