A woman jailed for murdering her 18-month-old daughter can now be named after abandoning her bid for continued name suppression.Southern Thompson was sentenced in May for abusing, neglecting and bashing Comfort Jay Thompson-Pene... […]

A high-profile prisoner accused of fraud will continue to have his name suppressed until his lawyer can work through thousands of documents from the Inland Revenue Department. A bungled transfer of evidence on a USB stick, which... […]

The woman shot dead in Gisborne on Sunday has been named by police as 25-year-old Chephar Hollis-Brown.The mother of one was killed at a Centennial Crescent property on Sunday morning.Police were called to a house in Te Hapara... […]

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By Russell Palmer of RNZ Farm-level emissions pricing must happen without delay, but the He Waka Eke Noa plan needs some critical tweaks to work, the Climate Change Commission says.Farmers presented He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) to Parliament... […]

A 13-year-old solo traveller was among passengers "dumped" at Christchurch airport with no accommodation after a late night flight from Sydney was diverted from Wellington. The Qantas flight was diverted after weather conditions... […]

OPINION: If you've got an outstanding parking fine from the Christchurch City Council, don't bother paying it - just get yourself a meeting with the mayor and it will disappear. Just like that.In fact, not just parking fines,... […]

Emirates Team New Zealand is moving out of the Viaduct Events Centre at Wynyard Quarter on the Auckland waterfront.Team New Zealand is relocating its base west across the water to the former Team INEOS base at Brigham St after reaching... […]

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has welcomed the new Australian Government's decision to make immediate flood assistance available to New Zealanders living across the ditch.Describing the decision as "a step change in the relationship",... […]

Wellington councils have manoeuvred to try to ensure a second Mt Victoria tunnel provides no additional capacity for cars in the future. Last week the Government announced its preferred option for Let's Get Wellington Moving (LGWM),... […]

Tauranga Mosque has been burgled and a car parked outside the building torched.Detective Senior Sergeant Craig Rawlinson, the head of Tauranga CIB, told the Bay of Plenty Times the mosque on 18th Ave was broken into around 6.40pm... […]

Mother of five Jamie Nepia lost her leg after being shot during a domestic dispute in 2018. To reclaim her sense of power she started training for MMA, and is now preparing to compete at the World Kickboxing Association Champs in... […]

There's a lot being done behind the scenes, on the human and IT front, in order to look after Transmission Gully motorists.Ventia Senior Project Manager Anthony Green, one of the guest speakers at an Electra Business Breakfast held... […]

Christchurch City Council will withdraw $50,533 in bills handed to The Freedom and Rights Coalition after its anti-mandate marches.Mayor Lianne Dalziel met with coalition leader Derek Tait on Tuesday to discuss the outstanding invoices... […]

Mortally wounded gang member Peter Lui was talking and moving when the first emergency services reached him after he was stabbed last year, but soon became unconscious. "I'm struggling to breathe," Lui told Senior Constable Dominie... […]

A second round of rain, straight from the tropics, is set to unleash across New Zealand in the coming 24 hours. After last night's deluge that saturated soil across Auckland, MetService is warning a new low is on its way with Northland... […]

By Hamish Cardwell of RNZ A law professor is questioning how long it is taking for the police to release information about their internal investigation into a serious miscarriage of justice involving the murder conviction of Alan... […]

An eyewitness has described the "surreal" moment a burning, driverless bus turned away from a home minutes before the fire spread, saying the experience was "paranormal".Aucklander Craig Meek and his daughter Aimee were visiting... […]

Covid-19 Response Minister Ayesha Verrall says the country is facing increasing cases and with the BA.5 strain another surge, but tweaks to the orange setting were the focus ahead of any move to the red setting.Case numbers tipped... […]

Public Interest Journalism funded through NZ On Air Māori singer and entertainer Howie Morrison Junior often tells jokes during his entertainment shows.Like his dad, the late, great Sir Howard Morrison, the singing voice... […]

Drone photo shows the construction site of the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Link, a super sea-crossing project integrating bridges, islands, tunnels, and underwater channels in Zhongshan city, south China's Guangdong Province, July 5, 2022. […]

Shanghai will conduct mass nucleic acid testing from Tuesday to Thursday in areas related to recent local COVID-19 cases. […]

Sanmenxia and Xiaolangdi reservoirs have been engaged in joint flood control and sand discharge operation. […]

China's digital economy has jumped from 11 trillion yuan ($1.64 trillion) to over 45 trillion yuan ($6.7 trillion) from 2012 to 2021, ranking second in the world, and the proportion of its digital economy in GDP has increased from 21.6 percent to 39.8 percent, data from the country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology shows. […]

Life expectancy in China has increased by over 0.6 of a year to 77.93 years as health awareness and access to fitness facilities have been greatly increased in recent years, authorities said on Tuesday. […]

SOEs' construction of residences, roads, grids seen speeding up development […]

Regulators on Monday announced the development of Swap Connect, a new mutual market access program between the Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the interbank interest rate swap markets. […]

Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Tuesday that the relations between China and Thailand are "as close as one family". […]

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will have bilateral meetings with foreign ministers of major countries and representatives of regional organizations on the margins of the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting upon request. […]

Staff promote intellectual property rights at a sock market in the city of Zhuji, East China's Zhejiang province, on April 26, 2021.In this way, greater contributions will be made in boosting entrepreneurship and innovation, promoting the sustained healthy development of the economy and improving people's well-being, he said. […]

Anhui province had reported 1,081 cases by the end of Monday, most of them asymptomatic. Infections were also found in Suzhou's Lingbi county and Yongqiao district, and in Mengcheng county in Bozhou. […]

* With China fine-tuning its COVID-19 prevention measures and Xinjiang offering a series of incentives, tourism is regaining vitality across the region.This is just one of the many instances indicating that with China fine-tuning its COVID-19 prevention measures and Xinjiang offering a series of incentives, tourism is regaining vitality across the region. […]

Thailand and China agreed here Tuesday to carry on traditional friendship, expand bilateral cooperation and plan for the future development of relations. […]

President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message on Tuesday to Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Algerian War of Independence. […]

Vice-Premier Liu He spoke by video link with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday morning at the U.S.' request. […]

Unbeknownst to many, China last year emerged as the world's second-largest green bond market amid the country's green transformation, with local companies attaching greater importance to such financial products, a latest industry report has revealed. […]

The global community should cooperate and handle challenges resulting from geopolitics and new technologies, they said at an online event on the sidelines of the 50th session of the United Nations Human Rights Office's Human Rights Council. […]

China's services sector in June expanded at its fastest pace in nearly a year amid a gradual resumption of work and production, indicating a robust recovery in business conditions. […]

NATO's 30 allies signed accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, starting the process to admit the two Nordic countries into the alliance that perhaps poses a grave challenge to global security. […]

The serious racial discrimination and injustice in the United States are reflections of the discrimination and injustice that the United States promotes around the world, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday. […]

Twitter has petitioned a court challenging "several" orders to take down content on its platform. […]

The 21-year-old is accused of firing 70 bullets onto a crowd, killing seven and wounding dozens. […]

Boris Johnson makes it clear he plans to stay as he reshuffles his cabinet - but critics say it is "over" for him. […]

Investigators believe that the 21-year-old suspect planned the deadly shooting weeks in advance. […]

Two people died in Russian strikes on Ukraine's eastern city of Slovyansk, local officials say. […]

It has been more than a month since the rapper was shot dead. But he is still making headlines. […]

Two trans women in Amsterdam are planning a refuge in Kenya for trans people at risk all over the world. […]

People are losing faith in democracy to deliver economic stability across Middle East and North Africa, according to a major new survey. […]

A new film tells the story of how a Sheffield car mechanic's home doubled as Studio Electrophonique. […]

A new version of the star's 1960s classic Blowin' In The Wind is expected to make £1m at auction. […]

Russian-born Ekaterina Volkova was injured in an air strike on her apartment that killed her Ukrainian husband. […]

More firms are offering so-called 'fertility benefits' but there could be hidden catches. […]

It is part of an escalation in activity in US courts as states seek to impose abortion restrictions. […]

Tim Fung, co-founder and CEO of Airtasker, shares his business advice for our CEO Secrets series. […]

Irina McCarthy and Kevin McCarthy were shot dead by a gunman, leaving their son Aiden an orphan. […]

The Norwegian government has stepped in to stop strikes that threatened to suspend UK gas deliveries. […]

Tatjana Maria reaches her first Grand Slam semi-final - to the delight of her eldest daughter Charlotte - and she will face Ons Jabeur. […]

As Europe's best players come to England for this summer's Euros, BBC Sport picks out the stars who could shine. […]

A record-breaking 500,000 tickets have been sold for Euro 2022, which kicks off with hosts England on Wednesday. […]

Russian artillery pounds Slovyansk in eastern Ukraine and surviving Russian brutality in Bucha. […]