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We’ll definitely turn a corner then, right? The data will improve, and confidence will return … things will…
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If you looked at just the cast of this true story, you’d be sold. Aimee Lou Wood (White…
Japan stocks ride AI boom, rate hikes to record high in 2025
Markets Manufacturing and finance resurgent as economy shifts to inflation from deflation The Nikkei Stock Average ended the…
Holiday blues make for quiet end to NZX year – Market close
Another quiet day Harbour Asset Management portfolio manager Shane Solly said it was another in-between day with market…
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Well, here we are again! One of the longest, most eventful years in recent memory comes to a…
NZ Herald’s top 20 Premium stories of 2025
The following are just 20 of the best-read Premium articles in 2025. After years of declining education achievement…
China’s Labubu, KPop Demon Hunters top Asia’s consumer trends in 2025
Consumer Globally popular Chinese character became source of national pride The success of Labubu, a Chinese product, overseas…
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The garden at the Shangri-La Golden Sands in Penang, Malaysia. Photo / Tim Roxborogh But in 1989, just…
Film and TV star Idris Elba is knighted for social work; Lionesses recognised in UK honours list
The pair said becoming a dame and a sir respectively was “wonderful and humbling at the same time”.…
Hirepool posts $13.5m loss, directors push out debt refinancing deadline
In preparing the financial statement, Hirepool’s directors considered several uncertainties facing the business and its ability to continue…
Cambridge International exams: The NZ schools that produced the highest-achieving students
Yet 12 months earlier, he wasn’t even considering taking PE. He’d long dreamed of being accepted into an…