Awwal 25, 1432 / April 29, 2011, SPA -- The New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) will close on August 31, ending 131 years of news gathering by the national news agency, reported the dpa today.
More than 40 journalists were given termination (...)
Awwal 19, 1432, April 23, 2011, SPA -- A powerful earthquake struck in waters off the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, and no tsunami was expected.
The magnitude-6.9 quake (...)
Awwal 12, 1432, April 16, 2011, SPA -- New Zealand's quake-ravaged second largest city Christchurch suffered further damage as a series of 10 earthquakes
rocked the region on Saturday.
Reports said power was cut to 20,000 homes, water mains burst (...)
Akhir 12, 1432 / March 17, 2011, SPA -- The earthquake that devastated the city of Christchurch last month will add about $3.6 billion to New Zealand's budget deficit this year, raising it to 8 percent of gross domestic product, the government said (...)
Akhir 1432 H. / 11 March 2011, SPA -- A minor tsunami from the Japanese earthquake reached northern New Zealand early Saturday with waves of 15 to 20 centimetres recorded in some areas, dpa reported.
Civil defence officials said they could build to (...)
Akhir 04, 1432 H/March 09, 2011, SPA -- In a controversial move, New Zealand's central bank cut the benchmark interest rate from 3 to 2.5 per cent per cent in a scheduled review of monetary policy on Thursday, reported the dpa.
Prime Minister (...)
Awwal 28, 1432 H/March 3, 2011, SPA -- Rescuers officially gave up hope of finding more survivors of New Zealand's devastating earthquake, saying Thursday that no one trapped in rubble when the disaster struck nine days earlier could still be alive, (...)
Awwal 19, 1432, Feb 22, 2011, SPA-- A strong earthquake killed at least 65 people in New Zealand's second-biggest city of Christchurch with more casualties expected as desperate rescuers picked through rubble to find people trapped in toppled (...)
Awwal 01, 1432, Feb 04, 2011, SPA -- Most of a pod of more than 80 pilot whales stranded on a remote New Zealand beach refloated themselves on the high tide overnight, the Department of Conservation said on Saturday according to dpa.
Fourteen of (...)
Hijjah 13, 1431, Nov 19, 2010, SPA - An explosion ripped through New Zealand's largest coal mine Friday with about 30 people underground, officials said. Five workers, dazed and slightly injured, stumbled to the surface, while more than two dozen (...)