SINGAPORE – Four-room flats in Rochor were oversubscribed in the first Build-To-Order (BTO) project under a new prime location public housing model that proved popular among home buyers. As at 5pm on Tuesday (Nov 23), there were 4.8 first-time applicants and 92.6 second-time applicants signing up for each of the 680 four-room flats in the River Peaks […]
SAN FRANCISCO (BLOOMBERG) – When Americans gather around the Thanksgiving table this week, the blistering rally in technology, electric vehicles and crypto-related stocks is likely to be a part of their conversations. There’s a reason it will dominate the small talk: The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 is now worth almost half as much as the benchmark […]
A number of foreign nationals living in New Zealand have told the Herald they’ve been baffled by the My Covid Record site, where My Vaccine Pass registrations are taken. Anyone over 12 in New Zealand is eligible to receive a Vaccine Pass, regardless of their immigration status. Read More Does it matter you can easily […]
Founder of Kete Kai Lisa Booth talks to Rahul Bhattarai about her meal kit delivery social enterprise which was launched in June last year. What does your business do? Kete Kai is best described as food delivery as a social enterprise. We sell a variety of meal kits and along with selling meal boxes we […]
When should you move your investments to something more conservative? This is a common question among KiwiSaver investors and others. Traditional wisdom has it that you move your money to more conservative investments as you age and pass big birthdays such as 50 and 65. In a life-stages type KiwiSaver, it will do that for […]
A California distiller and brewer is considering Montrose for a new canning and distribution hub, something that economic development officials said could help employ workers left behind when Russell Stover Chocolates closed its plant there in the summer of 2020. The Colorado Economic Development Commission awarded the unnamed company, known as Project Chapter, $292,763 in […]
BEIJING (REUTERS) – Debt-laden real estate developer China Evergrande has resumed construction of 63 projects in the southern Pearl River delta, a regional subsidiary said on Friday (Nov 19). The projects span 15 sites from the city of Guangzhou to locations in Foshan, Qingyuan, Yangjiang and Zhaoqing, the subsidiary said on its account on social […]
OPINION: Covid Minister Chris Hipkins promised late yesterday to announce changes before the end of this month to allow returning New Zealanders to self-isolate at home. It now seems certain it will mean the end, before Christmas, of the managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) lottery system that has so stained Jacinda Ardern’s, and New Zealand’s,honour. […]
Can a helicopter catch a rocket booster as it falls back to Earth under parachute – or at least complete a tracking exercise that brings it a step closer to reality? One of those questions was answered this afternoon when Rocket Lab’s “Love at First Insight” rocket launched into space and deployed its payload successfully, […]
Weekly Money FM Podcasts (Nov 15) Understanding the Prime Location Public Housing Model (featuring Ms Indranee Rajah, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office & Second Minister for Finance and National Development) Mintable on the “mum test”, gasless minting and the future of NFTs (featuring Mr Zach Burks, chief executive and founder, Mintable) Why I quit […]