The Tonga underwater volcano that produced a spectacular eruption in January remains astonishingly intact.
A New Zealand-led team has just finished mapping the flanks of the seamount, which many people thought might have been torn apart in the (...)
New Zealand's conservative National Party on Monday signed agreements with two allies in the wake of last month's
general election to give it a narrow two-vote majority in parliament.
The Nationals won 60 seats in the 121-member House of (...)
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key started negotiations with potential coalition partners Monday after his conservative National Party was returned to power but denied an overall majority in the weekend's general election.
Key said the party (...)
New Zealand's conservative National Party appeared headed for victory in Saturday's general election.
Although the main opposition Labour Party faced a loss of at least nine members of parliament, two minor parties - the Greens and the nationalist (...)
The leader of New Zealand's Labour party conceded defeat to Prime Minister John Key's National Party in elections Saturday, paving the way for him to return for a second term as the nation's leader.
The dominant performance by Key's National Party, (...)
New Zealand's conservative National Party was returned to power in Saturday's general election, but failed to win
the overwhelming mandate it had sought to govern without the support
of coalition partners, according to dpa.
With almost all of (...)
AlQa'dah 11, 1432, Oct 9, 2011, SPA - A magnitude-5.5 earthquake rocked New Zealand's quake-ravaged second largest city Christchurch Sunday following a series of tremors the previous day.
Seismologists at the state GNS Science said the quake at (...)
The European Union will come out of the current
Euro crisis even stronger, European Commission President Joe Manuel
Barroso said in New Zealand Thursday, according to dpa.
"Those who think that the euro will disintegrate are not fully
aware of (...)
The international soldier killed in a Taliban attack on the British cultural office in Kabul was a member of the New Zealand special forces troop in the Afghan capital, officials
said Saturday.
A statement from the New Zealand Defence Force said, (...)
Much of New Zealand was at a standstill Monday
after a rare weather front from the Antarctic dumped massive snowfall
over huge areas of the country, closing roads, airports and schools, according to dpa.
The South Island took the brunt of the (...)
Much of New Zealand was crippled Monday by a rare Antarctic blast that brought the heaviest snowfalls in decades, closing roads, airports and schools and cutting power to thousands of homes.
Snow fell on the biggest city Auckland for the first time (...)
Shares in New Zealand closed 2.8 per cent down at a 11-month low on Monday following the United States' credit downgrade.
New Zealand led a sell-off across the Asia Pacific region as the first market to open after Standard & Poor's rating agency on (...)
A 5.3-magnitude earthquake Tuesday shook New Zealand's North Island, 129 miles south-southeast of Auckland, but there were no immediate reports of damage, UPI reported.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck at 3:36 p.m. local time at a (...)
A 5.5-magnitude earthquake rattled New
Zealand's Christchurch on Monday morning, GNS Science reported.
It was the sixth largest since violent seismic activity hit New Zealand's South Island last September.
There were reports of minor damage but (...)
Qantas Airways Ltd was fined 6.5
million New Zealand dollars (5.l million US dollars) for its part in
an illegal airline cartel that fixed freight prices, the Commerce
Commission announced Thursday, according to dpa.
Two other airlines, (...)
Two people were killed and more than 20 injured when a tornado tore a 5-kilometre swathe through the northern suburbs of Auckland on Tuesday, police said.
The tornado ripped the roof of a shopping mall in Albany, 20 kilometres north of central (...)
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 (...)