Richard Forgan – After two years of strong increases in funding, healthcare has benefitted from further announcements in today’s Budget. The Government has committed $2.2 billion over the next four years to relieve demand pressures. District Health Boards have seen the lion’s share of this funding, with $1.6 billion to cover an increasing population and new services. Further funding has…
Read MoreWenceslaus Anthony – The annual India New Zealand Business Council Summit will hopefully inaugurate a new era of partnership and cooperation between the two countries in agriculture, agro-technology and other areas of mutual interest. Summit 2016, with its theme, ‘Growing for Tomorrow: Spotlight Agritech,’ scheduled to be held on Monday, June 13, 2016, will evince the interest of decision makers…
Read MoreDavid Shearer – After all the media speculation on how many of our houses are being sold to people who live overseas, finally, we received last month actual figures from Land Information New Zealand. It is good to have some data. The government immediately started crowing that ‘only’ 4% of houses in Auckland are bought by overseas residents. Well, I…
Read MoreImmigration New Zealand Press Release An airline has been prosecuted for allowing a passenger who had previously been deported from New Zealand to fly back into the country – despite being told three times not to let him board the flight. At Manukau District Court on May 23, 2016, Jetstar Airways was convicted and fined a total of $12,000 for…
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Staff Reporter – info@indiannewslink.co.nz A Manukau based Tax Barrister and former IRD Solicitor has taken up the challenge of bringing investors and entrepreneurs of Malaysia to the Pacific Islands. Dave Ananth, who writes a Column in Indian Newslink has been in New Zealand for more than 30 years and has become a close friend and admirer of the people from…
Read MoreAnthony Healy – BNZ and Community Finance partners Good Shepherd New Zealand and The Salvation Army are delighted with the announcement in the New Zealand Budget of $4.2 million of operating funding over four years for their Community Finance initiative. Launched in 2014, Community Finance has approved more than 200 low-interest and no-interest loans to financially vulnerable New Zealanders who…
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Venkat Raman – Presidents of India do not enjoy executive powers and almost always voice the policies of the government of the day. Their speeches in India and overseas are ‘agreed upon’ by the Prime Minister and the Federal Cabinet. The position of Pranab Mukherjee, 13th President of the Republic of India is no different. However, he has endeared himself…
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Venkat Raman – venkat@indiannewslink.co.nz Auckland based India Trade Alliance (ITA) has welcomed the new Air Services Agreement signed by New Zealand and India saying that it had rallied for the pact with ministers and officials of both governments. Transport Minister Simon Bridges and India’s Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmer Welfare Sasnjiv Balyan, inked the pact on behalf of…
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Venkat Raman – venkat@indiannewslink.co.nz The country’s largest mortgage and insurance broker of Indian origin Global Financial Services Limited (GFSL) has appointed a former top banker and business consultant to its Advisory Board. Mike Skilling, former Bank of New Zealand Business Financial Services General Manager, now an independent Management Consultant joined Darrin Franks, who was appointed to the Board in July…
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Staff Reporter info@indiannewslink.co.nz When Dr Anwar Ghani was formally welcomed as the Patron for Wing 294 at the Royal Police Academy in Wellington on October 19, 2015, he became the first member of the Police Commissioner’s Ethnic Focus Forum to receive such an honour. He also became the First Muslim Patron of the much respected Police Wing. He received a…
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