Economy Hub: Will China slowdown hurt NZ?

Trade war tensions with the US have sparked concerns that China's economy is slowing with serious repercussions for New Zealand and Australia.China's economy was already grappling with tighter financial regulation hitting infrastructure... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Small Business: Small firms getting employment law wrong – in2HR

HR professional Thai-Anh Cooper explains where some employers are going wrong. What does your business do? In2HR began almost two years ago and we're a HR consultancy that helps small to medium businesses and franchises implement... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Swimwear, tourism businesses off to Hawaiian summit

A lingerie retailer and a tourism operator have stood out among hundreds of other entries from small Kiwi firms to win a trip to this year's Nurture Change Business Retreat in Honolulu.The summit is held in September over five days... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Sports junkies finding strength in numbers

Ten years ago, Jason Wells was watching the explosion of Twenty20 cricket, taking note of the futility of the sport's traditional statistics to calculate the worth of the players."The way we measured players had to change," says... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Comment: Why science is the business frontier

In May, the Prime Minister's former chief science advisor announced the Government had "wasted millions of dollars and hundreds of state homes based on the assumption methamphetamine contamination in houses was a much larger health... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Report: Fugitive Chinese police officer returns

BEIJING (AP) — A police officer who was among China's top 100 international fugitives has returned from the United States to face charges of taking bribes, a state news agency said Sunday.Zhang Yongguang became the 54th fugitive... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Free food! Virgin Australia's White Lady burger giveaway turns up heat on transtasman rivalry

Virgin Australia is turning the heat up on rival Air New Zealand by giving away hundreds of burgers in Auckland as part of a wider campaign to highlight changes to its operations here.The airline has partnered with the White Lady... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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New call for companies to front up over data mining

Kiwi companies should be upfront with customers about what their data-harvesting artificial intelligence programmes do, a new report finds. The review , just published by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ),... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Facebook shareholders try to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman

Shareholders are trying to fire Mark Zuckerberg as chairman of Facebook because of the social media giant's 'mishandling' of recent scandals, including the Cambridge Analytica data saga, Russian meddling in the US election and fake... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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The Big Read: Underground booze barons smuggling hard liquor into NZ

It sounds like a tale of Prohibition-era bootleggers.Like when mobsters Al Capone and Lucky Luciano used speedboats to whizz Canadian whisky across the Great Lakes and Jamaican Rum through the Florida Keys into dry 1920s America.But... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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