Oceania News

A Korean woman based in Sydney has died in a bus crash while on holiday in New Zealand's South Island.

The wife of a New Zealander murdered in Jamaican capital Kingston frantically searched for him after hearing gunshots, a fellow guest says.

NUKU'ALOFA - OUSTED Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra flew to the Pacific islands this week, a Tongan government official confirmed on Thursday.

New Zealanders tightened the purse strings last month, becoming increasingly unwilling to buy larger durable items such as appliances and furniture, new data suggests.

A report on uranium has stated Australia should be in line for strong profits when an expected deficit builds up in the global uranium market.

A 14 per cent fall in international visitors staying in Auckland has pushed total guest nights across New Zealand down one per cent for May.

Mr Key said the Government would support the Cook Island's decision to underwrite losses on Air NZ's flights to Rarotonga, with a capped $1m contribution.

Sometime in the afternoon of July 5, agents from the Shanghai State Security Bureau - the agency that pursues cases of espionage within China - arrested and detained Stern Hu, an Australian citizen who is a senior Shanghai-based executive for Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto.

July 6, 2009-- Meet Matilda, or Diamantinasaurus matildae , one of two giant, plant-eating dinosaur species recently discovered in Australia .

The body of a New Zealander killed during an attempted robbery in Jamaica will be brought home to New Zealand.

Nine new cases of Pandemic H1N1 2009 have been confirmed today, taking the national toll up to 36.

Residents of a rural Australian town hoping to protect the earth and their wallets have voted to ban the sale of bottled water, the first community in the country - and possibly the world - to take such a drastic step in the growing backlash against the industry.

Australia's unemployment rate rose to a six-year high of 5.8 percent in June as companies shed workers despite the government's massive stimulus spending, official figures showed Thursday.

An Australian Rio Tinto executive faces the prospect of being charged under Chinese law after being detained on suspicion of espionage and stealing state secrets, Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith says.

A New Zealand crew of four expat Britons competing in a charity rowing race across the Indian Ocean is two to three days from reaching the finish line at Mauritius.

THE growing power of the Big Four banks has been targeted by a coalition of six influential economists, who have petitioned the Prime Minister and the Treasurer to set up an inquiry into Australia's financial system.

PLANNED MOVE: folic acid being added to all bread - except organic varieties - in an effort to reduce serious neural tube defects in babies.

Metropolitan radio station advertising revenue dropped by more than three per cent in the 2008/09 financial year, with the Sydney market the hardest hit, new figures show.

Children given an oral syrup containing the naturally occurring sweetener xylitol may be less likely to develop decay in their baby teeth, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine , one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Tuesday, 7 July 2009, 11:09 am Press Release: New Zealand Government Super portability on agenda for Australian visit Finance Minister Bill English will meet Australian Treasurer Wayne Swan in Brisbane on July 16 to discuss the portability of retirement savings between New Zealand and Australia.