An earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck New Zealand early on Friday, the United States Geological Survey said.
Canada is now seen as the most desirable destination for overseas workers when it comes to choosing a country to relocate to, a global survey has found.
"It is more than likely there will be additional cases in the community," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Saturday that the country's biggest city, Auckland, will go into a seven-day lockdown from early morning on Sunday
"We have stamped out the virus before and we will do it again," Ardern told a news conference in the capital, Wellington.
With Spain set to test a four-day work week in response to the pandemic, experts have said it could signify a more permanent shift in attitudes to work.
The world needs to build up its "overall security," especially now during the Covid-19 pandemic, New Zealand's trade minister Damien O'Connor said Wednesday.
New Zealand's minister for trade and export growth, Damien O'Connor, discusses the country's recently upgraded free trade deal with China and the need for more multilaterally-driven global relations.
The choice of whether to vaccinate against Covid-19 may affect the ability to fly, cruise and travel once vaccinations become widespread later this year.
These are the world's top 20 safest airlines for 2021 as ranked by airline rating website AirlineRatings.com.
New Zealand has virtually eliminated Covid-19 within its borders by enforcing a tough lockdown and shutting its borders to all foreigners for most of the year.
Richard Yetsenga of ANZ says concern about central banks withdrawing pandemic-era liquidity won't impact the Australian dollar or New Zealand dollar in 2021.
Brenton Tarrant, the terrorist who killed 51 people in Christchurch, was radicalized by YouTube, according to a report from The New Zealand Royal Commission.
India was part of the early negotiations for RCEP but said last year it would not join the world's largest trading bloc.
Israel has charged past the U.S. and New Zealand to emerge as the world's best place to be a woman entrepreneur after Covid-19 shook up the annual rankings.
The cost of some of the leading coronavirus vaccine candidates ranges from $3 to $37. There are also major differences when it comes to storage and logistics.
While there are still more details to iron out, the current low number of coronavirus cases in Australia gives us the confidence to move forward, says Grant Robertson, New Zealand's deputy prime minister and finance minister.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand held the official cash rate at 0.25% and left its quantitative easing program unchanged, as expected in a Reuters poll.
Australia's recent tensions with China has led to more thought about a more diversified strategy in Asia for companies– rather than a focus on just the East Asian country, ANZ CEO Shayne Elliott told CNBC
It is clear that New Zealand's newly-reelected Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern wants to sit on the center ground, says Richard Shaw, politics professor at Massey University.
