Foreign buyer ban prompts house-builders to seek special clearance

The Government's foreign buyer ban is affecting some of New Zealand's biggest house builders who are overseas-controlled, including Fletcher Building and Universal Homes, says National's Judith Collins. A number of businesses were... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Small Business: Kiwi education software company taps into American market – Kami

Hengjie Wang and Alliv Samson discuss rolling out their education software in New Zealand and North American, and starting a business to solve their own problems. What does your business do? Hengjie: Kami takes documents that... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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New Zealand ranked third freest economy in the world

An annual report has ranked New Zealand as the third freest economy out of 180 countries. The 2019 Index of Economic Freedom , a guide published by Washington think tank The Heritage Foundation, ranks countries across a range of... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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China plans to use a nuclear bomb detonator to release shale gas

China is planning to apply the same technology used to detonate a nuclear bomb over Hiroshima during the second world war to access its massive shale gas reserves in Sichuan province. While success would mean a giant leap forward... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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First Roses, now this: Kiwis heartbroken over change to Cadbury's Marshmallow Eggs

In case you missed it: This was one of the Herald's top stories on social media this week. First, it was the Roses chocolate box - now it's Cadbury Marshmallow Eggs.Kiwis have been left heartbroken after Cadbury announced its... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Migrant who founded Indonesian business empire dies

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Eka Tjipta Widjaja, patriarch of one of Asia's richest families and the founder of a sprawling Indonesian conglomerate, has died. He was 97.Widjaja passed away on Saturday evening, according to Gandi Sulistiyanto,... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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US govt will need a year to recover from shutdown

The Internal Revenue Service has told lawmakers it would return from the government shutdown buried in millions of unanswered taxpayer letters, weeks behind schedule on training for workers and in need of hiring thousands of new employees... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Huawei dispute: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fires his ambassador to China

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired Canada's ambassador to China after the envoy said it would be "great" if the US dropped its extradition request for a Chinese tech executive arrested in Canada.Trudeau said overnight... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Black workers had long history with fed jobs before shutdown

DETROIT (AP) — For Cheryl Monroe and generations of other African-Americans, federal government jobs have long been a path to the middle class and a way to provide a comfortable life for their families.Then the record-long government... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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Tribal land known for waterfalls won't allow tour guides

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The thousands of tourists who travel to a remote Native American reservation deep in the Grand Canyon each year to camp near a series of picturesque, blue-green waterfalls will have to do so without the benefit... Source: NZ Herald Business News

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