Espionage episode centred on Soviet’s sighting New Zealand meat export price schedule.

During the Cold War New Zealand’s trade with the Soviet Union ran hot. With the thaw and the aftermath of the Cold War this trade started to freeze over.

A “Worldly and Informed Content” powers spectacular growth of New Zealand site.

Forecasts and reports unfiltered by the constraints imposed by the perceived need to adhere to rigid prevailing socio-political ideologies was an explanation for MSCNewswire surpassing one million visits per month.

Write nothing dangerous in the eyes of a third party

The email has turned out to be a most accessible form of communication competing in its way in visibility terms with the unsightly billboard hoarding on the motorway.

In light of the accidental coffee shop meetings and subsequent events playing out in the media over recent days it is timely to recall this clip from the MSCReporters' desk originally run January 28, 2018.

Nafta friction is behind renewed Canada participation

Canada’s stated determination to renew its participation in the Trans Pacific Partnership threatens to introduce a pack of wolverines into its own never-tranquil milking parlour.

Canada’s dairy industry is the world’s most fiercely protected

Deputy New Zealand prime minister Winston Peters has already hinted that Canada’s renewed enthusiasm for the Trans Pacific scheme has much to do with the North America Free Trade Agreement.

New Zealand visit indicated live sheep, fresh water

Saudi Prince Al Waleed Bin Talal’s rapid reversal of fortune in recent months is conclusive proof that money cannot buy you friends and most definitely not influential ones.

From Bill Gates through to such media honchos as Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg, the prince’s pals and associates have been characterised by their silence on the prince’s undeniably serious plight.

Not a peep either from former New Zealand prime minister John Key who we picture meeting the prince in Riyadh officially to push the New Zealand cause.

 MP intercepted University takeover of trade and craft training with re-vamped real economy scheme.

Parliamentarian Jim Anderton’s enduring legacy was the official restoration of trade apprenticeships in the form of Modern Apprentices. These were introduced during his tour of duty as minister of economic development with the Helen Clark-led Labour government.

Biomedical Services NZ Ltd shared approach offers model also to wider public administrative IT projects

Jan 16, 2018  -  Biomedical Services New Zealand is an enduring example of a public sector enterprise offshoot that shares premium resources and brings scale to the application of skills that are always in short supply.  It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Wairarapa District Health Board which is responsible for the Masterton Hospital.

No Kudos for Labour Coalition in Handing Over Beleaguered IT Developer

Fugitive IT developer Kim Dotcom’s scalp is seen as a trophy of rapidly diminishing value in the United States where it was so ardently sought until a year ago.  Should the larger-than-life IT avatar turn up manacled in the United States the result is likely to be the opposite of the one intended when New Zealand law enforcement and intelligence agencies launched the airborne raid on his live-in headquarters in 2012.

ANZ subsidiary’s lending data trove vital to consumer-led economy thrust

Jan 1, 2018  -  China’s HNA pulled plenty of value out of UDC Finance without contributing a cent of the $660 million that it was said to be paying for the New Zealand plant financier.

As part of the acquisition scheme, an attenuated one, the Chinese would have discovered UDC’s key ratios in regard to things such as depreciation, defaulting, interest, and time terms.