May 14, 2012

Entrepreneurs of Indian origin tend to follow a low-profile approach, shying away from publicity and promoting their enterprises and their achievement in the media. However,

Good governance in the government, private and public sectors is greater today than ever before and its importance should never be understated, a top executive

New Zealand needs more youngsters of Asian origin in politics to enhance representation in Parliament and serve their communities more effectively, a former lawmaker has

The days of multiple, expensive mobile data plans are over, with the launch of ‘Shared Data’ between 2degrees devices on May 7, 2012. Mobile data

Residents of Manukau region in Auckland will shortly receive guidelines on the ways and means of preventing theft at home. Counties Manukau Police will distribute

Former British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill once said, “Americans can always be counted to do the right thing after they have exhausted all other

The Student Loan Scheme has always been a hot topic, with political parties promising to liberalise or impose restrictions during their election campaign, depending on

In Budget 2012, the government will be focused on rebalancing overall spend in tertiary education between expenditure on student support and investment in tuition and

AUT University is running a series of course information evenings for students interested in finding out more about university study at AUT in 2013. AUT’s

The Tertiary Education Commission recently announced that it would attempt to end “the widespread game of research funding.” Welcoming the move, Tertiary Education Union Dr

Australia and New Zealand may not like India’s stand on Fiji but would tend to look the other way or just ignore the comments made

Leaders representing the Pacific Island Forum appeared to be happy over the progress made by Fiji towards restoration of democracy. That was at least the

Prime Minister Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama said students from Fiji undertaking educational pursuits in India were doing well in various courses and programmes. He thanked

Many people, who run a small business, use an area set aside in their family home for work purposes. If you are doing this, you

Despite a creditable performance, the global performance of Bank of Baroda showed distorted figures as at the end of March, orchestrated by a sharp drop

With jobs hard to get, the best of brains idle New Zealand has a funding system that rewards universities for training PhDs but discourages the

Notwithstanding the problem of unemployment in some sections of the economy, finding the right candidate for the right job in the Information Technology sector is

Calls for the default KiwiSaver system to be abolished are misguided and the advantages of being a default scheme provider are overstated. For most of

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that New Zealand’s economy is broadly on the right track to return to full vigour. The annual report

New Zealand’s minimum wage has increased from $13 to $13.50 per hour. This is despite advice of the Labour Department to fix the rise at

The Prime Minister’s Science Adviser Sir Peter Gluckman told the Sunday Star Times recently that higher numbers of ‘scholarship children’ are passing over New Zealand

Real estate is always at a premium in Auckland City, however now businesses will have free access to a suite of high-tech facilities in the

The recent visit of Foreign Minister Murray McCully to Fiji could begin a new chapter in bilateral ties with that South Pacific nation, if the

Gone are the days when governments used to keep their annual budgets as a closely guarded secret, presenting their revenue and expenditure provisions in Parliament.

I marked the World Media Freedom Day on May 3 with special reference to a fruitful Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) meeting held in Fiji