Steven Joyce International education continues to be a star performer in New Zealand’s export-led growth according to latest data. The ‘International Education Snapshot Report’ released last month shows that the international education industry grew strongly throughout 2014 and it is now valued at $2.85 billion. As further proof of the industry’s strong performance, it is now supporting more than 30,000…
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Venkat Raman More than ten years ago, we told Jaimini and Arun Devta, parents of Muskan that she was ‘A Special Child with Special Abilities’ and that she would bring pride not only to her family but also to the community and the country. Since then, we have often written about her progress at school and at home. That was…
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Venkat Raman Fiji can expect closer economic cooperation with India, leading to technical assistance in implementing growth-oriented programmes and constructive engagement in a number of sectors over the next few years. These indications came to the fore at the end of a recent official visit to Delhi (January 19 and 20, 2015) by Fiji’s Attorney General and Finance Minister Aiyaz…
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Dr Biman Prasad Fiji’s future as a social, economic and politically stable nation cannot be guaranteed unless freedom of expression is expressed through a free, fair and credible media. We firmly believe this is not pessimism but a reality. The media industry in Fiji has been under siege since the military coup of December 2006. The past five years (especially…
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Retail News Travel Retailing, Mobile Retailing, Faster Retailing, Experience Retailing and Innovative Retailing are the top retail trends for 2015 identified in the latest Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu/Stores ‘Media Global Powers of Retailing’ Report. The trends are shaped by the disruptive changes in the marketplace, says the US National Retail Federation. “While these trends are not new, what is interesting for…
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Second of several parts Abdulazeem Abozaid Islamic Finance faces challenges related to lack of proper and effective Sharia governance. Since inception, this self-regulated industry has had no supervision or intervention of indisputably independent authorities. The Bahrain based Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), a regulatory authority from within the industry, has introduced a standard for ‘Tawarruq’ though…
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Retail News Vehicle sales jumped more than 20% in 2014 with double-digit growth in almost every sector, according to Motor Trade Association (MTA). New commercial vehicle and used imported passenger vehicle sales were especially strong. Last year, 265,216 new and used imported vehicles were registered in New Zealand, up from 218,329 vehicles sold for the first time the year before.…
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Gary Hawke New Zealand obviously does not enjoy the economic growth rates of Southeast Asia, let alone China. Nonetheless, indications during 2014 were that New Zealand could sustain long-term growth of 3 % per annum without supply constraints and inflationary pressures. It had previously been thought that the limit was little more than 2%. The single most important source of…
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Retail News If Instagram is the next social media site on your company wish list, it is a good one to be considering, says public relations and marketing specialist Fleur Revell, Director of Impact PR. The site has just surpassed Twitter with an impressive 300 million monthly users with around 100 million of those coming on board in just the…
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Venkat Raman Bank of Baroda New Zealand (BOB NZ) Limited hopes to reach its target of $100 million in business by the end of next financial year (March 31, 2016). Prahlad Gupta, who took charge as Managing Director about three months ago, said that the Bank has made impressive progress since it commenced operations in June 2010 with a single…
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