Oceania News

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has warned ahead of crucial talks with Australia's top diplomat that Jakarta still expects an explanation of the spying activities that have seen relations with Canberra sink to their lowest point in more than a decade.

With the simple push of a button in front of 25 onlookers, Sydney bade farewell to analog television, 57 years after the first broadcast.

A founding hospitality business which helped turn around a once-desolate rural township into one of New Zealand's busiest stopover, antique and collectibles centres is for sale.

New research has busted myths that Kiwi teens self-harming - a practice that is surging here - are doing it to "be cool" or to seek attention.

Australia's secret service has raided the home of a Canberra lawyer who intends to allege in an international court in The Hague that Australia bugged the East Timorese Cabinet ahead of sensitive oil and gas revenue-sharing negotiations.

An Air Force official holds a brown tree snake. The snakes have caused power outages and unnecessary expenses at Anderson Air Force Base in the U.S. Territory.

Simon McArley determined that both charges against Hutton fell short of the Solicitor-General's guidelines for prosecution.

Statistics New Zealand this morning released key census information on the country's population, its mix of ages and sexes, and where people choose to live: - the average annual population growth between 2006 and 2013 was less than half of the growth between 2001 and 2006 ; - the number of people who had not moved in the previous five years had ... (more)

Sexy and I know it. No, I'm not writing about me, but the Gold Coast. It is, according to those in the know, the sex and seduction capital of Australia - and the capital of all things fake: hair, boobs and faces most typical.

A 52-YEAR-old man has been charged with receiving illegally harvested West Australian sandalwood valued at about $1.5 million AS Amazon.com unveiled futuristic plans to use drones for deliveries, researchers have revealed how it is possible for them to be hacked.

Canadian dairy giant Saputo has been ordered by the Australian Takeovers Panel not to process any acceptances received under its latest bid for Warrnambool Cheese and Butter , following a complaint by rival bidder, Murray Goulburn.

England's injury problems continued to mount after wing Christian Wade was ruled out for up to six months with damaged foot ligaments.

Chinese companies are on the hunt to buy overseas coal mines as Beijing's switch to cleaner fuels stokes demand for higher-quality coal produced in countries such as Australia, according to people familiar with the firms' strategies.

The father and daughter who died in Lake Tarawera, in Rotorua yesterday have been named as 40-year-old Zoujie Cai and his 6-year-old daughter Zexuan Cai from Auckland.

One of the oldest established garden centres in Wairarapa is closing its doors at the end of the year due in large part, according to owners Katrina and Shaun McGillicuddy, to not being able to convince landlords of the need for a long lease extension.

The strong run for Australia's housing market may be beginning to wane as the growth in dwelling values slows to a rate not seen in half a year.

Miss South Pacific Janine Tuivaiti being escorted through the Henderson International Airport after the traditional welcome by members of one of the panpipe groups from the Malaita Province.

National has also approved these private "social housing providers" to receive the same government subsidy as state house tenants.

KiwiSaver will be a Budget and Election issue in 2014 as middle New Zealanders' awareness grows of just how much poorer they will be in retirement than other developed countries, including their cousins in Europe and siblings in Australia, says Financial Services Council CEO, Peter Neilson.

For almost 60 years, Montreal-based Saputo has quietly built its business from a family of cheesemakers that once made deliveries by bicycle into the top ten of the world's largest dairy empires.