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Families uprooted in Shanghai
More than 20,000 families are being moved out of the area where the 2010 World Expo will be held in Shanghai, China.The city is now under a large scale reconstruction effort to prepare for the event. According to the city's...

US firms set backup bird flu plans

Opening a gap in the clothing market

Air NZ boss questions minister's impartiality

Investor tax plan a plot - Brierley

May 8 - Open: Telecom shares recoup 5c of last week's losses

China says economic imbalances intensifying

Buffett successor question looms

Biotech company gets listing with reverse takeover

May 8 - Open: Kiwi opens higher, awaits labour data

Norgate on Dexcel board
Ex-Fonterra boss and agriculture sector investor Craig Norgate and former Fonterra executive Barry O'Donnell have been appointed to the board of dairy research company Dexcel.

Mark Peart: It's too easy to take water for granted
Until just over a year ago the sum total of my knowledge about water allocation could neatly and squarely occupy the space on the back of a postage stamp. Then, kicking and screaming and struggling, I was assigned to cover the Waitaki...

Campaign to help farmers get Wormwise
A new national strategy is being launched today to tackle parasitic worms which are estimated to cause more than $100 million of livestock-related losses every year. The campaign - called Wormwise - comes amid signs the worms are...

Park expands to fit in more shops
Demand for space in the country's largest shopping centre has been so strong that the project has been expanded by 10 per cent. Kiwi Income Property Trust said it would add an extra 6200sq m of buildings to its Sylvia Park centre...

Ocean worth $3.3b to NZ
The value of the marine economy to New Zealand has been put at $3.3 billion a year in a report from Statistics New Zealand. Of that total, measured in the March 2002 year, the shipping category made up 27 per cent, or $885 million....

Leadership forum fails to tackle big issues
Australia and New Zealand are still a long way from the goal of a single economic market despite worthwhile progress in transtasman business, says James Strong, co-chair of the Australia New Zealand Leadership Forum. A gathering...

Disney completes purchase of Pixar
LOS ANGELES - Walt Disney Co completed its acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios Inc. on the weekend shortly after Pixar shareholders voted to approve the transaction. The all-stock transaction calls for Pixar shareholders to receive...

Telecom's fate to cast shadow on market

US stocks: Fed in focus as Dow flirts with record
NEW YORK - Are we there yet? That's the question that will dominate Wall Street's thinking this week as investors look for the Federal Reserve to shed light on when it intends to stop raising interest rates. The Fed's policy-setting...

Guy Body: Telecom

David Skilling: Domestic capital key to prosperity
Over the past 15 years New Zealand has pursued a hands-off policy approach to personal savings. This is based on the twin beliefs that people make systematically rational savings decisions and that the Government has no interest...

Buffett aims to reduce cash
OMAHA, NEBRASKA - Warren Buffett told shareholders on Saturday that he wanted to reduce Berkshire Hathaway's cash pile, and there was a small chance he would make an acquisition that could take up to US$15 billion ($23.38 billion)...

Wages rise as jobless rate at record low, says report
New Zealand's annual wage inflation is thought to have accelerated in the first quarter as a jobless rate close to a record low and rising prices put pressure on employers to pay more to hire and retain workers. Wages for non-government...