A confident Chris Hipkins lays out how Labour can win in 2026
The Labour leader thinks he’s found a path to victory. He just needs his MPs to stick to…
The big NZ media questions for 2026
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Winston Peters vs the Reserve Bank
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Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of January 12 – 18
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Why Chrises run the country
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Housing crisis keeping Greeks up at night
Explosive increases in rents and housing prices, a shortage of available apartments and subsidy schemes that tend to…
A tsunami off Russia last year ‘rebounded’ off South America and struck Japan after alerts lifted
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5 types of people who might need a financial adviser in 2026 — and those who don’t
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Hackers Demand Ransom After Major New Zealand Health Data Breach | Dawan Africa
New Zealand, 6 January 2026 – Hackers have demanded a ransom worth US $60,000 (about KSh 7.7 million)…
This Vietnamese town boomed as factories left China. Now it’s asking what’s next?
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This could be a better — and safer — way into the AI trade in 2026
Published: Jan. 3, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. ET Some investors may need to be reminded that the semiconductor industry…
‘He had an affair, divorced me and left me broke.’ I’m 63 and got a $100K inheritance that my boyfriend quickly spent. Now I have just $800 a month in Social Security. Help.
Question: “I am 63 and took Social Security early. My father left me a $100,000 inheritance for my…