PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Teenage girls in Oregon don't need their parents' consent to end an unwanted pregnancy, women in the country illegally have coverage for the procedure and private insurers will soon be required to cover the full... Source: NZ Herald Business News
Twitter is planning to remove the ability to "like" tweets in a radical move that aims to improve the quality of debate on the social network.Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event that he was not a fan of the... Source: NZ Herald Business News
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian authorities say 170 schools and some 350 apartment buildings in the capital of Bucharest would not withstand a major earthquake.They spoke Monday, a day after a quake with a magnitude of 5.8 hit... Source: NZ Herald Business News
Heartbreak Island host - and former Newstalk presenter - Mark Dye has launched a new medicinal cannabis company and says he hopes to make therapeutic products that are more accessible and more affordable for New Zealanders.Dye is... Source: NZ Herald Business News
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock prices were mixed Monday after Wall Street extended its slide, fueling concern about the global market outlook.KEEPINGS SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index lost 1.9 percent to 2,549.69 while Tokyo's Nikkei... Source: NZ Herald Business News
Everyone in New Zealand is entitled to having an opportunity of home ownership, the current Government says.Phil Twyford, Minister for Housing and Urban Development, said KiwiBuild is for families who years ago "would have expected... Source: NZ Herald Business News
WASHINGTON (AP) — A battle is brewing between the Trump administration and some of the president's biggest supporters in Congress who are concerned that sanctions to be re-imposed on Iran early next month won't be tough enough.As... Source: NZ Herald Business News
BANGKOK (AP) — Lion Air, the airline whose plane crashed early Monday while traveling from Jakarta to an island off Indonesia's Sumatra with 188 people on board, is a fast-growing low cost airline with a mixed safety record.The... Source: NZ Herald Business News
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president has put the corruption-plagued Bureau of Customs temporarily under military control amid a scandal after two huge shipments of illegal drugs reportedly slipped past through the port... Source: NZ Herald Business News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Before he was a politician, California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom was a businessman, and over the years he became a millionaire through his holdings in wineries, bars, restaurants, hotels and liquor stores.Newsom,... Source: NZ Herald Business News