16 September 2026
Veteran newsreader Hugh Riminton has shocked colleagues by calling an end to his 48-year career in daily news.
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16 September 2026
The little girl was collecting leaves to ‘cook’ in her play kitchen while her mother hung laundry nearby.
16 September 2026
One of the East Cape's most famous beach towns has virtually ground to a halt as locals continue to grapple with the aftermath of destructive flooding from January.
16 September 2026
The aircraft went missing during a chartered scenic flight from Dunedin through Queenstown, Milford Sound and Preservation Inlet.
16 September 2026
So what? The winners aren’t spending the most on technology. They’re the ones who rebuilt how decisions get made. The rest are just collecting dashboards. The logistics industry has never spent more on digital tools.
16 September 2026
Prosecutors sought jail term for chief executive of Evett after insects not approved for consumption were on menu A South Korean court has fined the operator of one of Seoul’s most celebrated restaurants and its chief executive for serving a dessert topped with ants, an insect not approved for consumption under local food safety law. The operator of Evett, a two-Michelin-star restaurant in the affluent Gangnam district, was fined 10m won (£5,400) and its chief executive 15m won, Newsis reported .
16 September 2026
Germany has relaxed one of the more restrictive crewing requirements among major European maritime nations, allowing non-EU nationals to serve as masters and senior officers aboard German-flagged ships. An amendment to the country’s Safe Manning Ordinance now gives owners the option to use masters and officers from outside the EU and European Economic Area, provided …
16 September 2026
Shipping’s alternative fuel debate has acquired a useful new reference point with an important fuel body completing lifecycle assessments of LNG, ammonia and now methanol — and the clearest conclusion is that the production pathway can matter as much as the molecule itself. The Society for Gas as a Marine Fuel’s (SGMF) newly released methanol …
