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Welsh shearing speedster Llyr Jones claims NZ's richest speed shear prize

Welsh shearing team member Llyr Jones further knocked New Zealand’s reputation for having the fastest shearers in the world, by winning the country’s richest...

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Weather: Antarctic air mass may spell coldest weekend of year so far

March is about to feel more like May, a forecaster says, as a surge of polar air brings what could well prove the country’s coldest weekend of 2024 so far....

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Listen to The Country online with Jamie Mackay: Golden Shears update and Tim Dangen's TV career

Today on The Country radio show , host Jamie Mackay checks out the latest Golden Shears action with The Country’s producer Rowena Duncum, who is in...

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Seeka reports full-year net loss and revenue fall as bad 2023 weather takes toll

One of the country’s biggest kiwifruit growers, NZX-listed Seeka, has testified to horticulture’s grim weather-battered 2023 year with a full-year net loss...

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Japan's Nikkei eclipses record high after 34 years

Japan’s main stock market index has climbed past its all-time high after a 34-year wait, exceeding the record level reached during the country’s late-1980s...

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Watch: Mansons TCLM tops off $650m offices, Asian fund PAG buying

New Zealand’s largest privately owned commercial developer has topped off the country’s most expensive office block, the 12-level $650 million Fifty Albert...

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Chinese companies revive Mao Zedong-era militias

China’s state-owned enterprises have begun setting up in-house reserve military units, a legacy of the Mao Zedong era, in a sign of authorities’ increasing...

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IAG's profit rises to above pre-cyclone levels as average home premiums jump 30 per cent

The country’s largest general insurer is reporting a higher profit than it did before Cyclone Gabrielle, as it has hiked home insurance premiums by an...

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The Feelers lead singer James Reid pleads guilty to refusing blood test

The lead singer of one of the country’s most prominent bands, The Feelers , has pleaded guilty to refusing a blood test . The Herald earlier revealed James...

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